About this episode

The episode explores the philosophical questions surrounding the nature of reality in physics through a unique two-axis chart.

Somewhere between the thing you can touch and the number that only points back at it, physics keeps a question it rarely says out loud, which is what actually counts as real. We built a simple chart to drag that question into the light, a two axis map where every idea has to declare itself, structure or relation, physical or nonphysical, a body sitting at a location or a placeless thing made of pure math. Watch energy, spacetime, the wavefunction, and the long gone aether stagger up to the grid and try to prove they still point back to the world of bodies, and watch the audience push back in real time. This is philosophy of physics played out loud, ontology and metaphysics with the house lights up, an open invitation to see the hidden scaffolding under everything we call real.#Physics #Metaphysics #Ontology #Spacetime #quantumphysics Pre-order our upcoming book, Paradox Lost: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0bPATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciHOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album!Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING…

People in this episode

Host: DemystifySci

Topics covered

• philosophy of physics
• ontology
• metaphysics
• quantum physics
• spacetime

Keywords

• physics
• metaphysics
• ontology
• quantum mechanics
• spacetime

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Books & works: Paradox Lost

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