Mithuna Yoganathan is a quantum physicist who specializes in quantum computing, and runs the successful YouTube channel Looking Glass Universe (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFk__1iexL3T5gvGcMpeHNA" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFk__1iexL3T5gvGcMpeHNA</a>). This podcast serves as a general introduction to quantum foundations and computing for undergraduates and bright autodidacts.<br /><br />Link to Peter Gray video mentioned: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQLkKKERWsI" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQLkKKERWsI</a><br /><br />Patreon for conversations on Theories of Everything, Consciousness, Free Will, and God: <a href="https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal</a><br />Help support conversations like this via PayPal: <a href="https://bit.ly/2EOR0M4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://bit.ly/2EOR0M4</a><br />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt</a><br />iTunes: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802</a><br />Pandora: <a href="https://pdora.co/33b9lfP" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://pdora.co/33b9lfP</a><br />Spotify: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e</a><br />iTunes: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802</a><br />Discord Invite: <a href="https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs</a><br />Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: <a href="https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything</a><br /><br />EDITED BY: Antonio Pastore<br /><br />00:00:00 Introduction<br />00:02:26 What's it like running a 200k+ subscriber YouTube channel?<br />00:02:56 Using "explanation to others" as a self-learning tool<br />00:05:27 How do you learn new physics / mathematics?<br />00:06:22 On feeling like math / physics isn't within your ability to grasp<br />00:08:29 Is math necessary for understanding physics<br />00:09:23 Daily schedule / routine<br />00:12:50 Dealing with people emailing theories<br />00:15:28 Fat-shattering dimensions<br />00:17:01 What's the Pauli group's relation to the Clifford group?<br />00:19:44 How do you prove that a quantum algorithm is efficiently simulable classically<br />00:22:58 Gottesman-Knill theorem (and its extension, proved by Mithuna)<br />00:25:41 What's responsible for the "speedup" in Quantum Computing?<br />00:29:24 Which of her thesis results is the most significant? (on quantum complexity and clean Qubits)<br />00:37:27 Magic state distillation<br />00:38:34 Gödel's incompleteness, with quantum logic<br />00:40:41 Halting problem<br />00:41:10 Quantum Computers vs Probabilistic Turing Machines<br />00:42:17 P = NP<br />00:44:41 Richard Borcherd's comments on Quantum Computers not being "better" than classical (generically)<br />00:47:05 Quantum Contextuality<br />00:52:29 Quantum decoherence and why it doesn't solve the measurement problem<br />00:56:26 On the Many Worlds Interpretation<br />00:58:45 Quantum Immortality<br />01:03:19 Is space / time discrete and what would the implications of this be for QC?<br />01:04:42 Wolfram's "principle of computational equivalence"<br />01:05:32 Bohemian Pilot wave theory<br />01:09:28 Are the laws of physics ultimately beautiful and simple?<br />01:10:31 Audience Q: Thoughts on QBism? (Miles Ignotus)<br />01:11:49 Audience Q: How do you know what to study, when you don't know what y<br />...<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2ct0zv_M-I" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2ct0zv_M-I</a>