{"id":13464,"date":"2023-04-12T11:14:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T15:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=13464"},"modified":"2023-07-15T17:36:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T21:36:36","slug":"reality-is-a-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=13464","title":{"rendered":"Reality is a Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lex Fridman&#8217;s latest podcast features a nearly four hour long conversation with Edward Frenkel, under the title <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Osh0-J3T2nY\">Reality is a Paradox &#8211; Mathematics, Physics, Truth &#038; Love<\/a>. Normally I&#8217;m fairly allergic to hearing mathematicians or physicists publicly sharing their wisdom about the larger human experience (since they tend to have less of it than the average person), and I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ve never before listened to a podcast\/interview longer than an hour or so.  But in this case I listened to and enjoyed the entire thing.  Besides sharing Frenkel&#8217;s deep interests in the relation of representation theory and quantum mechanics, and views on the unity of mathematics (and physics&#8230;), I envy his positive and thoughtful outlook on life and his openness to a range of human experience.  The interview left me with a lot to think about and I recommend it highly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lex Fridman&#8217;s latest podcast features a nearly four hour long conversation with Edward Frenkel, under the title Reality is a Paradox &#8211; Mathematics, Physics, Truth &#038; Love. Normally I&#8217;m fairly allergic to hearing mathematicians or physicists publicly sharing their wisdom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=13464\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13467,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13464\/revisions\/13467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}