"the following is a conversation with Lee Smolin he's a theoretical physicist co-inventor of loop quantum gravity and a contributor of many interesting ideas to cosmology quantum field theory the found..."

"might be asking why talk to physicist if you're interested in AI to me creating artificial intelligence systems requires more than Python and deep learning it requires that we return to exploring the ..."

"my conversation with Lee Smolin what is real let's start with an easy question put another way how do we know what is real and what is merely a creation of our human perception and imagination we don'..."

"about it can we truly how do we get a sense of that real world is it through the tools of physics from theory to the experiments or can we actually grasp it in in some intuitive way that's more connec..."

"world no one to counts first of all I don't believe his scientific method ha I was very influenced when I was in graduate school by the writings of Paul fire Robin who was enough an important philosop..."

"you're still going to be questioned and you still may propose or publish mistakes but the community is gonna have to waste less time fixing your mistakes yes but if you can maybe linger on it a little..."

"quality of life that's the progress I'm kind of referring to let me can I say that more precisely yes I think it's a it's important to get the time places right yes there was a scientific revolution t..."

"the early 20th century and the revolutions in science that happened there what was the method by which the scientific community kept each other in check about when you get something right when you get..."

"describe it some people would say that I'm not interested in determinism but I I could live with the fundamental world which which had some chance in it so deep he said you could live with it but do y..."

"place to understand the existence of and the nature of perceptions and consciousness in mind and that's question two question two I do think a lot about and my answer which is nine answers I hope so b..."

"with what nature would be like in our absence which we have nothing to say about do you find any aspect of that because you kind of said that we human beings tell stories defined aspects of that kind ..."

"in the future element I think there is a universality here I don't agree with David Deutsch about everything but I admire the way he put things in his last book and he talked about the role of explana..."

"for centuries so this is Erik Y Stein yeah what do the wheels represent are you basically saying that there's stuff right in front of our eyes that once we it just clicks we put the wheels in the lugg..."

"gotten further I don't know whether certainly hi I'm sitting here at this moment with very much my own approach to telling everything and I'm calm I'm happy about that but on the other hand I know peo..."

"paradox of the duality of particle wave for photons and he was I mean people I think don't always associate I style with quantum mechanics because I think his connection with it founding as a one of t..."

"demands so what aspect of quantum mechanics bothers you and Einstein the most is it some aspect of the wavefunction collapse discussions the measurement problem is it the the the measurement problem I..."

"figure out how to connect them so it can describe everything right and we either do that if we believe quantum mechanics as understood now is correct by bringing general relativity or some extension o..."

"space-time in gravity so where do we begin so first let me ask perhaps you can give me a chance if I could ask you some just really basic questions well there at all the basic questions and the hardes..."

"fundamental so okay let's we're gonna allow me to linger on that so the universe has events events cause other events there's this idea of causality okay so that that's happy let's in my in your view ..."

"the combination of them we use in general relativity that we call space-time also it is not but what is time then I think that time the activity of time is the continual creation of events from existi..."

"era of time in our universe in your view and maybe it was an event right Oh an event is where something changes or where to I it's hard to say because it's a primitive concept in the event is a moment..."

"causality Carlos set and in the period before that Roberto mangabeira Unger who is a philosopher and a professor of law and that's in your efforts together with your collaborators to finish the unfini..."

"which requires some property to describe it which is not directly explicable or drivable is the word I want from the properties of the fundamental things and space is one of those things in a sufficie..."

"does and you comfort me and a sort of as a therapist like how do i I'm not a good therapist okay there are several different definitions of locality when you come to talk about locality in physics in ..."

"matter so like the distance between them well it's been tested of course if you want to have hope for quantum mechanics P in completely wrong and corrected by something that changes this it's been tes..."

"student in which we've got more than a dozen attempts and I never thought I don't think anybody anticipated would work out this way which work partly and then at some point they have an issue that nob..."

"there's something that Sean said to me in June of 2016 that changed my whole approach to a problem but I have to tell him first yes and that that's they'll be great to tell him on his podcast so I can..."

"which we've thrown away so where there's probably come from and you have to answer the question because experimentalist use probabilities to check the theory now at first sight you get very confused b..."

"ideas designed to come back and answer that question they have the flavor of there are really no probabilities we admit that but imagine if you if the Everett story was true and you were living in tha..."

"approach that I'm taking so the so speaking of principles in your 2006 book the trouble with physics you criticized a bit string theory for taking us away from the rigors of the scientific method or w..."

"many many years and Andy so originally there was this beautiful idea that there were five string theories and maybe they would be unified into one and we would discover a way to break that symmetries ..."

"experiments just go now it hasn't quite worked out that way but nonetheless he took that worry to me he did he we spoke at least once maybe two or three times about that and I got seriously worried ab..."

"happy to discuss that's called cosmological natural selection cosmological natural selection yeah so so the parameters of the standard model so it says the laws of physics are changing it this this id..."

"could be tested from that and and I worked all of that out and I compared it to the anthropic principle where you weren't able to make tests or make falsifications all of this was in the late eighties..."

"in my mind the idea that there were two communities one devoted to strings and one devoted to loops is nuts and this always been nuts okay so so anyway there's this nuts community of loops and strings..."

"chapter last part of the trouble with physics and then I described a number of test cases case studies and one of them which I knew was the search for quantum gravity and string theory and so forth an..."

"misunderstood but if I may ask is there a hopeful message for theoretical physics that we can take from that book sort of that looks at the community not just your your own work on now with causality ..."