Frank Wilczek: Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Complexity, Life & Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #187

Frank Wilczek is a Nobel Prize winning physicist at MIT. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
1:07 – Are there limits to what physics can understand?
9:39 – Beautiful ideas in physics
18:08 – Space and time are really big
21:56 – There are billions of thoughts in a human life
29:17 – Big bang
37:39 – How life emerged in the universe
43:42 – Aliens
53:34 – Consciousness
1:01:01 – Limits of physics
1:06:38 – Complimentary principle
1:15:42 – Free will
1:21:56 – Particles
1:27:19 – Nobel Prize in Physics
1:40:33 – Axions and dark matter
1:55:58 – Time crystals
2:00:51 – Theory of everything
2:10:18 – Advice for young people
2:16:01 – Meaning of life

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