Hakeem Oluseyi: Quantum physics breaks every human intuition | Full Interview

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Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https://bigthink.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=membership&utm_content=bt-ytdesc-text-fi-oluseyi-pyhB7B3JWts Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe | Full Interview ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TBNJyztai0 The atom you learned about in school with electrons orbiting a nucleus like planets around a sun is a useful fiction. Astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi dismantles that picture entirely, replacing it with something far stranger. What he unveils is a universe built not from particles, but from quantum fields that permeate all of spacetime, vibrating constantly, with no source, no origin, and no off switch. You can find Hakeem's new book, Why Do We Exist?, here: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Do-We-Exist-Universe/dp/1984819127 and his previous book, My Quantum Life, here: https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Life-Unlikely-Journey-Street/dp/B08V6J5F9D 0:00 Chapter 1: The strange world of quantum physics 6:25 Why quantum math defies intuition 13:31 Entanglement, spacetime, and the deepest unsolved questions in physics 21:12 Chapter 2: The cosmological realm 26:38 You’re moving at the speed of light right now 46:00 The universe Is disappearing 52:08 Chapter 3: The two multiverses we might live in 1:00:51 The ev

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