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Welcome to Into the Impossible.

A podcast about how we imagine and how what we imagine shapes what we do.

From the Arthur C. Clark Center for Human Imagination at the University of California,

San Diego.

In this episode, we host a round table discussion

on quantum physics and the book,

What is Real, the unfinished quest for the meaning of quantum physics.

With its author, astrophysicist Adam Becker,

UCSD Astrophysics research scientist

Andrew Friedman, and UCSD philosophy professor,

Chip Stevens.

Hello, my name is Chip Stevens.

I am a philosophy professor here at UC San Diego and I work on the foundations of

quantum mechanics.

Hi, I'm Andrew Friedman.

I'm a research scientist at the UCSD Center for Astrophysics and space sciences.

And I'm an astronomer and a cosmologist by training, but I also work on some experiments that touch on the foundations of quantum mechanics. Hi, I'm Adam Becker. I am a astrophysicist and a science writer and I'm the author of the book What is

real the unfinished quest for the meaning of quantum physics which is about

quantum foundations. So Adam I met you and we were both graduate students at the

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