March 15, 2015
MP3 FILE / 50 MINUTES / 49 MB
A quantum reality check; observing black hole firewalls; & a quantum theory of network explains time's arrow.
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Individual Stories
Quantum Reality Check
MP3 FILE / 19 MINUTES / 18 MB
Photon experiments suggest the wavefunction is real -- and quantum cats truly are dead and alive at the same time -- as physicists Alessandro Fedrizzi and Martin Ringbauer explain. Plus, FQXi releases its first two books.
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Detecting Black Hole Firewalls
MP3 FILE / 17 MINUTES / 16 MB
If you fell into a black hole would you be stretched into spaghetti or would you catch fire? Cosmologist Niayesh Afshordi discusses the possibility that neutrinos detected on Earth hold the answer. They may have been created by a ring of fire surrounding back holes.
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Quantum Networks
MP3 FILE / 13 MINUTES / 13 MB
How complex network theory could explain the emergence of the classical world from the fuzzy quantum realm and the arrow of time. Physicist Jacob Biamonte talks to reporter Carinne Piekema.
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