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Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity (Lee Smolin) | AI Podcast Clips

Lee Smolin, Lex Fridman

Interview, Fireside Chat

An unfinished revolution in modern physics necessitates a unified framework that reconciles the dual failures of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics by prioritizing causality and event creation over spacetime geometry. This proposed theory, developed with collaborators Marina Cortés and Roberto Mangabeira Unger, rejects Bell locality and the Many-Worlds Interpretation in favor of a single, real universe where time is fundamental and space is emergent. Moving forward, the author intends to bridge the gap between isolated theoretical approaches through collaboration and challenges prominent advocates like Sean Carroll to a public debate regarding probability and the validity of the Many-Worlds framework.