325. Heinrich Pas The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics
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Shermer and P\\xe4s discuss: monism vs. dualism \\u2022 What is time? \\u2022 What is a field? \\u2022 Is math all there is? Is math universal? \\u2022 the double-slit experiment \\u2022 superposition \\u2022 metaphors in science \\u2022 limitations of models and theories of reality \\u2022 limitations of analogies between western physics and eastern mysticism \\u2022 What banged the Big Bang? \\u2022 Are we living in a matrix? \\u2022 the Second Laws of Thermodynamics and directionality in nature \\u2022 Model Dependent Realism \\u2022 string theory, the multiverse, consciousness, the origin of the universe, and why there is something rather than nothing: are these soluble problems?
Heinrich P\\xe4s is a professor of theoretical physics at TU Dortmund University in Germany. He has held positions at Vanderbilt University, the University of Alabama, and the University of Hawai\\u2019i and has conducted research visits at CERN and Fermilab. He lives in Bremen, Germany. His new book is The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics.
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