Where Does the Quantum World End and Ours Begin? | PODCAST: The Joy of Why

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Jonathan Halliwell explains how quantum decoherence is key to understanding how we transition from a world with a wave-like nature of matter and energy to the classical macroscopic world that we’re used to. “The Joy of Why” is a Quanta Magazine podcast about curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge. The mathematician and author Steven Strogatz and the cosmologist and author Janna Levin take turns interviewing leading researchers about the great scientific and mathematical questions of our time. For more episodes visit Quanta Magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/tag/the-joy-of-why/ -------- 0:00 Why Quantum Mechanics Remains a Mystery 2:17 Applying Quantum Physics to the Universe 6:55 Schrödinger’s Cat and the Double-Slit Experiment 10:51 Is Everything Fundamentally a Wave? 12:15 How the Quantum World Becomes Classical 18:38 Does Consciousness Affect Quantum Mechanics? 22:40 Is the Moon There When No One Is Looking? 29:29 Does Measuring a System Change It? 34:00 Why Keep Testing Q

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