Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Have you studied the Crick-Mitchison theory of REM sleep? Do you think that their theory is relevant to artificial intelligence and/or the theory of pattern recognition? - Thoughts on the significance of the triangle and why it seems to be one of if not the strongest 2d shape? - Are quasicrystals useful? - What does it mean to map a brain? Why is ...
May 27, 2021•54 min
Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: Discussing the history of LISP - Do you know Noam Chomsky personally? - NASA became interested in sanskrit as a programming language - Why did Ludwig Boltzmann commit suicide? - What's your take\opinion on Visual Programming Languages? - How is emacs related to lisp? - Do you know ...
May 21, 2021•1 hr 54 min
Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business and innovation as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qa Questions include: when did you start to have an entrepreneurial spirit? When you were little, did you work to get money? - If I could start a company today that is likely to make me a ton of money, or one that would let me do something I love, which should I chose? - What made you decide to go through...
May 13, 2021•1 hr 49 min
Stephen Wolfram and team discuss the Wolfram Physics Project one year later by providing an update on the journey to finding the fundamental theory of physics. See the full Wolfram Physics Project video playlist on YouTube: https://wolfr.am/youtube-wpp
Apr 22, 2021•1 hr 23 min
Stephen Wolfram and team discuss the Wolfram Physics Project one year later by providing an update on the journey to finding the fundamental theory of physics. See the full Wolfram Physics Project video playlist on YouTube: https://wolfr.am/youtube-wpp
Apr 22, 2021•2 hr 36 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Have you discussed the Wolfram Physics Project with any string theorists? - What is the possibility of building an unmanned space craft to 'hitch a ride' on a comet, to reach (and perhaps launch) the space craft out of the solar system? - recently watched a video on YouTube by Anton Petrov where he discussed a leak from the radio telescope labora...
Apr 06, 2021•1 hr 13 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Any tips on how to make nice presentations? - Why are there so many concepts in math that are not realized in the physical world? - What cryptocurrencies are you a fan of? Do you think any of them will "win big" in 2021? Any new players to watch? - Are big banks and governments trying to undermine the legitimacy of cryptocurrencies? - What do you ...
Mar 26, 2021•2 hr
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Who are your favourite Science fiction authors? What are your favourite stories/movies? - Why do people have emotions and feelings? How do emotions and feelings work? Happiness, anger, etc. - In the space of all possible mental states, what is the ratio of positive vs negative states? Is this a relative quantity? Does it obey certain transformati...
Mar 19, 2021•1 hr 22 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Why do some people commonly refer the internet to the World Wide Web? Isn't The world wide web a bunch of networks or website on the internet? - Is there a philosopher who had developed a system which is close to your perspective right now? - What are your tips about writing essays? - Why does the electron and the proton have the same amount of ...
Mar 12, 2021•1 hr 49 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Are instruction sets architectures important for simulating physical systems, and how they could change the way kids understand computers? - How much do you follow your instincts? How do you develop a good instinct, in science and in life? - What is the financial market? - Jack Dorsey is endorsing your idea of an algorithm choice by third parties,...
Mar 05, 2021•2 hr 1 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Can you explain computational irreducibility like you're telling a 6 year old? - How different is nanotechnology manufacturing different from normal manufacturing? - What is the historical relationship between chemistry and physics? Is chemistry a sub-branch of physics? - Can aging really be cured? - Isn't death a fundamental factor of evolution...
Feb 26, 2021•1 hr 28 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Is there a physical principle that governs Moore's law? Why is there so much available computation? - If F=ma, and photons have a mass of 0, how can light sails work? Do photons have some properties of having mass? - As of right now, what do you anticipate will be the outcome of the Wolfram Physics Project? What practical applications will it have? - What is more di...
Feb 19, 2021•1 hr 30 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Why is that the sunspot cycle is important for shortwave radio? - What aspects of the origin of life would be interesting to investigate with current computing tools? - How does 3d printing work and what is its potential? - How do you think like a mathematician or scientist? I have read and heard that math and science take a different mental proc...
Feb 15, 2021•1 hr 20 min
Stephen Wolfram discusses the new Wolfram Physics Project, this time specifically for an open Q&A. See the full Wolfram Physics Project video playlist on YouTube: https://wolfr.am/youtube-wpp
Feb 05, 2021•2 hr 50 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Where were you in the dot com bubble burst and your wisdom was needed? - What work did you do at Bell labs? Who did you meet? - Was it the need in telephone grid that drove the innovation of the transistor? - How many shirts do you own? - Are there any string theorists who believe that nature is finite and digital? - Great scientists typically hav...
