"Immortality is tantalizing close >> and you think it's possible within the laws of physics and biology. >> Yeah. In fact, we know that there's a clock in our body called the tie that tracks how long w..."

"everything. >> What is the theory of everything? >> An equation perhaps no more than one inch long that will allow us to quote read the mind of God. These are Einstein's words. the theory of the big b..."

">> You know, when people watch your interviews and they read your books, what do you think is the fundamental question that they're typically seeking to answer? What does it mean for me? >> What does ..."

">> You've been doing this for many, many decades now. You've been studying the nature of the universe and physics. Is there a fundamental misunderstanding that you're aware of that the average person ..."

">> In the last couple of weeks, you've been asked to do lots of interviews because Trump has released the UFO files. >> That's right. >> Before we get into lots of other subjects and physics generally..."

"So when these people say that, you know, I had a podcast uh recently where two people explained to me that there's been some very unusual sightings of UAPs. >> Mhm. >> And they use this as evidence to..."

"there. There's the a narrative that the US government or generally governments around the world wouldn't want the people to know about aliens because they're not ready for it. Do do you buy that? >> T..."

"look out at the stars that there is nonhuman life out there? Is there anything that you've seen when you look at other planets and how they're operating that might suggest there's a different type of ..."

"That means is it possible to create a space warp such that you can break the light barrier so that you can travel across the galaxy and visit the earth. >> And did you say that was theoretically possi..."

">> I also heard you telling um I think it was Joe Rogan, you were telling a story of one particular star that reduces in its intensity by 20%. >> Yeah, there is a star that that oscillates. >> What do..."

">> You've um you've written a lot of books >> about the universe and physics and everything in between. I've waited a long time to ask someone this question and it's a very broad question and the ques..."

">> String theory is something that you came up with. >> I came up with string field theory, which is one of the branches of string theory. Right. >> And what is string theory? >> String theory says th..."

">> I guess this all comes back to the question we're talking about the big bang. You know scientists tend to agree that there was some kind of big bang because when you look at the universe it's expan..."

"question is why? Why is it that planets are going around the sun? It's because the sun is warping the space around it. Is creating a shallow depression. Space is not flat. This is Einstein's achieveme..."

">> And going back to what you were saying about the bubble bath idea, >> right? Then the question is, are there other stars? Yes. Are there other galaxies? There billions and billions of planets out t..."

">> and the other thing that comes from physics is black holes. >> That's right. If this star becomes so massive that its gravity is so great that it pulls the entire shebang in like this. Mhm. >> And ..."

">> What's in there? If you knew, you'd win a Nobel Prize. >> This area has loads and loads of mass inside it. It's sucking things into it. So, one would assume that there was a lot inside there, but i..."

">> How long have you been studying physics in the universe now? Since I was 8 years old, I've been studying the universe. >> 71 years. >> Yeah. When I was 8 years old, a great scientist had just died...."

">> So, for 71 years, you've been trying to understand the universe and create this theory for everything. In that time, how is your perspective on God developed? >> Yes. Most of my family were Buddhis..."

">> What about simulation theory? >> Do you think it's plausible that in fact we are living in a simulation? >> I would say the answer is probably no. >> Probably no. >> That's right. Simulation theory..."

"Do you think what we're seeing? This is a strange question to ask because again there's so many def definitions within it but do you think what we're seeing is real? Like do you think this is you know..."

">> Why does life matter in the universe? Like what what function does life have in the universe? >> I think we create our own meaning individually. >> I think there's no universal meaning for life in ..."

">> What do you think of the um human sort of proclivity to imagine a god and to assign meaning and morality to that god and say, well, you know, cuz we do have this we do live with this kind of god-sh..."

">> What What do you think consciousness is? >> Consciousness, I think, is a question of awareness. the ability to create ideas about you know why I mean what does it mean meaning to give meaning to th..."

"I mean on the subject of intelligence there is now new types of intelligence amongst us. One of them um is referred to as artificial intelligence which is actually modeled on how the brain works. You ..."

"believe people like uh like the big um AI CEOs and Elon Musk when they say that AI will lead to new discoveries in science? >> That's possible because there's so many laws of physics that are known th..."

"you concerned about AI at all? >> I'm concerned about AI in the larger perspective that one day they can learn to do things that are bad, learn to kill, learn to maim to harm people. Realize that ever..."

"look at what's happening in the Ukraine and uh Russia already, we're talking about aerial weapons that can use wires to lock onto their target. >> And they use artificial intelligence to guide them wi..."

"there comes a point in building a company where your job shifts from being the person inside your business actioning everything to the person responsible for absolutely everything. The only way I've b..."

"Going back to this this this question of the the Big Bang and where we all came from, if you had to posit a guess as to what caused the Big Bang, would you land on this bubble bath theory that you tal..."

