Frank Wilczek

So time is really the differentiator.

So some people, I've talked to Nobel Prize winner Bill Phillips and Frank Wilczek, who both of them won the Nobel Prize.

They say, oh, time is just what a clock measures.

Well, it's a clock.

Yeah, and I think that's the kind of language, the paucity of the economics of language that we have.

When I asked Frank Wilczek many years ago on the podcast, what's time? He said, time is what a clock measures.

Oh, thank you, Frank.

That's really helpful.

This is similar to the Higgs spontaneous symmetry breaking we talked about.

In 1978, Frank Wilczek and Steven Weinberg both independently came up with the idea of a particle called the axion that would emerge as the goldstone boson of this symmetry breaking.

It was named the axion after the soap since it cleaned up the strong CP problem.

Then, physicists realized that these light axion particles could be an explanation for dark matter as well.

Who designed the designer's universe? How did the designer arise? It kicks the can down the road without really answering the question.

Frank Wilczek, a Nobel-winning physicist, put it this way, The beauty of physical laws is too impressive.

It has led people to believe that a tasteful, higher being created us.

But this hypothesis goes far beyond the evidence.

And this has been well understood and known for a long time.

Frank Wilczek, a very famous physicist, won the Nobel Prize, is saying, you know, In physics, we need a theory of the observer.

He's looking for it himself in quantum theory, but more generally, we just need a theory of the observer.

And this is not the first.

So time is really the differentiator.

So some people, I've talked to Nobel Prize winner Bill Phillips, who, um, and Frank Wilczek, who, both, both of them won the Nobel Prize.

They say, "Oh, a time is just what a clock measures." Well, it's a clock.

Clock is something you measure time, so it's teleological, which means that we don't really have a great definition.

No, I, I, I think that rings true.

And actually, we have had on past guest, uh, Frank Wilczek, uh, many times, and he, he cites that the discovery of jets at least, not, not by, you know, IceCube or anything personally, but he cites that as, as the kind of signature achievement of, of his career and of work that, that, uh-

Yeah, yeah

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