{"id":164298,"date":"2023-05-20T17:22:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T22:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/physics-the-big-questions-of-our-existence-in-under-an-hour"},"modified":"2023-05-20T17:22:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T22:22:30","slug":"physics-the-big-questions-of-our-existence-in-under-an-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/physics-the-big-questions-of-our-existence-in-under-an-hour","title":{"rendered":"Physics: The big questions of our existence in under an hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physics-the-big-questions-of-our-existence-in-under-an-hour2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>SABINE HOSSENFELDER:<\/b> My name is Sabine Hossenfelder. I\u2019m a physicist and Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, and I have a book that\u2019s called \u201cExistential Physics: A Scientist\u2019s Guide to Life\u2019s Biggest Questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>NARRATOR: <\/b>Why did you pursue a career in physics?<\/p>\n<p>HOSSENFELDER: I originally studied mathematics, not physics, because I was broadly interested in the question how much can we describe about nature with mathematics? But mathematics is a really big field and I couldn\u2019t make up my mind exactly what to study. And so I decided to focus on that part of mathematics that\u2019s actually good to describe nature and that naturally led me to physics. I was generally trying to make sense of the world and I thought that human interactions, social systems are a pretty hopeless case. There\u2019s no way I\u2019ll ever make sense of them. But simple things like particles or maybe planets and moons, I might be able to work that out. In the foundations of physics, we work with a lot of mathematics and I know from my own experience that it\u2019s really, really hard to learn. And so I think for a lot of people out there, the journal articles that we write in the foundations of physics are just incomprehensible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SABINE HOSSENFELDER: My name is Sabine Hossenfelder. I\u2019m a physicist and Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, and I have a book that\u2019s called \u201cExistential Physics: A Scientist\u2019s Guide to Life\u2019s Biggest Questions.\u201d NARRATOR: Why did you pursue a career in physics? HOSSENFELDER: I originally studied mathematics, not physics, because I was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}