Quantum Gravity Research, But A 1000x Smaller | Ivette Fuentes

Always the same pattern: Great breakthroughs come from people with wide open minds and hearts, especially to music, philosophy, poetry (and of course also dance). Be it Einstein, Planck, Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Pauli and many many more. This apparently opens the portal to ‚intuition‘, which is this indescribable spark at the center of most of humanity‘s ‚quantum leaps‘ of scientific modeling of reality (which does, of course, not necessarily stand for ‚understanding‘ reality).

Hans is such a fantastic interviewer. He helps me follow the challenging discussion, simplifying without elliminating important details. More please!

Pls give a bonus to Hans, he is doing his job very well! Keep it going Hans!

This discussion aligns closely with what some of us refer to as harmonic physics — treating mass superposition as a structural admissibility test rather than a paradox of matter or realism.

I think this is the third Fuentes interview I’ve watched, following Jaimungal. It is awesome to hear Professor Fuentes speak of her intellectual development grounded in classical dance training. And following the life metaphor of then proceeding from the rigorous fundamentals of ballet to the freedom of modern dance to her philosophical speculation on consciousness following Penrose is truly mind expanding. I am reminded of the Emma Goldman quote, “If I can’t dance I don’t want to be part of your revolution.”

You want a theory of everything, you gotta dance with all the fields!

Ivette Fuentes is so refreshing to listen to. Martha Graham is the dancer she is referring to when she says "Graham." I highly look forward to hearing more about her upcoming paper and seeing her back on the show.

Yvette is right about the core issue. A lot of ideas circulating in the thread resemble earlier discussions, but often without the underlying structure that motivated them. In our case, those ideas come from a concrete technical framework rather than speculation. We’re not just exploring a mass model—we’re working within a broader unifying framework, parts of which we’re preparing for formal release. We’ll be posting the first results publicly on arXiv soon, where the details can be evaluated properly.

Ivette is beautifully honest when touching the question of consciousness. We still do not have a working definition of consciousness.

Experiments using BECs to determine whether gravity forces quantum systems to choose a single state, providing the first potential empirical evidence for the theory that gravity is the reason the quantum world does not manifest in our classical world, are finally a step in the right direction. Good luck to the duo.