Rizwan Virk
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3,730 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2024
last heard 17 Jun
Rizwan Virk’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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who's my favorite physicist of the 20th century.
He was at Princeton with Albert Einstein.
It was his student who came up with the multiverse idea, right?
And you've probably seen the superhero movie.
You have the three Spider-Man memes kind of putting at each other.
Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, and who's the other guy?
Uh, Tobey Maguire.
Tobey Maguire.
And they said, well, they came from a different part of the multiverse.
So Wheeler came up with a phrase and he said he was looking for this thing called matter his entire career.
He died in like, I think, you know, late 1990s or early 2000s.
It wasn't that long ago.
But he was there at the beginning of the quantum revolution and so he was pretty old.
But he said that, uh,
He was looking for particles.
If we think of particles, we think of hard objects that are stacked up next to each other.
But in fact, it's mostly empty.
This table is mostly empty space.
The atoms themselves are mostly empty space.
Even the nucleus, turns out, is mostly empty.
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