Unlocking Quantum Mysteries: The Surprising Role of Gravity 🌌

Leading physicist Raphael Bousso joins Brian Greene to explore the almost unreasonable capacity of our theories of gravity to give deep insights into quantum physics.

This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

Participant: Raphael Bousso
Moderator: Brian Greene

0:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:12 Are there any cracks in Quantum Mechanics?
00:03:18 Bousso’s Case for Measurement-Driven Physics
00:06:00 Does Quantum Mechanics Describe Reality?
00:09:37 How Decoherence Hides Quantum Weirdness
00:15:05 Difference between Quantum and Classical Mechanics
00:17:50 What Would Einstein Think of Modern Quantum Theory?
00:21:19 Entanglement’s Place in the Weird World of Quantum Theory
00:26:45 Bousso’s Intuition for How Entanglement Works
00:29:12 Einstein’s EPR Worries — What Do We Make of Them Now?
00:33:22 What Is a Singularity in a Black Hole?
00:38:06 How Oppenheimer and Snyder Modeled a Collapsing Star
00:44:27 Insights Into Hawking Radiation - When Black Holes Began to Evaporate
00:55:24 Gravity’s Quantum Secrets
01:01:16 What Does Holography Say About Reality?
01:04:28 Rethinking How We Talk About Unification
01:08:48 Bousso & Wall: The Quantum Focusing Conjecture
01:14:33 From Theory to Test: Holography Gets Real
01:19:34 The Value of String Theory Beyond Being 'Right'
01:22:06 Penrose and the Proof That Singularities Are Real
01:28:02 Hawking’s Theorem and the Rise of Singularities
01:32:41 Is Gravity the Missing Piece in Quantum Theory?
01:39:07 How Bousso and Polchinski Rethought the Cosmological Constant
01:51:10 Will the Universe Ever Give Up This Secret?
01:53:31 Credits

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