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0:00:00 Sean Carroll: Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Mindscape podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll, and today it is back to quantum mechanics, one of our favorite topics here. It is going to continue to be a favorite topic this calendar year, since of course I have a book on quantum mechanics coming out September 10th, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime. So I'm scattering a few episodes about quantum mechanics throughout the year. We've already had the discussion with David Albert, the philosopher of physics at Columbia, where David talked about his objections to the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, which is my favorite way of thinking about quantum theory. And today I'm gonna give you the pro-many worlds point of view, but we're doing it in an interesting way. Today is a flipped podcast. It's not a solo podcast with just me talking, but I'm also not the interviewer. Rob Reid, who is a podcaster himself, is interviewing me, and this is going to be an episode of Rob's podcast After On.

0:00:58 SC: So Rob is an entrepreneur and an author. He's the author of several books, including a couple of novels. One of the novels is called After On, and his podcast goes by the same name. Now, ordinarily, if someone else has me on as a guest on their podcast, I would not qualify that as an episode of Mindscape. Maybe sometimes I will do that, but it would be very rare. The special circumstances here are that Rob and I really worked to shape the course of the discussion ahead of time so that it really would give me an opportunity to talk about the motivation and themes in my upcoming book, Something Deeply Hidden. So it's my pitch guided by Rob's questions as sort of someone who's not an expert in quantum mechanics. So hopefully I do not get too esoteric for people to know what's going on. So I try to give the basic picture of why you should be interested in many worlds, what many worlds says, etcetera. It's just a litt

This one slipped under the net: a book on British Benedictine monk, scholar, translator and concrete poet Dom Sylvester Houédard has been published. Notes From The Cosmic Typewriter includes essays by David Toop, Gustavo Grandal Montero, Rick Poynor, and Charles Verey, plus Houédard's concrete poems (which he called 'typestracts'), produced on an Olivetti typewriter, as well as previously unpublished performance scores.

Houédard, who also went under the moniker dsh, became a monk in 1959 after serving in British Army intelligence, and was ordained as a priest ten years later. From the early 60s he became a leading practitioner of concrete poetry using a technique he began developing in the 40s, which he saw as being linked to ancient traditions of shaped verse. He said: "During 1945 I realised the typewriter's control of verticals and horizontals, balancing its mechanism for release from its own imposed grid, and offered possibilities that suggested (I was in India at the time) the grading of Islamic calligraphy from cursive (naskhi) writing through cufic to the abstract formal arabesque, that 'wise modulation between being and not being'."

More details on the book here.

(Image: Dom Sylvester Houédard, Figuur, 1964. Courtesy Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry via Occasional Papers)

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