Best Curt Jaimungal Podcasts (2025)

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Your Brain Isn’t a Computer and That Changes Everything 1:12:33

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The best way to cook just got better. Go to http://HelloFresh.com/THEORIESOFEVERYTHING10FM now to Get 10 Free Meals + a Free Item for Life! * One per box with active subscription. Free meals applied as discount on first box, new subscribers only, varies by plan.Get 50% off Claude Pro, including access to Claude Code, at http://claude.ai/theoriesofe…

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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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The Mathematics That Predicts Your DMT Trip 1:30:23

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Improve your sleep today! Head to https://evening.ver.so/toe to get 15% off your first order of Verso's Nightcap Elixir.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/toeLive from MIT Media Lab’s Augmentation Lab Summit, I speak with Andres Gomez-Emilsson of the …

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Curt Jaimungal: 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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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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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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Christian Symbolism, Heaven, Earth, Femininity, & Satan | Matthieu Pageau 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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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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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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Dirac's 90-Year-Old "Mistake" Unifies All of Physics 2:12:25

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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 Professor Felix Finster, a radical thinker reimagining the foundations of physics. We explore his theory of causal fermion systems, where reality emerges from quantum correlations—wit…

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The (Terrifying) Theory That Your Thoughts Were Never Your Own 1:13:24

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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/toeWhat if your thoughts aren’t your own? Professors Elan Barenholtz and William Hahn propose that language is not a tool we use but a self-generating organism that uses us. In this mind-bending live discussion at th…

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Why Physicists Say We Don't Understand Quantum Field Theory 1:48:51

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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 Professor Nikita Nekrasov, one of the most original minds in theoretical physics. We dive into why quantum field theory still isn’t fully understood, despite its experimental success …

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The Physicist Who Proved Free Will Using Thermodynamics 2:18:44

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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/toePhysicist and philosopher Jenann Ismael joins to unveil a radical idea: free will isn’t an illusion, it’s a physical reality grounded in thermodynamics and relativity. In this conversation, Jenann explains why no …

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Brand New Result Proving Penrose & Tao's Uncomputability in Physics! 1:52:47

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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/toeMathematician Eva Miranda returns with a groundbreaking new result: a real physical system (fluid motion) has been proven to be Turing-complete. This means some fluid paths are logically undecidable. In this mind-…

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The Mathematical Accident That Changes Everything 2:12:20

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Special offer! Get 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toeHarvard physicist Jacob Barandes returns with a groundbreaking insight that could reshape quantum theory. By questioning a single hidden assumption, Jacob bridges the gap between classical probability and quantum mechanics. This ‘mathema…

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The 300-Year-Old Physics Mistake No One Noticed 1:53:13

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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/toeProfessor John Norton has spent decades dismantling the hidden assumptions in physics from Newton’s determinism to the myth of Landauer’s Principle. In this episode, he explains why causation may not be real, how …

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Top Physicists Call Out Many Worlds As Nonsense | Jacob Barandes Λ Emily Adlam 2:21:22

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Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase at https://DrinkLMNT.com/THEORIESTop physicists Emily Adlam and Jacob Barandes deliver a powerful takedown of the Many Worlds Interpretation. In this episode, they expose why it’s more philosophical fantasy than scientific theory, revealing its lack of testabi…

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The God Crutch: Do The Laws of Physics Exist? 2:16:00

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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/toeAre the laws of physics governing forces or elegant summaries? In this deep and often humorous debate, Barry Loewer of Rutgers and Eddy Chen of UC San Diego clash over the very nature of physical reality. Are the …

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The Theory That Shatters Language Itself 2:30:19

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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/toeProfessor Elan Barenholtz, cognitive scientist at Florida Atlantic University, joins TOE to discuss one of the most unsettling ideas in cognitive science: that language is a self-contained, autoregressive system w…

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What is “Energy,” Actually? 12:58

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Veritasium pointed out that energy isn't conserved, but here I argue something further: energy is not even well-defined!Get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toeJoin My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.comListen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/sh…

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Geometric Unity: 40 Years in the Making | Eric Weinstein 3:10:28

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This is the first conversation (with Eric Weinstein) in 40 years on Geometric Unity.In this rare, unscripted conversation, Eric Weinstein reveals the core of Geometric Unity, his decades-in-the-making theory. For the first time, Weinstein opens up fully about dark matter, the missing generations, peer review, and the potential flake of GU that quie…

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The Many Worlds Theory of Quantum Mechanics | David Wallace 2:18:33

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Philosopher of physics David Wallace breaks down the Everett (Many-Worlds) interpretation of quantum mechanics in today's episode. We discuss the big misconceptions in physics and explore probability, emergence, and personal identity across multiple worlds. Wallace also touches on the Born Rule, the direction of time, and why consciousness may not …

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The AI Math That Left Number Theorists Speechless 1:59:08

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Head on over to https://cell.ver.so/TOE and use coupon code TOE at checkout to save 15% on your first order.Get ready to witness a turning point in mathematical history: in this episode, we dive into the AI breakthroughs that stunned number theorists worldwide. Join us as Professor Yang-Hue Hi discusses the murmuration conjecture, shows how DeepMin…

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"Explain it to me like I'm five..." okie dokie 20:04

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You’ve heard the phrase: “If you can’t explain it to a 5-year-old, you don’t understand it.” But what if that idea is not only false but harmful? In this video, we dismantle one of the most repeated myths in science communication, explore why some truths resist simplification, and reveal what real understanding actually looks like. If you care abou…

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MIT Physicist: These Black Holes Are Older Than the Universe 1:53:14

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In this episode of Theories of Everything, MIT physicist and historian David Kaiser explores primordial black holes which are hypothetical entities that may have formed before stars or atoms. David discusses their potential role in explaining dark matter, their connections to cosmic inflation, and how they might reshape our understanding of the ear…

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Your Brain Isn’t a Computer and That Changes Everything 1:12:33

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

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The Mathematics That Predicts Your DMT Trip 1:30:23

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Curt Jaimungal: Philosophers vs. Physicists 9:31

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

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

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

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

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The Nobel Laureate Who (Also) Says Quantum Theory Is "Totally Wrong" 1:33:35

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Dirac's 90-Year-Old "Mistake" Unifies All of Physics 2:12:25

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The (Terrifying) Theory That Your Thoughts Were Never Your Own 1:13:24

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Why Physicists Say We Don't Understand Quantum Field Theory 1:48:51

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The Physicist Who Proved Free Will Using Thermodynamics 2:18:44

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Brand New Result Proving Penrose & Tao's Uncomputability in Physics! 1:52:47

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The Mathematical Accident That Changes Everything 2:12:20

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The 300-Year-Old Physics Mistake No One Noticed 1:53:13

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Top Physicists Call Out Many Worlds As Nonsense | Jacob Barandes Λ Emily Adlam 2:21:22

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The God Crutch: Do The Laws of Physics Exist? 2:16:00

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The Theory That Shatters Language Itself 2:30:19

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What is “Energy,” Actually? 12:58

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Geometric Unity: 40 Years in the Making | Eric Weinstein 3:10:28

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The Many Worlds Theory of Quantum Mechanics | David Wallace 2:18:33

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The AI Math That Left Number Theorists Speechless 1:59:08

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"Explain it to me like I'm five..." okie dokie 20:04

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MIT Physicist: These Black Holes Are Older Than the Universe 1:53:14