Of what is reality made? What are the most basic building blocks from which the cosmos is constructed? Particles? Mass-Energy? Forces? Fields? A new candidate is... video Does Information Create the Cosmos? Episode 06 Season 14 26:46 Watch
Information is all the rage in science, changing how we think about fundamental questions. Information has many descriptions, some of them surprising. Why is Information so... video What is Information? Episode 03 Season 14 26:46 Watch
Information is a common word but has technical meanings so important that our entire world depends on them. What are the kinds of information? How about the scientific... playlist What is Information? Topic Series 5 videos 37:58 Watch
Information has become increasingly important in understanding the physical world around us, from ordinary computers to the underlying principles of fundamental physics,... playlist Physics of Information Topic Series 4 videos 24:21 Watch
Does information work at the deep levels of physics, including quantum theory, undergirding the fundamental forces and particles? But what is the essence of... playlist Is Information Fundamental? Topic Series 9 videos 1:17:42 Watch
Scientists see information in all the regularities of the physical world that we often call laws. But does information generate these laws, as some scientists now claim, or... playlist Does Information Create the Cosmos? Topic Series 1:03:44 Watch
Could information be the stuff of which everything is made? Information seems so abstract, not a substance or a thing, so how could it be the building blocks of reality?... playlist Is Information the Foundation of Reality? Topic Series 8 videos 51:59 Watch
That the cosmos is a computer sounds like a modern metaphor, a way of explaining how things work. But some make a bolder claim: that the cosmos is in reality a computer, not... playlist Is the Cosmos a Computer? Topic Series 15 videos 1:42:26 Watch
Scott Aaronson Professor of Computer Science; Director, Quantum Information Center, University of Texas at Austin
Rodney Brooks Robotics Entrepreneur; former Director, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT
David Deutsch Visiting Professor, Centre for Quantum Computation, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford
David Gross Nobel Laueate in Physics; Chancellor's Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara
Giulio Tononi Professor and Director, Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Conssciousness, University of Wisconsin
