Aephraim Steinberg: The Physicist Who Measured Negative Time
From Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal by Theories of Everything
April 13, 2026 · 2h 27m
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Professor Aephraim Steinberg discusses his groundbreaking work on measuring negative time and other foundational aspects of physics.
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People in this episode
Host: Curt Jaimungal
Guest: Aephraim Steinberg
Topics covered
- negative time
- experimental physics
- foundations of physics
- Bohmian trajectories
- Heisenberg's disturbance bound
Keywords
- negative time
- Bohmian trajectories
- Heisenberg's disturbance bound
- experimental physics
- foundations of physics
Sponsors
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Organizations: Physics World
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