…like plastic eating bacteria, you know so that wherever we go we leave no trace and that's a really compelling resolution to the Fermi Paradox. You know why it is that we don't see traces of alien civilizations and the really fun hypothesis about that is…

…is it that grows at the end of history? Is it the Stropharia cubensis filled with psilocybin? Or is it the mushroom of Fermi and Oppenheimer and Teller or perhaps all mushrooms are the same? We should go to lunch to have mushrooms, to have mushrooms…

…has made the point asking, you know, what mushroom is it that grows at the end of history? Is it the mushroom of Fermi and Oppenheimer and Teller? Or is it the mushroom of Wasson and Hoffman and Humphrey Osmond? Somehow I think the latter is safer.…

…as we think about these things. When the first atomic weapon was built by the Manhattan project in the desert of new Mexico, Fermi and Oppenheimer and all these people got together the night before the test at Trinity. And Fermi had a pad like this on…

…in the desert of new Mexico, Fermi and Oppenheimer and all these people got together the night before the test at Trinity. And Fermi had a pad like this on which he had scrawled equations and he had reached the conclusion in the week before that they…

…conclusion in the week before that they were not sure how high the temperature would go when they triggered this device. And Fermi had some back of the envelope calculations which caused him to believe that the nitrogen in the atmosphere of the planet…

…level of the neutron, maybe quarks and electrons, you come to a point where there isn't any inner world that things like Fermi, Dirac statistics, and Bell's theorem indicate to us that there's no inner structure beyond a certain point, that if there were,…

…Bell's theorem indicate to us that there's no inner structure beyond a certain point, that if there were, you wouldn't have Fermi dirk statistics. You would have statistics like we have in the macroscopic world, where when you throw two coins, for example,…

…which in retrospect started a dividing of science onto separate paths, occurred during World War two. In the late 1942, Enrico Fermi and several other scientists at the University of Chicago demonstrated for the first time ever that nuclear fission could be…

…my brother has made the point asking what mushroom is it that grows at the end of history? Is it the mushroom of Fermi and Oppenheimer and teller? Or is it the mushroom of Wasson and Hoffman and Humphrey Osmond? Somehow I think the latter is safer.…

…has become a demon, that probably the moment is you know, when the first atomic pile was litanous, and certainly at Alamogordo, I mean, Fermi was appalled. He said, you know, this is a dark moment for the human race. In spite of the fact that it meant…