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Welcome everybody to an existential edition of the Into the Impossible podcast with one of my favorite human beings and one of your favorite human beings too, judging by my comment sections on Twitter and YouTube – Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder!
For those of you who don’t know Sabine, she is a German theoretical physicist, talented science communicator, bestselling author, and very successful YouTuber.
Today, Sabine and I talk about her latest book, Existential Physics, the current state of academia, whether we need to reform our educational system, why Sabine keeps changing her mind about dark matter, what the deal is with quantum computers and much more!
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Judging a book by its cover: Existential Physics (01:35)
Should scientists promote their research? (04:26)
Thoughts on the educational system (20:22)
What excites Sabine the most in science (37:45)
What annoys Sabine most in science (42:10)
Brandolini law and MOND theory (43:54)
The global mental health crisis (55:36)
Muon g-2 (58:43)
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A few weeks ago I discussed the first observations @Brookhaven Lab of the Breit-Wheeler effect - the discovery that pairs of electrons and positrons—particles of matter and antimatter—are created from the collision of very energetic photons. Photons are the quanta of light and this phenomenon is a direct consequence of Einstein’s famous E=mc2 equation showing that energy and mass are interchangeable. In that demonstration, scientists directly converted light energy directly into matter. As long as you have some photons and charged particles flying around, scientists using RHIC’s STAR detector—the Solenoid Tracker at RHIC -- asked "What else can we do?"
The same team @Brookhaven Lab also made a second startling discovery, showing that the path of light traveling through a magnetic field in a vacuum refracts/bends depending on how that light is polarized. This type of polarization-dependent refraction is known as birefringence. It usually occurs when light travels through certain media like crystals. Now, scientists at Brookhaven have made the first demonstration of birefringence -- light-bending -- in a vacuum. This result could have startling consequences for cosmology and all of physics, including the @Simons FoundationFoundation-funded, Simons Observatory.
References
https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=119023
https://indico.cern.ch/event/841247/contributions/3740344/attachments/1997345/3332720/WWND_jdb_v6.pdf
Cosmic birefringence Collisions of Light Produce Matter/Antimatter from Pure Energy | BNL Newsroom tech paper is here: https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.052302
https://www.rp-photonics.com/birefringence.html
https://www.britannica.com/science/Faraday-effect
https://skullsinthestars.com/
https://twitter.com/drskyskull/status/1435647578809503749?s=21
https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=119023
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Chat with Nobel Prize winner Adam Riess about his team's newest measurements of the 'most important number in cosmology' -- Hubble Constant. Using the Hubble Space Telescope for what it was meant to do, Adam's team continues to make ultra-precise measurements. We'll also explore the Hubble Tension, the future of Hubble now that the James Webb Space Telescope has deployed, and other cosmic conundrums. Adam is a brilliant teacher and a wonderful raconteur. Don't miss your chance to chat with a brilliant scientist about the most important topic in cosmology today!
From CNN:
Measuring the expansion rate of the universe was one of the Hubble Space Telescope’s main goals when it was launched in 1990. Over the past 30 years, the space observatory has helped scientists discover and refine that accelerating rate – as well as uncover a mysterious wrinkle that only brand-new physics may solve.
Hubble has observed more than 40 galaxies that include pulsating stars as well as exploding stars called supernovae to measure even greater cosmic distances. Both of these phenomena help astronomers to mark astronomical distances like mile markers, which have pointed to the expansion rate.
In the quest to understand how quickly our universe expands, astronomers already made one unexpected discovery in 1998: “dark energy.” This phenomenon acts as a mysterious repulsive force that accelerates the expansion rate.
And there is another twist: an unexplained difference between the expansion rate of the local universe versus that of the distant universe right after the big bang.
Scientists don’t understand the discrepancy but acknowledge that it’s weird and could require new physics.
“You are getting the most precise measure of the expansion rate for the universe from the gold standard of telescopes and cosmic mile markers,” said Nobel Laureate Adam Riess at the Space Telescope Science Institute and a distinguished professor at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, in a statement.
“This is what the Hubble Space Telescope was built to do, using the best techniques we know to do it. This is likely Hubble’s magnum opus, because it would take another 30 years of Hubble’s life to even double this sample size.”
