Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCurt Jaimungal (Me): Philosophers vs. Physicists
Curt discusses how philosophy has directly contributed to physics through Bell's theorem, decoherence theory, the hole argument, and more. He also ex…
6 months, 1 week ago
Stephen Wolfram: Computation, Physics, Going Beyond "Evolution"
In this episode Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and the Wolfram Language, discusses his view of the universe as a computational system. We ex…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Max Tegmark: Physics Absorbed Artificial Intelligence & (Maybe) Consciousness
MIT physicist Max Tegmark argues that artificial intelligence belongs inside physics and that consciousness will be the next frontier. He distinguish…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Matthieu Pageau: Christian Symbolism, Heaven, Earth, Femininity, & Satan
In this episode Curt Jaimungal interviews Matthieu Pageau, author of The Language of Creation, exploring a symbolic grammar that casts heaven as a pl…
7 months ago
Frederic Schuller: The Physicist Who Derived Gravity From Electromagnetism
In this episode Frederic Schuller argues that gravity can be derived from electromagnetism by starting from the matter action and constructing compat…
7 months, 1 week ago
Gerard ’t Hooft: The Nobel Laureate Who (Also) Says Quantum Theory Is "Totally Wrong"
In this episode Nobel laureate Gerard ’t Hooft argues that quantum mechanics is fundamentally wrong, describing the universe as a deterministic pinba…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Philosophers vs. Physicists
Curt discusses how philosophy has directly contributed to physics through Bell's theorem, decoherence theory, the hole argument, and more. Meanwhile,…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Felix Finster: Dirac's 90-Year-Old "Mistake" Unifies All of Physics
In this episode Curt Jaimungal talks with Professor Felix Finster about his causal fermion systems framework, a radical approach that builds spacetim…
8 months ago
Elan Barenholtz Λ William Hahn: The (Terrifying) Theory That Your Thoughts Were Never Your Own
Elan Barenholtz and William Hahn argue that language functions as a self‑generating organism that writes its own software into our minds, shaping cog…
8 months, 1 week ago
Nikita Nekrasov: Why Physicists Say We Don't Understand Quantum Field Theory
In this episode I talk with Professor Nikita Nekrasov about why quantum field theory remains elusive despite its experimental triumphs. We explore hi…
8 months, 2 weeks ago