The Nature of Reality. Interview with physicist Radhika Dirks

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Dr. Leslie Car: lesliecarr.com

Radhika Dirks: @radhikadirks on Instagram and https://xlabs.ai/

Links Mentioned in the Episode:

• The Fabric of the Cosmos with physicist Briane Greene on PBS: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/series/the-fabric-of-the-cosmos/
• Donald Hoffman TED talk Do we see reality as it is?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYp5XuGYqqY
• Hyperspace by Michio Kaku (Leslie’s favorite book about theoretical physics and the magical nature of reality): https://www.amazon.com/Hyperspace-Scientific-Parallel-Universes-Dimension/dp/0385477058
• Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science by Werner Heisenberg https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Philosophy-Revolution-Modern-Science/dp/0061209198
• Science, Order, and Creativity: A Dramatic New Look at the Creative Roots of Science and Life by David Bohm https://www.amazon.com/Science-Order-Creativity-Dramatic-Creative/dp/0553344498
• The article about the placebo effect and knee surgery: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/07/020712075415.htm
• An explanation of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/jan/29/how-words-influence-thought
• An explanation of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel-incompleteness/