Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Brian Greene: String Theory, Faster Than Light, and Death


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Brian Greene talks about string theory, faster than light travel, and death / afterlife. This episode has been released early in an ad-free audio version for TOE members at http://theoriesofeverything.org.


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LINKS MENTIONED:

- Brian Greene Toronto Talk: https://roythomsonhall.mhrth.com/tick...

- World Science Festival: https://cdn.worldsciencefestival.com/

- IAI Interview Brian Greene and Eric Weinstein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0B1D...


TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 Introduction 

00:02:50 Faster than light travel 

00:12:10 Traversable wormholes

00:18:45 Death and fear

00:20:40 Demons of pursuing science and psychedelics

00:27:57 Finding meaning in disconnectedness

00:32:35 The Hard Problem of Consciousness

00:37:38 Gödel, Dyson, and the relevance of a TOE

00:40:35 Time is not fundamental 

00:45:35 The Holographic Principle 

00:49:20 Google's wormholes and ER = EPR 

00:54:18 Geometric Unity, Wolfram, and E8

00:58:00 Curt's upcoming physics paper

01:08:09 Advice for aspiring physicists (young and old)

01:14:50 Ed Witten is terrifying

01:19:15 Carlo Rovelli, Lee Smolin, and emergent time

01:22:02 Simulation Theory, Swampland, and Geometric Algebra

01:32:50 Responding to Eric Weinstein - Bias in String Theory

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