【聊了什么 The What】
本期节目是一个串台节目，录制于2024年十月，首发于不合时宜播客。
上一次诺贝尔物理学奖把桂冠颁给两位“AI 教父”，在物理圈和科技圈同时掀起了腥风血雨——物理奖是不是“名存实亡”？老赵从这桩「史上最具争议的诺奖」聊到个人 16 年的高能物理求学路，再到 AI、神经网络与涌现现象；一路拆解「时间-空间」这种我们天天挂在嘴边却难以言说的概念，甚至把广义相对论、规范场论背后的“美学冲动”也摆上了桌。
物理奖为什么会颁给人工智能研究？如果 AI 只是借了物理的灵感，这算不算“跨界越界”？当深度学习席卷世界，Hinton 与同行为何频频示警？技术飞奔时，谁来守住人类的边界？物理学究竟教会了我们什么视角？它真的是寻找客观真理，还是只是一种“看世界的方法论工具箱”？为什么爱因斯坦单凭“审美直觉”就能预言引力定律？当理论之“美”与自然精确吻合时，我们到底在惊叹什么？
Last year’s Nobel Prize in Physics crowned two AI luminaries and instantly ignited a storm: has the prize abandoned “real” physics? In this episode, physicist-turned-AI-researcher Zhichen walks us through the controversy, his 16-year voyage in high-energy theory, and how neural networks, emergence, and even the texture of space-time weave together. Along the way he reveals the aesthetic intuition behind general relativity and gauge theories and asks whether physics is a hunt for objective truth or just one more lens on reality.
Does awarding an AI discovery rewrite the borders of physics? Why do pioneers like Hinton sound the alarm while driving the field forward? Is physics a toolbox of world-models rather than a catalogue of eternal facts? What do the debates between scientific realism and logical positivism mean for everyday reasoning?
【时间轴 The When】
00:00:37 去年的诺贝尔物理学奖与《什么是物理》初登场
00:08:32 老赵的“物理初心”——从奥赛保送到北大
00:14:10 无人押中！物理奖给 AI 的惊愕与争议
00:20:55 Hinton 为何把自己比作“AI 奥本海默”
00:24:44 学科边界正在消融：物理当“方法论输出者”
00:31:10 赫布定律与神经元：学习是如何在大脑里“写电流”的
00:43:31 “一百只白天鹅”与物理解释学危机
00:58:07 广义相对论：当审美预言被宇宙检验
00:00:37 The controversial Nobel Prize & Lao Zhao’s new book
00:08:32 Origin story: from Physics Olympiad to Peking University
00:14:10 Nobody guessed the AI-physics Nobel shock
00:20:55 Hinton as the “AI Oppenheimer”
00:24:44 Disappearing borders: physics as a methods supplier
00:31:10 Hebbian learning—how brains write with electricity
00:43:31 “One hundred white swans” & the crisis of explanation
00:58:07 General relativity: when elegance meets evidence
【我们是谁 The Who】 选修课 Universus 是一档分享和探讨泛文化话题的中文播客，脱胎于2013年创办的纽约文化沙龙。 我们力求引发对学科方法和视角的认知和思考，而不仅仅是知识的传递。我们在组织活动的过程中积累了一些经验和人脉，尝试打造成年人的博雅教育，并在播客中拓展这样的探索。我们希望审视和反抗无意识的价值规训与随波逐流。我们希望冷酷地剖析自己的偏见，热忱地拥抱多元视角。我们希望去工具化，真诚地感知、理解、创造自己的生活和复杂的世界。我们追随原初的好奇而非代餐式的猎奇。话题可以轻松，方法力求严肃。在《选修课》里，我们互相映照，唤醒失落的维度。
主播：
- 老赵：理论物理学博士，软件工程师，纽约文化沙龙组织者。
选修课 Universus is a Chinese-language podcast created by the same people who founded the New York Chinese Cultural Salon (纽约文化沙龙）in 2013. The past decade of organizing events and talks put us in a position of creating a sort of liberal arts education experience for those who have left school. We strive to go beyond merely transmitting knowledge to reflecting on complex topics using cross-disciplinary perspectives. We strive to resist conformity, to dissect our own biases, and to embrace diverse schools of thought. Our goal is to help professionals resist becoming just a tool of production, and to understand the world around us in earnest. We let our genuine curiosity be our guide. With a light-hearted tone, we approach each topic seriously. We hope that “选修课 Universus” creates a space to explore lost dimensions.
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- Lao Zhao: PhD in Theoretical Physics, software engineer, and organizer of the New York Cultural Salon.
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