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Paul Davies: What's Eating The Universe? ​(#207)

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Paul Davies is an internationally acclaimed physicist, cosmologist, and astrobiologist at Arizona State University, where he runs the pioneering Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He also chairs the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Post-Detection Task group, so that if SETI succeeds in finding intelligent life, he will be among the first to know. The asteroid 1992OG was officially renamed Pauldavies in his honor. In addition to his many scientific awards, Davies is the recipient of the 1995 Templeton Prize--the world's largest annual prize--for his work on science and religion. He is the author of more than twenty books, including The Mind of God, About Time, How to Build a Time Machine, and The Goldilocks Enigma. He lives in Tempe, Arizona.

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  • 00:20:36 How do you know when to pursue a scientific hint with further research?
  • 00:33:40 What's unique about your approach to science?
  • 00:38:26 The laws of nature are not perfectly symmetrical. Why tro to find a unifying theory?
  • 00:46:15 What is the Bunch-Davies Vacuum State?
  • 00:52:14 Why did Stephen Hawking make implausible bets?
  • 00:57:50 On black holes and singularities.
  • 01:00:52 Lorentz Invariance and measuring the expansion of the universe with Hawking Radiation.
  • 01:10:19 What are your thoughts on life as information?
  • 01:16:00 Do you believe in God or is that even a meaningful question?
  • 01:25:00 Have your feelings changed on the multiverse and un-falsifiable conjectures in general?
  • 01:41:11 What advice would you give your younger self about how to venture into the impossible?
  • 01:31:53 What advice would you leave in your ethical will?
  • 01:38:20 What would you put on your billion-year time capsule/monolith for the ages?


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