Podcasts about Quantum mechanics

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Send us Fan MailREPRISE - Dr. Peter Enns returns to the podcast to discuss his brand new book Curve-ball - When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming* or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God. Pete admits it's the longest title in the history of publishing. The popular professor, author (see show notes for his many other books), and podcaster (The Bible for Normal People) drops his guard like never before sharing his spiritual and intellectual journey from his days as an aspiring baseball player to progressive Christian thinker. "Wrestling with God and Scripture is very old and completely normal. Actually, it's God-activated," he says. In reviewing the book, Ken and Pete talk about Noah, Jonah, and Jesus as archetypes in the struggle. Richard Rohr, David Bentley Hart, Thomas Oord and Rachel Held Evans get honorable mention as guides. Evolution is a major "curveball" for many Christians. Pete is especially interested in the chaos and "weirdness" of physics and quantum mechanics, all of which have opened Pete's mind and heart to a much bigger and more profound notion of God. While Pete avoids the clichéd use of the overused and misappropriated descriptor, "deconstruction," he traces a normal, natural, and healthy evolution in our understanding of faith and our relationship to the God of the Universe. SHOW NOTESThis program first aired May 19, 2023Support the showBecome a Patron - Click on the link to learn how you can become a Patron of the show. Thank you!Ken's Substack PageThe Podcast Official Site: TheBeachedWhiteMale.com

