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?
Download
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.
Download
BICEP2 & Alternative models
MP3 FILE / 7 MINUTES / 8 MB
Cosmologist Joao Magueijo questions the strength of the evidence for primordial gravitational waves and assesses the fate of alternative models of inflation.
Download
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.
Download
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.
Download