Paul Halpern Synchronicity: Wolfgang Pauli & Carl Jung (#079)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Physics, Natural Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Paul Halpern’s latest book is “Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect.” Paul joins me to discuss the book as well as big topics like quantum entanglement and the meaning of life. Hear about how he balances his physics research, writing projects, and love for the outdoors. He also wrote a book about the science of “The Simpsons” as well as fifteen other popular science books. Find Paul Halpern on the web: http://phalpern.com. Subscribe to my mailing list to receive show notes for this episode: https://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php 00:00 Introduction 05:56 Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli’s transformative relationship. 13:13 Balancing science and history to appeal to the masses. 18:40 How do physicists think about time? 25:29 Finding the meaning of life through physics. 32:10 Is it time to stop quantum entanglement experiments? 40:32 Quantum physics risks being seen as a pseudoscience. 47:35 What ethical will does Paul Halpern plan to leave behind? 51:15 What object or knowledge would Paul put on his monolith? 53:42 What did Paul think was impossible until he did it? Paul Halpern is a professor of physics at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. He is also a prolific science writer. Paul has received both a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fulbright Scholarship. Buy Paul’s books here: https://amzn.to/333HLle Find Paul Halpern on Twitter: https://twitter.com/phalpern Brian Keating’s most popular Youtube Videos: Eric Weinstein: https://youtu.be/YjsPb3kBGnk?sub_confirmation=1 Jim Simons: https://youtu.be/6fr8XOtbPqM?sub_confirmation=1 Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_confirmation=1 Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/V6dMM2-X6nk?sub_confirmation=1 Sarah Scoles: https://youtu.be/apVKobWigMw Stephen Wolfram: https://youtu.be/nSAemRxzmXM Host Brian Keating: ‍♂️ Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:07.0	It is a great pleasure to welcome a gentleman who's been a great influence on me and my
0:17.2	writing but we've never met in person we still have never met.
0:20.0	We have to meet someday in person Paul.
0:23.1	It's Professor Paul Halpern,
0:24.9	who is a professor of physics
0:26.5	at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.
0:29.4	He's the author of 16 popular science books. All of them are fascinating and some of them are
0:35.2	undoubtedly known to everyone out there in the audience, such as the Quantum
0:39.5	Labyrinth, which is fascinating, and Einstein's Dice and Schrenninger's cat. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
0:46.0	First question I have for you, Paul, you've done so much, you've written so much, you're an online,
0:51.6	you're an intellectual, you're a scientist, you're a professor.
0:55.6	How do you think of yourself? What is the core element of who you are as a human
1:01.4	being on earth? Well first of of all, I wanted to thank you for inviting me on the show, Brian.
1:07.0	And in terms of my own self-conception, I guess I always think of myself as being a person of ideas.
1:12.0	I love to discuss ideas with people and I also really love nature and I have a mixed
1:21.0	reaction to technology as I think many people but I love technology but I also
1:26.8	love being away from technology I like kind of commuting with nature walking in the
1:30.9	woods bicycling and so forth.
1:34.0	So that's about as much a part of me as doing highly technological things like
1:41.0	that.
1:42.0	Actually, I didn't expect that. Why is that? Why is that? Why is that? That's actually, I didn't expect that.
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