Best Wolfram Physics Podcasts (2025)

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Do fields exist? 17:43

3h ago17:43

17:43

Fields don’t exist. I mean, a field with grass in it, that kind of field does exist. But a field in physics? A gravitational field? An electric field? A magnetic field? A quantum field? No such thing. I’m not knocking the physicists who came up with these fields. These fictions can be convenient. But sometimes, these fictions can blind us to the un…

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Can Simple Rules Explain Reality? Dr. Stephen Wolfram, DemystifySci #343 3:00:16

1d ago3:00:16

3:00:16

Stephen Wolfram is a physicists, mathematician, and programmer who believes he has discovered the computational rules that organize the universe at the finest grain. These rules are not physical rules like the equations of state or Maxwell’s equations. According to Wolfram, these are rules that govern how the universe evolves and operates at a leve…

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Tetralogue on the Liquid Sun Revolution- Dr. P.M. Robitaille & Jim Keller, DemystifySci #342 2:53:56

7d ago2:53:56

2:53:56

What if we’re wrong about the sun? Current consensus in the astrophysics community suggests that our planet orbits a burning ball of gaseous plasma - but there’s compelling evidence that suggests the sun is actually made out of liquid metallic hydrogen. If this is true, it isn’t just that we have a new model of the sun. All of astrophysics, from th…

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Rewriting Plasma Physics - Dr. Patrick Vanraes, DemystifySci #341 2:18:32

11d ago2:18:32

2:18:32

Patrick Vanraes is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp whose research into liquid plasmas has led him to believe that we have radically, completely, totally misunderstood what it means for something to be “plasma.” All presentations on the subject begin with a rote recitation of the fact that plasma is a fourth state of matter - …

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What Happened Here? - Needle in the Hay #1, DemystifySci 12:12

11d ago12:12

12:12

We found some strange, and extensively networked, piles of rocks in the Southern Oregon woods. We take you into the woods with us as we try to figure out if there’s some natural explanation for what we’ve found, or if we have stumbled on some man-made structures that predate the presence of Western settlers. Along the way we try to read how the lan…

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Is the Brain a Quantum Receiver? Dr. Tiffeny Todd, DemystifySci #340 2:29:22

14d ago2:29:22

2:29:22

Tiffeny Todd is a physics professor and filmmaker who became obsessed with the nature of consciousness after having an out of body experience and discovering that her field had absolutely no way of explaining the experience of mind separate from body that she had. This set her on a quest to discover the theoretical basis for what had happened to he…

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Source Code of Mystical Experiences - Andrés Gomez Emilsson, QRI, DemystifySci #339 3:22:59

20d ago3:22:59

3:22:59

Andrés Gomez Emilsson is the director of the San Francisco–based Qualia Research Institute (QRI), a nonprofit developing formal models of consciousness and emotional valence. QRI’s research aims to untangle the harmonic, computational, and symmetry-driven mechanisms underlying phenomenological experience. They approach the optimization of subjectiv…

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Aggregation – how the Wolfram model weaves the future – with Stephen Wolfram 8:51

22d ago8:51

8:51

In the previous excerpt from my conversation with Stephen Wolfram, I asked him how I can remain a single, coherent, persistent consciousness in a branching universe. In this excerpt, we went deeper into this question. As a conscious observer, I have a single thread of experience. So if the universe branches into many timelines, why don’t I branch i…

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The Electric Universe Inside You - Dr. Michael Hughes, DemystifySci #338 2:02:18

26d ago2:02:18

2:02:18

Michael Hughes is a postdoctoral researcher at St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital who studies the overlooked role of water in living systems. His work builds on a growing body of research suggesting that water is not just a passive solvent, but a highly structured, information-rich medium. Hughes proposes that under normal biological conditions, water’…

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The Big Bang Never Happened? Eric Lerner, DemystifySci #337 2:59:34

