Juan Maldacena - Why is the Quantum so Mysterious?

Particles at two places at the same time—superposition. Particles communicating instantly with no respect to distance—entanglement. How to make sense of such weirdness? Quantum mechanics is how the world works at deepest levels. But nobody has any idea why.



Juan Martín Maldacena is an Argentine-American theoretical physicist and a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Natural Sciences in Princeton, New Jersey.


Closer to Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.

[kA-dczq]

I was reading a book on quantum when I came across this genius man's name. I couldn't understand his notion about entanglement. So I decided to check YouTube. It was so amazing when I saw his picture. I had seen him several times in closer to truth but I didn't know his name. Anyway, he is really loving and very knowledgeable. I love him.

[johnpetkos]

I've read about this guy in so many books, but I hadn't seen him prior to this! He's regarded as a mega genius in string theory community.

[crazieeez]

Wow. This guy is amazing. He explains things we could all understand. He says space-time is an emergent property and provides an analogy like a lake surface, but if you zoom deeper in the lake, it is molecules jumping up and down.

[monchoglu]

Just got goosebumps listening to Maldacena, and yet he's here sharing 1% of his knowledge.
What a time to be alive

[jamesbentonticer]

Juan Maldacena is currently one of the most intelligent members of our species.

[desperateastro]

Maldacena is an excellent explainer of the very strange behaviour of our universe.

[redriver]

Excellent episode CTT.... Thank you for these.

[NikkiTrudelle]

I’ve been watching interviews with this guy for a while, and some of the people who interviewed him in the past were totally horrible at it because he’s so full of complex information. However Laurence does such a great job, the conversation flows well, and he’s only asking relevant questions.

[jnk]

It’s certainly hard to understand and believe, but it’s also very interesting!

[melanynadine]

Oh boyyy.. for anyone who read books/articles related to string theory Maldacena is a rock star!! :0 I'm seing the legend!

[young]

All of this is so far above my understanding that I think it will take me many life times to be able to even get a clue as to what they are saying.

[Dion_Mustard]

I listen to their marvellous discussion and am hit with the obvious notion..that everything we know to be could not possibly be an accident or have no meaning...there has to be meaning and purpose behind existence and indeed consciousness. I don't see any other way out of it. Existence exists for a reason, so to speak!

[positivityplace]

Just came up on me recommended videos and saw it and I think I need to learn a couple of languages before looking at this video again...

[mathematicaluniverse]

Physicists are my scientific heroes, in particular mathematical physicists love ❤😘❤😘

[lukaradojevic]

"Space-time tells matter how to move, matter tells space- time how to curve"J.A. Wheeler....general relativity summed up

[Spontanomuse]

Two questions;
1. Is it true to say that on the event horizon of a black hole time stops and space in infinite?
2. Because our universe started in a small singularity, does it mean that by the laws of Quantum Entanglement, all the particles are connected and are effected by one another?

[alsindtube]

While I love how Lawrence probes complex issues, I have noticed what I believe to be a major flaw in his inquiries, namely his interviews with theologians. They appear to be almost exclusively western, Christian ones, seldom ones from eastern traditions. Yet it’s the eastern traditions, especially Buddhism, that has parallels with quantum physics. There seems to be an inexplicable omission of these points of view, while again, ancient Buddhism in particular seems to be in line with the relatively recent findings of quantum theory.

[ivanbeshkov]

I wonder about things like: at what rotation speed would we feel the earth's rotation?

[gigelchiazna]

"space-time emerges" = magic, abracadabra ...

[rajendratayya]

The wave like behaviour of a subatomic particle is only viable microscopically in the lateral dimension. But it is not observable on spatially large scale, because it is a numerical approximation.