Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [Part 24]
Stephen Wolfram hosts a live and unscripted Ask Me Anything about science and technology for all ages. Find the playlist of Q&A's here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa. Begins at 0:30
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Outline of Question & Answer
0:00 Stream starting
0:30 Is there a physical principle that governs Moore's law? Why is there so much available computation?
15:43 If F=ma, and photons have a mass of 0, how can light sails work? Do photons have some properties of having mass?
20:50 As of right now, what do you anticipate will be the outcome of the Wolfram Physics Project? What practical applications will it have?
34:50 What is more difficult for you to create things or to explain how they work to others?
37:15 as your physics project shed any light on the protein folding problem? If you squint right, there seems to be a connection.
44:10 How does black hole merging work?
56:15 Is there any theory about what type of particles a potential black hole would be made off?
58:39 What's your experience and opinion about Alchemy and is it possible to incorporate a modernized version of it into Mathematica?
1:11:10 What do we know about the nature of time travel? Will time machines as depicted in science fiction stories remain fiction for the foreseeable future?
1:15:25 Can there be architectures that do not seem to make sense that simply have higher order of complexity not dependent on binary arithmetic circuits? That will be used in future?
1:22:20 I am currently in high school, what advice would you give to an aspiring mathematician?
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