The UIUC Talkshow
Tony Leggett is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
EPISODE LINKS:
Tony Leggett’s UIUC Website: https://physics.illinois.edu/people/directory/profile/aleggett
OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
0:44 – The Daily Life of a Nobel Laureate
3:58 – What Would Tony Leggett Study in College Today?
7:18 – Consciousness
8:45 – Valuing People
10:50 – Superfluidity
16:07 – How To Pick Problems
21:26 – Paradigm Shifts
23:45 – Quantum Mechanics
28:38 – Persuasion
29:10 – Computational Universe
30:38 – Persuasion Part 2
34:42 – “The Future Can Affect The Present”
39:03 – Time
39:58 – Entropy
42:48 – Thought Experiments
45:25 – Brain-to-Brain Communication
48:27 – 3 Questions to Decide What to Research
52:38 – Leggett’s Career
55:28 – Curiosity
59:59 – Universities
1:03:39 – Physics in Different Countries
1:05:07 – Free time to think
1:09:06 – Overcoming Barriers to Doing Physics
1:19:16 – Luck
1:22:28 – Advice for young people
🚥Overrated or Underrated Section 🚥
1:29:23 – 🎖️ Nobel Prize
1:32:23 – 🧵 String Theory
1:33:43 – 🏫 University of Illinois
1:35:32 – 👸🏼 Knighthood
1:38:59 – 🌍 Africa
👥Audience Q&A👥
1:45:10 – Public Outreach
1:46:30 – How to Study Science
1:47:39 – Textbooks/Standard Curriculum
1:48:38 – How to pick what articles/papers to read
1:49:48 – Closing Words
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Here are the timestamps for this conversation. If you have questions for Dr. Leggett, please write them below.
0:00 – Introduction
0:44 – The Daily Life of a Nobel Laurate
3:58 – What Would Tony Leggett Study in College Today?
7:18 – Consciousness
8:45 – Value People
10:50 – Superfluidity
16:07 – How To Pick Problems
21:26 – Paradigm Shifts
23:45 – Quantum Mechanics
28:38 – Persuasion
29:10 – Computational Universe
30:38 – Persuasion Part 2
34:42 – "The Future Can Affect The Present"
39:03 – Time
39:58 – Entropy
42:48 – Thought Experiments
45:25 – Brain-to-Brain Communication
48:27 – 3 Questions to Decide What to Research
52:38 – Leggett's Career
55:28 – Curiosity
59:59 – Universities
1:03:39 – Physics in Different Countries
1:05:07 – Free time to think
1:09:06 – Overcoming Barriers to Doing Physics
1:19:16 – Luck
1:22:28 – Advice for young people
🚥Overrated or Underrated Section 🚥
1:29:23 – 🎖 Nobel Prize
1:32:23 – 🧵 String Theory
1:33:43 – 🏫 University of Illinois
1:35:32 – 👸🏼 Knighthood
1:38:59 – Africa
👥Audience Q&A👥
1:45:10 – Public Outreach
1:46:30 – How to Study Science
1:47:39 – Textbooks/Standard Curriculum
1:48:38 – How to pick what articles/papers to read
1:49:48 – Closing Words
Great episode. 🎉🎉
Thanks for the hard work! I learned a lot from this episode.
Well, this inspired me to go check out (and then update the broken links on) his Wikipedia entry (the Nobel site was reorganized). Thanks for this interview, all!
What he actually said was don't study the interpretation of quantum mechanics