"time. >> What about Adam and Eve? And this >> what about Adam and Eve? >> Do you don't think the story is true that there was a a garden, Adam and Eve, Adam the apple, put your clothes on, behave your..."

"morality is often so intrinsically linked to religion, which is what is good and what is bad. Where does your morality come from, doctor? Well, I was in the United States Army for two years and at tha..."

">> Maybe I'm on the wrong side. I mean, it goes back to all the conflict happening at the moment because we're ideologically captured by whatever our own religious beliefs are and that's causing us to..."

"young about the universe, and I guess this was inspired by some theory within physics, was that there are infinite amounts of worlds out there. And I heard this I heard someone say if the world is inf..."

"How are we supposed to feel about this? I I did this um star tour um a couple of months ago in LA where all it was was a guy took me out to a field. not even a field. It was the desert in Joshua Tree ..."

"that we're going to destroy ourselves before we we ever figure that answer out or before we get to meet these aliens? Because the technology we've been able to create so far like nuclear weapons and e..."

">> Do you think humanity are going to be able to travel out there amongst the stars and become multilanetary like someone like Elon Musk is um planning? >> Well, I think it's for certain that we're go..."

"any one mystery of the universe, you know, I just I had it down here, the answer. What What would you seek to answer? Well, it's what I'm seeking for my entire life. And that is we want that one equat..."

"of the things that uh that sometimes inspires me is that when you look at nature or when you look at something like the human brain, you see the same patterns as you see when you look up out at the st..."

">> Do you think the brain is as fascinating as the universe is fascinating? >> I think the universe is more fascinating. No matter how fast we are with physics and the mathematics of physics, pure mat..."

"called The Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100? If I was alive in 2100, based on everything you know about physics, what am I likely to see..."

">> Do you think we will be able to live forever in the near future? >> I think there's a possibility that we may have an indefinite lifespan. I think that's a possibility. And you think it's possible ..."

"things you wrote a book about two years ago in or three years ago now in 2023 and that's when it was published. Um is this thing here? That's right. What is this? This is the future. This is a quantum..."

"simplify this in a way that I can understand it, normal computers are very very simple like this switch. They they kind of exist in a linear direction >> up or down on or off >> kind of binary yes or ..."

">> You've been working on physics for the last what we said what 71 years as a kid. I I was reading about how you started making your own atom smasher. I guess you'd call it a particle collider machin..."

"a living. >> Every time I've tried to improve something in my life, like my businesses, my health, my relationships, I've noticed that the biggest shifts have come from being better informed. And when..."

"discovered through your work in physics that changed your daytoday behavior and life? How you treat people, how you show up, what you think matters? >> No, but the one thing that did change my attitud..."

">> And when I heard that, it made me openminded to a lot of the things I thought were conspiracy nonsense. It made me open-minded to ghosts. Maybe ghosts are real. >> Well, I wouldn't go that far. Wel..."

"People talk a lot about spirituality. They talk about, you know, things like chakras and a lot of spiritual people talk about vibrations. It's a phrase that I often hear in the spiritual communities. ..."

">> What is what is something you believe that you haven't proven? >> Well, there's a lot of things that haven't been proven. All I can say is maybe, maybe not. Like flying saucers. I don't say they do..."

">> How would you like to be remembered someday long after you're gone? Do you care about being remembered? Do you care about legacy? >> Well, I care about leading a good life that I feel comfortable w..."

"Is there is there anything that you used to think was a conspiracy theory that you now know to be true? >> Well, I like to debunk. So as soon as someone says something outlandish, I say to myself, sur..."

">> Did you look at the declassified information that Trump released on UFOs? >> Yeah, I've looked at the whole the whole batch 160 or so sightings. Was there anything in there that was compelling to y..."

"If you had to bet everything you love and cherish on either side of the fence that non-human life had made contact with the earth at some point in some form or not, which side would you place everythi..."

"what is the best strategy to deal with failure? I think the best strategy to deal with failure is try it again. I think on the first try, you're bound to make mistakes because it's a learning curve. A..."

">> If you could um go back to when you were that seven-year-old kid that was just getting into physics and 8 >> year old 8-year-old >> and give him any advice that would best serve him for the next 70..."

">> We we were talking about UFOs and alien life. Um, at the start of this conversation, and one of the questions that's adjacent to it is if alien life were to come here at some point, do you think th..."

">> It's an interesting idea when you talked about um this extraterrestrial life potentially being robotic. It does my It kind of makes sense to me because we're on a course to create humanoid robots a..."

"the video that I'm talking about. This is actually a live video. So, this is live as we're watching. >> What they've got is they've got a human being here who's sorting the packages and they've got th..."

">> Have you used AI agents before? >> I've used AI before, but not necessarily which which agent are you talking about? >> So, I've got like on my phone, I can say, I need a new umbrella for my patio ..."