Titans of Science: Paul Davies

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Dr Chris Smith

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🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Titans of Science is all about showcasing science superstars making huge breakthroughs and giant leaps foward in their scientific realms. In this episode, we turn the telescope around around to consider the extremely strange effects that kick in when physics shrinks down to the atomic scale. We are, of course, taking a tour through the world of quantum mechanics, and our guide is the physicist, writer and broadcaster Paul Davies. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	All engine running.
0:03.0	Absolutely genius.
0:04.1	Welcome.
0:04.9	Welcome.
0:05.8	This is the show where we bring you science.
0:07.6	What that essentially means is...
0:09.2	Discovery is...
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0:12.4	Unbelievable.
0:13.3	Without further ado, this is the Naked Scientists.
0:16.3	Hello, welcome to the Naked Scientist podcast, the program that brings you the biggest
0:20.1	breakthroughs in science, technology and medicine.
0:23.5	I'm Chris Smith.
0:24.8	And this week we are delving into the science that Einstein dubbed spooky action at a distance.
0:31.0	It is the quantum realm.
0:32.8	And my guest is the award-winning physicist and science populariser Paul Davies.
0:45.9	Titans of Science is all about showcasing science superstars making huge breakthroughs and
0:51.3	giant leaps forward in their scientific realms, and this episode is no
0:55.5	exception, except that the subject matter demands this time that we turn that telescope around
1:01.2	to consider the extremely strange effects that kick in when physics shrinks down to the
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