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7 facts from 4 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
1900
Hassabis proposes testing an AI by giving it all knowledge up to 1900 and seeing whether it could derive special and general relativity like Einstein.
“have a cutoff of knowledge cutoff of 1900, and then give the system everything that was, you know, that was written up to 1900.”
1905
Albert Einstein's 1905 special relativity removed the ether and made the speed of light a maximum, according to Sean Carroll.
“Einstein in 1905 figured out that you could get rid of the ether, the idea of a rest frame for the universe, and all the equations of physics would make sense, with the speed of light being a maximum.”
1905
Tyson says Albert Einstein developed E equals mc squared in 1905.
“But Einstein came up with this in 1905, and it m made so much to the universe make sense at that point.”
1907
Hermann Minkowski, a former professor of Einstein, proposed in 1907 that space and time be blended into spacetime.
“it was Minkowski, who used to be Einstein's professor in nineteen oh seven, who realized the most elegant way of thinking about this idea of Einstein's was to blend space and time together into spacetime”
1935
Einstein pointed out quantum entanglement in 1935, meaning two particles share a single quantum state.
“In quantum mechanics, we have entanglement, right? As Einstein pointed out to us in 1935. And what that means is there is a single state for these two particles.”
2022
Wolf says his former professor Alain Aspect won a Nobel Prize for experiments bearing on Einstein's disagreement with quantum mechanics.
“Alain Aspect, who got the Nobel Prize ten years ago, I think, if I'm not mistaken, for basically proving this disagreement that Einstein had with quantum mechanics”
Undated
Carroll says the data require dark energy to be constant to about 98 percent or better, which fits Einstein's cosmological constant.
“The cosmological constant is strictly constant, 100 constant. The data say it had better be 98 constant or better, so 100 constant works, right?”
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