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| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Universal Constructor: A Conversation with David Deutsch | 17 Feb 2024 | 00:30:00 | |
| The Year in Physics Review 2023 Part 3 | 31 Dec 2023 | 00:43:00 | |
| Is Time an Illusion? Great Mysteries in Physics Part 1 | 08 Mar 2023 | 00:47:00 | |
| Photon experiments raise uncertainty about Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle; the lowdown on FQXi's new $3 million Physics of Information grant round; casting the universe as a hologram to discover when time began; & art meets physics at the Jiggling... | 15 Oct 2012 | 00:42:00 | |
| Questioning the parallel beliefs of quantum many-worlds supremo Everett; history of the Higgs with it's co-inventor Gerry Guralnik; quantum computing rewritten; & faster than light cosmology with Joao Magueijo. | 06 Sep 2012 | 00:51:00 | |
| Taking particle physics to Ghana in our Higgs update; Julian Barbour explains why time does not exist, shapes are fundamental and the connection between consciousness and quantum gravity; and the psychology of mental time travel. | 01 Aug 2012 | 00:41:00 | |
| Gruber Prize for Cosmology goes to WMAP ; searching the sky for "cosmic textures"; predicting the end of civilization; and the quantum fuel for time travel. | 30 Jun 2012 | 00:35:00 | |
| Did the universe--the multiverse, the cyclic universe, & the "cosmic egg"--have a beginning?; tips for winning the FQXi essay contest; the quantum art of gravity & linguistics; sniffing out a quantum theory of smell; and we put *your* questions about... | 30 May 2012 | 00:43:00 | |
| Splitting the electron into two quasiparticles, the orbiton and spinon; how the brain perceives time—and how to fool it; and a table-top test of quantum gravity. | 30 Apr 2012 | 00:30:00 | |
| A radical rethink of quantum mechanics suggests time can flow backwards; Frank Wilczek discusses not-so-speedy neutrinos; and string theory, religion and music collide in two physics operas. | 30 Mar 2012 | 00:33:00 | |
| The Year in Physics Review Part 3: Concluding our countdown of the biggest stories in physics, as chosen by quantum physicist Ian Durham. | 31 Dec 2022 | 00:48:00 | |
| The Year in Physics Review Part 2: Continuing our countdown of the biggest stories in physics, as chosen by quantum physicist Ian Durham. | 30 Dec 2022 | 00:31:00 | |
| The Year in Physics Review Part 1: Beginning our countdown of the biggest stories in physics, as chosen by quantum physicist Ian Durham. We start with a discussion about whether a wormhole really was created in a quantum computer, in the lab? | 28 Dec 2022 | 00:44:00 | |
| Testing Time: Quantum physicists Fabrizio Piacentini and Laura Knoll discuss their recent experiment testing the predictions of Constructor Theory, a new meta-framework of physics that may encompass all other theories. The new framework could solve the... | 20 Aug 2022 | 00:34:00 | |
| Happy Higgs-versary! Particle physicist Kevin Black tells Zeeya Merali about the LHC's new quest. Also, time-travel at the LHC, an update on the W Boson tests with Frank Wilczek; Catalina Curceanu on testing the origin of consciousness; & Queensland... | 30 Jun 2022 | 00:52:00 | |
| The End of Everything: Astrophysicist Katie Mack on her book describing ways to destroy the universe, & on hints of new physics at the LHC; a quantum engine that heats & cools simultaneously; how the thermodynamic gradient may have driven the evolution of... | 27 Jun 2022 | 00:52:00 | |
| 'Quantum dots' can teach us about thermodynamics in the nanorealm. | 21 Jun 2022 | 00:10:00 | |
| Time's Arrow: A conversation with Paul Davies about time's irreversible flow, black holes, memories of Stephen Hawking and the information paradox, Maxwell's demon and living systems -- and how to improve universities. With Logan Chipkin. | 09 Jun 2022 | 01:00:00 | |
| Quantum Steampunk: Physicist Nicole Yunger Halpern talks about her new book on quantum thermodynamics, temperatures below absolute zero, and the physics of yesterday's tomorrow. | 18 May 2022 | 00:46:00 | |
| The Year in Physics Review 2023 Part 2 | 29 Dec 2023 | 00:27:00 | |
| Constructor Theory and Irreversibility: A conversation with Chiara Marletto and Vlatko Vedral on a novel unification between information theory and thermodynamics and their recent experiment that tested, and corroborated, the constructor theoretic notion... | 20 Apr 2022 | 00:52:00 | |
| Eerie quantum Aharanov-Bohm effect demonstrated for gravity; mysteries about the nature of time; how choices can curve spacetime; and the Science of Can and Can't. | 31 Mar 2022 | 01:00:00 | |
| Information as Fuel. Quantum physicist Natalia Ares describes her quest to test thermodynamics in the quantum realm with carbon nanotubes. Philosopher Owen Maroney and theoretical physicist Janet Anders explain what such experiments can teach us about the... | 10 Mar 2022 | 00:27:00 | |
| 2021: The Year in Physics Review Part 3. FQXi's annual countdown of the physics highlights concludes, with quantum physicist Ian Durham. | 31 Dec 2021 | 00:43:00 | |
| 2021: Year in Physics Review Part 2. Our rundown of the physics highlights of the year continues, with quantum physicist Ian Durham. | 30 Dec 2021 | 00:26:00 | |
| 2021: Year in Physics Review Part 1. Beginning our countdown of the biggest and best stories in physics, with quantum physicist Ian Durham. | 28 Dec 2021 | 00:18:00 | |
