Emergence of the universe

Biology, Physics, Chemistry. 23/09/10

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This episode is with Peter Atkins. He is a chemist and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. Peter is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics.

Here we talk about what are the laws of nature?, fundamental constants, emergence in the universe, strong and weak emergence, multiverse and a theory of everything.

About the guest

  • 00:00:00 Introduction

  • 00:00:56 What is emergence?

  • 00:02:30 what is the relation between emergence, Complexity and self-organisation?

  • 00:12:42 How the universe originated?

  • 00:31:00 understanding nothing and multiverse

  • 00:32:07 How time emerges?

  • 00:34:09 is nothing still evolving?

  • 00:41:32 Evolution of humanity through time

  • 00:51:05 what does it mean to be human?

  • 00:52:48 how do we discover laws of nature?

  • 00:58:32 outlaws and inlaws.

  • 01:01:55 A grand unified theory in science

  • 01:06:08 are fundamental constants fundamental?

  • 01:17:11 predicting chemistry from physics

  • 01:22:05 Increasing importance of predictions

  • 01:26:05 what are the major questions for science of emergence?

  • 01:29:15 can we create 'absolutely nothing' in the lab?

  • 01:30:14 how much can we account for abstract properties?

  • 01:34:30 future work

  • 01:36:42 Thank you

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