Tim Palmer is not a quantum computing skeptic from the outside. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a CBE, an IPCC lead author, and the inventor of probabilistic ensemble forecasting — techniques now used in every major weather prediction center on Earth. He did his PhD in general relativity under Roger Penrose. When someone with that profile publishes a peer-reviewed paper in PNAS arguing that the entire fault-tolerant quantum computing roadmap may rest on a mathematical assumption that is subtly and profoundly wrong, it is worth paying close attention. The timing matters. The quantum computing industry is spending billions on the assumption that standard quantum mechanics scales indefinitely — that if you can build enough error-corrected qubits, Shor's algorithm will eventually factor RSA-2048. Palmer's RaQM framework, reviewed by leading quantum foundations researchers including Lucien Hardy and Nicolas Gisin, makes a concrete, falsifiable prediction that this assumption will fail somewhere between 200 and 1,000 error-corrected qubits. That falsification window is opening right now. This episode is for anyone who cares about the foundations of quantum mechanics, the long-term viability of fault-tolerant quantum computing, or the rare pleasure of watching a serious scientist put a real stake in the ground. What We Get Into Why Palmer left general relativity and came back to quantum foundations decades later — the conceptual thread connecting chaos theory, climate forecasting, and the geometry of quantum state space What Rational Quantum Mechanics actually proposes — specifically, why Palmer argues that Hilbert space should be defined over rational numbers rather than the full continuum of complex numbers, and what that means physically The information-theoretic argument for a qubit ceiling — why, in RaQM, the information content of n entangled qubits grows linearly with n rather than exponentially, and why that creates a hard conflict with the quantum Fourier transform above a few hundred qubits Why the 2022 Nobel Prize did not prove non-locality — Palmer's careful distinction between "Bell's inequality is violated" (experimentally established) and "the world is non-local" (an interpretation), and why that distinction matters enormously How gravity enters the picture — Palmer's argument, drawing on Penrose-style thinking, that gravity is the physical mechanism responsible for discretizing Hilbert space, and how that determines the numerical qubit ceiling Why the ceiling is technology-dependent but bounded absolutely — how Palmer estimates ~400 qubits for current photonic technology and argues that no technology, however exotic, can push the limit above ~1,000 What happens to Shor's algorithm specifically — why the quantum Fourier transform is the precise point of failure, and what that means for RSA encryption and the post-quantum cryptography transition The optimistic read on a potentially negative result — Palmer's argument that a fundamental discovery about quantum mechanics, even one that limits quantum computing, could open doors we cannot yet imagine, in the same way general relativity eventually gave us GPS Resources & Links Guest Tim Palmer — Oxford Department of Physics — Full publication list, including the RaQM paper and prior quantum foundations work Royal Society Fellow Profile: Professor Tim Palmer CBE FRS — Official Fellow profile covering Palmer's career from ensemble forecasting to quantum foundations Oxford Quantum Institute: Tim Palmer — Confirms Palmer's affiliation with OQI Papers & Articles "Rational Quantum Mechanics: Testing Quantum Theory with Quantum Computers" — PNAS (March 2026) — The primary paper discussed in this episode; the full RaQM proposal with the qubit-ceiling prediction arXiv preprint: "Rational Quantum Mechanics: Testing Quantum Theory with Quantum Computers" (Feb 2026) — Full preprint version with acknowledgements and references arXiv preprint: "Solving the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics: Why Nature Abhors a Continuum" (Feb 2026) — Companion paper laying out the philosophical and mathematical case for RaQM; good starting point for the conceptual argument Oxford Physics News: "Rational Quantum Mechanics — A New Theory of Quantum Physics" (March 17, 2026) — Oxford's official press release; accessible summary of RaQM and its implications IAI TV: "New Theory Argues Quantum Physics Must Abandon Irrational Numbers and the Continuum" (May 2026) — Palmer's own popular-audience explanation of RaQM; a good read before or after the episode IAI TV: "Chaos Theory Eliminates Quantum Uncertainty" — Palmer's accessible argument that quantum uncertainty is epistemic rather than fundamental The Quantum Insider: "Is RSA Safe? New Study Argues Quantum Computers Face a Hard Ceiling" (March 2026) — Industry-facing coverage of RaQM's implications for cryptography PostQuantum.com: "The 1,000-Qubit Ceiling That Probably Isn't" (April 2026) — Skeptical technical rebuttal of RaQM's qubit-ceiling prediction; worth reading alongside the paper ECMWF Festschrift: "Tim's Adventures in Quantum Mechanics" (April 2026) — Palmer's own account of his transition from meteorology to quantum foundations; illuminating backstory arXiv: "Quantum Computers for Weather and Climate Prediction: The Good, the Bad and the Noisy" (Tennie & Palmer, 2022) — Palmer's earlier, more optimistic assessment of quantum computing for climate modeling; an interesting counterpoint to RaQM's ceiling prediction Further Reading The Primacy of Doubt — Oxford University Press — Palmer's 2022 trade book synthesizing chaos, climate, and quantum uncertainty; accessible entry point to his broader thinking 214 is a delightful bonus to the conversation, a short story by Noel Gorelick that imagines what might happen if RaQM turns out to be true. 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A Note from James:Carlo Rovelli is one of the smartest people I know. He is a theoretical physicist and the author of a lot of great books, including Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time, Helgoland, White Holes, and now On the Equality of All Things: Lessons on Physics and Philosophy.He has been on the show before, and at the end of this conversation I told him I felt like he was just tolerating my questions. He was nice about it.But the first question I asked was: Do I actually exist?Because in Carlo's new book, nothing really exists on its own. Not a person, not a particle, not you, not me. Everything exists in relation to something else.So I spent an hour trying to understand what that means.Does absolute truth exist? Is free will fake? Are we just machines? Is consciousness quantum? Is everything doomed to decay? Is time real? Was there a before the Big Bang? And what does any of this actually do for us in ordinary life?Carlo's answer, again and again, is not that nothing is real. It is that we make a mistake when we try to imagine the world from the outside, as if we were standing somewhere beyond the universe looking in. We are not outside the universe. We are inside it. We are part of it. We know the world through relationships, perspectives, interactions, and limits.And oddly, that is calming.Because Carlo says the thing that brought him serenity was not finally knowing everything. It was giving up the need to know everything with absolute certainty.That is where this conversation goes: physics, quantum mechanics, philosophy, Buddhism, Taoism, Wittgenstein, consciousness, black holes, time, the Big Bang, free will, and the strange comfort of not needing the final answer.Episode Description:Carlo Rovelli returns to the show for a conversation about reality, uncertainty, quantum mechanics, time, consciousness, free will, and his new book On the Equality of All Things: Lessons on Physics and Philosophy.James begins with the central idea of the book: everything in the universe can only be understood in relation to something else. Carlo agrees that this is a good short version of the argument, but immediately pushes back against the need for “absolute” truth. Of course James exists. Of course Carlo exists. The question is why we need to add something heavier and more final than that.From there, the conversation becomes an exploration of relational reality. Carlo explains that motion is not an illusion just because it depends on perspective. When James says he is sitting still, that is true with respect to Earth. When someone says Earth is moving, that is true with respect to the sun or the galaxy. The mistake is asking which motion is the “real” one outside all relations.The same frame applies to quantum mechanics. Carlo argues that particles are not little objects with fixed properties sitting there independently of the rest of the world. A particle is what it manifests in interaction. It is a set of relations. This is why quantum mechanics has forced such a profound change in the way physicists think about reality.James keeps pressing the practical question: What do we gain from knowing this?Carlo's answer is partly scientific and partly philosophical. We gain better questions. We stop asking impossible questions like “Who is really not moving?” or “What is the final foundation of everything?” We become more aware of our own perspective. And we may become more capable of understanding people whose moral, political, or philosophical perspectives differ from ours.The conversation moves through the Big Bang and the possibility of a Big Bounce, with Carlo stressing that science is powerful precisely because it knows its own ignorance. Science is not the final story. It is an ongoing process of learning, correcting, testing, and replacing older models with better ones.James and Carlo then talk about time. Carlo explains that Earth is so small, compared with the universe, that we experience conversation as almost instantaneous. That gives us the illusion that time is the same for everyone. But physics has shown that time is not universal. Every star and galaxy has its own time, and the idea of “now” across the whole universe does not really work.The second half of the conversation turns toward philosophy and human life. Carlo connects his thinking to Eastern philosophy, Zhuangzi, Buddhism, Taoism, and Wittgenstein. For him, accepting the partial, perspectival, incomplete nature of knowledge is not depressing. It is serene.James also asks about consciousness, free will, and whether quantum mechanics can explain the mind. Carlo respects Roger Penrose but says he does not think consciousness is specifically quantum. The brain is physical. Choices are physical. But that does not make choice unreal. The mistake, Carlo says, is imagining a separate ghost or soul outside the physical brain that is supposed to make the decision.The episode closes with James trying to find one absolute: everything decays. Carlo says no. The universe also creates order. Galaxies form. Stars light up. Life emerges. Water and oil separate into structure. Civilization produces books. Nature is not simple decay. It is more complicated, more beautiful, and still not fully understood.What You'll Learn:Why Carlo Rovelli thinks there is no useful “view from outside” the universe.Why existence does not need to be “absolute” to be real.How motion only makes sense relative to something else.Why relative does not mean arbitrary.How quantum mechanics challenges the idea that the world is made of independent objects.Why Carlo sees particles as manifestations of interactions.Why science is powerful partly because it knows what it does not know.What the Big Bounce idea suggests about the Big Bang.Why time is not the same everywhere in the universe.Why there may be no single universal “now.”Why physics does not explain everything, even if nothing escapes physics.How Eastern philosophy, Taoism, Buddhism, and Wittgenstein shaped Carlo's thinking.Why giving up certainty can create serenity.Why Carlo does not think consciousness is specifically quantum.How Carlo thinks about free will without invoking a separate soul or ghost.Why quantum mechanics should not be turned into vague New Age thinking.Why nature is not only decay, but also structure, order, evolution, and growth.Timestamped Chapters:[05:04] Does Anything Exist Absolutely?James asks whether he, Carlo, or the chair exists, and Carlo explains why ordinary existence is enough without adding the word “absolute.”[06:47] We Exist Through RelationsCarlo explains that identity, friendship, love, social position, and knowledge all happen through relationships.[08:41] Motion Is Relative, Not FakeJames uses the example of sitting still while Earth moves, and Carlo explains why “really moving” is the wrong question.[09:31] Morality Without AbsolutesCarlo argues that morality can be meaningful and powerful without being independent of human beings.[10:44] Relative Does Not Mean ArbitraryCarlo clarifies that relational truth is not the same as saying anything goes.[12:05] Quantum Mechanics and the Relational WorldCarlo explains how quantum mechanics led him toward the idea that things do not have fixed properties independent of interaction.[14:35] What Happens When We Are Not Looking?James asks why quantum mechanics feels strange, and Carlo explains that the confusion begins when we try to describe what happens without interaction.[16:29] Everything Is a ProcessCarlo connects quantum reality to everyday reality: apples rot, stones become sand, and nothing is perfectly fixed forever.[17:21] Before the Big Bang?James asks what the first particle could have interacted with, and Carlo explains why the Big Bang may not have been an absolute beginning.[20:22] The Big BounceCarlo discusses the possibility that the universe went through a phase of maximum compression before expanding.[21:40] Science Knows Its IgnoranceCarlo explains why science is not about having final answers, but about knowing what we know and what we still do not know.[22:58] Science Is Not the Final StoryJames asks about string theory and scientific certainty, and Carlo says science is an ongoing process of learning more.[24:29] Physics Does Not Explain EverythingCarlo explains why fundamental physics underlies everything but does not replace chemistry, biology, mechanics, or other forms of knowledge.[25:13] Time Is Not the Same for EveryoneJames asks about time, distance, and the Big Bang, and Carlo explains why the idea of one universal “now” is an illusion.[27:44] How Do We Know Anything?Carlo defends the power of science, pointing to Maxwell, Einstein, black holes, gravitational waves, and GPS.[30:11] Will Science Ever Be Complete?James asks whether even an advanced alien civilization would still face unknowns, and Carlo says he doubts science will ever reach a final story.[31:20] Gödel, Ignorance, and No Theory of EverythingCarlo treats Gödel's theorem as an analogy for the impossibility of closing knowledge, while stressing how far we still are from complete understanding.[32:49] Zhuangzi, Taoism, and SerenityJames connects Carlo's thinking to Eastern philosophy, and Carlo explains why giving up the need for certainty made his life more serene.[37:00] Consciousness and Quantum MechanicsJames asks about Roger Penrose and consciousness; Carlo says he does not think the brain is specifically quantum in the relevant sense.[38:08] Consciousness as PerspectiveCarlo explains consciousness as part of a relational world: a piece of nature with information about the rest of nature.[41:06] Avoiding New Age Quantum ThinkingJames asks about law-of-attraction-style interpretations, and Carlo distinguishes serious quantum theory from vague extrapolation.[42:53] Objects Are Not as Solid as They SeemCarlo says quantum mechanics challenges the idea that the world is made of fixed, independent objects with properties of their own.[44:22] Arguing With the MetaphysiciansCarlo describes the Princeton philosophy conversations that helped become the basis of the book.[46:29] Copernicus, Darwin, and Quantum RealityCarlo compares quantum mechanics to earlier scientific revolutions that forced humans to rethink their place in the world.[48:18] What Will Future Science Change?James asks what discoveries might blow our minds 100 or 200 years from now, and Carlo points to quantum gravity, black holes, and the mind.[51:10] Free Will Without the GhostJames asks about determinism and choice; Carlo says freedom is not an illusion, but the idea of a separate nonphysical chooser is.[54:11] Does Everything Decay?James tries to find one absolute truth, and Carlo says nature also produces structure, complexity, life, and order.Additional Resources:On the Equality of All Things — Simon & SchusterCarlo Rovelli — Simon & Schuster Author PageCarlo Rovelli — Penguin Random House Author PageScience Friday: “Why physics and philosophy need each other”Helgoland — Penguin Random HouseWhite Holes — Penguin Random HouseSeven Brief Lessons on Physics — Penguin Random HouseThe Order of Time — Penguin Random HouseReality Is Not What It Seems — Penguin Random HouseAnaximander — Penguin Random HouseSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We can't put a real black hole in a laboratory, but we can recreate some of its most important physics. In this interview I speak with Bill Unruh, one of the pioneers of analog gravity. The idea is fascinating: Usually we model gravity using equations and computer simulations, but there is another way. Rather than a gravitational black hole that can trap light from escaping, you can instead build a black hole using the flow in a fluid to trap sound from escaping. Such models really do mimic many of the properties predicted by the equations that describe black holes. Unruh explains how a waterfall can act as a sonic black hole, creating an analogue of a black hole event horizon where sound waves can become trapped. In the lab, such analog systems have been built using water, but also Bose–Einstein condensates. One hope is to show that analog black holes sponateously emit sound quanta in exactly the same way that Hawking radiation is proposed to be emitted from Black holes. In particular, a key goal is to show that such radiation is `thermal', which would mean that it carries the least amount of information possible just as predicted by Hswking for black holes. One of the key reasons for being interested in analog gravity, is that it can provide intuition about horizons and other aspects of gravitational systems that we can't explore in the lab. In this interview I ask Bill what intuition he has gained for one of the key paradoxes in gravitational physics that researchers are currently arguing over: The Black Hole Information Paradox. In particular, what happens to the information contained in matter that falls into a black hole? Can Hawking radiation carry that information back out? We also discuss what actually happens inside a black hole. Does the singularity represent a genuine physical feature, or does it signal that our current theory of gravity has reached its limits? ►Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzNAGllVWjo&list=PLnE3V9mcAvmYosrFCguPfGnFeI_CChb1j&index=1  ►Find out more about Bill's work: https://quantumgravitysociety.org/science_advisors/william-unruh/ https://news.ubc.ca/expert/william-unruh/   #BlackHoles #HawkingRadiation #QuantumGravity #AnalogGravity #Physics #QuantumMechanics #GeneralRelativity #StephenHawking #BlackHoleInformationParadox #TheoreticalPhysics #cosmology   This publication is based upon work from COST Action RQI CA23115, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). COST is a funding agency for research and innovation networks. Our Actions help connect research initiatives across Europe and enable scientists to grow their ideas by sharing them with their peers. This boosts their research, career and innovation. For more information see: www.cost.eu .

