Avshalom Elitzur: The Dropout Who Proved Bombs Detect Themselves

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Curt Jaimungal

Physics, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

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🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Curt Jaimungal talks with physicist Avshalom Elitzur about his bold new vision where spacetime emerges from quantum interactions in pure nothingness. They explore ideas such as negative‑mass particles, continuous creation of spacetime, and the nature and asymmetry of time.0:00 Introduction3:04 Unifying Quantum Mechanics and Relativity4:42 Prof. Elitzur’s Unconventional Path in Physics7:02 The Problem of Unifying Forces in Physics10:06 Time’s Role in Relativity and Simplicity in Physics13:34 The Nature of Time and the Flow of Events19:20 Relativity of Simultaneity Explained24:22 Free Will and the Block Universe Debate28:49 Time Asymmetry in Physics31:06 The Universe’s Expanding Time and Black Holes35:39 Einstein, Minkowski, and the Concept of Time39:43 Paradigm Shifts in Quantum Mechanics43:00 The Concept of Becoming in Physics49:15 Quantum Mechanics and Time Symmetry55:43 The Two-State Vector Formalism (TSVF)1:06:15 Non-Locality and Quantum Zigzag1:12:50 New Physics from TSVF: Negative Mass1:23:00 Implications of Negative Mass in Physics1:32:00 The Emerging New Paradigm in Physics1:46:46 Biology, mistakes, and innovation1:48:01 Spacetime emerging from nothing1:50:03 Wave functions creating spacetime1:56:08 Schrödinger's cat and spacetime2:00:01 Unifying quantum mechanics and gravity2:11:05 Advice for young physicists2:16:29 Support TOESPONSORS:- I personally subscribe to The Economist. TOE listeners get 35% off the annual subscription. No other podcast has this! https://economist.com/TOERESOURCES:- Support TOE on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal (early access to ad‑free audio episodes!)- Enjoy TOE on Spotify! https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE- Become a YouTube Member Here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Join TOE's Newsletter 'TOEmail' at https://www.curtjaimungal.org- Avshalom’s citations: https://scholar.google.co.il/citations?user=ZivyhegAAAAJ&hl=en- Leonard Susskind on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p_Hlm6aCok- The Physicist and the Philosopher (book): https://www.amazon.com/Physicist-Philosopher-Einstein-Bergson-Understanding/dp/0691173176- Roger Penrose on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGm505TFMbU&list=PLZ7ikzmc6zlN6E8KrxcYCWQIHg2tfkqvR&index=7- Interpretations of quantum mechanics (paper): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/the-interpretations-of-quantum-mechanics- Lee Smolin on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOKOodQXjhc- Quantum mechanical interaction-free measurements (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9305002- Nonlocal Position Changes of a Photon Revealed by Quantum Routers (paper): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-26018-y- Manolis Kellis on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g56lxZwnaqg- The Quark and the Jaguar (book): https://www.amazon.com/Quark-Jaguar-Adventures-Simple-Complex/dp/0805072535- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs- iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802- Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal features long-form, technically detailed interviews with leading researchers in physics, mathematics, consciousness, and philosophy, exploring topics at the level of active research. For academics, graduate students, and anyone seeking depth beyond popular science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The future is the knower, is the no-win.
0:02.9	There is nothing there, not even space-time.
0:05.2	And actually, as the universe is expanding,
0:07.6	just I'm following the Big Bang,
0:09.0	it is also expanding in time.
0:11.0	It turns out, however, that for very brief time,
0:14.9	the universe allows negative mass to exist.
0:17.7	And that may explain the very mystery of the quantum.
0:23.6	Professor Obshalom Elitsur, a pioneer in the field of quantum theory, received his PhD
0:29.5	without even a high school diploma akin to Stephen Wolfram.
0:33.6	He's a household name among physicists.
0:36.2	Ilutsur and his collaborator, Vidman, discovered the famous bomb testing experiment,
0:41.3	which many quantum physicists consider more profound than even the double-slit experiment.
0:47.3	In today's episode, Elytzer proposes a new vision of reality for the first time.
0:52.6	Starting from the elementary observation that time seems to
0:55.4	flow, Elytzer articulates a unification of quantum mechanics and gravity by suggesting that space
1:02.2	time itself emerges from quantum interactions in pure nothingness. The longer you watch this video,
1:09.8	the more ambitious it gets.
1:11.8	I think that there is something missing in physics, something that does not exist in the present
1:16.2	particle models, in the standard model. In some ways, this is the opposite of the retold dictum
1:22.1	that spacetime is doomed. According to Elitzer, it's more like it's not the death of space
1:27.4	time, it's the creation of it.
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