23/04/2011
Conflicts in our brain, in particle physics and in literature - how do we turn these clashes to our advantage?
Do we thrive on conflict? We bore deep into the human skull today to explore the extraordinary way the different units that make up our neural circuitry compete with each other like a team of rivals.
Mysteries of another invisible world too: the conflicting theories regarding the very tiniest particles that inhabit the realm of quantum physics. We find out how their strange behaviour may be the key to a Theory of Everything.
And the age old clash between the author and the state in modern day Russia.
Bridget Kendall is joined by American neuroscientist David Eagleman, Dutch theoretical physicist and Nobel prize winner Gerard 鈥� T Hooft and Russian novelist Mikhail Shishkin.
Illustration by Shan Pillay: The brain - nucleus of all ideas, juggles quantum physics, literature and conflict in this week's programme.
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Part 1 - Eagleman
Conflict in our brain.
Duration: 10:53
鈥楾 Hooft
Disagreements about particle physics.
Duration: 12:07
Part 2 - 60 second idea
Ban instruction manuals.
Duration: 05:41
Shishkin
The clash between the writer and the state in Russia.
Duration: 11:48
Broadcasts
- Sat 23 Apr 2011 08:05GMT大象传媒 World Service Online
- Sat 23 Apr 2011 21:05GMT大象传媒 World Service Online
- Sun 24 Apr 2011 01:05GMT大象传媒 World Service Online
- Sun 24 Apr 2011 14:05GMT大象传媒 World Service Online
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