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FQxI Podcast

The Foundational Questions Institute

Physics podcast from the Foundational Questions Institute (FQxI)

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28:00

2014 in Review: physicist Ian Durham reveals the top...

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2014/12/30

2014 in Review: physicist Ian Durham reveals the top two physics stories of the year; & we give you tips for entering FQXi's new essay contest: "Trick or Truth? The Mysterious Connection Between Physics and Mathematics".

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17:00

2014 in review: Ian Durham's countdown of the top 5...

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2014/12/27

2014 in review: Ian Durham's countdown of the top 5 physics stories of the year continues; & we launch FQXi's RFP "The Physics of What Happens."

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34:00

2014 in review: Ian Durham picks his top 5 physics...

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2014/12/24

2014 in review: Ian Durham picks his top 5 physics stories of the year; & we congratulate the winners of the first FQXi video contest.

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46:00

How parallel worlds interact with ours; redefining...

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2014/11/29

How parallel worlds interact with ours; redefining "life" in terms of predicting the future; questioning the founding assumptions of quantum theory; & the Philae lander sends back songs from a comet.

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53:00

Primordial gravitational waves turn to dust and why...

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2014/10/02

Primordial gravitational waves turn to dust and why this is good news for inflation theory; Julian Barbour's model in which the big bang created twin mirror universes, solves the arrow of time problem; & Paul Davies on his physics-based evolutionary-model of cancer, which recommends oxygen treatment and immunotherapy.

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48:00

Watching Schrodinger's cat die; black holes bounce...

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2014/08/31

Watching Schrodinger's cat die; black holes bounce into white holes; sharpening Occam's razor; catching quantum pigeons; & generating quantum Cheshire cats.

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42:00

Time travel is simulated in the lab; Alan Guth on the...

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2014/06/30

Time travel is simulated in the lab; Alan Guth on the doubts clouding the BICEP2 result; how the Higgs should have destroyed the universe already; & could entropy explain why nature obeys quantum rules?

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59:00

Andrei Linde and Joao Magueijo on the BICEP2...

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2014/05/07

Andrei Linde and Joao Magueijo on the BICEP2 discovery of primordial gravitational waves; using thermodynamics to explain the origin of gravity; & is quantum entanglement the fundamental glue that binds reality together?

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24:00

Max Tegmark proposes that consciousness may be...

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2014/01/21

Max Tegmark proposes that consciousness may be another state of matter in his talk at the 4th FQXi International Conference.

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24:00

Sean Carroll questions conventional wisdom on quantum...

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2014/01/09

Sean Carroll questions conventional wisdom on quantum fluctuations, whether we might be disembodied "Boltzmann Brains" floating through space & eternal inflation leading to a multiverse, in his talk at the 4th FQXi conference.

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43:00

"What is quantum information *really* good for?"...

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2014/01/07

"What is quantum information *really* good for?" Physicists William Wootters, Caslav Brukner, Andrew Briggs, Raymond Laflamme, Sorin Paraoanu & Gerardo Adesso discuss this question at FQXi's 4th International Conference in Vieques.

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32:00

The final part of our Year in Physics review, with...

FQxI Podcast ·

2013/12/31

The final part of our Year in Physics review, with Ian Durham; & could ancient aliens have thrived in the universe 15 million years after the big bang?

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35:00

The FQXi Year in Physics Review with Ian Durham...

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2013/12/29

The FQXi Year in Physics Review with Ian Durham continues; & Tejinder Virdee talks about the Higgs discovery, the Nobel Prize, & inspiring the next generation of particle physicists in Africa.

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38:00

Physicist Ian Durham begins his physics review of...

FQxI Podcast ·

2013/12/28

Physicist Ian Durham begins his physics review of 2013; & astronomer Sara Seager talks about exoplanets, alien hunting and her MacArthur genius grant.

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60:00

Was our universe birthed by a 5-D black hole?; Dark...

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2013/10/07

Was our universe birthed by a 5-D black hole?; Dark Energy Survey launches; Voyager 1 leaves the solar system; Quantum space experiments; & a Superposition of physics & art

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47:00

Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek talks tests of the...

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2013/08/20

Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek talks tests of the cosmological multiverse & lab experiments for quantum parallel universes; neutrinos shift personality; a proof for Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle; & plants do math.

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41:00

Temporal cloak hides events in time; Lee Smolin on...

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2013/06/12

Temporal cloak hides events in time; Lee Smolin on his new book "Time Reborn"; Loop quantum gravity cuts out the core of black holes; & Laser experiment entangles two photons that do not co-exist.

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60:00

What the Planck results & others mean for the...

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2013/04/22

What the Planck results & others mean for the universe; Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt recalls discovering dark energy; New FQXi essay contest hints & tips; & Computing with DNA

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45:00

Diverting asteroids headed for Earth; how the Higgs...

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2013/03/06

Diverting asteroids headed for Earth; how the Higgs could destroy the Universe; SQUID experiments create light from the quantum vacuum; & does photosynthesis in plants have quantum roots?

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47:00

Is God a good cosmological theory? Would God *choose*...

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2013/01/25

Is God a good cosmological theory? Would God *choose* to create a multiverse?; How quantum effects help birds navigate; & How the laws of physics we perceive may depend on our choice of clock.

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