#521 - Sabine Hossenfelder - Life's Mysteries, Explained By Physics
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:03.0 | My guest today is Sabina Hassenfelder. |
| 0:05.4 | She's a theoretical physicist, research fellow |
| 0:08.0 | at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, |
| 0:10.4 | quantum gravity researcher, and an author. |
| 0:14.1 | There are a lot of big questions in the world, |
| 0:17.1 | like, does the past still exist? |
| 0:19.7 | Do particles think, was the universe fine-tuned for us? |
| 0:23.4 | Do we have free will? |
| 0:24.5 | And are we living in a simulation? |
| 0:27.1 | Given that we don't have answers yet, |
| 0:30.1 | why not let a physicist have a crack at them? |
| 0:32.9 | Expect to learn why physicists who say |
| 0:35.6 | that they know how the universe started |
| 0:37.6 | aren't telling the truth, whether we can compute |
| 0:40.2 | a human brain, why no one gets any younger. |
| 0:43.5 | If maths is the ultimate basis of reality, |
| 0:46.4 | why there might be copies of us all out there in the universe, |
| 0:49.3 | how your entire life could be the imagined history |
| 0:52.5 | of a brain floating in space, and much more. |
| 0:56.4 | In other news, this episode is brought to you |
| 0:59.0 | by Crafted London. |
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