Ira Flatow
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1,299 appearances
24 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
Ira Flatow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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877, the number 4, SciFry.
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We'll catch you next time.
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I'm Ira Flato.
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Hi it's Ira and you're listening to Science Friday.
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Before there was what we call science, there was a term called natural philosophy, dating back to Aristotle that explained basically the same principles we call science today nature, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy.
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And I'm thinking about this now because my next guest, physicist and author Carlo Rovelli, has a new book called On the Equality of All Things Lessons on Physics and Philosophy and
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And there's that connection once again.
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And while it's a small book, there's a lot in there from quantum physics to the nature of time.
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And I'm glad to have Carla with me again.
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Welcome back.
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Thank you very much, it's wonderful being here.
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You say the scientific revolution we are undergoing is momentous, yet its full philosophical significance has yet to be properly realized and understood.
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Tell us a little more about that thought.
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is about.
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What do you mean by that?
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Uh you say that uh dialogue between philosophy and science is fruitful and indeed necessary.
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Oh yes, it's necessary.
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Well, but a lot of quantum mechanics and a lot of the the new kinds of thinking involves
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Ideas that we lay people really can't comprehend it.
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I mean, are we too caught up on our limited human experience of the world to be able to grasp the way things truly are as quantum mechanics people want us to?
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