Paul Davies: What's Eating The Universe? ​(#207)

Paul Davies is an internationally acclaimed physicist, cosmologist,
and astrobiologist at Arizona State University, where he runs the
pioneering Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He
also chairs the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Post-Detection Task group, so that if SETI succeeds in finding
intelligent life, he will be among the first to know. The asteroid
1992OG was officially renamed Pauldavies in his honor. In addition
to his many scientific awards, Davies is the recipient of the 1995
Templeton Prize--the world's largest annual prize--for his work on
science and religion. He is the author of more than twenty books,
including The Mind of God, About Time, How to Build a Time Machine,
and The Goldilocks Enigma. He lives in Tempe, Arizona. Buy What's
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00:20:36 How do you know when to pursue a scientific hint with
further research? 00:33:40 What's unique about your approach to
science? 00:38:26 The laws of nature are not perfectly symmetrical.
Why tro to find a unifying theory? 00:46:15 What is the
Bunch-Davies Vacuum State? 00:52:14 Why did Stephen Hawking make
implausible bets? 00:57:50 On black holes and singularities.
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universe with Hawking Radiation. 01:10:19 What are your thoughts on
life as information? 01:16:00 Do you believe in God or is that even
a meaningful question? 01:25:00 Have your feelings changed on the
multiverse and un-falsifiable conjectures in general? 01:41:11 What
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