Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

525. Sabine Hossenfelder, author of Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

Sep 9, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
How Much Science Fiction Turned Out to Be Science?
01:50 • 2min
3
What Kind of Science Fiction Do You Like?
03:38 • 2min
4
Is Entropy Inevitable?
05:33 • 4min
5
I Don't Think the Second Law of Thermodynamics Is as Fundamental as Some Think It Is
09:11 • 3min
6
Aliens Perceive Time Differently
12:27 • 5min
7
Is There a Feedback Loop?
17:01 • 3min
8
The Concept of Free Will Is Not Realized in the Laws of Nature
19:32 • 2min
9
Is There a Cause or a Determinism?
21:42 • 2min
10
Is There Any Real Free Will in Our Universe?
23:59 • 3min
11
Creating New Universes - Is That the Best Way to Go?
27:04 • 2min
12
Is Our Universe Fine Tuned?
29:13 • 1min
13
The Multiverse or the Simulation Hypothesis?
30:39 • 2min
14
Is That Science?
32:26 • 2min
15
Is There Any Evidence for Other Universes With Gravity?
34:07 • 2min
16
What Do You Make of the Simulation Hypothesis?
36:13 • 5min
17
Is There a Way to Control a Simulator?
40:55 • 2min
18
Weather Control
43:11 • 2min
19
Can We Stop a Hurricane?
45:00 • 3min
20
Ialsa, What Do You Think About Quantum Entanglement?
48:19 • 3min
21
What Would You Send Through to Send Information?
51:32 • 2min
22
Is Einstein's Theory Forbidding Faster Than Light Travel or Exchange of Information?
53:11 • 2min
23
Science and Religion
55:36 • 3min
24
The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy
58:28 • 2min