Lex Fridman Podcast
Leonard Susskind: Quantum Mechanics, String Theory, and Black Holes
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Leonard Susskind is a professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University, and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. He is widely regarded as one of the fathers of string theory and in general as one of the greatest physicists of our time both as a researcher and an educator. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on iTunes or support it on Patreon. Here’s the outline with timestamps for this episode (on some players you can click on the timestamp to jump to that point in the episode):
– Introduction
– Richard Feynman
– Visualization and intuition
– Ego in Science
– Academia
– Developing ideas
– Quantum computers
– Universe as an information processing system
– Machine learning
– Predicting the future
– String theory
– Free will
– Arrow of time
– Universe as a computer
– Big bang
– Infinity
– First image of a black hole
– Questions within the reach of science
– Questions out of reach of science
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