29d ago2:59:34

2:59:34

Eric Lerner is a popular science writer, plasma physicist, and long-time collaborator of the late Nobel laureate Hannes Alfvén. He’s also one of the featured speakers at our Beyond the Big Bang event this summer in Sesimbra, Portugal. For over thirty years, Lerner has been a leading voice in plasma cosmology and a critic of Big Bang cosmology, who …

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Missing History, MH370, Kurt Cobain's Killer + More - Matt Beall, DemystifySci #336 2:23:58

1M ago2:23:58

2:23:58

Matt Beall is the host of the Limitless Podcast, where he explores everything from the impossibly precise predynastic vases, to ancient civilizations, planetary catastrophes, nuclear explosions on Mars and, most recently, the suspicious circumstances of Kurt Cobain’s death. Our conversation spans the meta of the weird space we all find ourselves in…

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Can Electricity Fill Gravity's Gaps? - Gareth Samuel, DemystifySci #335 2:52:03

1M ago2:52:03

2:52:03

Gareth Samuel is host of the @SeethePattern YouTube channel, where he explores theories of physics that have been neglected by the mainstream. He’s one of the speakers at our BEYOND THE BIG BANG meeting this summer in Sesimbra, Portugal, and joins us now for a conversation about what it’s going to take to unseat the Big Bang, why no one’s managed t…

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Cosmic Catastrophes & Prehistoric Resets - George Howard, DemystifySci #334 2:46:11

1M ago2:46:11

2:46:11

George Howard is a weaver of ideas who runs the Cosmic Tusk blog and organizes the Cosmic Summit annual gathering. He’s also one of the longest-lived players in the Comet Research Group, a heterodox collection of theorists and scientists that has been working on the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis since the 1990s. We talk with Howard about bone bed…

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Why Did We Really Abandon the Aether? - Dr. Adam Forrest Kay, DemystifySci #333 2:20:40

1M ago2:20:40

2:20:40

Adam Forrest Kay is the author of Escape From Shadow Physics, a rip-roaring tour through the history of physics that suggests the quantum world might be a lot less legible than anyone realizes. Much of his work is informed by the logic of Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogs, which are classical systems whose behavior can be described by same mathematics t…

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Formscapes | Andrés Gomez Emilsson | Michael Hughes – Paradigm Drift #2 2:06:45

2M ago2:06:45

2:06:45

Invited theorists: Kehlan Morgan (Formscapes), Andrés Goméz Emilsson, Michael HughesRandom theorists: Edwin's Basye, Wendi Gardiner, Ricky Cisco, Philip Sportel, Jack Neefus, David de Hilster, Casey BrophyPanel: Kate Owlsley, Anastasia Bendebury, Michael Shilo DeLayLearn how to think, not what to think! Paradigm Drift is the show where we celebrate…

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We've Been Wrong About Cancer For 100 Years - Dr. Thomas Seyfried, Boston College, DemystifySci #332 2:02:04

2M ago2:02:04

2:02:04

Cancer is one of the most terrifying illnesses of our age - a sudden change that happens silently inside our bodies and slowly eats away at us until there’s nothing left. It’s also one of the biggest failures of the pharmaceutical age - somewhere between 90 and 97% of all cancer drugs fail at clinical trials. Which is why we’re unbelievably excited…

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New Physics of Galaxies, Earthquakes, and the Sun - Dr. Anne Hofmeister, Wash. U., DemystifySci #330 1:54:15

2M ago1:54:15

1:54:15

MAKE HISTORY WITH US THIS SUMMER:https://demystifysci.com/demysticon-2025PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciPARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-showAnne Hofmeister is an applied physicist, mathematician, and theorist at Washington University, whose heterodox approach to physics has not made her a lot of friends, but has…

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Living in Cosmic Myths of the Future - Formscapes, Kehlan Morgan, DemystifySci #329 2:24:56

2M ago2:24:56

2:24:56

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Delusions of Cosmic Expansion - Dr. André Koch Torres Assis, DemystifySci #328 2:22:34

