Leading physicist Raphael Bousso joins Brian Greene to explore the almost unreasonable capacity of our theories of gravity to give deep insights into quantum physics.
This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.
Participant: Raphael Bousso
Moderator: Brian Greene
0:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:12 Are there any cracks in Quantum Mechanics?
00:03:18 Bousso’s Case for Measurement-Driven Physics
00:06:00 Does Quantum Mechanics Describe Reality?
00:09:37 How Decoherence Hides Quantum Weirdness
00:15:05 Difference between Quantum and Classical Mechanics
00:17:50 What Would Einstein Think of Modern Quantum Theory?
00:21:19 Entanglement’s Place in the Weird World of Quantum Theory
00:26:45 Bousso’s Intuition for How Entanglement Works
00:29:12 Einstein’s EPR Worries — What Do We Make of Them Now?
00:33:22 What Is a Singularity in a Black Hole?
00:38:06 How Oppenheimer and Snyder Modeled a Collapsing Star
00:44:27 Insights Into Hawking Radiation -...
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