Lee Smolin - Why is the Quantum so Strange?

A quite smart and educated man interviewing a humble and careful genius.

one of the many amazing things about this series is how brilliant Robert has to be even to talk with these folks and keep asking them the right questions! Sometimes they look at him like, How did you understand what i just said well enough to ask me that follow-up?

Lee Smolin is a great thinker.

Wow. What a time to be alive; to have this info in the palm of our hands.

at 8:23, "which is composed of what exactly" .. friends that was priceless!

What I'm always amazed by is that the great thinkers of the past, including right up to early 20th century with Einstein, were more or less working with pen, paper and deep thought. No computers or advanced machinery. They didn't have the huge advantage of deep space astronomical evidence or massive computational power. Of course one could argue that theory starts on paper versus the application coming later.

"Space is dynamical, which evolves, just like anything else evolves......the building" - Lee Smolin He said it in a nonchalant manner, with a straight face, and somehow the conversation kept going without a glitch or pause and, more importantly, without a question from the interviewer.

I have his book. Changed my life.

Why so few subscribers? This is a fantastic channel.

I feel like this channel desperately needs a marketing overhaul and perhaps a video design one as well. It may not be absolutely necessary but it'd REALLY help the channel grow, improve and evolve. A few ideas off the top of my head include adding another interviewer (for video diversity), figuring out something original to add to each interview (maybe a certain question you ask everyone), and creating a new series of videos. You usually produce amazing content with very interesting/unique interviews with people most have never heard of before, on topics many never have adequately explained to them. Anyway, just the thoughts of a longtime subscriber.

awesome interview

If you tube had existed when I was younger I would have seen these guys as heroes and wanted to be a physicist. No doubt

This is gold.

This 9 minutes of interview really blew my mind....

Wow, this was a really profound interview! Loved the ideas about the emergence of quantum space and its relation to geometry and general relativity.

The interviews with this guy are seriously interesting, I've been hobbyist researching quantum mechanics for years yet still found some interesting nuggets after listening.

I think I got a lot out of this careful interview!! Very good

Fascinating! Matter is also an emergent property so perhaps this idea is really onto something.

Nice explainer from Smolin, and good stuff of course.

I love this channel