Hakeem Oluseyi: Quantum physics breaks every human intuition | Full Interview

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The atom you learned about in school with electrons orbiting a nucleus like planets around a sun is a useful fiction. Astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi dismantles that picture entirely, replacing it with something far stranger.

What he unveils is a universe built not from particles, but from quantum fields that permeate all of spacetime, vibrating constantly, with no source, no origin, and no off switch.

You can find Hakeem's new book, Why Do We Exist?, hereand his previous book, My Quantum Life, here

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About Hakeem Oluseyi:

Hakeem Oluseyi is an astrophysicist, cosmologist, inventor, STEM educator, and science communicator known for his work in "hacking stars" to understand the universe. Oluseyi's work has resulted in 11 patents and more than 100 publications covering contributions to astrophysics, cosmology, and plasma physics and the development of space missions, observatories, focal plane instruments, detectors, semiconductor manufacturing, and ion propulsion.