Best Wolfram Physics Podcasts (2025)

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Stephen Wolfram on Physics and Computation 42:03

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Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls. Physicist and computer scientist Stephen Wolfram explores how simple rules can generate complex realities, offering a bold new vision of fundamental physics and the structure of the universe. Additionally, from the foundatio…

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Stephen Wolfram: Computation, Physics, Going Beyond "Evolution" 2:07:38

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Get 50% off Claude Pro, including access to Claude Code, at http://claude.ai/theoriesofeverythingAs 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/toeIn this episode, I speak with Stephen Wolfram—creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Language—about a “new kind of scien…

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We Need to Delete 500 Years of Fake History - Lance Weaver, DemystifySci #370 2:12:19

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Geologist Lance Weaver steps back into the circle, carrying a wild heresy: that five centuries in the Egyptian record are ghosts, smoke, a trick of the scribes. Strip them away, he says, and the Bible and the Pharaohs suddenly stare eye to eye, like two old enemies who’ve just remembered they were brothers. We walk with him through the obscurely so…

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Where Biology Goes Off the Rails - Dr. Michael Levin, DemystifySci #369 1:06:19

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Michael Levin is a synthetic biologist at Tufts University who believes that asking questions about “life” is a fruitless project. Instead, he argues that we ought to be trying to understand the emergence of cognition - a feature that he believes appears long before cells emerge. As part of this project, Levin has started to pull on a series of thr…

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What is Global Philosophy of Religion? 27:17

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Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls. Global Philosophy of Religion seeks diverse views and fresh ways of thinking from different religions/traditions about Ultimate Questions: God, consciousness, person/self, evil/suffering, afterlife/reincarnation, world to co…

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Wayne Myrvold: A 2 Hour Deep Dive Into Entropy 2:05:34

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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 a consequence—not the law—and shows that Clausius’s entropy is defined only given the second law, while Gibbs vs. Boltzmann entropies answer different…

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Electrons, LENR, & Ancient High Tech - Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov, DemystifySci #368 2:55:47

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Max Fomitchev Zamilov is a nuclear physicist, inventor, and bubble fusion reactor builder who has also been a central figure in the characterization of the predynastic vases from ancient Egypt. We sit down with him for a conversation that can only happen with an experimental physicist - about overlooked electrical phenomena that diverge from theory…

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Why You Shouldn't Fear Bad Ideas - SOLO! Drs. A.V. Bendebury & M.S. DeLay, DemystifySci #367 1:49:44

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Shilo and Nastia sit down for a wide-ranging conversation about engaging with controversial thinkers, the role of skepticism in uncovering truth, and the cultural resistance to uncomfortable ideas. We cover the limits of philosophy and science, the prevalence of propaganda on all corners of the internet, and the sacred cow ideas that shape our unde…

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1000 Year Plan to Crush Thought - Michael Vassar, DemystifySci #366 3:05:34

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Michael Vassar is a futurist philosopher who believes that our civilization has lost the ability to think clearly, as the result of a silent project to destroy education that has been running in the background for generations. At the core of his argument is that the modern world has been shaped by elites interested in taking over the world. Interes…

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Michael Levin Λ Anil Seth: Your Brain Isn’t a Computer and That Changes Everything 1:12:33

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60 Second Theories - Paradigm Drift #6, DemystifySci 2:23:16

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DemystifySci is the place where we bring people together in search of the theories that will change the world, and Paradigm Drift is your chance to have a hand in that future. Theorists, randomly chosen, get 60 seconds to present their revolutionary idea... and then we see if it's gonna stand the test of time or if it's back into the tank for a lit…

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Lilian Dindo: Mindfulness, Acceptance, Coping with Obsessive Thoughts, and ACT Therapy 1:14:59

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YouTube link: https://youtu.be/L_hI7JNsbt0 Lilian Dindo is a Professor of Medicine at Baylor College, and we talk about ACT therapy. Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs iTu…

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Andrés Gómez-Emilsson: The Mathematics That Predicts Your DMT Trip 1:30:23

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In this episode, Curt talks with Andrés Gómez‑Emilsson of the Qualia Research Institute about mathematically modeling consciousness and visualizing psychedelic experiences. They explore how color geometry, GPU‑driven tools, and concepts like psychedelic thermodynamics can map qualia beyond ordinary sensory input. SPONSORS: - Verso Nightcap Elixir: …

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Curt Jaimungal (Me): Philosophers vs. Physicists 9:31

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Curt discusses how philosophy has directly contributed to physics through Bell's theorem, decoherence theory, the hole argument, and more. Meanwhile, via John Norton, we uncover the hidden philosophical assumptions in physics that most scientists don’t even realize they’re making.As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Ec…

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What Does Transhumanism Foreshadow? 27:17

