"Cities are part of the extended phenotype for the kind of knowledge that is produced by human civilisation." Are you interested in how quantum physics is influencing the future of cities? What do you think about the connection between knowledge and urban evolution? How can we create better urban environments for knowl

In this episode Chiara Marletto and Professor Vlatko Vedral discuss a pioneering experiment that could reveal the quantum nature of gravity, putting Einstein’s classical general relativity to the test. They examine how quantum‑information methods and Constructor Theory might reshape our understanding of fundamental phy

Chiara Marletto, a theoretical physicist, explains Constructor Theory—a framework that shifts physics from dynamics to the realm of possible and impossible transformations. She discusses its implications for information theory, thermodynamics, and the nature of life, showing how it could reshape our understanding of re

00:00 Introduction 08:03 Interview Begins 09:42 How Chiara found herself at the foundations of physics 15:30 How Chiara found Everett 19:13 No Special Physics is required for Observers 21:02 What is a counterfactual? How is it linked to a constructor? 29:05 What is (classical) information? How is it different to quantu

Traditional physics works within the “Laplacian paradigm”: you give me the state of the universe (or some closed system), some equations of motion, then I use those equations to evolve the system through time. Constructor theory proposes an alternative paradigm: to think of physical systems in terms of counterfactuals

There is a vast class of things that science has so far almost entirely neglected. They are central to the understanding of physical reality both at an everyday level and at the level of the most fundamental phenomena in physics, yet have traditionally been assumed to be impossible to incorporate into fundamental scien