Tangling With Entanglement And Other Big Ideas In Physics
Summary
Physicist Sean Carroll demystifies complex concepts from his book, "The Biggest Ideas in the Universe," for a live audience. He delves into the puzzling nature of time, the famous Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment, and the persistent mysteries surrounding dark matter, dark energy, and black holes. Carroll also shares insights into the current challenges in fundamental physics, including the search for new experimental clues beyond existing theories, and exciting future observational campaigns like space-based gravitational wave detection.Episode description
What have we learned in recent years about black holes? Can entangled quantum particles really communicate faster than light? What’s the story behind Schrödinger’s Cat? And, in this weird liminal space between the holidays, what even IS time, really?
Physicist Sean Carroll and Host Ira Flatow tackled those big questions and more at a recent event at WNYC’s Greene Space in New York City. Carroll’s book The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion is the SciFri Book Club pick for December.
Guest: Dr. Sean Carroll is the Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
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