The physics Nobelist and author has not exactly found religion—but that doesn’t mean he’s stopped looking
Frank Wilczek, a Nobel Prize–winning theoretical physicist and author, has been announced as the recipient of the 2022 Templeton Prize, which is valued at more than $1.3 million. The annual award honors those “who harness the power of the sciences to explore the deepest questions of the universe and humankind’s place and purpose within it,” according to a press release from the John Templeton Foundation.
One kind of “spiritual” awakening for me has been experiencing how a dialogue with nature is possible—in which nature “talks back” and sometimes surprises you and sometimes confirms what you imagined. Vague hopes and concepts that were originally scribbles on paper become experimental proposals and sometimes successful descriptions of the world.
Can you give me some specific examples of how the wisdom you have now but didn’t have earlier in your scientific career has influenced your outlook? One of your most recent successes was predicting the existence of a novel quantum state of matter that you dubbed a “time crystal” because its particles exhibit repetitive behavior—like a swinging pendulum—but without consuming energy. How did you come up with the idea?
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