00:00Sous-titrage Sociรฉtรฉ Radio-Canada
00:30My name is David Albrecht. I got a Ph.D. in theoretical physics.
00:40I studied biochemistry at Rutgers University and then went to chiropractic college at Life University in Atlanta, Georgia.
00:50My postgraduate training is in anatomy and physiology, neurochemistry, neurophysiology, and genetics.
00:56I studied quantum physics. I sometimes teach it. I've written a book on quantum physics and many books explicating the meaning of quantum physics.
01:06After my Ph.D. from Harvard, I went to CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Research, and then joined faculty at Stanford.
01:17And my work there has been the development of unified quantum field theories.
01:21I have about 100 publications in this area, but perhaps I'm best known for the discovery of supersymmetric flipped SU5 grand unified field theory.
01:29I make my living as an anesthesiologist, and every day as I put my patients to sleep, I kind of wonder where they go and why they're there in the first place.
01:43And that's one of the reasons that attracted me to anesthesia and the study of consciousness.
01:52My name is Michal Ledwick, and for most of my life I was a professor of theology.
02:03I'm Dr. Daniel Monti. I'm a physician with specialty training in psychiatry and human behavior.
02:08I'm on the full-time faculty at the Jefferson Medical College.
02:14I actually got very interested in studying this whole topic of the brain and spirituality because it had to do with a lot of the questions that I was asking ever since I was a child about reality and how we understood truth and what was real.
02:26And as I grew up and as I realized that while spirituality was in some senses a very important part of trying to find those answers, science also was a very crucial part.
02:35And I was ultimately looking for some way of bringing those two forces together.
02:38And I was ultimately looking for some way of bringing those two forces together.
02:46Well, my name is Candace Purn and I'm a professor at Georgetown in the medical school.
02:54Here we are actually filming great thinkers. Everyone in this room is a great thinker.
02:59Now that we've got them thinking, that's always a trick, isn't it?
03:07I should make it clear that I'm a graduate student in physics. I'm not a full-fledged theoretical physicist yet.
03:13But if fortune smiles on me and I continue to work like a dog on my problem sets and exams and whatnot, eventually what I hope to do with this is to apply fundamental quantum theory to quantum information processing.
03:31So I decided, well, if I gave up being department chairman and if I gave up all my professional committees and I gave up all my government committees, I would have a block of time that I could put to work.
03:47Of course, I give up all my power positions, but you have to sacrifice something.
03:51I had to keep my day job because my family needed to be fit.
04:02I presume that you're asking me how scientists could sound this wacko because I must be sounding wacko.
04:10It's really an interesting question.
04:11If you study science long enough and seriously enough and dig deeply enough, if you don't come out feeling wacko about it, you haven't understood a thing.
04:23I'm going to go to the thing.
04:24I'm going to go to the thing.
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