Adam Guy Riess (born December 16, 1969) is an American astrophysicist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute. He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. Riess shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Schmidt for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
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Is LIfe Unique to Earth or Ubiquitous in the Universe? I debated this subject with the UK's Top Chemist, Professor Lee Cronin who takes the position that life is common and even ubiquitous in the universe. Lee even suggests ways to locate and detect the presence of life and account for its information content through a serious of rubrics he and his colleagues call "assembly theory". I am less sanguine and you'll hear why.
Check out my conversation with Lee last year: "What is Life?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNAW8fZE1tk He is a prolific Scientist and public intellectual. He was born in the UK and was fascinated with science and technology from an early age getting his first computer and chemistry set when he was 8 years old. This is when he first started thinking about programming chemistry and looking for inorganic aliens. He went to the University of York where he completed both a degree and PhD in Chemistry and then on to do post docs in Edinburgh and Germany before becoming a lecturer at the Universities of Birmingham, and then Glasgow where he has been since 2002 working up the ranks to become the Regius Professor of Chemistry in 2013 aged 39. He has one of the largest multidisciplinary chemistry-based research teams in the world, having raised over $35 M in grants.
He has given over 300 international talks and has authored over 350 peer reviewed papers with recent work published in Nature, Science, and PNAS. He and his team are trying to make artificial life forms, find alien life, explore the digitization of chemistry, understand how information can be encoded into chemicals and construct chemical computers.
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This is a cross-post of a debate held on Curt Jaimungal's Theories of Everything YouTube Channel”
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:04:59 Brian Keating's opening statements
00:08:21 Lee Cronin's opening statements
00:13:45 Why defining "life" is difficult
00:23:43 Disagreements on the origin of life
00:38:12 The definition of Entropy is "wrong" (controversial claim)
00:51:44 The universe is filled with life
01:09:20 Will the James Webb Telescope find life? No.
01:12:37 An answer to the Fermi Paradox
01:24:26 Assembly Theory overview (important, watch this first!)
01:38:00 Curt claims Lee's definition of life is circular
01:46:37 Finding UFOs, as an academic project
01:54:26 Lee's gripes against the Galileo Project and Avi Loeb
02:03:47 Curt's views on the UFO videos that have been released
02:08:30 Brian's and Lee's books and talks
02:12:54 Time is more fundamental than space (another controversial claim by Lee)
02:17:45 Eric Weinstein says UAP data should be given scientists... should it?
02:21:53 [Tom Poles
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Jo Dunkley is a Professor of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University.
Her research is in cosmology, studying the origins and evolution of the Universe. Her major projects are the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the Simons Observatory. She's also a member of the Rubin Observatory's Dark Energy Science Collaboration.
Professor Dunkley has been awarded the Maxwell Medal, the Rosalind Franklin award and the New Horizons prize for her work on the Cosmic Microwave Background, and she shared the Gruber Prize and the Breakthrough Prize with the WMAP team.
In her thrilling new guide to our Universe and how it works OUR UNIVERSE, Professor Dunkley reveals how it only becomes more beautiful and exciting the more we discover about it. With warmth and clarity, Dunkley takes us from the very basics - why the Earth orbits the Sun, and how our Moon works - right up to massive, strange phenomena like superclusters, quasars, and the geometry of spacetime. As she does so, Dunkley unfurls the history of humankind's heroic journey to understand the history and structure of the cosmos, revealing the extraordinary, little-known stories of astronomy pioneers including Williamina Fleming, Vera Rubin and Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
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00:07:06 Why do you use 'our' in the title of book & Who is the book for?
00:08:45 What did you learn from writing this book?
00:11:02 What's the status of women in physics & astronomy?
00:19:17 What's your view on big bang cosmology and the origins of the Universe?
00:24:09 Do we need new/better ideas in cosmology?
00:26:37 What is "adiabatic" as you discuss in your dissertation?
00:32:37 Where do quantum fluctuations come from and what do they evolve into?
00:37:29 Why is the Universe flat?
00:39:43 Is the existence of primordial gravitational wave evidence for quantized gravity?
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