2M ago2:22:34

2:22:34

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When the universe branches, what happens to me? with Stephen Wolfram 12:32

2M ago12:32

12:32

When the universe branches, we branch with it. Those branches don’t remain forever apart. They come back together. So we, as conscious observers, are rescued from splitting into an immense number ever-so-slightly different versions of ourselves. When the branches of the universe – and the versions of ourselves – come back together, we don’t worry t…

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Bergson's Harmonic Theory of Consciousness - Dr. Jack Bagby, DemystifySci #327 2:48:00

2M ago2:48:00

2:48:00

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A Case for Scientific Anarchy - Jim Keller, DemystifySci #326 2:21:03

3M ago2:21:03

2:21:03

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9 Theorists Try to Blow Our Minds in 60 Seconds! - Paradigm Drift #1 (Pilot) 2:00:31

3M ago2:00:31

2:00:31

Invited theorists: Ogi Ogas, Michael Hughes, David Ian Howe. Random theorists: James McGinn, Zarrin Leff, Austin Baldinger, Matthew Fox, Joe Cook, Shane SimonsenPanel: Doug Lee, Anastasia Bendebury, Michael Shilo DeLayLearn how to think, not what to think! Paradigm Drift is the show where we celebrate the principles of scientific anarchy. Anything …

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What is the causal graph in Wolfram Physics? 15:38

3M ago15:38

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The causal graph is at the core of Wolfram Physics. It’s crucial to the derivations of Special Relativity, General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. And if that’s not enough to convince you that you need to know about the causal graph, how about this: The causal graph is a reflection of the nature of causality, the nature of objectivity, the nature…

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The Real Telepathy Tapes - Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell, DemystifySci #325 2:09:20

3M ago2:09:20

2:09:20

MAKE HISTORY WITH US THIS SUMMER:https://demystifysci.com/demysticon-2025 Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell is an independent researcher into the telepathic ability of non-speaking autistic children, whose research was the basis of the wildly popular Telepathy Tapes (TT) podcast. She is a Johns Hopkins trained neuropsychiatrist, former Harvard faculty membe…

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Did Women and Snakes Bring us Consciousness? - Dr. Andrew Cutler, #324 2:32:48

3M ago2:32:48

2:32:48

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Lost Engineers of Prehistoric Egypt - Ben van Kerkwyk, UnchartedX #323 2:52:33

3M ago2:52:33

2:52:33

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When a Theory’s Popularity Masks a Cultural Crisis - Drs. A.V. Bendebury & M.S. DeLay - #322 1:08:43

3M ago1:08:43

1:08:43

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Big Assumptions Behind the Big Bang - Dr. Indranil Banik, #321 2:28:40

3M ago2:28:40

2:28:40

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(PART 2/2) A President, The Mafia, and a Lost Future - Louis Ferrante, Ex-Mobster, #320 1:46:26

3M ago1:46:26

1:46:26

MAKE HISTORY WITH US THIS SUMMER:https://demystifysci.com/demysticon-2025PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciPARADIGM DRIFT! Sign up to present YOUR theory: https://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-showWhat’s still hidden inside the JFK files Trump has promised to release? Since the 1960s historians have been trying to assemble an accurat…

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Is everything determined? with Stephen Wolfram 8:03

3M ago8:03

8:03

Is everything that’s ever going to happen in the universe already determined? Or does something else – maybe randomness, maybe free will – play a role? Stephen Wolfram’s answer to this question is straightforward: the ruliad is fully determined. But there’s a twist. The ruliad is determined, but how we observe the evolution of the universe depends …

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A President, The Mafia, and a Lost Future (PART 1/2) - Louis Ferrante, Ex-Mafia #319 2:12:33

4M ago2:12:33

2:12:33

MAKE HISTORY WITH US THIS SUMMER:https://demystifysci.com/demysticon-2025 PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysci PARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show What’s still hidden inside the JFK files Trump has promised to release? Since the 1960s historians have been trying to assemble an accurate story that weaves together the…

