Published On Aug 12, 2020
Interview with Prof. Sean Carroll, Research Professor of Physics at Caltech and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. We mainly talk about quantum spacetime: the idea that our familiar spacetime might be actually emergent from some complex quantum mechanical system. We cover entanglement, decoherence, entropic gravity, the AdS/CFT correspondence, string theory, black holes, along with several philosophical questions concerning these topics, including reduction and emergence, substantivalism vs. relationalism, monism, and much more.
Sean's website: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/
His recent book concerning these topics: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/...
His papers on these topics can be found here: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/...
His podcast: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/...
And his Twitter: / seanmcarroll