Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal Podcast
1) Curt Jaimungal: Can Physics Explain Its Own Laws?
Why do physical laws have their specific form? Host Curt Jaimungal shows this question is a philosophical knot, because any "explanation" must itself stand on a law. Sponsors: - As a listener of TOE ...Show More
2) Roger Penrose: Why The Big Bang Was Not The Beginning
Nobel laureate Sir Roger Penrose dismantles standard cosmology, arguing the Big Bang wasn't the beginning and quantum mechanics is fundamentally wrong. He then connects a real, gravitational wave func...Show More
3) Aaron Schurger: "No. Neuroscience Does NOT Threaten Free Will."
The Libet experiment didn't kill free will, says professor of neuroscience Aaron Schurger; the brain's "readiness potential" is simply stochastic neural noise. We then tackle consciousness's role in i...Show More
4) Curt Jaimungal: Why I Don't Buy the Simulation Hypothesis (Nor Materialism)
As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe One week ago, I (Curt Jaimungal) was invited to Niagara Unive...Show More
5) Yakir Aharonov: The Future Propagates Backward in Quantum Theory
As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe Physicist Yakir Aharonov argues that the standard story of qu...Show More
6) David Deutsch: Einstein Would Fail Modern Grant Applications
David Deutsch argues that Einstein would struggle to secure modern research grants, exposing how funding systems favor incremental work over bold, fundamental ideas. He connects this bias to quantum c...Show More
7) Wayne Myrvold: A 2 Hour Deep Dive Into Entropy
In this episode, we dive deep with philosopher of physics Wayne Myrvold to puncture entropy clichés and reframe thermodynamics as a resource theory. He argues the “entropy always increases” slogan is ...Show More
8) Your Brain Isn’t a Computer and That Changes Everything
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9) The Mathematics That Predicts Your DMT Trip
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10) Founder of Cellular Automata Unifies Biology, Computation, & Physics
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