The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. See the full Q&A video playlist: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: Can you define "scientific method" ? - What is a double blind randomized control trial? - what caused the split between the evolutionary paths of plant life and animal life? - Why haven't any animals evolved to be the same size as large dinosaurs? For example, the T-Rex and Brontosaurus were massive creatures. - I'm only 12 but how do you deal with detractors, I hear some things about you, it does sound like jealousy if I'm honest, but regardless, how do you continue on your path and disregard the critics?

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: What appeared first in math, complex numbers or vectors? What is the relation between them? Would the square root of negatives be a problem if equations were developed with vectors instead of regular numbers? - ​Hi Wolfram. Can you tell a bit about the history of Real Variables, the Rational Numbers and why analysis was so important. Why not stick to integers. Why Cantor and Dedekind was so important. Thanks - What's the largest number you've ever used in a computation? Have you used anything bigger than Graham's number or Rayo's number? - moving from roman numerals to the numbers we use today helped merchants in those days, right? I believe that's what I read. - Was Tau used befor Pi? - ​Did Feynman overestimate Fredkin? Have the string theorists underestimated Fredkin? - ​Did you work much with Murray Gell-Mann? Any shareable stories? -What is your opinion on the resurgence of UFO's?

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: What is dark matter? - What is the "fabric" of space-time? What gives rise to it? What is it made of? - Is there something smaller than quarks? - How do black holes appear? Going continuously from 0 topological holes to 1. - Is there a computational system similar to quarks? - In WPP, could something, say a black hole, leave a wake/churn in the atoms of space in it's past light cone? Perhaps there is something lingering that's detectable.  Is the structure a mystery? And if we knew what electrons were made of, would we be able to duplicate objects? - Is it really possible to get something from literally nothing? - It is often said that "nothing can escape black holes, not even light". Can gravitational waves escape black holes? If you manage to send two orbiting black holes that are about to merge into a larger black hole, will the gravitational waves still be produced? Does the Theory of Physics of yours have anything to say about that? - How could we be reliable judges of what is metaphysically possible, rather than what seems possible to us given our current evidence (epistemic possibility)? How could we get evidence about which formal systems are metaphysically possible to be realized? -  ​Implications of "hypercomputation" being a possibility and hence existing? -  What was the last 'crazy' or 'unrealistic but interesting' thought with regard to science or your thoughts about reality, a speculation that isn't based in any research but is an intuition? -  If a piece of space breaks off, does it just "float around" in the universe? If so, does gravity increase where that piece passes? -  ​If a piece of universe detaches from our universe in a supercritical black hole, is that universe contained in such a black hole still subject to hashing radiation?   Was the Universe created from an explosion from a super super super super super... black hole? -  Re the close-to-critical black holes. What would you see the 'handful of threads' that connect it to our universe against? In an actual microscope, you see a structure against black background. what's the background here? -  Could black holes be a pinch in space where it goes inside out? If a black hole rotates with that critical speed could it expose hypercomputation? -  Are there any plans to somehow incorporate any formal method tooling?

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: What happens if you fall into the ocean from a great height? From what I have read, it's like hitting concrete. Can you explain the science behind this? - ​Dr. Wolfram, can you explain the origin of white trail from jets at high altitude. Thank you. - If we rubbed mineral oil/baby oil on us would we move faster in the water? -  How long would we survive if the earth left the suns orbit going away from the sun? - Could everything that gets sucked into all black holes everywhere in the universe go to the same place? - Do black holes rotate? Can they distort the time-space around them? - What is the reason for the distribution of matter and antimatter throughout the universe, why is there much less antimatter?

In this episode of "What We've Learned from NKS", Stephen Wolfram is counting down to the 20th anniversary of A New Kind of Science with a chapter retrospective in an ongoing livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/12aAqLklA

In this episode of "What We've Learned from NKS", Stephen Wolfram is counting down to the 20th anniversary of A New Kind of Science with a chapter retrospective in an ongoing livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/12aAqLklA

In this episode of "What We've Learned from NKS", Stephen Wolfram is counting down to the 20th anniversary of A New Kind of Science with a chapter retrospective in an ongoing livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/12aAqLklA

In this episode of "What We've Learned from NKS", Stephen Wolfram is counting down to the 20th anniversary of A New Kind of Science with a chapter retrospective in an ongoing livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/12aAqLklA

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: Are you familiar with Knot Theory? Apparently former NASA Physicist Thad Roberts derived charge of the electron from the hyperbolic figure 8 knot. He recommended using Mathematica to verify. -  Why does computer code involve math? Why isn't it just a set of linear instructions that sometimes hop around, like a choose your own adventure book? - What type of computer logic is most efficient (binary, ternary,...)? - I hear that all Boolean functions can be constructed from only NAND. Is this true of any other simple Boolean function? - Why does NAND realize NAND? -why are we only considering first order derivatives of position (velocity) and 2nd order (acceleration)? Why are higher order derivatives not relative apparently? - ​what is derivative of acceleration called? - Do you think emotions will emerge out of intelligence... if computer scientists continue to make general AI...do you think the more 'general' or 'intelligent' it gets the more 'emotional' it will get?

In this episode of "What We've Learned from NKS", Stephen Wolfram is counting down to the 20th anniversary of A New Kind of Science with a chapter retrospective in an ongoing livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/12aAqLklA