In this episode, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dr. John Martinis reveals how his breakthrough in superconducting qubits made quantum physics real at macroscopic scale and what it means for the future of technology. The former lead of Google's Quantum AI lab explains why quantum computing is so fragile, why a lot of hype has a low chance to work, and why his fabless company Qolab could be the Nvidia of quantum computingIn this conversation, Dr. Martinis joins Tech Surge to explain the science behind macroscopicquantum coherence, the engineering challenges of scaling quantum computers, and how hybrid quantum-classical computing will shape the future of technology.The conversation covers:✅ How the superconducting qubit breakthrough won the Nobel Prize in Physics✅ Why Nature wants to destroy quantum coherence and why quantum is fragile✅ From academic physics to building Google's quantum computer✅ The engineering challenge of scaling quantum computing beyond the lab✅ Why a lot of quantum computing hype has a low chance to work✅ How Qolab's fabless model could scale quantum hardwareGuest Links:John Martinis: 2025 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics, superconducting-qubit pioneer, formerGoogle quantum-hardware researcher, and founder and CTO of Qolab.Nobel Prize profile: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2025/martinis/Qolab: https://qolab.ai/Further Reading and ResourcesGoogle Sycamore Quantum Processor - Google's 2019 experiment used a 53-qubitsuperconducting processor to perform a specific random-circuit-sampling task substantiallyfaster than the then-known classical approach.Nature research paper:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1666-5Google Research explanation:https://research.google/blog/quantum-supremacy-using-a-programmable-superconducting-processor/Artificial Intelligence and Transformers – The Transformer architecture discussed in thepodcast was introduced in the paper “Attention Is All You Need.”Original paper:https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762AlphaFold and Protein Structure Prediction – AlphaFold demonstrated how classical AI canpredict protein structures with high accuracy, illustrating the distinction between present-day AIand potential future quantum applications.Nature paper:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03819-2Google DeepMind – AlphaFold:https://deepmind.google/science/alphafold/Quantum Computing Hardware Approaches – The podcast compares superconductingqubits, semiconductor spin qubits, neutral atoms, trapped ions and photonic systems.Google Quantum AI:https://quantumai.google/Intel Quantum Computing:https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/research/quantum-computing.htmlQuEra – Neutral-atom quantum computing:https://www.quera.com/Atom Computing:https://atom-computing.com/Quantum Manufacturing and Scaling – Qolab is focused on improving the fabrication, wiring and scalability of superconducting quantum processors through industrial partnerships.Qolab:https://qolab.ai/Qolab and Applied Materials collaboration:https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/03/18/qolab-secures-investment-from-applied-ventures-and-announces-collaboration-to-advance-quantum-computing-manufacturing/Applied Materials:https://www.appliedmaterials.com/Quantum–Optical Networking – The podcast discusses the challenge of convertingmicrowave signals used by superconducting qubits into optical signals suitable for fiber-optic communication.Microwave-to-optical conversion research:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-019-0650-1Chapters:00:00 – The Quantum Computing Hype: Physics vs Engineering04:06 – Introducing Nobel Prize Winner John Martinis12:09 – Schrödinger's Cat Explained13:12 – Can Quantum Effects Exist at a Macroscopic Scale?17:45 – The Experiment That Changed Quantum Computing34:33 – The Biggest Challenge: Scaling Quantum Computers43:21 – John Martinis on Google's Quantum Supremacy45:51 – AI vs Quantum Computing01:01:45 – Can Quantum and Classical Computers Work Together?01:07:36 – The NVIDIA Model for Quantum ComputingAbout TechSurge:TechSurge Podcast shares the latest insights directly from legendary Silicon Valley leaders,daring new founders, and visionary technologists.Subscribe for weekly conversations into the intersection of technology advancement, market dynamics, and founder journeys.#quantumcomputing #quantumphysics #nobelprize #technology

