Physicist Hiroshi Ooguri on AI finding physics we can't understand — his first English podcast
TOEwithCurt · x · 2026-10-14
Theories of Everything released an interview with Hiroshi Ooguri, the Caltech theoretical physicist and Kavli IPMU director, in his first English-language podcast, on AI and the laws of nature.
- Core question: could AI discover physics humans cannot understand? His quoted take: "We wouldn't be able to understand it" — with a possible 2,250-year wait.
- Ooguri chairs Caltech's PMA division, holds a University Professorship at Tokyo, and has won the Eisenbud Prize and Nishina Memorial Prize.
- The full episode is behind a paywall.
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