Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: How does one imagine a color they've never seen before? - Why does blue light prevent you from sleeping? - What advice would you give to learn real analysis? - What happens when you cry in space? - Who is the most underrated scientist? - How did the early universe manage to get mixed up enough that it is roughly the same? - How does one see colors...
Oct 23, 2020•56 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: What actually happens with my computer when it crashes? - How come that the humidity inside the cloud is 100% and right next to it is practically zero? What is the answer to that? - What is your opinion Leonhard Euler or Albert Einstein? - How important is money in science? - Is there a maximum limit on temperature based on the fact that particles...
Oct 23, 2020•1 hr 19 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Why is the P=NP problem considered so difficult to solve? - How can they solve Fermat's Last Theorem? - How many hours do you spend reading everyday? - How do I learn something? - Do you prefer to read on paper or on a screen? - How often do you use the book "A latin Dictionary Lewis and short" doing science? Is it useful? See the full Q&A vid...
Oct 16, 2020•51 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Considering the Star Trek Universal Translator, what size samples of an unknown language would be needed to begin to understand it? - Is the best way to profit off mars exploration the selling of intellectual property gained from research done there? Can you think of any other ways? - Do you have an advice for all those teenagers who want to disco...
Oct 16, 2020•1 hr 44 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: What is imaginary about imaginary numbers and what do they represent? - How can you split an atom and why is it difficult? - Is making an arc reactor (iron man) possible? - Beryllium experiment resulted in a 5th force -> what is that and how does it work? - Are there more substances or elements that work like palladium? - Where does the energy ...
Sep 28, 2020•1 hr 36 min
Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: How far away are we from a new propulsion system that could take us to another galaxy? - What about a "railgun" in space that also launches rockets? - Micro nuclear explosions? - Does the sun emit EMP pulses, and if so how are satellites protected? - If light is made of light, how can it go around anything? - Can you build a satellite with off the...
Sep 25, 2020•1 hr 21 min
Stephen Wolfram discusses the new Wolfram Physics Project, this time specifically for what physics might look like built by aliens. See the full Wolfram Physics Project video playlist on YouTube: https://wolfr.am/youtube-wpp
Sep 18, 2020•2 hr 11 min
Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about science fiction concepts as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: What will sci-fi look like in 20 years? How does the past compare to today? - Will there be a "Golden Age" for science? - Russia and the USA are only a few miles apart at some locations, still it takes more than 10 hours of flight time. Why? - Why and how do you know all this? - Do you think that we will have brain implants that allow us to access the internet ...
Sep 08, 2020•59 min
Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about science fiction concepts as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: How long before we colonize Mars? - Why isn't a Tricorder available yet? - How would teleportation work if we could make it happen? - Why don't we have flying cars yet? - Can you explain the physical difference between a 1 volt and a 2 volt battery? - Can we manipulate the weather and formation of clouds in quantum state or create new kind of quantum equipment?...
Sep 08, 2020•1 hr 25 min
Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about science fiction concepts as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Could our pets become intelligent enough to take over the world? - What would faster-than-light travel look like (visually)? - How could we make a force field? - Does your physics model allow me to build a warp drive? - Are there any practical 'exploits' that you think may be possible as a result of your model? - Do you think an organism living through its whol...
Sep 08, 2020•1 hr 32 min
Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: How can you connect to the internet without wifi? How does 5G technology work? See the full Q&A video playlist: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa
Aug 10, 2020•31 min
Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Should we teach kids how computers work? How does a computer work inside? See the full Q&A video playlist: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa
Aug 10, 2020•41 min
Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Can intelligence be quantified? What is the correspondence between intelligence and comprehension? How effectively can we communicate with animals? See the full Q&A video playlist: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa
Aug 07, 2020•43 min
Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about education and careers as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: What careers would you recommend for an engineer? - What's your take on specialization vs generalization? - What physical experiments do you recommend for kids? - What role did you play in your kids' education? - Can you recommend any fun projects for a starting programmer? See the full Q&A video playlist: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa...
Jul 22, 2020•34 min
Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about education and careers as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Does the increased use of computational languages make us forget the basics of math? - How do you recommend students with a solid calculus background to learn physics and mathematics? - Why do many old technical institutions use manual calculation rather than modern computational tools? - What book behind you has had the most impact on you and your peers? - How ca...
