The Foundational Questions Institute

FQxI Podcast

Science EN ↓ 114 episodes

Physics podcast from the Foundational Questions Institute (FQxI)

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Episodes

Is Life Quantum? Meeting the Winners of FQxI's US$53,000 Competition. And Did the Evolution of Human Cognition Require Gravitational Waves? 13.05.2026 1:07:00

The Year in Physics Review 2025 31.12.2025 1:22:00

Poltergeist and Primordial Black Holes: Cosmologist Bernard Carr on Physics and the Paranormal 31.10.2025 1:09:00

FQxI's Essay Competition Asks How Quantum is Life? Plus Plant Intelligence, Physicists Surveyed on Controversial Opinions & Should Journals Pay Peer Reviewers? 03.10.2025 1:41:00

Dark Energy Bombshell? Cosmic Results from DESI and ACT & Rethinking Gatekeeping in Science Publishing 01.06.2025 51:00

The Origin of Life, Assembly Theory & the Problems with Peer Review 18.02.2025 26:00

The Year in Physics Review 2024 31.12.2024 1:15:00

The Universal Constructor: A Conversation with David Deutsch 17.02.2024 30:00

The Year in Physics Review 2023 Part 3 31.12.2023 43:00

The Year in Physics Review 2023 Part 2 29.12.2023 27:00

The Year in Physics Review 2023: Part 1 28.12.2023 25:00

Is there a Theory of Everything? Great Mysteries of Physics Part 6 24.12.2023 1:01:00

What is Life? What is Consciousness? Great Mysteries of Physics Part 5 07.04.2023 51:00

Does Objective Reality Exist? Great Mysteries of Physics Part 4 03.04.2023 57:00

Is There a Multiverse? Great Mysteries of Physics Part 3 25.03.2023 45:00

Is Our Universe Fine-Tuned For Life? Great Mysteries of Physics Part 2 17.03.2023 46:00

Is Science Becoming Less Disruptive? 16.03.2023 49:00

Is Time an Illusion? Great Mysteries in Physics Part 1 08.03.2023 47:00

The Year in Physics Review Part 3: Concluding our countdown of the biggest stories in physics, as chosen by quantum physicist Ian Durham. 31.12.2022 48:00

The Year in Physics Review Part 2: Continuing our countdown of the biggest stories in physics, as chosen by quantum physicist Ian Durham. 30.12.2022 31:00

The Year in Physics Review Part 1: Beginning our countdown of the biggest stories in physics, as chosen by quantum physicist Ian Durham. We start with a discussion about whether a wormhole really was created in a quantum computer, in the lab? 28.12.2022 44:00

Testing Time: Quantum physicists Fabrizio Piacentini and Laura Knoll discuss their recent experiment testing the predictions of Constructor Theory, a new meta-framework of physics that may encompass all other theories. The new framework could solve the... 20.08.2022 34:00

Happy Higgs-versary! Particle physicist Kevin Black tells Zeeya Merali about the LHC's new quest. Also, time-travel at the LHC, an update on the W Boson tests with Frank Wilczek; Catalina Curceanu on testing the origin of consciousness; & Queensland... 30.06.2022 52:00

The End of Everything: Astrophysicist Katie Mack on her book describing ways to destroy the universe, & on hints of new physics at the LHC; a quantum engine that heats & cools simultaneously; how the thermodynamic gradient may have driven the evolution of 27.06.2022 52:00

'Quantum dots' can teach us about thermodynamics in the nanorealm. 21.06.2022 10:00