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Podcast: Book Friends Forever
Episode: Portals to a New Reality by Vlatko Vedral, Ph. D. read by Will Bowdery
Description: An Oxford physicist “seeks to shatter complacency” (David Deutsch) in modern physics and show why five revolutionary experiments in quantum physics promise to open the gates separating us from a true understanding of the universe
For the last century, physics has been treading along the paths set by the same two theories—quantum theory and general relativity—and, let’s face it, it’s getting pretty boring. Most scientists are simply chasing decimal points in laboratories, unable to explore the theories at large scales, where serious discrepancies could emerge.
The situation is a lot like the one physics was in in 1890, rig...