The Intersection of Science and Meaning | Dr. Brian Greene | EP 486

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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with physicist and author, Dr. Brian Greene. They discuss the strange conceptualization of “before” the Big Bang, how time might be a microscopic phenomenon, how order existed at the point of the universe's creation, what would happen if you fell into a black hole, and the process of going from understanding to harnessing new insights.

Dr. Brian Greene is an American physicist known for his research on string theory. He is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and the chairman of the World Science Festival, which he co-founded in 2008. Dr. Greene has worked on mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi–Yau manifolds (concretely relating the conifold to one of its orbifolds). He also described the flop transition, a mild form of topology change, showing that topology in string theory can change at the conifold point.

This episode was recorded on September 9th, 2024

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Links -

For Brian Greene:

On X https://x.com/bgreene?lang=en

Website https://www.briangreene.org/

"Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Book) https://www.amazon.com/Until-End-Time...

"The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory" (Book) https://www.amazon.com/Elegant-Univer...


Chapters -

(0:00) Coming up
(0:37) Intro
(3:13) What was before the Big Bang?
(9:52) Psychological and numerical entropy as it relates to a goal
(17:48) Time might be microscopic, the evolution of complex systems
(20:13) The physical definition of order, how to violate the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
(25:09) Order at the moment of creation
(28:20) Stephen Hawking’s arrow of time, how gravity collects particles
(37:42) The double slit experiment, the speed of light, and our frame of reference
(46:58) Quantum physics is a living interpretation
(50:04) The field of possibility, utilizing story to gain relevant insight
(55:21) How the microscopic affects the macroscopic realm
(58:27) Free will is incoherent within quantum physics
(1:03:53) Personal accountability in a deterministic world
(1:07:02) Conceptual absurdities: what happens when you enter a black hole
(1:16:24) String theory: what the “strings” are and how they work
(1:19:58) From understanding to harnessing, “there are no experimental observations”
(1:26:57) Competing theories might have been describing the same phenomenon



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