- Hakeem Oluseyi
- Lucas Bean, provisionally
I dwell too much on MAGA (because they are an imminent danger); the very opposite of them are the deep thinkers of our time. They are the ones making progress in the world.
Big Think, Hakeem Oluseyi: The quantum realm, the cosmological realm, and the multiverse, in 69 minutes
Subtitled: Astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi takes us from the quantum realm to the cosmological and out to the multiverse, answering physics’ most profound questions.
Quantum physics is weird because it breaks every intuition of the physics that we normally experience in our regular world. The rules break. Serenity breaks. Things become probabilistic.
The video is at the link.
Oh-loo-sheh-li, more or less. Fortunately, there’s a full transcript. A sample:
How should we think about quantum particles? They are not things. They are not things like the world around us. Quantum particles are the fundamental constituents of matter that come together to build up the world around us. So protons and neutrons are made up of fundamental quantum particles called quarks. Light is made up of fundamental quantum particles called photons. Electrons are a fundamental quantum particle. And so they come together in ways that cause new properties to emerge that give us a reality that is fundamentally different from the reality that created them.
Oluseyi is familiar to me from various science shows like How the Universe Works. He has a rotund voice and manner.
And I’ve bought his new book:
Why Do We Exist?: The Nine Realms of Universe that Make You Possible
Which I will be reading shortly.
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I understand that Facebook feeds me content that aligns with previous interests (clicks). I ignore most of them. A lot are clickbait. Every once in a while someone registers. In recent weeks there are been two. Here’s one.
This is Lucas Bean. He has a Substack with “over 4,000 subscribers,” which is not very many. No Wikipedia entry. But he posts on Fb, almost every day, about the psychology of conservatives and Trump voters, and these seem to me very accurate.
This is about the political platform shift between Republicans and Democrats that happened around 1960, that Republicans would like you to forget because that lets them blame Democrats for slavery. Bean explains why this is eye-rolling nonsense.
I try to be careful about following people who only post on Facebook, or have a Substack. Anyone can have a Substack. Better if they’ve published a book. And that can be said about Damien Walter.
