Intellectually Curious
Intellectually Curious is a podcast by Mike Breault featuring over 1,800 AI-powered explorations across science, mathematics, philosophy, and personal growth. Each short-form episode is generated, refined, and published with the help of large language models—turning curiosity into an ongoing audio encyclopedia. Designed for anyone who loves learning, it offers quick dives into everything from combinatorics and cryptography to systems thinking and psychology.
Inspiration for this podcast:
"Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson."
― Frank Herbert, Dune
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Intellectually Curious
Heavy Waves: Quantum Superpositions in Sodium Nanoparticles
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We explore a Nature study that pushes quantum interference to masses of 170,000 daltons—sodium clusters of 5–10,000 atoms delocalized across 133 nm in a Talbot-Lau interferometer. The result challenges macrorealism and confirms the Schrödinger equation at a scale never before seen, achieving a macroscopicity score of 15.5—tenfold improvement over the previous record. Looking ahead to the million-dalton target, we discuss how these experiments edge toward the quantum-gravity boundary and what it would mean to put viruses in a wave state.
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