200 | Solo: The Philosophy of the Multiverse
The 200th episode of Mindscape! Thanks to everyone for sticking around for this long. To celebrate, a solo episode discussing […]
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Physics
192 | Nicole Yunger Halpern on Steampunk Quantum Thermodynamics
Randomness and probability are central to modern physics. In statistical mechanics this is because we don’t know everything about the
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183 | Michael Dine on Supersymmetry, Anthropics, and the Future of Particle Physics
Modern particle physics is a victim of its own success. We have extremely good theories — so good that it’s
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Holiday Message 2021 | On Disciplines & Cocktails
As each December comes to a close, we wrap up another year of podcasts with the Mindscape Holiday Message. Nothing
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177 | Monika Schleier-Smith on Cold Atoms and Emergent Spacetime
When it comes to thinking about quantum mechanics, there are levels. One level is shut-up-and-calculate: find a wave function, square
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170 | Priya Natarajan on Galaxies, Black Holes, and Cosmic Anomalies
There is so much we don’t know about our universe. But our curiosity about the unknown shouldn’t blind us to
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167 | Chiara Marletto on Constructor Theory, Physics, and Possibility
Traditional physics works within the “Laplacian paradigm”: you give me the state of the universe (or some closed system), some
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163 | Nigel Goldenfeld on Phase Transitions, Criticality, and Biology
Physics is extremely good at describing simple systems with relatively few moving parts. Sadly, the world is not like that;
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158 | David Wallace on The Arrow of Time
The arrow of time — all the ways in which the past differs from the future — is a fascinating
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155 | Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental Physics
It’s not easy, figuring out the fundamental laws of physics. It’s even harder when your chosen methodology is to essentially
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