Exploring theoretical physics, consciousness, Ai, and God in a technically rigorous manner. If you'd like to support this endeavor, then please visit the Substack https://curtjaimungal.substack.com as you get ad-free extras. Thank you for your charitable and kindhearted support. My name's Curt Jaimungal, a Torontonian with a degree in mathematical physics from the University of Toronto and I analyze various Theories of Everything from this analytic perspective, though more and more opening up to alternative approaches. The separating factor of TOE from other podcasts is its focus on depth even at the risk of limiting the audience due to how much detail we delve into subjects. Paralleling the intensity found in academic discourse, we're increasingly embracing a spectrum of unconventional ideas to conduct research during this podcast, rather than merely conveying existing information.
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Tim Maudlin: Quantum Nonlocality Explained FROM SCRATCH
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Aug 31 3 h 18 min
Adrian Owen: Awake. Aware. Unable to Move.
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Aug 24 1 h 33 min
Peter Godfrey-Smith: This Scientist Found Earth’s “Alien” Minds
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Aug 17 1 h 47 min
Jacob Tsimerman: He Won Math's Highest Prize. Then Announced the End
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Aug 10 1 h 30 min
Becca Tarnas: Did Jung and Tolkien Enter the Same World?
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Aug 3 1 h 54 min
Tim Maudlin: Quantum Mechanics Explained FROM SCRATCH
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Jul 27 3 h 02 min
Emily Adlam & David Wallace: The Quantum Interpretation That Divides Physicists
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Jul 20 1 h 16 min
Ginestra Bianconi: The Physicist Who (Unexpectedly) Derived Gravity From Entropy
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Jul 13 58 min
Curt Jaimungal: Reality Is Bloody Terrifying
What does it mean to investigate the "nature of reality"? In this episode, we break down the term across philosophy, physics, mathematics, cognitive science, and theology
Jul 8 9 min
Philip Mannheim: The Story of Conformal Gravity
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Jul 6 2 h 36 min
Curt Jaimungal: What is Existence, Exactly?
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Jul 1 22 min
Simon Saunders: The Unsettling Mysteries of Time
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Jun 29 1 h 45 min
Neil Turok: A Route to Quantum Gravity (Without Strings)
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Jun 22 1 h 55 min
Roman Yampolskiy: We're Simulated. AI Is Conscious. And We Can't Win.
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Jun 1 2 h 01 min
Harvey Friedman: The Genius Who Invented Reverse Mathematics
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May 18 1 h 38 min
Janna Levin: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Klein Bottle
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May 11 2 h 04 min
Juan Maldacena: Geometry as Entanglement, and the Emergence of Spacetime
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May 4 1 h 47 min
Slavoj Zizek: “Buddhism Can’t Explain This”
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Apr 27 1 h 35 min
Curt Jaimungal: Consciousness, Irreducibility, and the Local to Global
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Why can't local agreemen
Apr 22 1 h 00 min
George Ellis: Hawking's Co-Author on Why Reductionism Is Dead
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Apr 20 1 h 35 min
Chart positions
Where Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal ranks today in each Apple Podcasts chart (US, Sep 5, 2026).
A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.
Pick one of Curt’s topics that you enjoy then listen to the episode twice a couple weeks apart and then you will realize how much Curt gets his guests in a place to make you learn. The second time you will be loaded with nuance and Curt’s well placed skepticism. My favorites involve logic, yours might be physics or consciousness.
autotopism · Sep 2024
Anyone who genuinely does not like this podcast is simply a hater. Curt has one of the most thoughtful, intellectually competent podcasts being made right now. He never tries to dominate a conversation, letting his guests grace us with their expertise. If you don’t enjoy technical conversation that goes deeper into subjects than most then this may not be the show for you. However, if your intellectual curiosity is insatiable, this is a must listen!
Mt_hunter · Apr 2024
I like that this host simply asks questions and lets our best minds give their answers.
The questions he poses are deep with a lot of complexity and subtlety and yet are always spot on.
I’ve listened to two of his podcasts so far, Lee Smolin and Stephen Wolfram.
Wolfram speaks with such authority on every topic and you can tell he’s thought about it for so long and yet the host poses questions simple but deep questions where you can literally hear the gears in Mr. Wolfram’s head begin to strip as he grapples with the weight of the question.
It’s the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen a lot.
noimnotgivingyouanickname · Feb 2024
Curt has the bold curiosity and intellectual honesty that is so absent in most of the world. It’s so refreshing to hear deep scientific and philosophical topics discussed with such open mindedness and aversion dogma.
OjodiGidojO · Nov 2023
Unfortunately, Curt has begun to drop the conversational format and let guests deliver their standard lecture on their subject, with little interruption. This is practically unlistenable for the average podcast connoisseur. In the latest episode re an intro to QM, the preview section describing the no go theorems should have been dropped. Instead, Curt should have gone straight to concrete particulars re the first theorem (eg, by eliciting from the guest a technical description of the data that suggested the theorem in the first place). Conversation and concrete particulars are what the podcast listener craves, esp in the scientific genre. Return to the formula that made this podcast great and indispensable, and you’ll be golden.
Listener90345 · Dec 2024
The podcast is called Theories of Everything and he interviews some respected physicists/mathematicians (Borcherds, Ashtekar, O’Dowd), this seemed like something I would love. I was expecting a science podcast like Mindscape. However, a lot of discussions revolve around pseudo scientific topics like consciousness, AI, and UFOs. AI can be scientific if they talk about GANs, NLP, etc, but not when you talk about if computers really think like us or have emotions. This distinction between AI as a science and pseudoscience really encapsulates my review; the podcast has the potential to host meaningful conversations but choses not to
The podcast content itself feels like a bunch of buzz words got thrown in a blender. Randomly the host will ask the guest what they think of Jordan Peterson without any context. By asking Borcherds about Peterson (no connection between the two), he is giving clout to Peterson undeservingly while also allowing himself to post click-baity titles
If you care about consciousness, UFOs, Jordan Peterson then this is the right podcast for you. If you want to hear from academics at the foundations of science, look elsewhere
pstetz · Jan 2023
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