Curiosity Daily Podcast: Black Hole Holograms, How We Make Sense of the Nonsensical, and June’s Curiosity Challenge
Learn about how the meaning maintenance model explains the way our brains make sense of the nonsensical; and how the black hole information paradox may be explained by black holes acting like holograms. Plus: June’s Curiosity Challenge trivia segment!
July 10, 2020
Episode Show Notes:
How do we make sense of the nonsensical? Meet the "meaning maintenance model" by Kelsey Donk
- Robson, D. (May 2020). A touch of absurdity can help to wrap your mind around reality. Psyche Ideas. https://psyche.co/ideas/a-touch-of-absurdity-can-help-to-wrap-your-mind-around-reality
- Meaning Maintenance Model - IResearchNet. (2016, January 13). Psychology. http://psychology.iresearchnet.com/social-psychology/social-cognition/meaning-maintenance-model/
- Heine, S. J., Proulx, T., & Vohs, K. D. (2006). The Meaning Maintenance Model: On the Coherence of Social Motivations. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 10(2), 88–110. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327957pspr1002_1
Black holes might work like holograms by Grant Currin
- Black holes? They are like a hologram. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/sisd-bht060320.php
- Ouellette, J. (2020, June 4). Nature’s cosmic hard drive? Black holes could store information like holograms. Ars Technica; Ars Technica. https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/natures-cosmic-hard-drive-black-holes-could-store-information-like-holograms/
- Pando, L. A. (2020). A Microscopic Account of Black Hole Entropy. Physics, 13. https://physics.aps.org/articles/v13/80
- Benini, F., & Milan, P. (2020). Black Holes in 4D N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Field Theory. Physical Review X, 10(2). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevx.10.021037
- Referenced episode: https://www.curiositydaily.com/what-is-the-grand-unified-field-theory-w-dr-adam-becker-should-you-wad-or-fold-toilet-paper-and-why-you-judge-your-own-hoarding-differently/
Episodes referenced in Curiosity Daily trivia segment with Julian in Los Angeles
- Fighting Coronavirus with Llamas, Why Rain Stops Rocket Launches, and Listener Questions About Cold Things https://www.curiositydaily.com/fighting-coronavirus-with-llamas-why-rain-stops-rocket-launches-and-listener-questions-about-cold-things/
- Hope in the Fight Against Climate Change (w/ Katharine Hayhoe) and Overcoming Bedtime Procrastination https://www.curiositydaily.com/hope-in-the-fight-against-climate-change-w-katharine-hayhoe-and-overcoming-bedtime-procrastination/
- Why Rainy Days Make You Sleepy, A Fix for AI’s Energy Appetite, and Solving Geology’s Mystery of the “Great Unconformity” https://www.curiositydaily.com/why-rainy-days-make-you-sleepy-a-fix-for-ais-energy-appetite-and-solving-geologys-mystery-of-the-great-unconformity/
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