“I Don’t Care About Your Theory of Everything!” Sabine Hossenfelder | INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast

From renowned physicist and creator of the YouTube series “Science without the Gobbledygook,” a book that takes a no-nonsense approach to life’s biggest questions, and wrestles with what physics really says about the human condition Not only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe, it is questionable we will ever be able to explain it. The notion that there are universes within particles, or that particles are conscious, is as scientific, as is the hypothesis that our universe is a computer simulation. On the other hand, the idea that the universe itself is conscious is difficult to rule out entirely. According to Sabine Hossenfelder, it is not a coincidence that quantum entanglement and vacuum energy have become the go-to explanations of alternative healers, or that people believe their deceased grandmother is still alive because of quantum mechanics. Science and religion have the same roots, and they still tackle some of the same questions: Where do we come from? Where do we go to? How much can we know? The area of science that is closest to answering these questions is physics. Over the last century, physicists have learned a lot about which spiritual ideas are still compatible with the laws of nature. Not always, though, have they stayed on the scientific side of the debate. In this lively, thought-provoking book, Hossenfelder takes on the biggest questions in physics: Does the past still exist? Do particles think? Was the universe made for us? Has physics ruled out free will? Will we ever have a theory of everything? She lays out how far physicists are on the way to answering these questions, where the current limits are, and what questions might well remain unanswerable forever. Her book offers a no-nonsense yet entertaining take on some of the toughest riddles in existence and will give the reader a solid grasp on what we know—and what we don’t know. Get her new book, Existential Physics: https://amzn.to/3Psgn5b Win space dust: Please join my mailing list; click here 👉 briankeating.com/list 📝 00:00:00 Judging Sabine's new book by its cover 00:04:19 Are all physicists religious? 00:06:31 Do you think the physicists you interviewed are hedging on religion and God? 00:12:14 Are we too attached to the way science is traditionally done? 00:13:40 Are there some things that can never be "proven" true? 00:15:14 Why do you disagree with the presumption that math is the basis of reality? 00:17:32 How can you disprove the multiverse? 00:20:04 Why does the simulation hypothesis annoy you? 00:23:24 Do you believe life exists beyond the earth? 00:26:41 Origin of life on earth -- Panspermia 00:30:42 Would the detection of primordial "B Modes" in the CMB be evidence of Quantum Gravity? 00:32:58 Why the cyclic models of cosmogenesis are "worse" than inflation theory? 00:40:27 Is falsifiability a virtue? 00:45:19 Why are you on Youtube? What does it give you? 00:47:31 How do you handle the haters? 00:49:37 What is the most common misconception of science? 00:51:10 How do you defend “superdeterminism"? 00:53:01 What do you think about the free-will theorem? 00:53:31 How do you think we move forward in Physics? (without larger colliders!) 00:55:59 Testing free will and statistical independence. 00:58:04 What did Einstein mean by his famous space-time quote? 1:00:00 Sabine answers MY existential questions (for subscribers only) 1:01:00 Get the book https://amzn.to/3Q965rU Sabine, Carlo Rovelli, Eric Weinstein and me on the IAI Quantum Reality Debate: https://youtu.be/mXKPeJ-pC4I 📺 Watch my most popular videos:📺 Tom Delonge’s 👽artifacts? https://youtu.be/OBSdg3nwxoo Avi Loeb and Eric Weinstein https://youtu.be/fdwuhU_zu8Y Eric Weinstein and Avi Loeb https://youtu.be/fdwuhU_zu8Y?sub_confirmation=1 Sheldon Glashow: https://youtu.be/a0_iaWgxQtA?sub_confirmation=1 Neil deGrasse Tyson https://youtu.be/1kxgK6J4S5Y Michio Kaku: https://youtu.be/3to9ymn-XKI Sir Roger Penrose: https://youtu.be/AMuqyAvX7Wo Jill Tarter https://youtu.be/O9K9OBd3vHk?sub_confirmation=1 Sara Seager Venus LIfe: https://youtu.be/QPsEDoOTU6k?sub_confirmation=1 Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_confirmation=1 Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/sh98cwRkzAA Stephen Wolfram: https://youtu.be/nSAemRxzmXM Avi Loeb: https://youtu.be/N9lUceHsLRw Jim Simons: https://youtu.be/6fr8XOtbPqM Find Sabine on Twitter https://twitter.com/skdh Find Sabine on YouTube Be my friend: 🏄‍♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php ✍️ Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ Listen on audio-only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast.php A production of http://imagination.ucsd.edu/ Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating