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Why This Universe?

Why This Universe?

De: Dan Hooper Shalma Wegsman
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The biggest ideas in physics, broken down. Join theoretical physicist Dan Hooper and co-host Shalma Wegsman as they answer your questions about dark matter, black holes, quantum mechanics, and more. Part of The University of Chicago Podcast Network.

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  • 94 - Inside the Hubble Tension With Adam Riess

    94 - Inside the Hubble Tension With Adam Riess
    Sep 29 2025

    Our universe is expanding. But when physicists measure how fast this expansion rate is, they get two different answers. Hear what this crisis means from Nobel Prize winner Adam Riess.

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    32 m
  • 93 - The Moment Dark Energy Appeared (Ft. Adam Riess)

    93 - The Moment Dark Energy Appeared (Ft. Adam Riess)
    Sep 15 2025

    Adam Riess recounts the moments of his Nobel prize-winning discovery that our universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, powered by a mysterious energy source called dark energy.

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    40 m
  • AUA: Changing Dark Energy, Twin Paradox, and What's Next for CERN

    AUA: Changing Dark Energy, Twin Paradox, and What's Next for CERN
    May 2 2025

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I listened to this episode and I started thinking about the hard problem. it is obvious a lot of philosophers think that the hard problem is a worthy project, but I'm trying to understand the concept of the hard problem as a legitimate thing to figure out. We see the same mystery played out with the emergent phenomenon of society. Politicians, law enforcement, bankers all have societal positions and relevance that are completely separate from the way water condenses into clouds, but if water did not condense into clouds then those emergent structures wouldn't exist. However, intention can still be found in these emerging structures. The gap between objective and subjective might just be a fundamental rule, much like the way we will never have a complete version of mathematics as Godol found out. so we will never have a complete version of mathematics, so what? How does that in any way make that fact profound? Light acts as both a particle and a wave, we can appreciate the epiphany of that realization without attaching any divine significance to it. I know it's hard being human, but whatever made the universe was not. That being said, the universe that we live in seems to be made on exploitation of emergent structures. This fascination with the hard problem seems like Matt Ridley's Lucretian swerve.

does the hard problem really exist?

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Excellent blend of science, history of ideas, and philosophy of science. One of my absolute favorites.

Best physics podcast

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