Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder and astrophysicist Matt O'Dowd discuss the riddle that is quantum theory, and why it remains such.
Will we ever crack it? Will we ever align quantum mechanics and gravity?
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Since Einstein and Bohr's famous clash over whether God plays dice with the universe, we have been left with more questions than answers. Will we ever be able to fully determine how the universe works or is everything fundamentally up to chance? And how can we reconcile the quantum world with the classical world? Join Sabine Hossenfelder, science communicator and arch-defender of the super-deterministic narrative, in conversation with Matt O'Dowd, an astrophysicist who challenges our commitment to the idea of reality itself, on how we might go about finding answers to the quantum puzzle, and what this means for the future of quantum theory.
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Sabine Hossenfelder is a ground-breaking physicist, the creator of the YouTube channel "Science without the gobbledygook", and a New York Times best-selling author.
Matt O'Dowd is an astrophysicist and the host of PBS Space Time. He is also Professor of Physics and Astronomy at City University of New York.
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00:00 Introduction
01:40 History of quantum mechanics
06:16 The measurement problem
13:12 Many worlds interpretation
17:30 Hidden variable
24:45 Causality
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