Frank Wilczek: Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Complexity, Life & Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast
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 Published On May 29, 2021

Frank Wilczek is a Nobel Prize winning physicist at MIT. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
1:07 - Are there limits to what physics can understand?
9:39 - Beautiful ideas in physics
18:08 - Space and time are really big
21:56 - There are billions of thoughts in a human life
29:17 - Big bang
37:39 - How life emerged in the universe
43:42 - Aliens
53:34 - Consciousness
1:01:01 - Limits of physics
1:06:38 - Complimentary principle
1:15:42 - Free will
1:21:56 - Particles
1:27:19 - Nobel Prize in Physics
1:40:33 - Axions and dark matter
1:55:58 - Time crystals
2:00:51 - Theory of everything
2:10:18 - Advice for young people
2:16:01 - Meaning of life

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