This seems like a interview from the future when all intellectuals are in prison.

The idea of an “alien physics” reminds me of a cat looking out the window as a jetliner passes by - we can roughly communicate to a cat that, say, “this is your food”, but we can’t, no matter how patiently, communicate the idea of a jetliner. And yet the jetliner is right there - the cat can see it. The cat can roughly understand what a bird or a rival cat is, but never a jetliner. It makes me wonder if there is anything we can’t, even in principle, understand despite it being right in front of us. What would our jetliner look like? And if there is no such thing, wouldn’t it be strange that our brains, having evolved at the banana scale, would have the potential for universal comprehension?

It’s entirely possible that this is the most interesting video title on KZfaq

"Boy, that seems really hard!" It might not be. It was well within the crafting ability of people in ancient Greece and even much earlier to build a phonograph, glider, or even a pinhole camera and photographic film as well as many other modern miracles. It wasn't that it was hard to do, it was that they couldn't think of putting the simple things at hand together that particular way because their conscious sense of reality and language did not have an effective pathway to think of a practical possibility of those things. They did not have the words or thoughts and thus could not conceive of those possibilities even though technically it was well within their abilities. I wonder what simple miracles we miss every day because our language and beliefs just don't allow us to go there.

To speak on Dr. Wolfmans comment about the current crude use of heat, there was a guest on Joe Rogan’s podcast(can’t recall his name) but he talked about “professional breathers” being able to control the temperature of different quadrants of their limbs. (Ie: controlling the oxygen flow from the left side of their right hand from the left side of their right hand.)

In some sense, it is really crazy that we, humans and our future ai children, are able to imagine things that are not possible within the universe. That is really weird.

Powerful Lex Fridman

i know at one point in this talk, wolfram said something like "it sounds like i'm not really saying anything." which, i'm sure what he's saying isn't *nothing,* but i doubt it's anything near as much as he wants us to think it is

Hey just wanna thank you for this awesome podcast. You are doing a great job.

Lex and/or Stephen should talk to Isaac Arthur about sci-fi stuff, this clip made me think back to some of his FTL videos. I'm sure he could brush Stephen up pretty quick.

Is the universe computational or is the view of the universe as being computational just a filter that those who are mathematically obsessed view reality through? The reason that we have meridians in acupuncture is because the first translator of the Chinese text into English was a cartographer.

I can't believe I get to listen to this genius just riff about his work and speculation. What a time to be alive.

Could it be that the universe is computational, but only up to a point? I'm still wondering how Chaos (sensitivity to small changes in initial conditions) works into this.

Lex, I like your shirt and tie combo much more than the normal black and white

If cern does create a tiny black hole , can they use that to warp gravity to make propulsion similar to the faver Tic tac UFO?

All these questions, tests, hypothesis, theories, scientists will climb this seemingly insurmountable peak..to find philosophers sitting at the top waiting.

This is a high level conversation and it's rather difficult to follow

What bugs me is the assumption that if we can only understand the universe deeply enough, then we can manipulate it at that level too. I really wish that were the case.

Once a month or so i have these "out of body experiences." Ill go to bed and before i know it, it feels like im being sucked through a vortex or tunnel and then i find myself in a location like my room but im actually dreaming. I domt get to explore long because before i know it im sucked back into my bed but its a crazy wonderful experience. I wonder how i could become more easily suscepable to this experience??

A very smart man. I hope he’s right and manages to solve the light speed barrier problem. My (admittedly flawed) common sense mind tells me the universe probably isn’t fundamentally computational and that mathematics is merely a system we humans use to make calculations based upon known variables to predict unknown variables. Are mathematicians and physicists mistaking the mathematics for the reality when they say the universe is fundamentally computational or is the mathematics a reflection of the “machine code” of the universe? Interesting questions. I hope to be proven wrong.

This guy is gonna blow up. Millions will be watching soon.

In Australian "rooted the whole thing" means something else entirely.

The fact that planck length/ planck time exist implies that the universe is pixelated and has a framerate, which implies a code-like framework of physics. This implies that there could be universe "hackers" just like we have computer hackers. Although the analogy wouldnt quite be accurate. Basically what Im saying is Neo is about to fight agent Smith.

