The second in our two event series about Theories of Everything! Watch the first one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_izocEgArtQ
Please subscribe to Brian Keating's YouTube Channel to watch one-on-one interviews with the guest speakers and more: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating
Existing Theories of Everything have not yet produced experimental evidence that solves the fundamental challenges facing physics. That lack of progress has opened up a sea of controversy, from disagreements about the very necessity of TOEs, to questioning the cost/benefit of mega-billion dollar particle accelerators in search of them, to the emergence of competing TOEs from physicists outside of the academic community. In this 90 minute chat we dive into the existential questions around TOEs.
Special thanks to Brian Keating, Lee Smolin, Sabine Hossenfelder, and Eric Weinstein for helping us create this great event.
Our Guests' Work:
Sabine Hossenfelder
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/SabineHossenfelder
Lost in Math: How Beauty Led Physics Astray: https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Math-Beauty-Physics-Astray/dp/1541646762/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=hossenfelder&qid=1597087653&sr=8-2
Eric Weinstein
The Portal Podcast: https://ericweinstein.org/
The Portal Wiki: https://projects.theportal.wiki/
Lee Smolin
Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum
https://www.amazon.com/Einsteins-Unfinished-Revolution-Search-Quantum/dp/1594206198/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=lee+smolin&qid=1597087375&s=books&sr=1-1
Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe
https://www.amazon.com/Time-Reborn-Lee-Smolin/dp/0544245598/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=lee+smolin&qid=1597087375&s=books&sr=1-2
Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465094546/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tpbk_p1_i3
The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/061891868X/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tpbk_p1_i2
The Life of the Cosmos
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195126645/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tpbk_p1_i4