Quantum Logic + Exclusive Truth with Lincoln Carr

Lincoln D. Carr (he/him) is a Professor of Quantum Physics at the Colorado School of Mines and a Jefferson Science Fellow of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Between the songs of sperm whales hunting deep canyons under the seas and the roving eye of the lucid dreamer laying prone in his bed, poetry and physics meet. In this multiverse of possibility, he writes quantum thoughts to a reflection of himself reborn again and again through inner and outer space-time, each choice and each moment another universe. He believes that one day, the science we do now will seem like alchemy, and we will wonder how we did not fuse poetry and equations as naturally as the savants of that future age. And hopes his work presents a moment on the path to that future embrace.

In this episode, Lincoln and Brandi talk about the intersections of Quantum Logic + Exclusive Truth, including:

• Different kinds of thinkers, and how they’re all necessary
• Schrödinger, gender, & sexuality
• The brilliance of Lincoln’s students
• How I wound up auditing Lincoln’s class and details about the course itself
• Connections to city planning
• The frequent career changes of synthesists
• Humility + Foolishness
• Judaism, religion, and how science can become a religion
• How poetry can play a role in the sciences
• How Lincoln thought in quantum logic before he knew what it was
• How and why Lincoln uses dreaming in his work
• And, finding your place in the world

Note: Any opinions stated in this episode do not represent the U.S. Department of State.

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