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The Escaped Sapiens Podcast attempts to give an authentic and unedited voice to the researchers and explorers extending the boundaries of what is humanly possible.
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NO, Black Holes Don't Break Quantum Mechanics | Bill Unruh | Escaped Sapiens #98 RQI Collaboration (opens the original)
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We can't put a real black hole in a laboratory, but we can recreate some of its most important physics. In this interview I speak with Bill Unruh, one of the pioneers of analog gravity. The idea is fascinating: Usually we model gravity using equations and computer simulations, but there is another way. Rather than a gravitational black hole that can trap light from escaping, you can instead build a black hole using the flow in a fluid to trap sound from escaping. Such models really do mimic many
Is the Inside of a Black Hole Just a Physicist's Fantasy? | Niayesh Afshordi | Escaped Sapiens #97 RQI Collaboration (opens the original)
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Our understanding of gravity and black holes is currently in a funny spot that looks a little similar to how physics in general looked before quantum mechanics. Before quantum mechanics, scientists were puzzled by the stability of atoms. Shouldn't the negatively charged electrons simply fall into the positively charged nucleus? Also, the electrostatic force between charges was known to increase the closer two charged objects were to one another, and by naive extrapolation, this force should beco
Do Black Holes Destroy Information? | Carlo Rovelli | Escaped Sapiens #96 RQI Collaboration (opens the original)
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The black hole information paradox sits at the intersection of quantum mechanics and general relativity, two of our most successful theories of nature. According to classical general relativity, anything that crosses the event horizon of a black hole is lost to the outside universe forever. Black holes are almost featureless. It doesnt matter if you build one from tea pots, or elephants, the information of what fell in is hidden forever. But quantum mechanics tells a different story. In quantum
Engineered Bioweapons: What Is Currently Possible? | Keven Esvelt | Escaped Sapiens #95 (opens the original)
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What makes a bioweapon effective? What are researchers actually capable of creating in the lab? What pathogens are kept in storage? How realistic is a large scale catestrophic attack using a bioweapon? In this conversation I speak with Kevin Esvelt, who is an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab, where he leads the Sculpting Evolution Group in advancing biotechnology safely. Kevin was one of the pioneering researchers behind gene drive technology. In 2013, recognizing the potential dangers o
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