May 25, 2015
MP3 FILE / 36 MINUTES / 35 MB
Physics poetry; curving spacetime in the lab; & searching for undecidable problems.
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Individual Stories
In Praise of Physics Poetry
MP3 FILE / 12 MINUTES / 12 MB
Poet and philosopher of mathematics and science Emily Grosholz reads three of her poems: In Praise of Fractals, The Dissolution of the Rainbow & Among Cosmologists.
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Spacetime Squids
MP3 FILE / 23 MINUTES / 22 MB
Quantum physicist Sorin Paraoanu talks about building an artificial spacetime in the lab from SQUIDs--to test inflation and quantum gravity. In this extended interview he also talks testing the Landau-Zener formula beyond its limits and amplifying the vacuum. Recorded at the quantum foundations meeting in Erice, Italy, sponsored by COST.
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Searching for the Impossible
MP3 FILE / 14 MINUTES / 13 MB
Complexity theorist Jens Eisert is on a quest to find undecidable problems in quantum physics, as he explains to reporter Sophie Hebden.
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