Cumrun Vafa: Podcast Interviews

Cumrun Vafa

cumrun.vafa

Physicist, Theoretical physicist

www.cumrunvafa.org

3 Interviews

Cumrun Vafa's Interviews

Sean Carroll & Cumrun Vafa • 27 May 2024 • EN

Cumrun Vafa on the Universe According to String Theory

String theory, the current leading candidate for a theory of quantum gravity as well as other particles and forces, doesn't connect directly to the world we see. It's possible that there is a large landscape of possible states of theory, with the hope that one of them represents our universe. The existence of a landsca

Lex Fridman & Cumrun Vafa • 26 Jul 2021 • EN

#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory

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Brian Keating & Cumrun Vafa • 25 Dec 2020 • EN

Cumrun Vafa: Puzzles to Unlock The Universe! (#104)

Join me in welcoming Prof. Cumrun Vafa (Harvard) in his first major podcast interview! We discussed a wide range of topics including what message he’d put into a billion-year time capsule. Plus, we discuss his delightful new book. Beneath all of the complex and formidable mathematical structures that formulate physical