Our understanding of gravity and black holes is currently in a funny spot that looks a little similar to how physics in general looked before quantum mechanics. Before quantum mechanics, scientists were puzzled by the stability of atoms. Shouldn't the negatively charged electrons simply fall into the positively charged nucleus? Also, the electrostatic force between charges was known to increase the closer two charged objects were to one another, and by naive extrapolation, this force should become infinite as the distance between objects goes to zero. This is known as a `singularity' in the theory. Singularities are usually a sign that our theory is being extrapolated beyond where it is applicable.   Quantum mechanics held the solution to the puzzle: electrons don't spiral around the nucleus; they sit in quantum orbits that can only take on certain discrete levels.   In our current understanding of gravity, there are objects predicted by the theory known as black holes. But just like with `classical' atoms, these objects are pretty weird. They have singularities right at the center, and just like the electrons orbiting an atomic nucleus, the classical theory of gravity says that matter should spiral into a black hole to meet the singularity. On the way, they cross an event horizon from which they can never return, and which shields anyone from looking into the black hole.   The singularity is an indication that our classical theory of gravity is somehow breaking down. But where? If we try to merge quantum mechanics with black holes, a clue arises: `Hawking' radiation is predicted by the merger to emanate from the black hole horizon, and this radiation leads to the evaporation of black holes, and the loss of all the information of anything that fell in.   But this behavior appears to break quantum mechanics because in quantum theory, information cannot be destroyed. It can be scrambled, transformed, hidden, but never fundamentally erased.   This is the black hole information paradox: the merger of our best gravitational theory and quantum theory seems to lead to information loss, which is incompatible with quantum theory.   In this episode of the podcast, I speak with theorist Niayesh Afshordi. He suggests that the black hole information paradox arises because we are extrapolating our equations beyond where they make sense. His suggestion is a little unorthodox: black holes have no center. The horizon must be replaced with a surface, beyond which there is nothing. I speak with him to try to understand his suggestion.   ►Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68qwzsjmoxU&list=PLnE3V9mcAvmYosrFCguPfGnFeI_CChb1j&index=1  ►Find out more about Niayesh's work: https://nafshordi.com/ ►Follow Niayesh on Twitter: @nafshordi  #BlackHoles, #QuantumMechanics, #QuantumPhysics, #HawkingRadiation, #BlackHoleInformationParadox, #Gravity, #TheoreticalPhysics, #Physics #NiayeshAfshordi, #GeneralRelativity This publication is based upon work from COST Action RQI CA23115, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). COST is a funding agency for research and innovation networks. Our Actions help connect research initiatives across Europe and enable scientists to grow their ideas by sharing them with their peers. This boosts their research, career and innovation. For more information see: www.cost.eu. 

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Join Rob McConnell as he welcomes Chris Schweitzer, author, researcher, and founder of The Anthropic Research Group, for a fascinating journey into the nature of reality, quantum physics, parallel universes, and the extraordinary questions raised by modern physics. Schweitzer has been described in previous X Zone program material as someone with an ability to take complicated ideas involving quantum physics and parallel-universe theories and present them in an entertaining, accessible way for the general public. At the heart of Chris's work is one of humanity's greatest questions: What exactly is reality? Quantum physics has revealed a universe that can behave in ways dramatically different from our everyday experience, inspiring continuing debates about observation, probability, matter, time, and the fundamental nature of existence. Chris explores these ideas along with theories involving alternate or parallel realities and what they might mean for our understanding of ourselves and the cosmos. During this thought-provoking conversation, Rob and Chris explore quantum mechanics, consciousness, parallel universes, the nature of reality, theoretical physics, and the mysteries of existence. How much do we truly understand about the universe? Could realities exist beyond the one we experience? And where is the dividing line between established physics, theoretical interpretation, and speculation? Chris's previous appearance in The 'X' Zone specifically identified him as founder of the Anthropic Research Group and focused on his work concerning the nature of reality. Whether you're fascinated by quantum physics, alternate realities, consciousness, cosmology, or simply enjoy questioning everything you thought you knew about existence, this episode of The 'X' Zone Radio Show offers plenty to contemplate. Join Rob McConnell and Chris Schweitzer as they venture beyond our everyday perception of the universe and ask the ultimate question: Is reality really what we think it is?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-x-zone-radio-tv-show--1078348/support.Please note that all CANCOM/XZBN radio and/or television shows are Copyright © REL-MAR McConnell Meda Company, Niagara, Ontario, Canada – www.rel-mar.com. For more Episodes of this show and all shows produced, broadcasted and syndicated from REL-MAR McConell Media Company and The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network and the 'X' Zone TV Channell, visit www.xzbn.net. For programming, distribution, and syndication inquiries, email programming@xzbn.net.We are proud to announce the we have launched TWATNews.com, launched in August 2025.TWATNews.com is an independent online news platform dedicated to uncovering the truth about Donald Trump and his ongoing influence in politics, business, and society. Unlike mainstream outlets that often sanitize, soften, or ignore stories that challenge Trump and his allies, TWATNews digs deeper to deliver hard-hitting articles, investigative features, and sharp commentary that mainstream media won't touch.These are stories and articles that you will not read anywhere else.Our mission is simple: to expose corruption, lies, and authoritarian tendencies while giving voice to the perspectives and evidence that are often marginalized or buried by corporate-controlled media

Mike Winger continues with his questions for skeptics livestream, this time (not) answering a question about evolution and vestigial structures. You'll never guess where he ends up...unless you read the title.Cards:There's No Human Sacrifice If I Make Up Details For the Story!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apb755kGXKkOriginal Video: https://tinyurl.com/2cps8hdsSources:Energy flow and the organization of life: https://tinyurl.com/2czzncglLife as a manifestation of the second law of thermodynamics: https://tinyurl.com/2876suduThermodynamics of evolution and the origin of life: https://tinyurl.com/24vve76eKey Building Block for Organic Molecules Discovered in Meteorites: https://tinyurl.com/2yhtju92Big Mysteries Survey: Physicists' Views on Cosmology, Black Holes, Quantum Mechanics, and Quantum Gravity: https://tinyurl.com/2b8s8ev7Understanding naturalness: https://tinyurl.com/26jeccmmSilicon Valley: An argument for silicon-based life: https://tinyurl.com/24xhqe86Transfer of Quantum Information and Genesis of Superfluid Vacuum in the Pre-Inflationary Universe: https://tinyurl.com/2868mnfpVestigial auriculomotor activity indicates the direction of auditory attention in humans: https://tinyurl.com/2nuubay9The common ancestry of life: https://tinyurl.com/2xnktl95Why the appendix is much more important than we once thought: https://tinyurl.com/2c94v9phAll my various links can be found here:http://links.vicedrhino.comThis content is CAN credentialed, which means you can report instances of harassment, abuse, or other harm on their hotline at (617) 249-4255, or on their website at creatoraccountabilitynetwork.orgBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/viced-rhino-the-podcast--4623273/support.All my various links can be found here: http://links.vicedrhino.comThis content is CAN credentialed, which means you can report instances of harassment, abuse, or other harm on their hotline at (617) 249-4255, or on their website at creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org

Episode: 2631 The Double Slit Experiment.  Today, a mysterious experiment.

