Testing Quantum Gravity & Reality with Prof. Vlatko Vedral

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Prof. Vlatko Vedral on testing quantum gravity and the challenges of reconciling quantum mechanics with general relativity.

In this episode of the Quantum Foundations Podcast, I'm joined by Professor Vlatko Vedral from the University of Oxford. We discuss modern and historic experimental proposals for testing quantum gravity. Get ready to dive deep into understanding what different proposals would *really* tell us about the nature of quantum gravity, and what problems we're up against to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity. All from the modern perspective of quantum information theory.

People in this episode

Host: Maria Violaris

Guest: Prof. Vlatko Vedral

Topics covered

• quantum gravity
• quantum mechanics
• general relativity
• quantum information theory
• experimental proposals

Keywords

• quantum gravity
• quantum mechanics
• general relativity
• quantum information theory
• experimental proposals

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Oxford

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