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If you enjoy our content, consider making a tax-deductible donation to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls. Humanity’s future is now framed by artificial intelligence (AI) and increasing interventions in the body to enhance features and functions. This is transhumanism. Considering the stakes, and …

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Unsolved Mysteries of Electrostatics - Dr. Andre Assis, DemystifySci #364 2:35:51

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Andre Koch Torres Assis is a professor of Physics at the University of Campinas in Brazil, who has been studying the history of electricity and electrodynamics for more than thirty years. As part of his research, he has assembled put together a collection of experiments that demonstrate some of the earliest experiences that natural philosophers had…

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Can We Explore Transcendence Via Art and Mind? 27:02

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Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls. What is the three-way relationship among mind, art, and transcendence? What is it about art that can elicit the sense of transcendence, going beyond the self, bursting the constraining bonds of semantic language? What is it …

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Entropy is a Death Cult - Howard Bloom, DemystifySci #362 2:33:20

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Howard Bloom is an author, scientist, and former music industry publicist, who argues that entropy has been disastrously misapplied as a universal law across physics, cosmology, biology, information theory, and culture. In this episode we explore how a concept that was initially formulated in context of steam engines was used to create a story of u…

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Rationality Couldn't Replace God: What's Next? - Dr. Michael Hughes, DemystifySci #361 2:41:27

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Michael Hughes is a biochemist, water researcher and friend of the podcast with a passion for philosophy, mythology, and esoteric traditions. In this conversation, we explore the historical tension between priesthood and prophecy, the way science has replaced religion as a cultural authority, and ask why no society has ever thrived without a shared…

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Max Tegmark: Physics Absorbed Artificial Intelligence & (Maybe) Consciousness 1:49:53

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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/toeMIT physicist Max Tegmark argues AI now belongs inside physics—and that consciousness will be next. He separates intelligence (goal-achieving behavior) from consciousness (subjective experience), sketches falsifia…

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Can Philosophy Discern Sex and Gender? 27:17

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Make a donation of any amount to help Closer To Truth continue exploring the world's deepest questions. Sexual questions abound. What is “normal” sexual behavior in light of diverse sexual variations? LGBTQ+ issues? Is sex in animal models relevant for human sexuality? A philosophical perspective can provide clarity. Featuring interviews with Natha…

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Hidden Payoff of Civilizational Ruin - Dr. Dani Sulikowski, DemystifySci #360 2:17:45

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Danielle Sulikowski, professor of evolutionary psychology, presents a controversial theory on why global fertility rates and birth rates are collapsing. She argues that an evolutionary strategy known as female mate suppression—where dominant women repress the reproductive success of rivals—has shifted in humans into a modern form of antinatal socia…

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Black holes in the hypergraph with Stephen Wolfram 21:54

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Electrons may be tiny black holes propagating through the hypergraph. After all, electrons and black holes have much in common: they’re carriers of pure motion, they’re all the same – from the outside, at least – and we don’t know what’s going on inside them. Just as black holes may cloak the remants of collapsed civilizations, so electrons may hol…

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Matthieu Pageau: Christian Symbolism, Heaven, Earth, Femininity, & Satan 2:50:40

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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/toeIn this episode, I speak with Matthieu Pageau, author of The Language of Creation. This is a rare (and almost unbelievable) interview. With a high degree of likelihood, I can say that this interview, if watched al…

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If Telepathy Happens, By What Physics? - Helanê Wahbeh, DemystifySci #359 2:36:47

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What if telepathy isn’t fantasy, but an undiscovered frontier of biophysics? In this conversation, Helené Wahbeh of the Institute of Noetic Sciences joins us to explore how mind-to-mind communication could be studied through neuroscience, quantum theory, and consciousness research. We’re not obsessed with whether it’s real — we’re asking how it wou…

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Can Near-Death Experiences Affect Consciousness Theories? 28:36

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Contribute what you can to support Closer To Truth and keep our content free without the need for paywalls. Many people believe that out-of-the-body experiences (OBEs) and near-death experiences (NDEs) are real. We do not assess the evidence and arguments, pro or con. We do explore what OBEs and NDEs would mean, if real, for theories of consciousne…

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If Teleportation Happened, By What Physics? - Ashton Forbes, DemystifySci #358 2:45:39

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What if Flight MH370 wasn’t just lost, but simply became hidden from view? In this episode with controversial youtuber Ashton Forbes, we take the mystery seriously: not as magic, but as a challenge to what we think we know about plasma, quantum mechanics, and fusion. The question isn’t about belief, but about possibility: if teleportation happened,…

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60 Second Theories - Paradigm Drift #5, DemystifySci 2:10:23

