Cosmic Queries – Quantum Consciousness with Charles Liu
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Harry Chuck, something cool always happens when we have our geek in chief. Chuck Lu. He's the best. With his new book on quantum, people started asking about quantum physics. My favorite was quantum consciousness.
What is quantum consciousness and why is it significant?
Quantum consciousness. And boy, did we bask in that. Oh, yes. Straight in the deep end. Right to the deep end. Some of us drowned. Coming up on StarTalk. Welcome to StarTalk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide. StarTalk begins right now. StarTalk Special Edition. Neil deGrasse Tyson here, your personal astrophysicist. And if it's Special Edition, you know that means Gary O'Reilly's in the house. Gary, how you doing, man?
I'm good, Neil. I'm good. It's cold, but I'm feeling okay.
Oh, that's all right. It's colder than your UK roots would ever have been for you in this moment, for sure. But we are getting the World Cup. Yes. And you used to play professional soccer. Yes.
I'm interested.
Okay. And we've got Chuck Nice, baby. How you doing, man? That's right, Chuck Nice, who played no soccer, no football, no nothing.
So, this is a special edition grab bag. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And we have, for certain grab bags, only ones that, like, achieve great heights. We put up the bat signal to call in the geek in chief, Charles Liu. Charles, how you doing, man? Hey!
Our returning champion, Chuck Liu!
It is so good to be back with you all. I played soccer when I was a kid, too. I was usually the goal. Oh. Not the goalie.
Not the goalie.
The goal. The goal. Okay.
Yes.
So then he twisted his ankle and he turned to astrophysics thereafter. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, so, Charles, you're a professor? Yes. Is it physics and astronomy or just astrophysics? Both of those, yeah. Yeah, yeah. At City University of New York on Staten Island. Yes, that's right. And you also, I'm loving the fact that every couple of years there's a book that comes out of you. Yeah. Most recently in the Handy Answer series. Yes. It's a series of books where... You know, you just want to, you know, they're not going to insult you by saying it's for dummies. That's right. They want to elevate you and say, we know you're curious. We know you've got questions. Awesome. And so this one is the handy, the latest, the handy quantum physics question book.
Yeah. Yep. Right here. That's it right there. Oh, sorry. Quantum physics answer. Answer, man. That's right. That's right. Question book. Right. You see, these days, answers we have. So if you want an answer, here it is.
How does quantum theory relate to consciousness?
But what we really need to do is to know what questions to ask next. If we're moving forward in the science, this is a guidebook, right? It's not a textbook or anything, but it's like, here, you want some answers? Here they are.
And a lot of people, they've heard, you know, quantum is all the buzzwords lately. It really is. They just want to become fluent in it, which is a great way to make that happen. Now, we solicited questions from our fan base, but we told them that they were going to you. So those who are already plugged into your geekin' chiefitude probably are going to take us there. But I haven't seen the questions. So who's got the questions? Gary? Chuck?
We do. Chuck and I. I'll start us off. This first question.
By the way, before we go any further, Chuck, I don't know if you can see this, but that's That's you next to Michelle Obama on my Kindle, baby. Dude. That's right. Yeah, man. I am truly honored. There you go, buddy. That's you right there.
You see that?
That's you on my Kindle. You are so kind.
So a picture of his book is next to a picture of her book. No, it's his book. It's just in digital form. You just said, I have a picture of you next to Michelle Obama. I said, I didn't know my boy was hanging out with Michelle.
Oh, well, yeah, it's his book and her book. I don't know her.
Hence my confusion here. Okay. All right. Let's start these questions off. Who's got the first one?
All right. I'll kick us off. Morgan Fisher from Waterloo, Ontario. It's a slightly longer one, so bear with me. It is my understanding that quarks always exist in pairs, and separating the pairs creates enough energy to generate a new quark.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:10
2
What is quantum consciousness and why is it significant?
0:10–2:44
3
How does quantum theory relate to consciousness?
2:44–8:47
4
What questions did fans ask about quantum physics?
8:47–16:05
5
How does the concept of retrocausality fit into quantum mechanics?
16:05–31:26
6
What recent discoveries challenge the cosmological constant?
31:26–34:59
7
How do different dimensions affect our understanding of the universe?
34:59–50:21
8
What role does consciousness play in our perception of reality?
50:21–1:13:01