ABOUT THE FQXi PODCAST
The FQXi podcast brings you the latest ideas in foundational physics and cosmology—and includes interviews with our members and other leading scientists. It's hosted by Zeeya Merali and Brendan Foster. You can contact us at podcast@fqxi.org, and follow us on twitter: @FQXi. The podcast is produced by Zeeya, and music is provided by Baltimore-based Diefenbaker.
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Discord in the Quantum World
An alternative quantum resource to entanglement could help physicists in the quest to construct a quantum computer.
A View From the Top
Thinking of causation as a "two-way street"—along which the passage of information can be inverted—could have implications for the origin of life.
Classic Article: Black Holes, Paradox Regained
In 2004, Stephen Hawking famously conceded that black holes do not devour all information when they swallow matter—seemingly resolving the "black hole information paradox" that had perplexed physicists for decades. But some argue that the paradox remains open, and we must abandon our simple picture of spacetime to unravel it.
Quantum Biology: Making Waves in the Natural World
Could quantum effects explain the mechanisms behind smell, photosynthesis and bird navigation?
The Accidental Universe
Have we been fooled into seeing one form of reality, with particular fundamental forces and laws, based on the peculiar way that we have chosen to measure time?
Eckard Blumschein: "Lawrence, I am not the troll, and you might agree with me on that scoring..." in Essay Contest 2013: It...
Jason Wolfe: "The scientific community is notorious for using "billions of years of..." in Nature, GUT, and...
adel sadeq: "Hi Don, Thanks for the info, that was really helpful. My essay..." in Essay Contest 2013: It...
James Putnam: "Tom, What you claim below is not true. It is the reverse of what is true...." in Nature, GUT, and...
Pentcho Valev: "No Hope for Special Relativity IV Einsteinians readily admit that, for..." in Faster than Light
Pentcho Valev: "Eckard, You wrote: "I object to the first postulate." A theory based on..." in Faster than Light
M J Murcott: "The multiverse theory of space" in Measuring Up the...
Darrell Burgan: "I am fascinated by causality and have long wondered why modern science..." in A View From the Top
RECENT ARTICLES
click titles to read articles
Discord in the Quantum World
An alternative quantum resource to entanglement could help physicists in the quest to construct a quantum computer.
A View From the Top
Thinking of causation as a "two-way street"—along which the passage of information can be inverted—could have implications for the origin of life.
Classic Article: Black Holes, Paradox Regained
In 2004, Stephen Hawking famously conceded that black holes do not devour all information when they swallow matter—seemingly resolving the "black hole information paradox" that had perplexed physicists for decades. But some argue that the paradox remains open, and we must abandon our simple picture of spacetime to unravel it.
Quantum Biology: Making Waves in the Natural World
Could quantum effects explain the mechanisms behind smell, photosynthesis and bird navigation?
The Accidental Universe
Have we been fooled into seeing one form of reality, with particular fundamental forces and laws, based on the peculiar way that we have chosen to measure time?
Complete Podcast
The FQXi August 1, 2012 Podcast features:
- The Higgs Goes to Ghana
- The Illusion of Time & The Dynamics of Shapes
- Mental Time Travel
INFO: MP3 file / 41 minutes / 39 MB
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Featured video in this podcast:
Individual Stories
The Higgs Goes to Ghana
Extended interview with CERN's Albert de Roeck about efforts to take particle physics to Africa, plus the politics of the Higgs discovery and its implications for physics.
INFO: MP3 file / 26 minutes / 25 MB LISTEN: 
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The Illusion of Time & The Dynamics of Shapes
Julian Barbour explains why time does not exist, how shapes are fundamental, and possible connections between consciousness and quantum gravity. (Extended interview)
INFO: MP3 file / 30 minutes / 29 MB LISTEN: RELATED LINKS:
- FQXi blog: Julian Barbour: From Time to Shape
- FQXi video: From Time to Shape Dynamics
- Discover Magazine: Gravity Off the Grid
- FQXi article: The Non-Expanding Universe
- Amazon: The End of Time, by Julian Barbour
Mental Time Travel
Psychologist Kathleen McDermott describes fMRI experiments and studies of amnesiacs that reveal how we use yesterday to construct tomorrow.
INFO: MP3 file / 4 minutes / 4 MB LISTEN: RELATED LINKS:
- FQXi video: Kathleen McDermott on Memory
- FQXi blog: Thanks for the Memories
PODCAST ARCHIVE
June 12, 2013
- Cloaking Time
- The Reality of Time
- Bye Bye Black Hole Singularities!
- Entangling the Dead
- Astro Results, Cosmic Conclusions
- Dark Energy Discovery
- DNA Computing
- Averting an Asteroid Apocalypse
- Our Unstable Universe
- Let There Be Light
- Quantum Roots of Photosynthesis
- Is God a Good Theory?
- Quantum Birds
- The Cosmic Clock Ambiguity
- The Year in Physics: 2012 Review
- Time & the String Multiverse
- The Building Blocks of Spacetime
- Testing the Quantum Limits
- Illusions of Time and the Self
- Unraveling Paradoxes
- Uncertainty about Quantum Uncertainty
- The Holographic Universe
- Jiggling Atoms
- Parallel Worlds, Parallel Beliefs
- The Ignominious History of the Higgs
- Discord in Quantum Computing
- Faster Than Light Cosmology
- The Higgs Goes to Ghana
- The Illusion of Time & The Dynamics of Shapes
- Mental Time Travel
- Knots in Space
- Predicting the End of Civilization
- The Quantum Fuel of Time Travel
- Did the Universe Have a Beginning?
- Launching the FQXi Essay Contest
- Quantum Words & Pictures
- The Secret (Quantum) Science of Scents
- Ask a Physicist: Strings & Sounds
- Splitting the Electron
- Neural Relativity
- Table-Top Tests for Quantum Gravity
- Time Twisting Tests
- Not So Fast Neutrinos
- The Sound of Physics