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Ivette Fuentes: Quantum Gravity Predictions We Can Test Today
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Professor Ivette Fuentes makes impossible physics testable, with verified predictions on the Casimir effect and quantum vacuum. Now she's building a "third way" to quantum gravity, a surprisingly simple model that changes both quantum mechanics and relativity instead of forcing one to dominate the other.
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TIMESTAMPS:
- 00:00 - A Third Way to Quantum Gravity
- 07:35 - Vacuum-Induced Berry Phase
- 12:30 - Dynamical Casimir Effect
- 19:02 - Stagnation in Physics?
- 29:25 - A Third Way to Unification
- 38:20 - What is Physics?
- 43:43 - What is Entanglement?
- 56:11 - Observer-Dependent Entanglement
- 1:03:20 - Advice for Students
LINKS MENTIONED:
- Ivette’s First Appearance [TOE]: https://youtu.be/cUj2TcZSlZc
- Ivette’s Published Papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=W7-xksIAAAAJ&hl=en
- Ivette’s Website: https://ivettefuentes.weebly.com/
- Berry Phase: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/mathematics/berry-phase
- Maria Violaris [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Iya6tYN37ow
- Casimir Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect
- Towards Universal Quantum Computation Through Relativistic Motion [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.5619
- SQUID: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQUID
- Observation Of The Dynamical Casimir Effect In A Superconducting Circuit [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1105.4714
- Generating Multimode Entangled Microwaves With A Superconducting Parametric Cavity [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.00083
- Sir Roger Penrose [TOE]: https://youtu.be/iO03t21xhdk
- String Theory Iceberg [TOE]: https://youtu.be/X4PdPnQuwjY
- Felix Finster [TOE]: https://youtu.be/fXzO_KAqrh0
- Jonathan Oppenheim [TOE]: https://youtu.be/6Z_p3viqW1g
- Ted Jacobson [TOE]: https://youtu.be/3mhctWlXyV8
- Jacob Barandes [TOE]: https://youtu.be/wrUvtqr4wOs
- Tim Maudlin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/fU1bs5o3nss
- Bertlemann’s Socks And The Nature Of Reality [Paper]: https://cds.cern.ch/record/142461/files/198009299.pdf
- Perimeter Institute: https://perimeterinstitute.ca/
- Alice Falls Into A Black Hole [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0410172
- Observer Dependent Entanglement [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.2223
- Frederic Schuller [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Bnh-UNrxYZg
- Vacuum Induced Spin-1/2 Berry Phase [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0202128
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