Jul 22, 2020•32 min
Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about mathematics and computation as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: What is the most curious property of prime numbers? How far are we from building self-replicating Von Neumann machines? How do online advertisers know what I want? See the full Q&A video playlist: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa
Jul 16, 2020•43 min
Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about mathematics and computation as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Is there anything you'd add to or subtract from A New Kind of Science? How feasible is it to create a computational model of a biological organism? Why do many old technical institutions use manual calculation rather than modern computational tools? How do you prove that 1+1=2? Can we do computation not based on silicon technology? What really is computation...
Jul 16, 2020•35 min
Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about physics and astronomy as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: What happens when you sneeze in space? - Do scientists always use metric units? - What's the relationship between electricity and magnetism? - Why is the sky blue? - How does a space station work? See the full Q&A video playlist: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa
Jul 13, 2020•41 min
Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about life sciences as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Is a single virus enough to get you? - How will pandemic treatment look in ten years? - How do antibodies work? - How can Mathematica reduce the time needed to make new vaccines? See the full Q&A video playlist: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa
Jul 07, 2020•28 min
Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about life sciences as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: What happened to the dinosaurs? - What is a virus? - Why we don't have medicine for a virus-only vaccines? - Are viruses alive? - Why is the human brain so mushy? - Did people evolve from monkeys? See the full Q&A video playlist on YouTube: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa
Jul 07, 2020•43 min
Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about physics and astronomy as part of an unscripted livestream series. Questions include: Do all objects, including living things, emit radio waves? What is plasma? What's the likelihood there's another universe exactly like ours out there? What is a hypersphere? Is there a limit to how many dimensions you can have? Why do you have to acquire a certain speed to escape earth's gravity to get into space? See the full Q&A video playlist on YouTube: ht...
Jul 07, 2020•26 min
Stephen Wolfram continues the kick-off of the new Wolfram Physics Project, this time specifically for kids (and adults). See the full Wolfram Physics Project video playlist on YouTube: https://wolfr.am/youtube-wpp
Jun 16, 2020•1 hr 42 min
Stephen Wolfram & Jonathan Gorard & Max Piskunov continue answering questions about the new Wolfram Physics Project, this time specifically for highly technical Computer Science implications. See the full Wolfram Physics Project video playlist on YouTube: https://wolfr.am/youtube-wpp
Jun 16, 2020•1 hr 39 min
Stephen Wolfram & Jonathan Gorard continue answering questions about the new Wolfram Physics Project, this time specifically for Philosophy implications. See the full Wolfram Physics Project video playlist on YouTube: https://wolfr.am/youtube-wpp
Jun 09, 2020•1 hr 57 min
Stephen Wolfram & Jonathan Gorard continue answering questions about the new Wolfram Physics Project, this time specifically for highly technical Math and Physics implications. See the full Wolfram Physics Project video playlist on YouTube: https://wolfr.am/youtube-wpp
Jun 09, 2020•1 hr 56 min
Stephen Wolfram publicly kicks off an ambitious new project to find the Fundamental Theory of Physics, this time specifically for general questions about the project. See the full Wolfram Physics Project video playlist on YouTube: https://wolfr.am/youtube-wpp
Jun 05, 2020•1 hr 47 min
Stephen Wolfram publicly kicks off an ambitious new project to find the Fundamental Theory of Physics. See the full Wolfram Physics Project video playlist on YouTube: https://wolfr.am/youtube-wpp
Jun 05, 2020•2 hr
Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about physics and astronomy as part of an ongoing livestream Q&A series for kids (and others). Questions include: Why is there a speed limit (the speed of light)? - What is spin? - Is there maximum temperature? - Is there a maximum location accuracy for a GPS system? See the full Q&A video playlist on YouTube: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa
May 27, 2020•40 min
Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about physics and astronomy as part of an ongoing livestream Q&A series for kids (and others). Questions include: Is it possible to communicate with worlds outside our solar system? - Is it possible to make a suit that can make you grow and shrink at will like in Ant-Man? - How does a satellite stay in orbit around the earth (or a planet stay in orbit around the sun)? - Could we access other dimensions? - What are protons, neutrons, and electrons ma...
May 27, 2020•48 min
Stephen Wolfram answers audience questions about physics and astronomy as part of an ongoing livestream Q&A series for kids (and others). Questions include: How do windmills generate energy? - Why can't we see all light? - Why does space never end? - How did earth evolve? - What is heat? - Do magnets work in space? See the full Q&A video playlist on YouTube: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa
May 19, 2020•48 min•Ep. 1
