#238 — How to Build a Universe

Sam Harris speaks with Frank Wilczek about the fundamental nature
of reality. They discuss the difference between science and
non-science, the role of intuition in science, the nature of
time, the prospect that possibility is an illusion, the current
limits of quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle,
space-time as a substance, the “unreasonable effectiveness” of
mathematics in science, the possibility that we might be living
in a simulation, the fundamental building blocks of matter, the
structure of atoms, the four fundamental forces, wave-particle
duality, the electromagnetic spectrum, the many-worlds
interpretation of quantum mechanics, the implications of infinite
space-time, dark energy and dark matter, and other topics.


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