#187 – Frank Wilczek: Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Complexity, Life & Aliens

Frank Wilczek is a Nobel Prize winning physicist at MIT. Please
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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (08:39)
- Are there limits to what physics can understand? (17:31) -
Beautiful ideas in physics (25:59) - Space and time are really big
(29:47) - There are billions of thoughts in a human life (37:09) -
Big bang (45:31) - How life emerged in the universe (51:33) -
Aliens (1:01:25) - Consciousness (1:08:53) - Limits of physics
(1:14:29) - Complimentary principle (1:23:34) - Free will (1:29:47)
- Particles (1:35:10) - Nobel Prize in Physics (1:48:24) - Axions
and dark matter (2:03:50) - Time crystals (2:08:42) - Theory of
everything (2:18:10) - Advice for young people (2:23:52) - Meaning
of life