Lot of experts in the comment section, as always.

I have a feeling that when you grasp some shard... glint of understanding of the fundamental substrate. it opens up doors left... right, up down, an all 4 others all over the shop

Stephen, hats off to you Sir !!! it seems through the path of math you are close to the final breakthrough here! What is happening is that our continuum is not a mono-continuum but a dual continuum setting of the same functions (grid, clock, potential , inertia) and measures on the other hand (space, time, energy, mass). In the planck scale world energy and space pivot in their functions as do time and mass. Both setups hover always apply to all objects, yet they are orthogonally aligned and have a minus sign. This means; every change of 'energy as a particle' function (potential) must be accompanied by a negative shrinkage of 'energy as a grid' around it to maintain the zero balanced equilibrium of our original universe. In measures: [m/s] must be accompanied by [-J/kg] grid shrinkage in front of it. [-J/kg] of course in spacetime terms leads to [-J/kg=-Nm/kg =-m2/s2] so a virtual accelerated shrinkage of spacetime surface. This is what Einstein used for his description of GR of restmass (with it is many tiny unaligned shrinkage effects of all subatomic constituents combined)... As for breaking C speed; you will effectively 'puncture' the torus of spacetime around you, inverting from ST to the orthogonal setting of the EM continuum , in other words you become a spatial singularity (think of atoms as micro-singularities spinors wrapping straight continuous ST fieldlines into orthogonal wrapped windings we perceive as integers (quanta) of energy distances). You should look at the math of an inverting punctured torus (e.g. as displayed at the wikipedia torus page). This will give you the matching math. So combining all; our galaxy would be a spatial singularity governed by the EM continuum, our solar system should be a energy singularity governed by the ST continuum, atoms would again be micro spatial singularities (or micro 'Spinors' if you like in terms of Eric Weinstein / Penrose) , governed by the ME setup,; The atom nucleus again a ME singularity governed by the ST continuum etc etc...I send you the wider theoretic context earlier.. It seems you have solved it from the math perspective as well....again hats off to you! You should get a Nobel prize or two for this...Physics is finally complete after a 100 year dark age....

I think entropy and light speed relate so to go faster than light we would need simply to effect the small and high detail of the craft across with an ability of more efficiency in form than light at getting faster without breakdown.

Hacking the machine code would also allow for traveling back in time, although it would not necessarily allow for a time traveler. History could be rewound without all the energy required to rewind the movement of every atom in the “ real” universe. An interesting question: would history replay forward without change or would the universe move along a new and different timeline

One of the great filters

I'll get right on that. Should have the answer in a couple of hundred years.

Highly interesting. I love listening to Wolfram.

I’ve rewound this video 10 times and I feel like I get even more confused after each time I watch the clip.

How many times can you possibly say computational in a minute?

It needs to be , ''Beam me up , Scotty '' . Not just travel faster than the speed of light .

When you see light mass is trying to get to a relative zero point distribution.

Wolfram has been very inspiring for me so far.

I believe one day we'll be able to travel faster than light because C is the speed limit "inside" space. But if we create a "bubble" around a starship that puts it out of space itself, there will be no limit to speed travel. It's like supercavitation for underwater torpedoes. It will be something like HYPERCAVITATION!

One implication of Copernicus' work is that you could go to the Moon. Implication of Wolfram: we can go to other stars?

4:43 Guest: “I’m Giving a talk at NASA for what fatter than-light-travel would look like, I haven’t figured it out yet.” Lex: *🤷‍♂️😎”You’ve got two weeks.”

Will we ever discover warp drive

Looks cold there

Whats the speed of thought

I don't have a fucking clue what these guys are talking about but I still enjoy listening to it

Sound/vibration in super dense/exotic mediums can be theoretically faster than light. Neutron star/black holes

Turn empty planets into life for anyone

Why aren’t these amazing minds having a blast of DMT?

Good luck, sir.

Please reinvite Stephe. Very sympathic person

@theartistbk check out canvas paintings of divine consciousness

I honestly believe that if one could enter a blackhole directly, through the center you would come out with the explosion of the supernova that created it.

I believe we are thinking to hard about it.

