In today's episode, we are joined by Leonard Susskind, the renowned theoretical physicist often called the "Father of String Theory," who has profoundly shaped our understanding of quantum mechanics, black holes, and the nature of the universe.

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LINKS MENTIONED:
Conformal Field Theory (book): https://amzn.to/4fooVr8
Leonard Susskind Bio: https://physics.stanford.edu/people/l...
Leonard on The Origins Podcast:    • Leonard Susskind: Strings, Quarks, Black H...  
Leonard Susskind’s String Theory lectures:    • Leonard Susskind: String theory and M-theory  
Latham Boyle on TOE:    • The (Simplest) Model That Explains Everything  
Peter Woit on TOE:    • The Forgotten Geometry: A New Path to Unif...  
Stephen Wolfram on TOE:    • Solving the Problem of Consciousness | Ste...  
Stephen Wolfram at Mindfest:    • How Dark Matter & Ai Will Shape Our Existe...  
Roger Penrose on TOE:    • The 21st Century’s Greatest Living Scienti...  
Cumrun Vafa on TOE:    • Dark Dimensions: NEW THEORY Unifying Dark ...  
Neil Turok on TOE:    • The (Simple) Theory That Explains Everythi...  
Garrett Lisi on TOE:    • The 248 Dimensional Object That Unifies th...  
TOE’s String Theory Iceberg:    • The Mathematics of String Theory [Graduate...  
Sean Carroll on TOE:    • The Crisis in (Fundamental) Physics is Wor...  
Sean Carroll’s podcast:    • Mindscape Podcast  
The de Sitter: https://hal.science/hal-00109682/docu...
Susskind: String theory not a complete picture of how quantum gravity works: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/w...
Can we unify quantum mechanics and gravity?: https://physicsworld.com/a/can-we-uni...
New theory claims to unite Einstein's gravity with quantum mechanics:
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-theory-...
Time and Quantum Mechanics SOLVED? | Lee Smolin:    • Time and Quantum Mechanics SOLVED? | Lee S...  
Fay Dowker on TOE:    • Fay Dowker: Causal Set Theory, Quantum Gra...  
Edward Frenkel on TOE:    • Edward Frenkel: Infinity, Ai, String Theor...  

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - "String Theory Has Failed"
03:36 - The De Sitter Space Crisis
05:45 - Young Physicists' Fear and the De Sitter Problem
07:21 - The Supersymmetry Problem
10:18 - Starting Over in Physics (Beyond Supersymmetry)
13:00 - A Founder's Critique of String Theory
17:00 - Susskind on Alternative Theories
20:50 - The Landscape Problem
27:50 - Inflation Theory Attacked
42:20 - Appealing to Consensus in Physics
45:40 - The Falsifiability Question
48:30 - Limits of the Planck Scale
53:55 - Understanding Quantum Mechanics
01:03:35 - Black Holes and Complexity
01:21:35 - Problems with Many-Worlds Interpretation
01:27:38 - Alternative Theories and Being Open to New Ideas
01:34:44 - "Don't Listen to Old People"
01:37:42 - Final Advice to Physicists

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