Synopsis: Historian of science Michael Gordin highlights three often unappreciated problems associated with Karl Popper’s “falsification criterion”. Each one of his concerns is then discussed and debated by theoretical physicists Nima Arkani-Hamed, Artur Ekert and Scott Tremaine.
Runtime: 8 mins. | Production year: 2018
Featured researchers:
- Nima Arkani-Hamed, permanent faculty member, Institute for Advanced Study
- Artur Ekert, Professor of Quantum Physics at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford & Director of the Centre for Quantum Technologies and Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore
- Michael Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary, Princeton University
- Scott Tremaine, Professor Emeritus of Astrophysics, Institute for Advanced Study
