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Janna Levin

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01 / uncertainty

I don’t know that any of us can really put ourselves in that position of imagining that we are faced with that quandary, having to take the initiative to participate in thinking of a way that quantum mechanics can kill people.

“I don’t know that any of us can really put ourselves in that position of imagining that we are faced with that quandary, having to take the initiative to participate in thinking of a way that quantum mechanics can kill people.”
Speaker
Janna Levin
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

03 / uncertainty

I don’t know if you know the… Originally, Leon Lederman co-authored a book and he wanted to call it, The Goddamm Particle because they couldn’t light it.

“I don’t know if you know the… Originally, Leon Lederman co-authored a book and he wanted to call it, The Goddamm Particle because they couldn’t light it.”
Speaker
Janna Levin
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

08 / belief

Whether or not there are extra dimensions, or whether or not there’s life in another membrane, I think we know that even just in our galaxy, which is a very small part of the universe, 300 billion stars, something like that, a whole kind of variety of possibilities to be explored, by nature in the same way that we’re describing it.

“Whether or not there are extra dimensions, or whether or not there’s life in another membrane, I think we know that even just in our galaxy, which is a very small part of the universe, 300 billion stars, something like that, a whole kind of variety of possibilities to be explored, by nature in the same way that we’re describing it.”
Speaker
Janna Levin
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

10 / commitment

I am absolutely able to say, “Oh, that’s just not…” I mean, I’m not going to deny that sometimes I maybe take a while to come to that conclusion, longer than I should, but I will.

“I am absolutely able to say, “Oh, that’s just not…” I mean, I’m not going to deny that sometimes I maybe take a while to come to that conclusion, longer than I should, but I will.”
Speaker
Janna Levin
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

11 / belief

Yeah, actually it might. It’s positive energy and a negative pressure, which is kind of like a rubber band sort of quality because we think of pressure is pushing things outward and dark energy has a very strange sort of quality that as things move outward, you feel more energy as opposed to less energy.

“Yeah, actually it might. It’s positive energy and a negative pressure, which is kind of like a rubber band sort of quality because we think of pressure is pushing things outward and dark energy has a very strange sort of quality that as things move outward, you feel more energy as opposed to less energy.”
Speaker
Janna Levin
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

13 / belief

In sense, if they’re just allowed to directly collapse very early in the universe’s history, they can do that more easily. It’s so much so that we think that there’s one of these supermassive black holes in the center of every galaxy.

“In sense, if they’re just allowed to directly collapse very early in the universe’s history, they can do that more easily. It’s so much so that we think that there’s one of these supermassive black holes in the center of every galaxy.”
Speaker
Janna Levin
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

16 / preference

You can wound one badly, and there are certain jellyfish that will go back into a kind of pre-state and start over. So I think we’re very attached to imagining creatures like us, that manipulate technology, and I think we have to be way more imaginative if we’re going to really take seriously life in the universe.

“You can wound one badly, and there are certain jellyfish that will go back into a kind of pre-state and start over. So I think we’re very attached to imagining creatures like us, that manipulate technology, and I think we have to be way more imaginative if we’re going to really take seriously life in the universe.”
Speaker
Janna Levin
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

17 / evaluation

There’s a reference to it in the film where they’re sort of joking, “Well, I guess nobody’s going to pay attention to your paper now,” because of the Nazi advance on Poland.

“There’s a reference to it in the film where they’re sort of joking, “Well, I guess nobody’s going to pay attention to your paper now,” because of the Nazi advance on Poland.”
Speaker
Janna Levin
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

18 / disagreement

He did. But some people who love quantum mechanics were really annoyed, people like Lenny Susskind, Gerard’t Hooft, Nobel Prize winner, they were mad because it suggested something was fundamentally wrong with quantum mechanics if it was right.

“He did. But some people who love quantum mechanics were really annoyed, people like Lenny Susskind, Gerard’t Hooft, Nobel Prize winner, they were mad because it suggested something was fundamentally wrong with quantum mechanics if it was right.”
Speaker
Janna Levin
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

19 / prediction

These are thought experiments that I think we can perform and contemplate whether or not we’ll ever know is another question. And so, one of the most beautiful things that we suspect happens on the inside of a black hole is that space and time, in some sense swap places.

“These are thought experiments that I think we can perform and contemplate whether or not we’ll ever know is another question. And so, one of the most beautiful things that we suspect happens on the inside of a black hole is that space and time, in some sense swap places.”
Speaker
Janna Levin
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

20 / evaluation

We had predicted and measured the light leftover from the Big Bang. And because of all the precision that’s happened since then, that’s how we’re able to confront that there’s things that we don’t know.

“We had predicted and measured the light leftover from the Big Bang. And because of all the precision that’s happened since then, that’s how we’re able to confront that there’s things that we don’t know.”
Speaker
Janna Levin
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

21 / evaluation

Black holes are more general and more fundamental than just the death state of a star. But even the history of how people realize that stars could form black holes is quite fascinating because the entire idea really just started as a thought experiment.

“Black holes are more general and more fundamental than just the death state of a star. But even the history of how people realize that stars could form black holes is quite fascinating because the entire idea really just started as a thought experiment.”
Speaker
Janna Levin
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

22 / prediction

Again, it’s just like can electrons flow the right way. And is it energetically favorable for multicellularity to exist because if it’s energetically expensive, it’s not going to succeed.

“Again, it’s just like can electrons flow the right way. And is it energetically favorable for multicellularity to exist because if it’s energetically expensive, it’s not going to succeed.”
Speaker
Janna Levin
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast
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