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DemystifySci is the place where we bring people together in search of the theories that will change the world, and Paradigm Drift is your chance to have a hand in that future. Theorists, randomly chosen, get 60 seconds to present their revolutionary idea... and then we see if it's gonna stand the test of time or if it's back into the tank for a lit…

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Frederic Schuller: The Physicist Who Derived Gravity From Electromagnetism 2:37:22

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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/toeIn this episode, I speak with Frederic Schuller, an award-winning theoretical physicist and professor, who insists the undergrad tale of energy sloshing between kinetic and potential is just talk unless the math s…

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Evolution vs. Religion: Anything New? 27:02

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Contribute what you can to help Closer To Truth continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls. Two kinds of questions probe evolution vs. religion. The first explores discrepancies, even contradictions, between the science of evolution and the beliefs of religion. The second examines how religion itself evolved. Fea…

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Zero-Point Energy Unifies Physics - Nassim Haramein, DemystifySci #357 2:47:51

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Nassim Haramein, mathematical physicist and director of the International Space Federation, has spent three decades chasing the holy grail of science — unifying quantum mechanics and general relativity. Building on Einstein and Rosen’s 1930s equations, wormholes, and failed proton radius predictions, Haramein claims a simple tweak unlocks the secre…

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The Speed of Light is a Big Problem - Dr. C.S. Unnikrishnan, DemystiCon '25, DemystifySci #356 58:24

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Filmed at DemystiCon 2025 in Portugal, Dr. C.S. Unnikrishnan, from India's Tata Institute, reveals a very different take on the nature of light. Beyond the noise of headlines and textbooks, the speed of light's measurement isn't proving to be so simple. Drawing on years at the heart of experiments that listen for the universe’s faintest signals, he…

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Clément Vidal on Life's Biggest Questions 1:29:09

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Contribute what you can to help Closer To Truth continue exploring the world's deepest questions. Clement Vidal, philosopher of science and astrobiologist, discusses the idea of something rather than nothing, differing religious worldviews, fine tuning and metaphysics, and more. Watch more CTT Chats here. Dr. Clément Vidal is a philosopher with a b…

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Gerard ’t Hooft: The Nobel Laureate Who (Also) Says Quantum Theory Is "Totally Wrong" 1:33:35

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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/toeIn this episode, I speak with Nobel laureate Gerard ’t Hooft, a theoretical physicist known for his work on the electroweak interaction and his radical ideas about quantum mechanics. To him, the universe is a cosm…

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Antennas Expose the Secrets of Light - Dr. Hans Schantz, DemystifySci #355 2:41:12

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From the copper spines of antennas to the invisible dance of light, our conversation with Dr. Hans Schantz traces the story of physics most students never hear about. Dr. Schantz, a theoretical physicist turned engineer who studied under John Wheeler, unpacks the forgotten role of physical mediators in electromagnetism and what modern antenna desig…

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The causal graph is objective reality 12:41

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The multiway graph shows every possible evolution of the universe. So, if we can compute every possible reality, does that mean that there’s no single objective reality? Well, the causal graph, it turns out, collapses every possible reality into a single objective reality in a way that’s so unexpected that you’ll be left wondering: how did that jus…

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Stellar Cold Fusion & CMB Suspicions - Dr. Patrick Vanraes, DemystiCon '25, DemystifySci #354 1:02:53

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At "Beyond the Big Bang" 2025, Dr. Patrick Vanraes, a plasma scientist at the University of Antwerp, delivers two quiet revolts against the reigning cosmological order. In the first talk, he develops Dr. Pierre Marie Robitaille's vision of the Sun not as a chaotic gas ball, but as a layered, liquid structure—dense enough to host fusion through latt…

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How did Cognition and Emotion Evolve? 27:16

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Contribute what you can to help Closer To Truth continue exploring the world's deepest questions. What can evolution reveal about the developmental history of thinking and feeling? How did cognition and emotion (affect) co-develop over evolutionary time? Can evolution help solve the mystery of consciousness? Featuring interviews with Peter Godfrey-…

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Can This Unlikely Man Unstick Physics? - Dr. Rick Doblin, DemystifySci #353 3:02:35

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The institutions are broken because their hearts are broken. In this conversation with Dr. Rick Doblin, president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, we explore whether substances used to great effect in the treatment of PTSD can become the scalpel and the flame for stuck culture—cutting delusion, sparking communion. Physi…

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Why the CMB Is Evidence Against the Big Bang - Dr. André Assis, DemystiCon '25, DemystifySci #352 41:50

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What if one of modern cosmology’s greatest triumphs was built on a false story? In this talk from DemystiCon: Beyond the Big Bang, physicist and historian of science Dr. Andre Koch Torres Assis digs deep into the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the so-called “fingerprint” of the Big Bang, and uncovers a history that challenges the dominant narra…