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Quantum Effects in Gravity | Full Talk | Chiara Marletto
Despite decades of speculations, no viable proposal to detect quantum effects in gravity has yet been proposed. But the new Constructor theory has emerged to propose a new class of experiments. Oxford's physicist Chiara Marletto makes the case.
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Big Bang Creation Myths | Full Debate | Roger Penrose, Sean Carroll, Laura Mersini-Hougton
The universe began with the Big Bang. Or so our children are taught. The Big Bang theory won out over the Steady State alternative 50 years ago because we discovered the universe was expanding. But now we know we were wrong, and it is in fact accelerating away from us. Might the whole Big Bang theory be mistaken? How could there be a beginning anyway? Is the theory of the universe’s origin just another creation myth, or is it still the best account we’ve got?
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Women In Science | Full Debate | Gina Rippon, Angela Saini, Janet Kourany
Science is often seen as the unbiased pursuit of the truth. Yet some feminist thinkers argue these theories are limited by male language and logic. Is there a radically different and feminist way of doing science? And if there is, what would it look like and could it prove more powerful than our current account of the universe? Or is there only one form of rationality and one truth?
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