The Mind-bending Physics Of Eternity - Brian Greene - #308

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, my friends in Podcastland. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Brian Greene. He's a theoretical physicist, a mathematician, an author, and the director of Columbia University Centre for Theoretical Physics. Brian is one of the most popular public physicists of our age. He broke the internet and my brain last year when he went on Rogan, and I just had to get him on. I'm so happy to be able to present him to you today. He answers some of the biggest and most fundamental questions that we have about reality. Things like, what happens if the universe is infinite? When will time end? What is time? What is the relationship between entropy and evolution? What do people get wrong about the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics? Just how finely tuned for life is our universe? Why does the Planck scale exist? And so many more.
You may need to be well rested and caffeinated before this one, but it actually stopped me from thinking. Some of the insights that Brian gives today just ceased my brain from being able to function for a couple of seconds. It's, if you love thinking about space and physics and the wider cosmos, you will adore this episode. If you're new here or a long time listener, make sure that you've hit the subscribe button because it means you will never miss when a new episode is uploaded every Monday, Thursday and Saturday with fascinating humans just like the wonderful Brian here. In other news, this episode of the podcast is brought to you by Surfshark VPN. Protect your browsing online and get access to the entire world's Netflix library for less than £2 or $2 per month. You can get an 83% discount, 3 months free and a 30-day money back guarantee by going to surfshark.deals slash modern wisdom. You're already paying for a Netflix subscription, so why not spend a tiny little bit more and be able to access 10 times the number of movies and series. Not only that, but your one license allows you to use it across unlimited devices. So it can be on your TV, laptop, iPad, phone and everything else. On top of that, it secures your browsing from hackers who are trying to steal your data or your passwords online, plus it stops websites from split-testing you on prices for products that you're already buying. Amazon's doing it and holiday websites are doing it and flight companies are doing it. One membership allows you to secure that browsing plus access that huge Netflix library, surfshark.deals. slash modern wisdom for that 83% discount, three months free and a 30 day money back guarantee. So you can download it, you can try it, you can get up and running within two seconds. It's as easy as logging into Facebook. And if you don't like it after 29 days, just tell them and you will get your money back. Surfshark.deals slash modern wisdom. In other other news, this episode is brought to you by Reebok. I have been selling the dream of the Nanos for three and a half years since I first put a pair on. They are the best training shoe that I have ever worn. The gyms are reopening wherever you are on the planet and you need a proper pair of stable and supportive training shoes. And the Nanos are the answer. You may be training in some sort of running shoe or some sort of training shoe, but if it doesn't have the right level of stability and support, you're not going to get the most out of your training. Your ankles are going to be rolling over outside of your knees. When you squat, you're not going to have a flat surface to deadlift on. Even if you're doing high intensity stuff, plyometrics, bodyweight movements or anything else, you have to get the shoes right. You can probably get away with wearing an old t-shirt, but wearing shoes that aren't appropriate are just going to lead to injuries. The Nano's are the best shoes that I have ever found to train in. I haven't used anything else since I first put them on, and that's as big of an accolade as I can give anything. On top of that, the 20% discount that Reebok is offering works site-wide across all of their t-shirts, hoodies, tops, leggings, training stuff and everything else. Simply head to reebok.co.uk and use the code MW20 for 20% off everything site-wide. This deal is available across all of Europe. So head to reebok.co.uk and it should redirect you to the Spanish website or the German website or the Northern Irish website, whatever it might be. reebok.co.uk and that MW20 code for 20% off everything. If you add something to your basket and you say, oh, this code isn't valid. It's just the wrong colorway. Change the colorway and you will get that discount. Oh, but now it's time to learn about the physics of eternity with Brian Greene.