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Rob Spekkens: Why the Quantum Wave Function Is Not Real
Perimeter Institute's Robert Spekkens on quantum foundations. His 2004 classical toy theory makes maximum knowledge always incomplete, and out pops n…
8 months ago
Subir Sarkar: Why Dark Energy Is a Local Illusion
Hot off the press, Professor Subir Sarkar makes the case that dark energy doesn’t exist (and he’s not being provocative for its own sake). He’s the f…
8 months, 1 week ago
Stuart Kauffman: There Is No Theory of Everything
Stuart Kauffman, one of the founders of complexity theory, invented random Boolean networks at 23 and helped establish the Santa Fe Institute. Now 86…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Timothy Williamson: The Logician Who Says Vagueness Has Exact Answers
Timothy Williamson (Oxford) challenges modal logic, epistemic possibility, and the nature of philosophical knowledge.
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8 months, 3 weeks ago
I’m Giving Away $5,000 to Explain Hard Physics (and AI)
Host Curt Jaimungal launches #CORE1, a competition seeking high-level video explainers for physics, AI, and philosophy. If you're a researcher or stu…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Bas van Fraassen: Why Science Does Not Reveal the Truth
Bas van Fraassen argues science doesn't deliver literal truth, so unobservable physics is a model. The self isn't a thing, logic permits free will, a…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Roger Penrose and Ivette Fuentes: A Bold New Test of Gravity
Sir Roger Penrose and Professor Ivette Fuentes analyze the Ron Folman T-cubed experiment and whether the equivalence principle holds in quantum mecha…
10 months, 1 week ago
Curt Jaimungal: The Most Terrifying Philosopher I’ve Encountered
Curt Jaimungal dives into Kierkegaard’s three stages of life—aesthetic, ethical, and religious — showing how each promises freedom yet traps us in it…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Ivette Fuentes: Quantum Gravity Predictions We Can Test Today
Professor Ivette Fuentes makes impossible physics testable, with verified predictions on the Casimir effect and quantum vacuum. Now she's building a …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
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…
11 months ago