This is part of my series on Chiara Marletto's groundbreaking book on Constructor Theory "The Science of Can and Can't". In this episode, I do not read from the book but set the scene for newcomers who may not have a physics/engineering/chemistry or perhaps the scientific background to be familiar with some of the concepts introduced in the next chapter from ... Show More
Dec 25
Ep 254: Australia: The Land of Bans. (Social Media prohibited for under-16s. Analysis of the arguments "for".)
This is effectively part 3 in a series of responses to the Prime Minister of Australia about censorship, legislation, policy, philosophy, Bondi and Social Media. The Prime Minister attempted to explain, as best he could, the reasons for banning under-16 year olds from certain soc ... Show More
1h 33m
Oct 2021
167 | Chiara Marletto on Constructor Theory, Physics, and Possibility
<p>Traditional physics works within the “Laplacian paradigm”: you give me the state of the universe (or some closed system), some equations of motion, then I use those equations to evolve the system through time. <a href="https://www.constructortheory.org/" rel="noopener nor ... Show More
1h 35m
Aug 2021
Chiara Marletto, "The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals" (Viking, 2021)
There is a vast class of things that science has so far almost entirely neglected. They are central to the understanding of physical reality both at an everyday level and at the level of the most fundamental phenomena in physics, yet have traditionally been assumed to be impossib ... Show More
1h 6m
Oct 2023
Highlight #23 - The 4 Laws of Thermodynamics
This highlight clip covers the 4 laws of thermodynamics: the zeroth law, the first law, the second law, and the third law. It is from the Thermodynamics podcast. Please email me if you have any comments or concerns: MCATpodcast@medschoolcoach.com To learn more about how MedSchoo ... Show More
10m 59s
Feb 2021
#238 — How to Build a Universe
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sam Harris speaks with Frank Wilczek about the fundamental nature of reality. They discuss the difference between science and non-science, the role of intuition in science, the nature of time, the prospect that possibility is an illusion, the cu ... Show More
59m 13s
May 2023
236 | Thomas Hertog on Quantum Cosmology and Hawking's Final Theory
<p>Is there a multiverse, and if so, how should we think of ourselves within it? In many modern cosmological models, the universe includes more than one realm, with possibly different laws of physics, and these realms may or may not include intelligent observers. There is a longs ... Show More
1h 8m