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The Secretive Dynasties Who Hijacked the Food Supply - Austin Frerick, Barons, Yale University, #318 2:55:21

4M ago2:55:21

2:55:21

Austin Frerick is an economist, Yale Fellow, former Congressional Research Assistant, and author of Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry. He investigates how the U.S. food system became both outrageously expensive and dangerously toxic—not just for consumers, but for the farmers who grow our food. Instead of blaming d…

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Language v. Thought in Animals, AI, and Humans - Dr. Gašper Beguš, UC Berkeley Linguistics, #317 2:47:14

4M ago2:47:14

2:47:14

Dr. Gašper Beguš is a UC Berkeley professor of linguistics who studies the interface between human, machine, and animal language. We head into the conversation with a question - is there something fundamentally different about the way that humans learn and the way that machines like LLMs learn? Vector embeddings of the relatedness of language and t…

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Are Receipts Androgynizing America? - SOLO!!! Drs. M.S. DeLay & A.V. Bendebury - #316 1:33:50

4M ago1:33:50

1:33:50

DSPod SOLO returns for a conversation about a recent edition of “you can just do things,” where Github CEO Nat Friedman and company tested the levels of endocrine disrupting chemicals in 700 common food items. And friends, it does not look good! We dig through the data to pull out some trends that can help us avoid getting slowly poisoned by our fo…

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A World that Values IQ Above All - Dr. Richard Haier, UC Irvine Psychology #315 2:55:13

4M ago2:55:13

2:55:13

Dr. Richard Haier is an emeritus professor of Pediatric Neurology at UC Irvine, who spent his career studying the neuroscience of intelligence. Over the course of his career, Haier has come to believe in the existence of a “g-factor,” a measurable quantity of broad spectrum intelligence that is universally predictive of success in all cultures. He …

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Predatory Value Extraction Turns the World - Dr. Bill Lazonick, UMass Economics/AIRnet, #314 2:26:51

4M ago2:26:51

2:26:51

Professor William Lazonick, emeritus Professor of Economics and founding director of the Academic Industry Research Network, is one of the world’s foremost experts on Shareholder Value Ideology and its impact on society. In our first conversation, we uncovered the fundamentals of shareholder value ideology and the harmful effects of stock buybacks …

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Gobekli Tepe Doesn't Make Any Sense - Andrew Collins, #313 2:45:42

4M ago2:45:42

2:45:42

Andrew Collins is a historian and journalist who has devoted over four decades of his life to the study of ancient civilizations, much of it among the enigmatic T-shaped pillars that dot the stone hills of the Turkish highlands. He believes that Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe are more than ceremonial sites of hunter-gatherers—he takes these monument…

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Is "Age of the Universe" the Wrong Question? Dr. Martín López Corredoira, IAC Astrophysics, #312 2:12:58

4M ago2:12:58

2:12:58

Martin Lopez Corredoira is a physicist, philosopher, author, and playwright who has written extensively on the issues with standard cosmological theories, the role of science in society, and a number of short biographies of key figures in the history of science. He is both a theoretical and observational cosmologist, and we sit down with him for a …

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Why is space three-dimensional? with Stephen Wolfram 19:36

4M ago19:36

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Hypergraphs can have any number of dimensions. They can be 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional, 4.81-dimensional or, in the limit, ∞-dimensional. So how does the three-dimensional space we observe emerge from the hypergraph-based Wolfram model? Why is space three-dimensional? Stephen Wolfram’s surprising answer to this questions goes deep into space, time…

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Telepathy Tapes + Cosmologic Ouiji Boarding - SOLO! Drs. A.V.Bendebury & M.S.DeLay, #311 1:20:38

4M ago1:20:38

1:20:38

Shilo and Anastasia sit down for a discussion of the Telepathy Tapes, motivated belief, and the difference between grift and ignorance. For those who don’t know, the Telepathy Tapes is a hugely popular podcast about the telepathic abilities of non-verbal autistic children, where a reporter interviews a bunch of families where the parents claim to h…

