Episode 83: Do Aliens Speak Physics with Daniel Whiteson
Jim talks with Daniel Whiteson of the University of California at Irvine about his new book _Do Aliens Speak Physics,_ In this discussion we...
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20 of 82 episodesEpisode 82: Quantum Random Access Memory with Koustubh Phalak
Jim talks with Koustubh Phalak about quantum random access memory (QRAM), a proposed technology that would allow the storage of quantum stat...
Episode 81: Pixelated Space Time with Philip Tee
Jim talks with Philip Tee about the effects of a fundamental length scale. Phil uses doubly special relativity to try to find observable eff...
Episode 80: Emergent Decoherent Histories with Philipp Strasberg
Jim talks with Philipp Strasberg about his simulations of branching and recombining processes in the evolution of quantum states, and their...
Episode 79: Primordial Black Holes with QCD Color Charge with Elba Alonso-Monsalve and David Kaiser
Jim talks with Elba Alonso-Monsalve and David Kaiser about the prospects to describe dark matter as tiny black holes that were created at th...
Episode 78: Quantum Machine Learning with Bruna Shinohara
Jim talks with Bruna Shinohara of CMC Microsystems. Quantum computing and machine learning are both currently making huge strides. So it is...
Episode 77: Maxwellian Ratchets with Alex Jurgens
Jim talks with Alex Jurgens about Maxwellian ratchets, automata that are similar to Maxwell's Demon. They talk about their implications for...
Episode 76: Undeciability and Theories of Everything with Claus Kiefer
Jim talks with Claus Kiefer about the implications of Goedel's incompleteness theorems on the search for the theory. Show Notes: http://fron...
Episode 75: Categorical Probability and the Measurement Problem
Jim talks with Nick Ormrod and V. Vilasini about their use of categorical probability theory to analyze the measurement problem. We discuss...
Episode 74: Stochastic Thermodynamics with David Wolpert
Jim talks with David Wolpert about the non-equilibrium behavior of computation, what it means for entropy, and how it relates to traditional...
Episode 73: Quantum Money with Jiahui Liu
Jim discusses quantum money with Jiahui Liu. Quantum money is a linchpin of quantum cryptography. The ability to create secure banknotes usi...
Episode 72: Born Rule and Gravity with Antony Valentini
Jim talks with Antony Valentini about the difficulties of interpretation of quantum mechanics in light of quantum gravity. In particular, An...
Episode 71: Primordial Graviton Background
Jim talks with Sunny Vagnozzi about using the Primoridial Graviton Background to rule out all inflation models. Show Notes: http://frontiers...
Episode 70: Path Integrals and Entanglement with Ken Wharton
Jim talks with Ken Wharton about how to describe entangled states as sums over histories of particle paths using the path integral method. H...
Episode 69: The Flavor Puzzle with Joe Davighi
Jim talks with Joe Davighi of the University of Zurich about the flavor unification at high energies - the merging of all leptons into one k...
Episode 68: Quantum Resource Theories with Gilad Gour
Jim talks with Gilad Gour of the University of Toronto about quantum resource theories. These are theories of largish systems that describe...
Episode 67: Optical Gravity with Matthew R. Edwards
Jim talks with Matthew R. Edwards about his theory of Optical Gravity. This is a Le Sage model of gravity based on graviton filiments. Show...
Episode 66: The Limit of General Relativity with James Owen Weatherall
Jim talks with James Owen Weatherall about his work on viewing general relativity as an effective field theory and where it should give way...
Episode 65: Causality, Time and the Experiment Paradox with Michal Eckstein
Jim talks with Michal Eckstein of the Copernicus Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies about how two different kinds of ordering, chronolo...
Episode 64: Born's Rule with Blake Stacey
Jim talks with Blake Stacey about recent attempts to replace Born's rule. Born's rule is the principle used in quantum mechanics that associ...