Jan 26, 2021•1 hr 20 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: I was wondering about your thoughts on Claude Shannon, information entropy, and information theory in general. I believe this field is responsible for so much technology and progress around us, but doesn't get its due praise in the mainstream. - What books / exercises are best to take me from a high school level physics / mathematics understanding...
Jan 25, 2021•1 hr 33 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: For a math/science career, what is the most useful subject to study in school excluding math/science? What was your favorite non-science class(subject) in school? - Does a charged battery weigh more than a discharged battery? - How can scientist Measure Atomic number for every element, electron mass and speed? - Is there an accessible book about t...
Jan 25, 2021•1 hr 24 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Do protons decay? - Theoretically, If there was a ladder stretching from earth to a distant planet, say a light year away. Could you communicate with people there instantly by push and pulling, Morse code style? And is this related to quantum entanglement? - Who do you think was the smartest person to ever live? - Do you think that it is possible ...
Jan 22, 2021•1 hr 26 min
Stephen Wolfram & Jonathan Gorard discuss updates to the project followed by a Q&A. See the full Wolfram Physics Project video playlist on YouTube: https://wolfr.am/youtube-wpp
Jan 20, 2021•2 hr 8 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Do you think that neurons work more as a mechanical system or rather on quantum level? Is computational power done by the neural network or more by the microtubules? - It has been argued that the majority of published research findings in science are false (i.e., overfitting). Since you have read 100s of research papers, has this been your experie...
Jan 13, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Hi Stephen, you have said that you doubt whether quantum computers will ever work. Why do I read so often that another quantum computer was built with so and so many qbits? - We know there are more than three dimensions? - What is quantum tunneling? - Why is the 3-body problem so hard to solve? - Who is your favourite Manhattan project Scientist? ...
Jan 13, 2021•52 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Can data be sent via light wirelessly? - How can there be different types of twilights and would you observe the same thing on Mars? - Why is the sky not black? - How do I become a scientist like you? How did you make it to create a business out of it? - Is it possible to do a PhD research under your supervision? - Can photons interact? I heard ab...
Jan 13, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: If humankind had evolved 12 fingers, and if we all used base 12 to count and do commerce, would this have made any difference to our scientific development? - Do you think you could convince Dana Scott to expand his lecture "Looking Forward, Looking Backward" into a memoirs book similar to "idea makers"? - As in your physics project, do you think ...
Dec 18, 2020•1 hr 12 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: What's your opinion of the usability and programmability of current computers in comparison to the ones you have used ind your live? Do you have any wish regarding future computers? - How do you think we can fix the shortcomings of the current neural network architectures? - Why does hitting a bucket of water on the side with a tennis ball make th...
Dec 18, 2020•1 hr 10 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Is the number 0 a natural or an integer number? - How do you do calculus on round object like spheres or donuts? - If you could change how we measure time, would you and to what? - I've read that their is/are giant clouds of (methyl) alcohol in space. Can it be a possibility that those clouds of alcohol have to chance to potentially "sanitize" mic...
Nov 23, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Why does matter and anti-matter annihilate when they come together? What is the mechanism behind an electron and a positron to convert to energy when they meet? Saying that they are of opposite charges doesn't really explain it - So entropy always tends towards the lowest energy state? - What is the most "scientifically" interesting place you have...
Nov 23, 2020•1 hr 9 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: What is dark matter? - Why is the Sun's corona hotter than its core? - Are white holes only theoretical or are they real? Is a black hole a sphere with condensed light and matter? or does all that light and matter go somewhere? - A question from 8 years old boy from Houston enjoying this stream but can't stop himself from asking: is it possible no...
Nov 20, 2020•1 hr 5 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: What is the difference between fusion and fission? - What is the difference between regular helium, like those in balloons, and Helium-3? - Can you explain the physics of why ice is slippery? - Would you mind explaining Van der Waals force? - Does quantum mechanical tunneling play much of a role in nuclear fusion? - Are you planning on ever releas...
Nov 16, 2020•1 hr 38 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: When will we run out of scientific innovations? Is there a limit to technology? - Is it possible to build a place without gravity? - Do you think there is anything between the known particles (and Planck length 10^-33) and your hypergraphs (at length 10^-93), such as another set of "elementary" particles? - Will technology allow for one true unive...
Nov 13, 2020•1 hr 32 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: How did Alan Turning crack the Enigma Code? - Can you explain Newton seconds law of motion? - How much of science is kept secret, either classified by the military or waiting for monetization inside private research labs? - How should we understand the double-slit experiment with light? If light is made of particles whose quantum wave functions in...
Oct 27, 2020•1 hr 21 min
