Ashmeet Singh on a Quantum-First Approach to Space, Time, Gravity, and Cosmology

About this episode

Ashmeet Singh discusses the implications of quantum mechanics on our understanding of space, time, gravity, and cosmology.

In the 1920s, physicists like Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Einstein, Planck—and many others—realized something deeply unsettling and beautiful: the universe at microscopic scales is nothing like what we observe in everyday life. This was the era when quantum mechanics was discovered. And I’m intentionally saying discovered, not born, because that word choice matters. Quantum mechanics isn’t just a framework we invented—it’s closer to the idea that we uncovered something that was already true abou...

People in this episode

Guest: Ashmeet Singh

Topics covered

• quantum mechanics
• space
• time
• gravity
• cosmology
• physics
• universe

Keywords

• quantum mechanics
• space
• time
• gravity
• cosmology
• physics
• universe
• Schrödinger
• Heisenberg
• Einstein

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