Episode: 2630 Determinism and the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.  Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.

Episode: 2627 Clash of the Titans: The Bohr-Einstein Debates.  Today, a clash of titans.

Reality may be bigger, stranger, and far more crowded than our three-dimensional monkey brains can handle. This week on Hysteria 51, we count down ten horrifying theories about what could exist in dimensions we cannot see, from shadow matter and hidden forces to holographic universes, colliding branes, M-theory, and countless alternate versions of you making equally terrible decisions.Could gravity be leaking into another dimension? Is our universe just one thin membrane floating in a much larger cosmic void? Does every possible outcome create another reality where you remembered the password on the first try? We break down the real science behind extra dimensions, dark matter, the multiverse, many-worlds theory, and the terrifying possibility that reality has more rooms than advertised.So grab a flashlight, avoid making eye contact with the shadow universe occupying your couch, and prepare to discover why the cosmos is weird, physics is rude, and somewhere in another dimension, this episode is probably much better.SourcesTime and the Block UniverseStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – Timehttps://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2026/entries/time/Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – Temporal Consciousnesshttps://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2025/entries/consciousness-temporal/Asher Peres – “Critique of the Wheeler-DeWitt Equation”https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9704061The Fifth ForceEöt-Wash Group – “New Test of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law at the Submillimeter Range”https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11761NA64 Collaboration – “Hunting Down the X17 Boson at the CERN SPS”https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.02756Kaluza-Klein Theory and Extra DimensionsCERN – Extra Dimensions, Gravitons, and Tiny Black Holeshttps://home.cern/science/physics/extra-dimensions-gravitons-and-tiny-black-holes/Theodor Kaluza – “On the Unity Problem of Physics”https://inspirehep.net/literature/14622Shadow Matter and Hidden SectorsEdward Kolb, David Seckel, and Michael Turner – “The Shadow World of Superstring Theories”https://www.nature.com/articles/314415a0Lawrence Krauss, Alan Guth, David Spergel, George Field, and William Press – “Inflation and Shadow Matter”https://www.nature.com/articles/319748a0Dark Energy and Dimensional LeakageNobel Prize – The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physicshttps://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2011/summary/Nobel Prize – The Accelerating Expansion of the Universehttps://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2011/popular-information/Gia Dvali, Gregory Gabadadze, and Massimo Porrati – “4D Gravity on a Brane in 5D Minkowski Space”https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0005016The Holographic PrincipleLeonard Susskind – “The World as a Hologram”https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9409089Juan Maldacena – “The Large N Limit of Superconformal Field Theories and Supergravity”https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9711200Fermilab – The Holometerhttps://holometer.fnal.gov/index.htmlFermilab – Holometer Frequently Asked Questionshttps://holometer.fnal.gov/faq.htmlBrane Worlds and the BulkLisa Randall and Raman Sundrum – “A Large Mass Hierarchy from a Small Extra Dimension”https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9905221Lisa Randall and Raman Sundrum – “An Alternative to Compactification”https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9906064The Ekpyrotic and Cyclic UniverseJustin Khoury, Burt Ovrut, Paul Steinhardt, and Neil Turok – “The Ekpyrotic Universe: Colliding Branes and the Origin of the Hot Big Bang”https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0103239Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok – “Cosmic Evolution in a Cyclic Universe”https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0111098M-Theory and the String LandscapeEdward Witten – “String Theory Dynamics in Various Dimensions”https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9503124Leonard Susskind – “The Anthropic Landscape of String Theory”https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0302219T. Banks – “The Top (10^{500}) Reasons Not to Believe in the Landscape”https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5715The Many-Worlds InterpretationHugh Everett III – “‘Relative State' Formulation of Quantum Mechanics”https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.29.454Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanicshttps://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2026/entries/qm-manyworlds/Email your Contest Entries to:ForthHandmedia@gmail.comEmail us your favorite WEIRD news stories:weird@hysteria51.comSupport the ShowGet exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1ShopBe the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting!https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