| Schrödinger's Tardigrade: Has a multicellular organism really been entangled with a superconducting qubit? Physicist Vlatko Vedral defends his team's controversial claims; Mitch Waldrop discusses the long-running Hubble tension saga and the launch of the... | 24 Dec 2021 | 00:59:00 | |
| Breakthrough Prize winner Jun Ye talks optical lattice clocks; the thermodynamic cost of timekeeping with Marcus Huber; & microbead minimotors help John Bechhoefer investigate information processing in nanomachines and biological systems. | 27 Sep 2021 | 00:50:00 | |
| The Disordered Cosmos: Physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein discusses the hunt for axions, her new book on dark matter, racism and misogyny in science, and the controversy surrounding the Thirty Meter Telescope. | 08 Mar 2021 | 00:45:00 | |
| 2020: Year in Physics Review Part 2: Concluding our countdown of the biggest stories of the year in physics, as chosen by quantum physicist Ian Durham. | 31 Dec 2020 | 00:42:00 | |
| The Year in Physics Review 2023: Part 1 | 28 Dec 2023 | 00:25:00 | |
| 2020: Year in Physics Review Part 1: Beginning our countdown of the biggest stories in foundational physics and beyond, as chosen by quantum physicist Ian Durham. | 29 Dec 2020 | 00:23:00 | |
| #ShutDownSTEM and the #Strike4BlackLives; Retrocausality Reviewed; Measuring Consciousness in Fruit Flies; Superior -- The Return of Race Science; & the Mystery of the Monster Galaxy. | 14 Jun 2020 | 01:00:00 | |
| 2019: Year in Physics Review Part 2: Concluding our countdown of the biggest stories of the year in physics, as chosen by quantum physicist Ian Durham. | 31 Dec 2019 | 00:50:00 | |
| 2019: Year in Physics Review Part 1 Beginning our countdown of the biggest stories of the year in physics, as chosen by quantum physicist Ian Durham. | 29 Dec 2019 | 00:31:00 | |
| An amped up version of the Schrodinger Cat Paradox spells trouble for all quantum interpretations -- according to its architect Renato Renner. He tells Zeeya and Brendan how the controversial thought experiment works, and why he thinks it is bad news for... | 24 Dec 2019 | 00:57:00 | |
| Quantum Supremacy Milestone? Rumours abound that Google's quantum processor Sycamore has performed a task that would flummox the best classical computer â a first in quantum computing. Physicist Ian Durham assesses the claims, gives us a quantum... | 06 Oct 2019 | 00:36:00 | |
| Quantum Mind Reading. Could we create a quantum experiment to predict what a person will do, without having to simulate their consciousness? Physicist Adam Brown argues a classic quantum "bomb tester" proposed in the 1990s could be modified to do just... | 08 Sep 2019 | 00:28:00 | |
| Downward Causation. Cosmologist George Ellis investigates agency and argues that causation is a two-way process between the mind and lower level biological and physical functions. From the 6th FQXi meeting in Tuscany, in July. | 19 Aug 2019 | 00:21:00 | |
| Designing the Mind. Cognitive scientist Susan Schneider talks transhumanism and asks at what point does human enhancement go too far? Are we in danger of accidentally destroying ourselves through technological augmentation and creating new beings in our... | 15 Aug 2019 | 00:25:00 | |
| Measuring Free Will. To what degree are our choices really free, rather than determined? And how much control do we have over them? Quantum physicist Ian Durham presents a new mathematical model for free will. From the 6th FQXi Meeting, in Tuscany. | 13 Aug 2019 | 00:22:00 | |
| Is there a Theory of Everything? Great Mysteries of Physics Part 6 | 24 Dec 2023 | 01:01:00 | |
| How do we make decisions? Physicist Carlo Rovelli discusses the science behind choice -- arguing that agency is intimately tied to time's arrow. From the 6th FQXi meeting in Tuscany. | 12 Aug 2019 | 00:36:00 | |
| Building an AI Physicist. Cosmologist Max Tegmark describes the challenges with creating trustworthy artificial intelligence, and his own project writing a code that used neural networks to re-discover 100 equations from the Feynman lectures. | 09 Aug 2019 | 00:15:00 | |
| The Limits of Computation. Astrophysicist Fred Adams argues the world will run out of resources for computation in 32 years without a paradigm shift. And he discusses how alien civilizations could mine stars to create solar-system-sized "black cloud... | 01 Aug 2019 | 00:21:00 | |
| Causality, Memory and the Arrow of Time. Cosmologist Sean Carroll is searching for a mathematical description of why causes precede effects and asking what makes our memories of the past special. Audio of a talk from the FQXi meeting in Tuscany. | 30 Jul 2019 | 00:24:00 | |
| 2018 Year in Physics Review Part 2: We conclude our countdown of the top physics stories of the year, as chosen by Ian Durham. | 31 Dec 2018 | 00:30:00 | |
| 2018 Year in Physics Review Part 1: We begin our countdown of the top physics stories of the year, as chosen by Ian Durham. | 30 Dec 2018 | 00:21:00 | |
| Superhuman: In this special edition, evolutionary biologist Rowan Hooper discusses his new book, which examines the extremes of mental and physical ability. He discusses encounters with some of the world's cleverest people, investigates the role of... | 10 Sep 2018 | 00:37:00 | |
| High-energy neutrino traced back to a distant galaxy, with Azadeh Keivani; possible discovery of sterile neutrinos, with Richard Van de Water; black holes replaced by fuzzballs, with Samir Mathur; finding an almost-quantum theory, with Miguel Navascues;... | 26 Aug 2018 | 00:38:00 | |
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