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A Theory of Live Players - Geoff Anders, Leverage Research - DSPod #310 2:44:43

5M ago2:44:43

2:44:43

Geoff Anders is the director of Leverage Research, a think tank devoted to understanding the nature of progress and the arc of scientific insights. Anders wants to understand what sort of cultural context creates the ability to make valuable insights into the mechanisms of nature. After mapping some of the interplay between science, society, and re…

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The first wow for Stephen Wolfram 8:52

4M ago8:52

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Stephen Wolfram reveals that his first major wow along the path towards a fundamental theory of physics was his realization that General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are the same theory, played out in different kinds of space. Many other dominos have fallen along the way, from the derivation of Einstein’s equations to applications of the ruliad…

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Why Nobody Talks Class Anymore - Dr. William F. Mitchell, University of Newcastle, #309 2:16:33

5M ago2:16:33

2:16:33

Professor Bill Mitchell is an economist at the University of Newcastle. In addition to being one of the founding figures of Modern Monetary Theory, Mitchell has also been preoccupied by the interplay of culture and economics that led to the death of the left over the course of the last fifty years. We sit down with him to trace the economic transfo…

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How Shareholder Value Ideology Destroyed the Middle Class - Dr. William Lazonick, UMass - DSPod #308 2:42:11

5M ago2:42:11

2:42:11

Dr. William Lazonick is an economist who studies innovation and competition in the global economy, who has recently been focusing on the corrosive role of stock buybacks. We invited him on to explain why this widespread financial practice is such a bad idea in his eyes, and in return were provided with a comprehensive model of what makes a successf…

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5 reasons to take Wolfram Physics seriously 6:37

5M ago6:37

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It feels like everyone has their pet Theory of Everything these days. So why should you take my preferred Theory of Everything seriously? Well, give me 5 minutes, and I’ll give you 5 reasons why I find Wolfram Physics more compelling than anything else that’s happened in physics in my lifetime... ...and maybe you’ll want to take it seriously too. —…

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Goethian Science, Transhuman Traps, & Steinerian Axiology - Kehlan Morgan, Formscapes - DSPod #307 2:28:18

5M ago2:28:18

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Kehlan Morgan is @Formscapes , a philosopher whose work is focused on esoteric science. He brings to the table a great depth of insights about how Goethian and Stienerian metaphysics have silently shaped our approach to understanding nature, and how our abandonment of those metaphysics has produced a kind of science that is both perplexed and incap…

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The 'Big Science' Bottleneck - John Horgan, Science Writer - DSPod #306 2:47:52

5M ago2:47:52

2:47:52

Today we're sitting down for a second conversation with acclaimed science author John Horgan, to discuss the burning heart of natural inquiry where science, philosophy, and spirituality collide like waves crashing against the jagged rocks of the unknown. We examine the ache of human progress, the way it builds towers of steel but leaves people hung…

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Magnetism Subtly Orchestrates Biology - Dr. Clarice Aiello - DSPod #305 2:37:28

6M ago2:37:28

2:37:28

Today we're falling head first into the mind-bending chaos of quantum biology, piercing the veil between the microscopic world and the bizarre playground of quantum mechanics. Dr. Clarice Aiello of the newly founded Quantum Biology Institute, formerly of UCLA, guides us through the magnetic highways of nature, where cryptochromes and electron spins…

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Goethian Science Reveals a Hidden World - Austin Abigt, Renewal of Science - DSPod #304 2:49:28

6M ago2:49:28

2:49:28

Austin Abigt is a philosopher, writer, and one of the key members of the of the Renewal of Science movement, which seeks to chart a path for scientific rebirth. In this conversation, Abigt explains how modern science is the product of two distinct philosophical lineages - one founded by Newton and Descartes, the other by Goethe. The Newtonian parad…

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