{"id":13048,"date":"2017-10-13T08:01:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T15:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=13048"},"modified":"2017-10-13T08:01:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T15:01:10","slug":"mind-blowing-quantum-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/13\/mind-blowing-quantum-mechanics\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind-Blowing Quantum Mechanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to climb out from underneath a large pile of looming (and missed) deadlines, and in the process I&#8217;m hoping to ramp back up the real blogging. In the meantime, here are a couple of videos to tide you over.<\/p>\n<p>First, an appearance a few weeks ago on <a href=\"http:\/\/podcasts.joerogan.net\/\">Joe Rogan&#8217;s podcast<\/a>. Rogan is a professional comedian and mixed-martial arts commentator, but has built a great audience for his wide-ranging podcast series. One of the things that makes him a good interviewer is his sincere delight in the material, as evidenced here by noting repeatedly that his mind had been blown. We talked for over two and a half hours, covering cosmology and quantum mechanics but also some bits about AI and pop culture.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Joe Rogan Experience #1003 - Sean Carroll\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_hHMSvSqCDKc\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/hHMSvSqCDKc\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hHMSvSqCDKc\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT2H41M35S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2017-08-25T00:29:04Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_hHMSvSqCDKc\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/hHMSvSqCDKc\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Joe Rogan Experience #1003 - Sean Carroll<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hHMSvSqCDKc\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/hHMSvSqCDKc\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Rogan Experience #1003 - Sean Carroll\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Sean Carroll is a cosmologist and physics professor specializing in dark energy and general relativity. He is a research professor in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. Check out his books and more of his work at https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a more straightforward lecture, this time at King&#8217;s College in London. The topic was &#8220;Extracting the Universe from the Wave Function,&#8221; which I&#8217;ve used for a few talks that ended up being pretty different in execution. This one was aimed at undergraduate physics students, some of whom hadn&#8217;t even had quantum mechanics. So the first half is a gentle introduction to many-worlds theory and why it&#8217;s the best version of quantum mechanics, and the second half tries to explain our recent efforts to emerge space itself out of quantum entanglement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Sean Carroll -&amp;#039;Extracting the Universe From the Wavefunction&amp;#039;\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_pwcvn5tTNVE\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/pwcvn5tTNVE\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pwcvn5tTNVE\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT51M47S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2017-10-08T20:28:35Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_pwcvn5tTNVE\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/pwcvn5tTNVE\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Sean Carroll -&#039;Extracting the Universe From the Wavefunction&#039;<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/pwcvn5tTNVE\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/pwcvn5tTNVE\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Sean Carroll -&amp;#039;Extracting the Universe From the Wavefunction&amp;#039;\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Maxwell Lecture 2017-18 This is the first in our series of six lectures covering a wide range of topics! Professor Sean Carroll, Research Professor of Physics at Caltech, explains Everett&#039;s Many-World&#039;s Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and how it can be used to understand everything in our Universe. Recorded on October 2nd 2017. Learn more about Professor Sean Carroll&#039;s work: https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/ Learn more about KCL&#039;s Maxwell Society: Website: https:\/\/www.kclmaxwell.com\/ Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KCLMaxwell Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kcl_physics_society\/?hl=en\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>I was invited to King&#8217;s by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/nms\/depts\/physics\/people\/academicstaff\/lim.aspx\">Eugene Lim<\/a>, one of my former grad students and now an extremely productive faculty member in his own right. It&#8217;s always good to see your kids grow up to do great things!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to climb out from underneath a large pile of looming (and missed) deadlines, and in the process I&#8217;m hoping to ramp back up the real blogging. In the meantime, here are a couple of videos to tide you over. First, an appearance a few weeks ago on Joe Rogan&#8217;s podcast. 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