QBism: The Radical Theory That Observation Creates Physical Reality
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Curt Jaimungal
4.6 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 94 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The shock is so great in quantum mechanics that we still have not figured out how to really process it. |
| 0:06.7 | How does quantum mechanics confront our view of reality even shattering it? |
| 0:12.2 | Amanda Gefter, science writer and author of trespassing on Einstein's lawn, |
| 0:17.9 | dismantles long-held notions about quantum mechanics, proposing a revolutionary |
| 0:23.1 | perspective where observers don't just perceive reality, they actively participate in its creation. |
| 0:31.8 | In this episode, we'll delve into how our beliefs shape the quantum world, why Descartes' subject-objects split is fundamentally |
| 0:39.5 | flawed, and how emergence could redefine our scientific understanding. |
| 0:44.3 | Prepare to have your concept of reality transformed as we venture into the quantum realm, |
| 0:49.7 | where nothing is quite as it seems. |
| 0:55.5 | Probably the most formative conversation that I had, even though it was a very, very brief |
| 1:01.5 | conversation, was one with the physicist John Wheeler. |
| 1:06.0 | So Wheeler was this legendary American physicist who, you know, this is who came up with the terms black hole |
| 1:12.8 | and wormhole and he did revolutionary work in everything, general relativity, nuclear physics, |
| 1:19.7 | quantum mechanics, and had a very sort of profound philosophical mind, but also spoke in this |
| 1:26.2 | very enigmatic Yoda-like way. And I had the chance to meet him, |
| 1:35.1 | well, this is a whole long story, but my father and I snuck into a physics conference that was |
| 1:41.0 | being held in Wheeler's honor. It was in honor of his 90th birthday at Princeton. |
| 1:46.7 | And this is in 2002, I believe. And it was this amazing conference and all the best |
| 1:53.6 | businesses were up there giving talks and everything. And Wheeler was just sort of sitting at the |
| 1:57.8 | front. And, you know, he was 90 90 at this point he was a bit hard of hearing |
| 2:01.6 | but he was still deeply obsessed with all of these big questions about you know how come existence |
| 2:07.6 | and why the quantum and all of the questions that I think you kurt are interested in and so you know |
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