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Leonard Susskind is a professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University and he’s regarded as one of the fathers of string theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard...

He’s written several books including:
- The Black Hole War https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031...
- The Cosmic Landscape https://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Landsca...
- The Theoretical Minimum series https://www.amazon.com/Theoretical-Mi...

He also has over 100 lectures on YouTube    • Playlist  

The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon   / craigcannon  

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Topics

0:00 - Being perceived as an outsider physicist

4:00 - The perils of becoming too mainstream

5:45 - Where his ideas come from

7:00 - Claudio asks - Do you think the graviton can be experimentally found?

9:45 - The origins of String Theory

15:15 - Why should there be a grand unified theory?

16:30 - Quantum mechanics and gravity

19:50 - Large unanswered questions in physics

27:30 - Holographic principle

38:00 - Simulation hypothesis

40:15 - Richard Feynman on philosophy

42:00 - Feynman and the bomb

46:00 - Improving the world by discovering what the world is

49:00 - ER and EPR - Black holes and entanglement

56:00 - Noah Hammer asks - Could quantum teleportation be used in the future as a means of intergalactic communication?

58:00 - rokkodigi asks - How do you think quantum theory will shape technology in the future?

1:01:30 - Why teach physics for the public?