FQXi Podcast
Summary: Podcast from science writers at the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi)
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Podcasts:
China takes the first steps to building a quantum Internet; testing quantum gravity in the lab; making a baby universe in a particle accelerator; and singing about physics.
Concluding our list of the top physics breakthroughs of 2016, as chosen by Ian Durham.
Counting down the biggest physics breakthroughs of 2016, with Ian Durham.
Retrocausal reality with Ken Wharton; tips for FQXi's new essay contest; the Breakthrough prizes in physics; the science of terrorism, with Peter Byrne; & Carlo Rovelli gives a brief lesson on writing a physics bestseller.
Science & Creativity: Conversation with bestselling science fiction author Neal Stephenson, artist Jayne Tollaksen, and musical physicists Ian Durham, Stephon Alexander & Brendan Foster. With Zeeya Merali.
Max Tegmark on measuring consciousness in the lab -- and finding a hidden dimension in natural language. From the 5th FQXi Meeting.
Sean Carroll asks What Happens Inside the Wavefunction? From the 5th FQXi International Meeting.
Quantum physicist Matt Leifer reveals the dirty secrets of quantum foundations: the Copenhagen Interpretation does not exist and Copenhagen-like interpretations are as crazy as invoking parallel universes. From the 5th International FQXi meeting.
Physicist Paul Davies reveals the "dirty secrets of life." From the 5th FQXi conference.
Happy 10th Birthday to us! FQXi's director Anthony Aguirre celebrates a decade of the Foundational Questions Institute, and chats about the Kepler's planet haul and Breakthrough Starshot; Catalina Curceanu on testing a quantum rival under a mountain; & Sean Carroll talks about his book The Big Picture, and emergence.
A MICROSCOPE on Galileo; how gravitational waves open a new window on the universe; searching for defects in spacetime; & a quantum-horror short story.
FQXi's countdown of the top physics breakthroughs of 2015 concludes, with Ian Durham.
Our countdown of the biggest physics breakthroughs of 2015 continues, with Ian Durham.
Our review of the year in physics, with quantum physicist Ian Durham, begins.
Physics of Information special featuring black hole firewalls, ruling out reality & the search to define what information actually is. Plus highlights of other FQXi-funded research projects.
