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🗓️ 18 February 2023
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Shermer and Päs discuss: monism vs. dualism • What is time? • What is a field? • Is math all there is? Is math universal? • the double-slit experiment • superposition • metaphors in science • limitations of models and theories of reality • limitations of analogies between western physics and eastern mysticism • What banged the Big Bang? • Are we living in a matrix? • the Second Laws of Thermodynamics and directionality in nature • Model Dependent Realism • string theory, the multiverse, consciousness, the origin of the universe, and why there is something rather than nothing: are these soluble problems?
Heinrich Päs is a professor of theoretical physics at TU Dortmund University in Germany. He has held positions at Vanderbilt University, the University of Alabama, and the University of Hawai’i and has conducted research visits at CERN and Fermilab. He lives in Bremen, Germany. His new book is The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics.
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0:55.8 | support which also supports this podcast my guest today is Heinrich Pase a |
1:01.2 | professor of theoretical physics at T.U. Dortman University in Germany. |
1:06.1 | He has held positions at Vanderbilt University, the University of Alabama, and the University of |
1:11.9 | Hawaii. |
1:13.0 | Oh, wow, that's cool. |
1:14.4 | Yeah, I read something in your book, |
1:16.0 | Henry's show, about surfing at midnight. |
1:17.7 | Okay, we have to come back to that later in the conversation. |
1:20.8 | And he's conducted research visits at Cern and Fermi Lab. |
1:24.0 | He lives in Brahmin, Germany, where I was just over Thanksgiving break was there. |
1:29.1 | His new book, here it is The One, how an ancient idea holds the future of physics. Love that cover. Very nice. Hi, |
1:37.1 | Heinrich, nice to see you. Thanks for coming on to talk to me. |
1:39.2 | Hi, thanks for having me. All right, so before we get into the meat of the book, give us a little bit of background. |
1:46.4 | You've obviously been around the world. |
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