Leonard Susskind
15 statements across 2 episodes · 7 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 16, 2018 by John Preskill · said 13 times in 2 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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2018 13 mentions in 2 episodes 7 per episode
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May 16, 2018 positive
Dec 6, 2018 negative
Susskind: Modern physicists are pushed into rigid, overly mainstream training
“Well, unfortunately, I think you have to be really mainstream. Sometimes I think too much. Sometimes I think too much. By mainstream now, I mean people are often trained within a framework which is fairly tight and rigid.”
Dec 6, 2018 neutral
Susskind: String theory cannot describe real particles without modification
“We know that the formal, by formal I mean mathematically rigorous structure that string theory became, it became a mathematical structure of great rigor and consistency that It, in itself, as it is, cannot describe the real world of particles. It has to be mod…”
Dec 6, 2018 positive
Susskind: Quantum computation could reconstruct matter inside black holes
“With a sufficient kind of technology of quantum computation and so forth, and if we knew the precise rules by which black holes evolve, we could reconstruct from the quantum state of the horizon, we could reconstruct what fell in, what's inside, and so forth. …”
Dec 6, 2018
Dec 6, 2018 positive
Dec 6, 2018
Susskind: Physicists must discover everything and leave preventing misuse to politicians
“It's not, I don't believe it's the physicist's job to decide what should and shouldn't be discovered. From a physicist's point of view, everything should be discovered if possible. It is the job of politicians and other people of that ilk to make sure that thi…”
Dec 6, 2018 neutral
Susskind: Mapping 3D space onto 2D boundaries produces visual discontinuity
“It is possible to map a three dimensional world onto two dimensions, but never in a way in which the two dimensional stuff looks anything like the thing you're mapping. It will look random. It will look it will look like a simply confused jumble of little tiny…”
Dec 6, 2018 negative
Dec 6, 2018 positive
Susskind: Maldacena's math validated the holographic principle for mainstream physics
“It wasn't, it didn't come in from the cold, shall we say, until the work of Juan Maldesena, who made a really rigorous, beautiful version of it, which now everybody believes. The mathematics of it was, it came from, it was a string theoretic construction where…”
Dec 6, 2018
Dec 6, 2018 positive
Leonard Susskind: String theory became mainstream despite its radical origins
“Which is extremely mainstream, you'll notice.
[571] Podcast Host: Which is super mainstream, yeah.
[572] Leonard Susskind: But it wasn't when we started it.
[574] Podcast Host: Correct.
[575] Podcast Host: Well that's where the idea, right.
[576] SPEAKER_02: R…”
Dec 6, 2018 positive
Dec 6, 2018 negative
Dec 6, 2018 positive
Susskind: Richard Feynman was deeply philosophical despite claiming to dislike philosophy
“Feynman this claimed to dislike Philosophy. He did dislike philosophy, but I'll tell you what that means in a minute. And yet he was the most philosophical of all physicists. He really was. He was a deep philosopher. When I say he didn't like philosophy, I mea…”