Just a quick round-up of some more video and audio on offer.
If you've been following Max Tegmark's latest ideas on consciousness as a state of matter (which I blogged about in January), then you'll enjoy his TEDx Cambridge talk:
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I've also posted the latest FQXi podcast, which this month includes physicists Andrew White and Martin Ringbauer talking about their quantum experiments to simulate time travel, in particular closed timeline curves (CTCs), in the lab. The team uses two photons -- one representing the older version of the time travel and the other its younger self -- and then monitors what happens when the two interact. When CTCs are involved, they have found that a some standard quantum rules need to be rewritten: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle is violated, and the quantum no-cloning theorem no longer applies.
Physicist Malcolm Fairbairn also chats about his analysis which shows that if the BICEP2 results stand, the model of inflation they favour -- combined with data we now know about Higgs boson -- suggests that the universe should have collapsed long ago. The BICEP2 results are, of course, under scrutiny, right now, as cosmologists ponder whether the results, which I blogged about in March, really do provide evidence of primordial gravitational waves, or were instead caused by contamination from dust in our galaxy. In the main podcast, we're hear Alan Guth's thoughts on the controversy (recorded in May). On the podcast page, you can also listen to a longer interview with Guth, where he discusses the implications for reconciling the data with Planck, models of inflations, grand unified theories and the multiverse, if the results do hold.
Plus, Colin Stuart talks to FQXi members Jon Barrett and Matt Leifer about their quest to explain why nature chose quantum theory, based on an investigation of entropy in thermodynamics and information theory. You can read and discuss Colin's profile of their work here too.
The podcast is available here.
And back to Max, on an older podcast special, in January, we shared the audio from his talk at the FQXi conference in Puerto Rico. The video of that talk is now up, if you haven't seen it already:
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We've also uploaded this panel discussion on consciousness from that meeting, featuring Max, along with neuroscientists Christof Koch and Giulio Tononi, psychiatrist Larissa Albantakis and electronics developer Federico Faggin:
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