55 | A Conversation with Rob Reid on Quantum Mechanics and Many Worlds

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

Sean Carroll | Wondery

Society & Culture, Physics, Philosophy, Science, Ideas, Society

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🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

As you may have heard, I have a new book coming out in September, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime. To celebrate, we're going to have more than the usual number of podcasts about quantum mechanics over the next couple of months. Today is an experimental flipped podcast, in which I'm being interviewed by Rob Reid. Rob is the host of the After On podcast, of which this is also an episode. We talk about quantum mechanics generally and my favorite Many-Worlds approach in particular, homing in on the motivation for believing in all those worlds and the potential puzzles that this perspective raises.

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Rob Reid received his MBA from Harvard. He currently works as an author, entrepreneur, and podcaster. He was the founder of Listen.com, which was acquired in 2003 by RealNetworks. He has written nonfiction books about Harvard Business School and about the early days of the Web, as well as two novels. His most recent book is the science-fiction novel After On, which is also the name of his podcast.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Winescape podcast.
0:03.0	I'm your host, John Carroll and today it is back to Quantum Mechanics.
0:07.4	One of our favorite topics here is going to continue to be a favorite topic this calendar
0:12.5	years.
0:13.5	Of course, I have a book on quantum mechanics coming out September 10th, something deeply
0:17.6	hidden, quantum worlds and the emergence of space time.
0:21.0	So I'm scattering a few episodes about quantum mechanics throughout the year.
0:25.5	We've already had the discussion with David Albert, the philosopher of physics at Columbia,
0:30.7	where David talked about his objections to the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics,
0:35.2	which is my favorite way of thinking about quantum theory.
0:38.2	And today I'm going to give you the pro many worlds point of view, but we're doing it in
0:42.8	an interesting way.
0:44.3	Today is a flipped podcast.
0:46.0	It's not a solo podcast with just me talking, but I'm also not the interviewer.
0:50.5	Rob Reed, who is a podcaster himself, is interviewing me.
0:55.0	And this is going to be an episode of Rob's podcast after on.
0:58.7	So Rob is an entrepreneur and an author.
1:01.0	He's the author of several books, including a couple of novels.
1:04.2	One of the novels is called After On.
1:06.8	And his podcast goes by the same name.
1:09.6	Now ordinarily, if someone else has me on as a guest on their podcast, I would not qualify
1:14.6	that as an episode of Minescape.
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