The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [June 10, 2022]


Listen Later

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa

Questions include: ​​As the Wolfram Language grows, will the number of lines of code ever shrink? What could cause such a trend? - ​​​​Scientists are trying to elucidate the origins of life on Earth. The current focus is exploring the "RNA world." This occurred 4.5 billion years ago. Could there have been dimensional fluctuations back then? - ​​​Why are small children able to spin around so quickly without getting dizzy, while adults become nauseous? ​​​- Do we still need the appendix? Are there any parts in our body that we "evolved away"? - Is science getting harder? Are ideas getting harder to find? - Yes, the more we've learned, the more we've learned that there's a lot more to learn! - ​How ironic then, that Albert Einstein started his revolution in physics while working in a patent office! - One thing that interests me is predicting what the future will look like (Alan Turing predicted computers would be capable of playing chess 50 years from when he said that, and sure enough, by 1997 they were able to do so).

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

The Stephen Wolfram PodcastBy Wolfram Research

  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6

4.6

58 ratings


More shows like The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

View all
EconTalk by Russ Roberts

EconTalk

4,221 Listeners

Closer To Truth by Closer To Truth

Closer To Truth

243 Listeners

a16z Podcast by Andreessen Horowitz

a16z Podcast

1,030 Listeners

Conversations with Tyler by Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Conversations with Tyler

2,388 Listeners

The Quanta Podcast by Quanta Magazine

The Quanta Podcast

496 Listeners

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating by Big Bang Productions Inc.

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

1,042 Listeners

Physics World Weekly Podcast by Physics World

Physics World Weekly Podcast

78 Listeners

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas by Sean Carroll | Wondery

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

4,132 Listeners

ManifoldOne by Steve Hsu

ManifoldOne

87 Listeners

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) by Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

86 Listeners

Dwarkesh Podcast by Dwarkesh Patel

Dwarkesh Podcast

388 Listeners

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal by Theories of Everything

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

460 Listeners

The Joy of Why by Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

The Joy of Why

498 Listeners

No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups by Conviction

No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups

123 Listeners

Training Data by Sequoia Capital

Training Data

40 Listeners