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

Frank Wilczek is a Nobel Prize winning physicist at MIT. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(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