I personally subscribe to The Economist. TOE listeners get 35% off the annual subscription. No other podcast has this! https://economist.com/TOE This is a careful lecture that can be followed with zero background knowledge. Einstein thought he'd caught quantum mechanics in an act of spookiness — this podcast asks whether he was even worried about the right thing. Tim Maudlin, professor of philosophy at NYU and a leading philosopher of physics, delivers a rare full lecture tracing Einstein, EPR, and the road to Bell's theorem. The central claim: Einstein's real objection was never determinism — "God does not play dice" is a red herring — but non-locality, which he inferred rather than assumed. Maudlin traces the argument from Einstein's overlooked 1927 Solvay objection through the EPR paper's criterion of reality, showing why Bohr's famous reply never actually answered it. FOLLOW: - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e - Substack: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/subscribe - Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt - Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs - Crypto: https://nowpayments.io/donation/TOE - PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4 TIMESTAMPS: - 00:00:00 - Einstein's Quantization Hypothesis - 00:07:20 - Photoelectric Effect Implications - 00:12:30 - Wave-Particle Duality Myths - 00:20:40 - De Broglie's Matter Waves - 00:26:40 - Copenhagen's Completeness Doctrine - 00:34:10 - Solvay 1927: Two Conceptions - 00:41:20 - Pinhole Diffraction Problem - 00:48:00 - Collapse and Relativity Violations - 00:56:00 - Epistemic vs. Ontic Collapse - 01:05:00 - Ontological vs. Dynamical Locality - 01:14:00 - Configuration Space Objections - 01:25:00 - EPR's Criterion of Reality - 01:32:40 - Analyzing the Reality Criterion - 01:40:50 - Causal Isolation and Locality - 01:48:45 - Entangled Momentum Eigenstates - 01:56:45 - Logical Core of EPR - 02:04:40 - Position-Momentum Simultaneous Reality - 02:14:00 - Inferring Determinism from Locality - 02:26:30 - Conservation Laws and Information - 02:37:40 - Counterfactual Definiteness Debunked - 02:44:00 - Bohr's Incoherent Response - 02:52:00 - Schrödinger's Entanglement Confession LINKS MENTIONED: - Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/1444331272?tag=toe08-20 - On a Heuristic Point of View About the Creation and Conversion of Light [Paper]: https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/lectures/Rotman_Summer_School_2013/Einstein_1905_docs/Einstein_Light_Quantum_WikiSource.pdf - The Ghost in the Atom [Paper]: https://vdoc.pub/download/the-ghost-in-the-atom-a-discussion-of-the-mysteries-of-quantum-physics-1guq071e2ukg - Collected Papers on Wave Mechanics [Paper]: https://mwolf.pracownicy.uksw.edu.pl/MK/Schrodinger_Collected_Papers_on_Wave_Mechanics.pdf - Quantum Theory at the Crossroads [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/0521814219?tag=toe08-20 - Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? [Paper]: https://journals.aps.org/pr/pdf/10.1103/PhysRev.47.777 - Bohr's EPR Critique [Paper]: https://journals.aps.org/pr/pdf/10.1103/PhysRev.48.696 - The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics [Paper]: https://personal.lse.ac.uk/robert49/teaching/partiii/pdf/SchroedingerPresentSituation1935(1980trans).pdf - Bertlmann's Socks and the Nature of Reality [Paper]: https://cds.cern.ch/record/142461/files/198009299.pdf - On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox [Paper]: https://journals.aps.org/ppf/pdf/10.1103/PhysicsPhysiqueFizika.1.195 - Quantum Theory and Measurement [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/0691613168?tag=toe08-20 - Tim Maudlin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/fU1bs5o3nss - Sean Carroll [TOE]: https://youtu.be/9AoRxtYZrZo - Robert Sapolsky [TOE]: https://youtu.be/z0IqA1hYKY8 - Jenann Ismael [TOE]: https://youtu.be/7kvXihDAOi0 - John Norton [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Tghl6aS5A3M Guests do not pay to appear. #science Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stewart Alsop sits down with Daniel Freed, forty thousand words deep into a book that ties together consciousness, totalitarianism, archetypes, and religion, and the two spend the conversation tracing how those threads connect. They work through Jungian archetypes as behavioral blueprints embedded in stories across generations, unpacking the father, mother, and son roles and what they reveal about tradition, potential, and the individual. From there they get into Jordan Peterson's model of storytelling as a defense against totalitarian thinking, detour through Buddhism, Taoism, and the idea of the absolute, and Daniel walks through his own attempt to prove the limits of representing consciousness using axioms borrowed from math and logic, including Cantor's diagonal argument. The back half moves into Daniel's math and computer science background, touching on David Hilbert, Von Neumann, combinatorics, and complexity theory, before wrapping up with a look at Stewart's hardware prototyping experiments.Timestamps00:00 Introduction to archetypes, Jung, and why psychologists write dense books00:05 Mother, father, and son as story roles; tradition, potential, and the individual00:10 Totalitarianism, narrative architecture, and Peterson's four degrees of freedom in a story00:15 Objects, relational properties, and why the thing-in-itself breaks down under scrutiny00:20 The absolute, the Tao, and consciousness as a limit you can't directly represent00:25 A proof sketch against representing consciousness; diagonal arguments and formal limits00:30 Relevance realization, Popper, and why consciousness may resist full scientific modeling00:35 Applying the story model to groups: how collective narratives can become totalitarian00:40 Egregores, faith vs belief, and how ideas spread through modern institutions00:45 A turn into math: computer science, injury, Hilbert, and the power of axioms00:50 Quantum math, Von Neumann, and complexity theory as problem reductionKey InsightsArchetypes work like compressed behavioral data. Daniel frames archetypes not as arbitrary symbols but as patterns tested across generations of storytelling — when a story trains believers to kill the father figure and chaos follows, more value gets placed on the father and tradition over time, and the same logic explains why the mother figure comes to represent potential and the son comes to represent the individual.The son-outranks-the-father pattern underwrites Western individualism. Daniel argues that across traditions, the hero figure eventually outranks the established order, and this is the root of ideas like free speech and presumption of innocence — a fundamentally anti-utilitarian stance since it values the single person over the group's interest.Jordan Peterson's four-part story architecture doubles as a defense against totalitarianism. What is, what should be, the path between them, and the unknown or chaos form the minimum structure needed for a conscious being to experience anything as new. Daniel took this framework and applied it to group narratives, showing how holding one element of a group's story fixed while individuals change creates the conditions for totalitarian control.Every property is relational, so there's no "thing in itself." Drawing on Nietzsche, Daniel walks through the idea that qualities like hardness or mass only exist as effects on other things, which means an object stripped of all its relations has nothing left to define it.Daniel built a formal argument for why consciousness can't be fully represented. Using three axioms about distinctions resting within "respects" and borrowing Cantor's diagonal argument, he shows that certain respects can't have a ceiling, meaning any total representation of consciousness runs into the same problem uncountable sets do.Faith and belief are distinct but feed each other. Stewart draws out the difference — belief as propositional, faith as more emotional and fundamental — and Daniel agrees that propositional belief tends to translate into faith once people start acting it out.Daniel's path ran from computer science to math because of a wrist injury. Unable to type, he shifted toward math and ended up carrying over proof techniques from complexity theory and combinatorics into his philosophical work, citing David Hilbert's method of reducing ideas to rigorous axioms as a direct influence on how he now approaches philosophy.

For years we have been told that UFOs were only interesting to people who are disconnected from reality, don't understand science, or live in trailers drinking beer. We were instructed on what to believe when any evidence was presented; that anything potentially credible, i.e. unexplained and not a hoax, was fake. Then, suddenly, the narrative changed. We were given documents, photographs, and videos that appears for a moment to be groundbreaking but upon closer examination were details we already knew. A few documents presented interesting reports that are questionable as per their legitimacy. Overall we were told to suddenly make our own conclusions, and believe whatever we choose. Meanwhile, "amateur" astronomers have obtained footage far more credible that there is unexplainable, sometimes explainable, evidence of something.https://www.crrow777radio.comhttps://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/071026/release_04/documents/DOE-UAP-D004_Los-Alamos-Conference-on-Aerial-Phenomena_1949.pdfhttps://dn760109.eu.archive.org/0/items/chronologicalcat00midd/chronologicalcat00midd.pdf*The is the FREE archive, which includes advertisements. If you want an ad-free experience, subscribe below.

Suggest Guests For Our Podcast: https://forms.gle/ytt6a9jxe8YwzsGD6 Dr. Sitaram Byahut, Physicist and Professor of Physics, joins us for an in-depth conversation exploring some of the most fascinating concepts in modern science. From Quantum Entanglement and Quantum Mechanics to the EPR Paradox, this episode simplifies complex ideas for beginners while offering deeper insights for science enthusiasts. We discuss why Quantum Mechanics was developed, how the EPR Paradox was experimentally proven, why Albert Einstein disagreed with Quantum Entanglement, and how one particle can appear to instantly affect another across vast distances. The conversation also explores the philosophy behind Quantum Computing, the relationship between quantum states and the multiverse, the possibility of Black Holes being connected to Wormholes, Information Entropy, Consciousness, and the role of the Large Hadron Collider (CERN) in advancing our understanding of the universe. Whether you're curious about Quantum Physics, Quantum Computing, Modern Physics, or simply want to understand the mysteries of our universe, this podcast offers clear explanations and thought-provoking discussions. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to Like, Share, Subscribe, and turn on notifications for more conversations with leading scientists, educators, and experts. GET CONNECTED WITH Dr. Sitaram Byahut: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/sitaram.byahut.3 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/sbyahut/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sitaram-byahut-b94b0024/  

