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OUTLINE:

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(00:00) – Introduction

(08:39) – Are there limits to what physics can understand?

(17:31) – Beautiful ideas in physics

(25:59) – Space and time are really big

(29:47) – There are billions of thoughts in a human life

(37:09) – Big bang

(45:31) – How life emerged in the universe

(51:33) – Aliens

(1:01:25) – Consciousness

(1:08:53) – Limits of physics

(1:14:29) – Complimentary principle

(1:23:34) – Free will

(1:29:47) – Particles

(1:35:10) – Nobel Prize in Physics

(1:48:24) – Axions and dark matter

(2:03:50) – Time crystals

(2:08:42) – Theory of everything

(2:18:10) – Advice for young people

(2:23:52) – Meaning of life