#471 - Jim Al-Khalili - Physics Is Far Stranger Than You Think

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

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🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Jim Al-Khalili is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Surrey, a broadcaster and an author.

Trying to describe reality in theoretical frameworks is no small task for physicists. But it also turns out that the implications of some theories suggests that reality might be even more bizarre than it seems. The universe is a scary, confusing place to exist, if we exist at all.

Expect to learn why you can't walk through brick walls, why a tiny imbalance in the matter and antimatter just after the big bang was very important, just how fine tuned for life our universe really is, where all the big discoveries in theoretical physics have gone, why faster-than-light neutrinos can't go faster than light, why you shouldn't value opinions over evidence and much more...

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Jim Alcalili. He's a professor of
0:06.3	theoretical physics at the University of Surrey, a broadcaster, and an author. Trying to describe
0:12.3	reality in theoretical frameworks is no small task for physicists. But it also turns out that the
0:18.1	implications of some theories suggest that reality might be even more bizarre than it seems.
0:23.4	The universe is a scary, confusing place to exist, if we exist at all.
0:28.0	I expect to learn why you can't walk through brick walls, why a tiny imbalance in the matter
0:34.1	and antimatter just after the Big Bang was very important. Just how fine-tuned for life our
0:40.0	universe really is, where all the big discoveries in theoretical physics have gone, why faster than
0:45.6	light neutrinos can't go faster than light, why you shouldn't value opinions over evidence,
0:51.3	and much more. I love talking about physics. Neil deGrasse Tyson last week was great, and Jim
0:57.9	is another awesome science communicator. Getting to know about this stuff is endlessly
1:03.6	interesting to me. So you're coming along for the ride. We're blasting off. Elon's bothered
1:08.0	with Twitter, and I'm saving space. I'm going to focus everyone's attention back on space,
1:12.5	because I'm bringing physicists on modern wisdom and that. In other news, this episode is brought
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