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Is it possible to test quantum gravity in an experiment? Is it possible to verify limits of Einstein's theory of general relativity?

Testing Quantum Gravity & Reality with Prof. Vlatko Vedral | Quantum Foundations Podcast Ep5

Dr Maria Violaris

Jan 28, 2025

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqKVmst8Wwo
  • 1h41m43s

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Falsifying General Gravity?

Brian Cox explains the ideas and basic concepts of quantum mechanics in less than half an hour.

Physicist Brian Cox explains quantum physics in 22 minutes

Big Think

Apr 3, 2025

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHEhxPuMmQI
  • 22m18s

The Official Website of Professor Brian Cox
WP: Brian Cox (physicist)

Are black holes the key to unlock the secrets of physics and reveal the mysteries of the universe?

Brian Cox on how black holes could unlock the mysteries of our universe

Big Think

Oct 27, 2023

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGsbEd6w7PI
  • 12m51s

Roger Penrose about mathematics, physics, reality and existence:

Roger Penrose - What Things Really Exist?

Closer To Truth

Jan 25, 2013

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Q6SWcTA9w
  • 10m06s

Denis Noble and Richard Dawkins in another part of the scientific debate:

The unselfish gene | Denis Noble challenges Richard Dawkins

The Institute of Art and Ideas

Mar 14, 2024

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL862Dm-tps
  • 14m23s

The transgender topic is emotionally charged, thus the debate is very difficult. Richard Dawkins thinks about the direction this topic is perceived in parts of society. What does this mean to freedom of speech?

Are We Free to Say No to the Falsehoods of Trans Ideology?

The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins

Nov 30, 2023

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFxpTxxF0zI
  • 10m17s

Aeons are an idea from conformal cyclic cosmology.

Sir Roger Penrose | Can Aeons Explain The Big Bang? | 2020 Nobel Prize winner

The Institute of Art and Ideas

Feb 3, 2019

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTttUigXulk
  • 20m26s

The scientific debate continues with Denis Noble being interviewed:

Why Dawkins is wrong | Denis Noble interview

The Institute of Art and Ideas

Jun 3, 2023

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCLRKP9NW8I
  • 26m55s

A little debate about correlation, causality and experiments:

Richard Dawkins and long-time rival Denis Noble go head to head on the selfish gene | Who is right?

The Institute of Art and Ideas

Jan 21, 2023

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quNTjhUcnQI
  • 5m00s

WP: Denis Noble
WP: Richard Dawkins
WP: The Selfish Gene

Conformal cyclic cosmology is a replacement theory for the Big Bang, proposed by Roger Penrose.

Roger Penrose - Did the Universe Begin?

Closer To Truth

Oct 7, 2020

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFqjA5ekmoY
  • 10m55s

An interview with Roger Penrose:

Sir Roger Penrose - Why Explore Cosmos and Consciousness?

Closer To Truth

Jul 15, 2019

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlv8DVb6e0Q
  • 20m21s

Roger Penrose argues against the big bang because of the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

Roger Penrose - Why Did Our Universe Begin?

Closer To Truth

Oct 6, 2020

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypjZF6Pdrws
  • 17m09s

WP: Big Bang
WP: Second law of thermodynamics
WP: Weyl curvature hypothesis

A conversation between Richard Dawkins and Kathleen Stock:

Kathleen Stock and Richard Dawkins Question Modern Gender Identity

The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins

Jul 2, 2024

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgEjwxeS2go
  • 55m20s

About Heterodox Academy:

• Heterodox Academy (HxA) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit membership organization of thousands of faculty, staff, and students committed to advancing the principles of open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement to improve higher education and academic research.

An academic conversation with Kathleen Stock:

Trans Rights and Gender Identity with Kathleen Stock | Ep 19

Heterodox Academy

Jun 27, 2024

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FEgXlh8mAk
  • 1h12m10s

An academic conversation with Kathleen Stock and Rebecca Tuvel:

Transgender Politics and Academic Witch Hunts.

Alumni Free Speech Alliance

May 21, 2024

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N19BgRoSM8
  • 1h32m07s

Rebecca Tuvel

The transgender topic is emotionally charged, thus the debate is very difficult. Richard Dawkins takes a scientific approach in a conversation with Helen Joyce. A quote from 50m18s: a generation defining battle actually, because it's a battle against reality [...] against free speech [...].

"Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality" - My conversation with Helen Joyce

The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins

Jul 29, 2023

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu72Lu5FqE4
  • 51m02s

WP: Helen Joyce

A scientific conversation between Richard Dawkins and Chris Williamson in Austin 2024-09-07:

Richard Dawkins in Conversation with Chris Williamson | Richard Dawkins’ Final Tour in Austin

The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins

Dec 24, 2024

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mnmo9zuhuw
  • 1h30m30s

WP: Richard Dawkins
Chris Williamson
WP: Chris Williamson (TV personality)

A controversial debate about the multiverse:

Should we abandon the multiverse theory? | Sabine Hossenfelder, Roger Penrose, Michio Kaku

The Institute of Art and Ideas

Nov 3, 2022

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W39kfrxOSHg
  • 53m42s

Timothy Gowers summarizes recent developments:

Timothy Gowers, Some recent developments in combinatorics

Clay Mathematics Institute

Nov 15, 2024

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=726OMrvJAtU
  • 57m57s

Sir Roger Penrose in an interview with Curt Jaimungal:

20th Century’s Greatest Living Scientist | Sir Roger Penrose

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Sep 28, 2024

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGm505TFMbU
  • 1h35m58s

Curt Jaimungal

Stephen Blackwood moderates a conversation between Jordan Peterson and Roger Pensrose about physics and consciousness.

Asking a Theoretical Physicist About the Physics of Consciousness | Roger Penrose | EP 244

Jordan B Peterson

Apr 14, 2022

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi9ys2j1ncg
  • 1h40m38s

WP: Jordan Peterson
WP: Stephen J. Blackwood

About an old philosophical question:

Roger Penrose - Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered?

Closer To Truth

Apr 13, 2020

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujvS2K06dg4
  • 13m48s

A cosmology talk:

Mapping the universe: dark energy, black holes, and gravity – with Chris Clarkson

The Royal Institution

Jul 27, 2023

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKFBdibfoZM
  • 59m39s

Q&A: Mapping the universe: dark energy, black holes, and gravity – with Chris Clarkson

The Royal Institution

Jul 20, 2023

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rM7eXq1mQw
  • 24m35s

Chris Clarkson

This talk is about Einstein's tensor equation from general relativity, not about the famous E=mc². More explicitely spoken, it's about a set of ten coupled non-linear partial differential equations.

The secrets of Einstein's unknown equation – with Sean Carroll

The Royal Institution

Nov 2, 2023

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRudidBcfXk
  • 53m58s

WP: Sean M. Carroll

A talk about the histoty and nature of black holes:

The history of black holes - with Marcus Chown

The Royal Institution

Oct 29, 2024

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zju1nq3Eoqo
  • 56m01s

WP: Marcus Chown
WP: Maarten Schmidt