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.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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Jim Al-Khalili: The Ontology of Time. We Had It Backwards
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Sep 21 1 h 47 min
She Says Spacetime Points Are Just Where Fields Meet
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Sep 14 1 h 33 min
Tanya Luhrmann: The Experience Is Real. But Is God?
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Sep 7 1 h 09 min
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
#30 trending · Physics
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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
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The host & guests discuss topics in well crafted, thematically designed structured podcasts with: knowledge, intelligence, experience, analytics, nuance, context, courtesy - & - with a profound curiosity for studying & researching, & "understanding" what is known & knowable about our world & ourselves.
! ***** ! · Jul 2026
Certainty and stupidity are best friends; my favorite refrain is often exemplified herein.
Expositions including some of the brightest minds in contemporary thought. Academic but not inaccessible; illuminating and inspiring. Curt is an unusually talented and committed interviewer, clearly passionate and intellectually dexterous. Free of agenda and without guile, he seeks only to elucidate the (sometimes massive) structures of thought posited by his varied guests. (My lone criticism of his style would be an occasional impatience: he sometimes interrupts the remarkable thinkers with whom he consorts when he’s guessed where their statement might be leading...) This channel is well on its way to becoming the rich repository of reason, conjecture, and philosophy that is obviously its destiny.
Elbo Jones · Jul 2025
Wish I’d known about this podcast when it started. Curt’s interview with Iain McGilchrist is absolutely wonderful. I’ve heard and read McGilchrist for years and no one has gotten to the heart of it all like Curt because he’s studied him enough to know what to ask and he gives him the time and space needed to answer. Also because, with Curt, it’s personal. Curt allows the conversation to unfold naturally. I sure look forward to his next one to talk with McGilchrist about his more recent book: The Matter With Things. And now I’ll enjoy all the rest of Theories of Everything!
BethMowry · Jan 2025
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
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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