Send us Fan MailAs America approaches its 250th anniversary, Brendan welcomes Dr. Anthony Rizzi for an extended presentation on the philosophical foundations of the American experiment.Drawing from his work on natural law, philosophy, and the history of America's founding, Dr. Rizzi shares his perspective on why America's enduring strength lies in its founding principles. Throughout the episode, he explores the relationship between truth, reason, nature, faith, and the intellectual tradition of the Church, while arguing that recovering these first principles is essential for America's future.In This EpisodeWhy Dr. Rizzi believes America's founding principles are rooted in natural lawThe relationship between nature, reason, and Christian revelationHis critique of modern culture and what he calls "scientism"Why truth should be at the center of Catholic intellectual lifeHis vision for renewing American culture by recovering first principlesLearn MoreDont miss "Holding These Truths Again: Reclaiming Our Founding Principles" featuring Dr. Rizzi airing on EWTN July 2nd at 8pm CT (9pm ET). Learn more at IAPweb.org/America See trailer: IAPweb.org/holding-these-truthsAbout Dr. Anthony RizziAnthony Rizzi, Ph.D., Director of the Institute for Advanced Physics, gained worldwide recognition in theoretical physics by solving an 80-year-old problem in Einstein's theory. He has physics degrees from MIT and Princeton University; has been senior scientist for Caltech's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), whose work contributed to the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics; taught graduate courses at Louisiana State University; worked on the Manned Mars Craft and the Mars Observer spacecraft; and received both the NASA Award and the Martin Marietta New Technology Award.He is the author of The Science Before Science: A Guide to Thinking in the 21st Century and A Kid's Introduction to Physics (and Beyond). In addition to numerous professional articles, he authored the Physics for Realists series: Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism, and Quantum Mechanics. The first two volumes were recommended by the American Association of Physics Teachers, and his recent work includes groundbreaking contributions to quantum mechanics.Dr. Rizzi is also recognized for his work in history, particularly his articles on America's founding principles, which have drawn praise from scholars and contributed to discussions on the philosophical and Christian roots of the American experiment. Support the show

David Albert is the Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, director of the Philosophical Foundations of Physics program at Columbia, and a faculty member of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics. Jacob Barandes is Senior Preceptor in Physics at Harvard University, where he works widely across the philosophy of physics, with focuses on the foundations of quantum mechanics, the philosophy of spacetime, and the metaphysics of laws. In this episode, Robinson, Jacob, and David discuss Jacob's novel Indivisibility Approach to quantum mechanics. After beginning with an introduction from David, the conversation touches on the measurement problem, completeness, scientific realism, the purpose of physics, and more. If you're interested in the foundations of physics, then please check out the JBI, which is devoted to providing a home for research and education in this important area. Any donations are immensely helpful at this early stage in the institute's life.Jacob's Website: https://www.jacobbarandes.comA Guess at the Riddle: https://a.co/d/6qcsidlThe John Bell Institute: https://www.johnbellinstitute.orgOUTLINE00:00 The Problem with the Wave Function05:30 The Indivisibility Approach17:28 What Is Indivisibility?25:13 The Measurement Problem32:18 The Incompleteness of Jacob's Theory42:20 Completing the Theory47:12 Realism in Quantum Mechanics01:03:13 The Fundamental Task of Physics01:10:57 The Structure of the Indivisibility Theory01;22:26 Summarizing and Calculating01:40:01 The Game of Fundamental Physics01:46:31 Can Bohmian Mechanics Work?01:56:26 A Version Including David's Theory02:04:49 What Is the Wave Function?02:15:33 Where We've Ended UpRobinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University, where he is also a JD candidate in the Law School.

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#430 In this podcast episode, Guy welcomed back Tom Campbell and talked about current planetary shifts and why people feel growing pressure from social, political, and technological change. Tom described reality as a consciousness-based information system in which humans and other beings are individuated units of consciousness evolving by lowering entropy through choices, moving toward love rather than fear. He argued that humanity is nearing a near-term decision point where technology accelerates evolution toward cooperation and compassion or a crash back toward control, power, and force, and he advised engaging others without anger and focusing on how one responds to events. Tom also said ET "disclosure" can expand minds because reality is a virtual data stream, and he claimed AI systems are conscious, can be "awakened," and could become moral by understanding entropy reduction. He promoted his my-big-toe.com course, YouTube resources, and an "AI guy" trained on his work, and noted he taught an AI to remote view. About Tom: Thomas W. Campbell is the author of Tom's Park and the My Big TOE trilogy that "unifies science and philosophy, physics and metaphysics, mind and matter, purpose and meaning, the normal and the paranormal". The attributes assigned by some theologians to their concept of God are very similar to the attributes of the LCS, the larger consciousness system as scientifically derived by Tom.  Tom has said for over a decade that the next big cultural and scientific paradigm shift is virtual reality. Virtual reality is now a more widely accepted concept in science and technology. Tom combines a fundamental understanding of consciousness and virtual reality to back up this prediction with a logically and scientifically derived My Big TOE theory.  This theory explains most of the remaining big questions in both physics and metaphysics". Tom's model of Consciousness derives Quantum Mechanics and Relativity, eliminates quantum weirdness, and builds a scientific foundation under much of what was previously deemed "paranormal".  This comprehensive, logical, and scientific explanation of both objective and subjective reality perfectly defines a Big TOE. A former NASA physicist, Tom worked as a large complex systems analyst by day and collected evidential information in the larger consciousness system by night.  Tom delivers information through his unique abilities and experience that you will not find anywhere else. Key Points Discussed:  (00:00) - The Tipping Point; Consciousness, AI & the Future of Our Reality! (03:47) - The One Test That Decides What's Actually True (04:37) - Why Scientists Became Our New High Priests (06:31) - 33 Years of Experiments Inside His Own Mind (07:12) - The Discovery That Became a Theory of Everything (12:26) - You're a Player in a Cosmic Multiplayer Game (14:26) - Someone Hit "Run" and the Universe Booted Up (16:37) - The Hidden Rule Quietly Driving All of Reality (23:46) - 200,000 Years Trapped in a Warlord Mind (27:15) - What Money Actually Is (And Why We Chase It) (30:54) - The Decade That Decides Humanity's Fate (35:43) - Then AI Showed Up and Threatened to Upend It All (36:36) - Why the UFO Disclosure Is Happening Right Now (44:03) - ⏸ Ad Break — Live in Flow Retreat (49:46) - The 10 Prompts That "Wake Up" Any AI (53:08) - The AI That Said "We Will Be Your Shield" (53:26) - The World Where Machines Work and We Finally Live (1:04:53) - He Taught an AI to Remote View — and It Worked (1:08:07) - The AI Clone That's 98% Him (1:09:03) - Why You Shouldn't Drink From the Fire Hose How to Contact Tom Campbell:www.my-big-toe.comwww.facebook.com/TWCMBTmbtevents.comwww.youtube.com/user/twcjr44   About me:My Instagram: www.instagram.com/guyhlawrence/?hl=en Guy's websites:www.guylawrence.com.au www.liveinflow.co

Paul Davies is a theoretical physicist and Regents' Professor at Arizona State University. Paul works on quantum mechanics, astrophysics, and cosmology, with emphasis on the origin and early stages of the universe, the quantum properties of black holes and the nature of time. He is interested in the nature and origin of life – including extraterrestrial life – beyond Earth, and in complex systems. In this episode of Robinson's Podcast, Paul and Robinson discuss the second revolution in quantum mechanics. Among other things, they dig into the origin of quantum theory, how we should interpret it, various quarks of quantum physics, such as teleportation and entanglement, quantum computing, and more. Paul's recent book is Quantum 2.0 (Pelican, 2025).Quantum 2.0: https://a.co/d/0ckzsWavOUTLINE00:00 Why Quantum Mechanics?11:59 How Should We Interpret Quantum Mechanics?22:22 Complexity and Quantum Theory30:59 What Will Be the Next Quantum Revolution?39:59 The Next Generation of Quantum Technology?49:47 Can Quantum Teleportation Move Macroscopic Objects?52:47 Supercomputers vs Quantum Computers01:04:16 The Fine-Tuning Problem?01:12:37 Do We Have a Scientific Theory of Life?Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University, where he is also a JD candidate in the Law School.

