Can Quantum Gravity Be Created in the Lab? | PODCAST: The Joy of Why

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Quantum gravity could help physicists unite the currently incompatible worlds of quantum mechanics and gravity. In this episode, Stanford University physicist Monika Schleier-Smith discusses her pioneering experimental approach, using laser-cooled atoms to explore whether gravity could emerge from quantum entanglement. “The Joy of Why” is a Quanta Magazine podcast about curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge. The mathematician and author Steven Strogatz and the astrophysicist and author Janna Levin take turns interviewing leading researchers about the great scientific and mathematical questions of our time. - Listen to more episodes of Joy of Why: https://www.quantamagazine.org/tag/the-joy-of-why/ ----------- CHAPTERS: 00:00 Steve and Janna discuss quantum gravity 03:10 Monika Schleier-Smith’s early career 04:50 What’s missing from the Standard Model of physics 07:18 The problem of quantum gravity 11:20 Does ‘entanglement’ explain emergent quantum gravity? 13:08 Holographic dual

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