#521 - Sabine Hossenfelder - Life's Mysteries, Explained By Physics
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
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🗓️ 3 September 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Sabine Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist, research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, quantum gravity researcher and an author.
There are a lot of big questions in the world, like does the past still exist? Do particles think? Was the universe fine tuned for us? Do we have free will? And are we living in a simulation? Given that we don't have answers yet, why not let a physicist have a crack at them?
Expect to learn why physicists who say they know how the universe started aren't telling the truth, whether we can compute a human brain, why no one gets any younger, if maths is the ultimate basis of reality, why there might be copies of all of us out there in the universe, how your entire life could be the imagined history of a brain floating in space and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:03.0 | My guest today is Sabina Hassenfelder. |
| 0:05.4 | She's a theoretical physicist, research fellow |
| 0:08.0 | at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, |
| 0:10.4 | quantum gravity researcher, and an author. |
| 0:14.1 | There are a lot of big questions in the world, |
| 0:17.1 | like, does the past still exist? |
| 0:19.7 | Do particles think, was the universe fine-tuned for us? |
| 0:23.4 | Do we have free will? |
| 0:24.5 | And are we living in a simulation? |
| 0:27.1 | Given that we don't have answers yet, |
| 0:30.1 | why not let a physicist have a crack at them? |
| 0:32.9 | Expect to learn why physicists who say |
| 0:35.6 | that they know how the universe started |
| 0:37.6 | aren't telling the truth, whether we can compute |
| 0:40.2 | a human brain, why no one gets any younger. |
| 0:43.5 | If maths is the ultimate basis of reality, |
| 0:46.4 | why there might be copies of us all out there in the universe, |
| 0:49.3 | how your entire life could be the imagined history |
| 0:52.5 | of a brain floating in space, and much more. |
| 0:56.4 | In other news, this episode is brought to you |
| 0:59.0 | by Crafted London. |
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