I'm sure that if we get a really deep understanding of the nature of physical reality we'll be able to do whatever we want with engineering. We'll be able to rewrite the rules, at least locally, and all that science fiction stuff will become real: force shields, tractor beams, gravity plating, warp drives, etc...

The problem with math is that it's like pouring an acid solution on a block of cheese. When the sum of the total remains elusive, maybe it's because all you have left is that which dissolved reality.

Ebry time we do we manipulate do do we make every time manipulate.

Is there really only one key question, the one?

Planck speed in which entangled particles communicate is already faster than light. Why is scale related to speed limit? Hmm

Sounds pretty much like Jean-Pierre Petit "Janus" theory, negative mass, faster speed of light...

New idea gravity is like a rubber band.When we stretch it it catapolts us rearry fast in that vacuum.Zero g- force.

Wow in this podcast

Computationawhat??

No pet lack holes please.... Awww so cute 🕳! Okay, maybe one ❤️

This gentleman has consumed too many walnuts

The word emergent is emergent

I like what I'm listening to... but after the first min where is this filmed ! Lol

A way to travel faster than light is the use of consciousness and technology. It doesn't involve worm holes, negative energy.or some exotic propulsion. In fact you're not really traversing any distance. You would just use consciously to say where you want to be and you appear there.

We know heat isn't 'random' - statistical physics is overtly heuristic. Computational irreducibility ends up making the same implication about what it can't compute anyway.

Probably very obvious, but Lex, why does the photons travel with the speed they do, and why is that the utter limit?

Was this filmed in a jail ?

I feel the plank length in this and classical movent isnt the way the micro world its pixalated and thr holographic principle i think may be the way

Yes, at the bottom it should be as simple as possible. Otherwise nothing would happen. There must be a mechanism and therefore should be describ(e)able. Maybe part of the equation is out of our realm of perception, intelligent guesses are needed..

No white shirt?

Ooooh. Now I understand.

the vile vortices

No. Science does not equate with computation and become replaced by it, because convenient for your spin.

Take a shot every time you hear computational irreducibility.

Lex must be getting his black curtains dry cleaned

Fun Fact: A "warp drive" that barely achieves 1% of the speed of light would STAR TREK the solar system, hands down.

An amazing thinker

Vacuum Gravity Hypothesis Space tends to fill an area evenly. Mass displaces local space. Gravity is the force of space displaced by mass. Mass creates a vacuum of space and space seeks to fill the vacuum. Mass attracts mass and but not space.

"if we know how the universe works how can we engineer it." hoo boy

Once you put electricity into your theories you will come up with a different picture of how thing are connected

Faster than light travel every atom in eternity is

wolfram stole my shirt. damnit.

Give him his Nobel before he invents a better prize.

It is not hacked, it is given. We had to earn it from the powers that be.

You know what’s faster than light ? My impulse of clicking on any video where anything is faster than light

R.I.P. Relativity. The speed of light is already proven not to be invariant c .

Maybe we'll surf black holes, and that becomes a thing.

Meaning no disrespect, but the position of computational known steps has a stopping point that takes us no further. As a scientist I am always looking for the next way forward with anticipation and excitement for final understanding of past theories and conclusions to the next big discoveries. We must keep striving for knowledge, and take two steps foreword instead of 1 step backwards every year. We are now in 2020 and the lushly funded areas of discovery are excelling. I am on our your side, our uni grads who become professors, inventors, discoverers, world changes for the betterment of man. Science is a compassionate, creative, exciting world to be in if you have the funds. Please civilians all over the world tell your governing departments to give money to good science, which in turn the people’s suffering will ease.

I really like the penrose diagram

Zero point energy field. Since it cannot be created or destroyed this field is of pure potential energy

Was this interview done in a prison?

You can travel through the future by deep meditation

Underlying structure is the quantum vacuum. Matter must be perturbations in this

7 minutes in I realized I have no idea what they are talking about.

You should get Isaac Newton on the podcast

Electricity a great deal it can connect the micro to the macro

Wow people saying it looks like prison. This is what every back patio looks like in Arizona/Texas. 😂

Get this man into Area 51

But to travel faster than light you would need to get around a fundamental law of physics V = Distance/Time.