Lex Fridman Podcast

#201 – Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System

Jul 19, 2021

02:45:48

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How Does Quantum Mechanics Make Sense in the Solar System?

03:20

Planet 9 Injects Objects Into the Kuiper Belt

03:54

Aliens Is One That's Fundamentally Hard to Say

02:09

Introduction

4min

NI's New Podcast - Testing123

2min

Planet Nine in the Solar System?

5min

The Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud

4min

Objects in the Kuiper Belt

2min

How to Detect Asteroids in the Night Sky

3min

A New Telescope Could Be Coming Online Next Year

2min

What's the Oort Cloud?

2min

Comets Come From the Oort Cloud

1min

10.

Is There Any Collisions in the Ord Cloud?

2min

11.

Are There Aliens Out There?

2min

12.

Is There Intelligent Life on Earth?

5min

13.

Is There a Solar System of Short Period Planets?

2min

14.

Is This Uranium Wandering?

2min

15.

What Is Anulus?

2min

16.

How Hard Is It to Simulate Everything That We've Been Talking About?

2min

17.

Is There a Predictive Path to the Solar System?

2min

18.

How Does Quantum Mechanics Make Sense in the Solar System?

3min

19.

Using the Schrodinger Equation to Model Waves

2min

20.

What Is Chaos Theory in Action?

5min

21.

Simulating the History of the Solar System in Excruciating Detail

2min

22.

Is It a Simulation or a Real Continuous Game?

3min

23.

Zooming In, Is There a Future?

2min

24.

Why I Don't Want to Box With Mike Tyson

2min

25.

Are You Trying to Get Better?

2min

26.

Planet 9 - A Good Place to Come Back To

2min

27.

The Magnetism of the Planet 9 Model

3min

28.

The Oort Cloud

2min

29.

The Origin of Life on Earth

2min

30.

Is There Evidence for Planet 9?

2min

31.

What's Next for Neptune?

3min

32.

How to Get Really Good at Waiting

2min

33.

Planet 9 Injects Objects Into the Kuiper Belt

4min

34.

Is There a Pristine Black Hole?

3min

35.

Is It a Black Hole?

4min

36.

Is There a Planet Nine in the Universe?

2min

37.

Is There a Future in Science in Our Solar System?

3min

38.

SpaceX or Blue Origin or SpaceX?

4min

39.

Is There Something Captivating About Mars?

2min

40.

Is There a Sex and Space Problem?

2min

41.

The Evolution of Humanity Without Astronomy

4min

42.

Is There a Difference Between Military and Non-Military Funding?

3min

43.

Having a Lot of Ideas Is a Good Idea, Right?

4min

44.

Aliens Is One That's Fundamentally Hard to Say

2min

45.

Is There a Queen of the Ant Colony?

4min

46.

Is There a Bottleneck to AI?

2min

47.

Using Gravitational Fields to Measure Gravitation

2min

48.

Aliens, AI, and Aliens

3min

49.

Science Fiction - It Drives the Science

2min

50.

Is There a Common Language to Communicate With Them?

3min

51.

The Progress of Science Is Just Like Going to Mars

1min

52.

Would You Die on Mars?

2min

53.

The Greatest Song of All Time?

3min

54.

The Greatest Song in the Greatest Band of All Time

2min

55.

Is There a Future for Music That Lasts?

2min

56.

The Most Essential Thing About the Bebes

2min

57.

Are You a Lifelong Musician While Being Super Busy?

3min

58.

Is There Something to You and I Different This?

2min

59.

Do You Still Speak Russian?

3min

60.

What Was It Like Being a Japanese Immigrant?

3min

61.

Is There a Template for Success?

3min

62.

Do You Have a CV That Looks Impressive?

2min

63.

The Meritocracy Is in Its Richest Form

2min

64.

Can You Be a Certified Drone Pilot?

2min

65.

Creative Enterprise - I'm in a Privilege Position of Being Human

2min

66.

Is There a Planet Nine?

2min

Konstantin Batygin is a planetary astrophysicist at Caltech. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:17) – Overview of our Solar System
(22:14) – What is the Oort Cloud?
(27:10) – Life in the interstellar medium
(28:42) – Are there aliens out there?
(31:22) – How unique is Earth?
(34:02) – Did Jupiter destroy early planets?
(40:16) – How hard is it to simulate the Universe?
(44:49) – Quantum mechanics in evolution of objects in the Solar system
(49:15) – Simulating the first formations around the Sun
(55:02) – Will it be possible to simulate the full history of the Solar System?
(57:23) – How far should we go with the simulation?
(59:43) – Increasing immersion in video games
(1:06:09) – What is Planet Nine?
(1:12:37) – The origin of life
(1:15:02) – Evidence of Planet Nine
(1:17:32) – Discovery of Neptune
(1:18:42) – When will we find Planet Nine?
(1:21:21) – Planet Nine throws rocks into the Kuiper Belt
(1:25:15) – Could Planet Nine be a primordial black hole?
(1:35:20) – Commercial space revolution boosts science and the human condition
(1:42:46) – Solving sex in space
(1:43:24) – Would humans evolve if we couldn’t see the stars?
(1:49:08) – Military funding and science
(1:53:11) – Is Oumuamua space junk from a distant alien civilization?
(2:06:33) – Wild ideas create the future
(2:14:22) – The perfect place to die
(2:16:03) – Greatest song of all time
(2:22:34) – Music enables science for Konstantin
(2:24:51) – Music practice tips for busy people
(2:28:41) – Memories of 1990s Russia
(2:35:14) – Advice for young people
(2:41:10) – Meaning of life