Theoretical physicists

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Interviews with theoretical physicists

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Sean Carroll & Steven Pinker 22 Sep 2025 • EN

Steven Pinker on Rationality and Common Knowledge

Getting along in society requires that we mostly adhere to certainly shared norms and customs. Often it's not enough that we all know what the rules are, but also that everyone else knows the rules, and that they know that we know the rules, and so on. Philosophers and game theorists refer to this as common knowledge.

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Theoretical physicist and bestselling author Lawrence Krauss (A Universe from Nothing, The Known Unknowns) explores the biggest questions we can ask: How did the universe begin? Why is there something rather than nothing? What is consciousness? And what will remain when every star has burned out? Krauss moves seamlessl

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Lawrence Krauss & Gad Saad 07 Sep 2025 • EN

Gad Saad: Final Episode of The War on Science Interviews

As The War on Science continues to circulate and reach readers around the world, I had the privilege of closing our Origins mini series, The War on Science Interviews, with my colleague and book contributor Gad Saad. It felt fitting to end the series with a candid and provocative conversation that reflects the spirit o

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Brian Keating & David Deutsch 11 Sep 2025 • EN

David Deutsch Says We Will Build Humans Before We Build AGI

Get My New Book, Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner, for Only $ 0.99! This week only: https://a.co/d/hi50U9U David Deutsch offers his insights into the physics that will impact our future, challenging our new technologies, such as AGI and the development of synthetic humans, as depicted in movies. Join us for this fascina

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Curt Jaimungal & Stephen Wolfram 16 Sep 2025 • EN

Stephen Wolfram: Computation, Physics, Going Beyond "Evolution"

In this episode Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and the Wolfram Language, discusses his view of the universe as a computational system. We examine computational irreducibility, discrete space, multi‑way evolution, and how observers shape physical laws from thermodynamics to quantum mechanics. Wolfram also conne

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Lawrence Krauss & Dorian Abbot 14 Aug 2025 • EN

Dorian Abbot | The War on Science Interviews | Day 21

To celebrate the release on July 29th of The War on Science, we have recorded 20 podcast interviews with authors from the book. Starting on July 22nd, with Richard Dawkins, we will be releasing one interview per day. Interviewees in order, will be: Richard Dawkins July 23rd Niall Ferguson July 24th Nicholas Christakis

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