May 7, 2014

MP3 FILE / 59 MINUTES / 58 MB
Andrei Linde and Joao Magueijo on the BICEP2 discovery of primordial gravitational waves; using thermodynamics to explain the origin of gravity; & is quantum entanglement the fundamental glue that binds reality together?
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Individual Stories

BICEP2 & Inflation

MP3 FILE / 28 MINUTES / 25 MB
Father of inflation, Andrei Linde, talks about what the discovery of primordial gravitational waves means for the multiverse, string theory and quantum gravity.
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BICEP2 & Alternative models

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Cosmologist Joao Magueijo questions the strength of the evidence for primordial gravitational waves and assesses the fate of alternative models of inflation.
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Thermal Gravity

MP3 FILE / 12 MINUTES / 11 MB
Thanu Padmanabhan discusses his thermodynamic approach which suggests that gravity emerges from the unknown "atoms" of space and time.
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Entangling Spacetime

MP3 FILE / 12 MINUTES / 11 MB
Mark Van Raamsdonk talks about the notion that entanglement is the most fundamental constituent of reality that binds space and time together.
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