{"id":219713,"date":"2025-08-09T04:03:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/the-quantum-frontier-with-brian-greene-and-john-preskill"},"modified":"2025-08-09T04:03:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:03:58","slug":"the-quantum-frontier-with-brian-greene-and-john-preskill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/the-quantum-frontier-with-brian-greene-and-john-preskill","title":{"rendered":"The Quantum Frontier with Brian Greene and John Preskill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EKfsRmvwFV8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Renowned Caltech physicist John Preskill joins Brian Greene for an in-depth discussion of quantum mechanics, focusing on where we are and where we\u2019re headed with quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p>This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Participant: John Preskill.<br \/> Moderator: Brian Greene.<\/p>\n<p>0:00:00 \u2014 Introduction.<br \/> 0:01:33 \u2014 Are There Still Quantum Mysteries?<br \/> 0:03:32 \u2014 Three Pillars of Quantum Mechanics.<br \/> 0:05:25 \u2014 Einstein and Quantum Entanglement.<br \/> 0:14:51 \u2014 Quantum Weirdness and Relativity.<br \/> 0:17:46 \u2014 The Measurement Problem.<br \/> 0:28:29 \u2014 Intro to Quantum Computing.<br \/> 0:40:28 \u2014 Why Preskill Switched Fields.<br \/> 1:00:51 \u2014 What is Quantum Error Correction?<br \/> 1:15:30 \u2014 Quantum Supremacy.<br \/> 1:23:07 \u2014 Can Quantum Systems Impact Society?<br \/> 1:27:19 \u2014 The Black Hole Diary Thought Experiment.<br \/> 1:31:14 \u2014 The Black Hole Bet with Stephen Hawking.<br \/> 1:38:44 \u2014 What We Still Don\u2019t Understand About Black Holes.<br \/> 1:41:03 \u2014 From Baseball Cards to Quantum Physics.<br \/> 1:45:12 \u2014 Credits.<\/p>\n<p>VISIT our Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldsciencefestival.com\">http:\/\/www.worldsciencefestival.com<\/a>.<br \/> FOLLOW us on Social Media:<br \/> Facebook: \/ worldsciencefestival.<br \/> Twitter: \/ worldscifest.<br \/> Instagram: \/ worldscifest.<br \/> TikTok: \/ worldscifest.<br \/> LinkedIn: \/ world-science-festival.<br \/> #worldsciencefestival #briangreene #cosmology #astrophysics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned Caltech physicist John Preskill joins Brian Greene for an in-depth discussion of quantum mechanics, focusing on where we are and where we\u2019re headed with quantum computing. This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation. Participant: John Preskill. Moderator: Brian Greene. 0:00:00 \u2014 Introduction. 0:01:33 \u2014 Are There [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}