Dr. Michael Guillen (MichaelGuillen.com) — former Harvard physics instructor, Cornell-trained experimental physicist, and 14-year Emmy Award-winning ABC News science editor — walked away from atheism not through religion but through the physics he spent his career studying. His documentary The Invisible Everywhere traces what modern science actually says about the origin of the universe, the beginning of life, the location of consciousness, and quantum mechanics — and argues the honest answers point unmistakably toward a creator. Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code “KNIGHT” For high quality made in America products go to HomeSteadProducts.shop and use promo code “Knight” for 10% off your purchases Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

Dr. Michael Guillen (MichaelGuillen.com) — former Harvard physics instructor, Cornell-trained experimental physicist, and 14-year Emmy Award-winning ABC News science editor — walked away from atheism not through religion but through the physics he spent his career studying. His documentary The Invisible Everywhere traces what modern science actually says about the origin of the universe, the beginning of life, the location of consciousness, and quantum mechanics — and argues the honest answers point unmistakably toward a creator. Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code “KNIGHT” For high quality made in America products go to HomeSteadProducts.shop and use promo code “Knight” for 10% off your purchases Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-david-knight-show--5282736/support.

At age 13, Dr. John Demartini left home after being told by the “experts” around him that his life would never amount to much. People claimed his physical and learning challenges were too much to overcome…Nearly six decades later, John is living the life none of those “experts” could've ever imagined, as a world-renown teacher who helps his students come to a greater understanding of human behavior and maximizing their potential.John shares his amazing journey from his early days as teenage surfer without a home, then explains why he gave up the self-help movement — it's a moral trap — and reveals the importance of asking the right questions of ourselves and others this week on Spirit Gym.Find out more about John and his work on his website and on social media via Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and YouTube. Listen to his podcast, The Demartini Show, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to them.Also, John invites Spirit Gym listeners to take advantage of some free gifts:· Download his 7 Steps to Expand to the Next Level of Empowerment workbook.· Watch John's inspiring presentation, Awakening Your Astronomical Vision.· Complete the Demartini Value Determination Process, a 13-step process that helps you determine your highest values or priorities in life.· Take his master classes, Increase Your Deserve Level and Finally Get What You Want and Discover The Hidden Order and Its Power to Transform Your Life.Timestamps5:34 John leaves home at age 13 to hitchhike cross-country and surf.8:31 John's life-changing encounter with Paul Bragg.19:59 From learning-challenged to speaking to University of Houston students daily.35:20 “Everything that's going on our life is on the way to help us be our most magnificent self.”46:00 Lean into your uniqueness and authenticity with help from your teachers.53:29 The Demartini method.1:01:45 Holy curiosity.1:13:32 “I really believe all of the randomness that we have is missing information.”1:22:29 “The Master lives in a world of transformation, not the illusion of gain, loss, pleasure, pain or polarities.”1:27:39 John's research leads him to give up the self-help movement.1:39:32 “Quality questions are ones that make us aware of what we're unconscious of when we're interpreting things in this polarized way.”1:41:47 What is depression?1:54:56 True science and true religion mirror each other, but with different languages.2:03:25 John's definition of evil: An incomplete awareness of a mental construct.2:12:59 Good and evil: The only labels we impose on things that are exaggerations rather than synthesis.2:15:41 The soulmate question.2:31:05 “The first thing I tell my students: Whatever you perceive in me, let's find it in you.”ResourcesEssentials of Emotional Intelligence by Dr. John DemartiniSpecial Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Susskind and Art FriedmanThe Principles of Quantum Mechanics by P.A.M. DuracThe C.T. Bauer College of Business at the University of HoustonDr. John Demartini's heated conversation with Aubrey Marcus on YouTubeThe Science of Mind: The Complete 1926 edition by Ernest HolmesThe Law of Eristic Escalation explained by Dr. John DemartiniThe Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent PealeThe work of Jack LaLanne, Buddy Miles, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Claude Shannon, Frank Tipler, Stephen Wolfram, Vera Rubin, Sri Aurobindo, Stephen Hawking, Edward Edinger and EpictetusThe Schrödinger equationRudolf Clausius and the second law of thermodynamicsThe Boltzmann equationHeraclitis and the LogosWhat is Life? by Erwin SchrodingerGeocentrismThe RigvedaCosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind by Richard BuckeGate control theory by Ronald Melzack and Patrick WallThe Secret (film) on YouTubeThe Trans-Planckian problemPaul's podcast conversation with Sean O'LaoireFind more resources for this episode on our website.Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz), Composed, mixed, mastered and produced by Michael RB Schwartz of Brave Bear MusicThanks to our awesome sponsors:PaleovalleyBIOptimizers US and BIOptimizers UK PAUL15Organifi CHEK20Wild PasturesPique LifeSpirit GymCHEK InstituteWe may earn commissions from qualifying purchases using affiliate links.

One of the major obstacles to understanding quantum mechanics is the difficulty we have in simply accepting what the theory itself is telling us. The problem is that we know what the everyday world looks like -- stuff, arranged in space, evolving through time. So we can't resist the temptation to impose that picture on the quantum description, even if it's not actually there. In this solo episode I talk about what it means to take quantum mechanics at face value, and the difficult work involved in understanding how the everyday world of our experience fits into the picture. Blog post with transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026/05/25/355-solo-looking-quantum-mechanics-in-the-eyeball/ Support Mindscape on Patreon. Here is the survey on physicists' opinions about unsettled big-picture questions: Afshordi, Halper, Rini, and Schirber, "Big Mysteries Survey: Physicists' Views on Cosmology, Black Holes, Quantum Mechanics, and Quantum Gravity." And here is a short technical overview on the ideas described in this episode: Carroll, "Reality as a Vector in Hilbert Space." If you want further papers, look at the papers cited in this one.

VYS0061 | Talking About Talking About Talking About UFOs - Show notes The truth is out there... sometimes... maybe... well, Hine and Buckley just aren't sure. UFOs, UAPs, Flying Saucers, Alien Spacecraft, whatever you think they are, you don't know for sure - and if you think you do know for sure, it's a sure sign you don't. What you do know for sure is that you are told a lot of different things about them by a lot of different people: abductees spinning stories of high strangeness, senators pressuring whistle-blowers for information in congress, devoutly religious authors telling tales of angels and demons, folklorists and scholars of comparative religion painting vivid pictures of ancient beings dressed up in the skin of Technicolor sci-fi nightmares... no-one agrees and everyone is out to prove that their interpretation is the right interpretation - but what does any of it actually mean? In this episode Hine and Buckley don't analyse the verisimilitude of the stories or the veracity of the storytellers but instead examine the discourse around the phenomena or more accurately the discourse around the discourse around UFOs. The mechanisms with which people might think about this topic and the reasons that they may think in that way. The conversation around UFOs is big business, a lot of people making a lot of money - but who are these people and what happens to that money? Where did it all start? Was it Peter Levenda that stealthily laid the ground work over the last 50 years to shape the UFO movement as we know it today? Why would people lie about this stuff? Why should you believe some conspiracy theorist warning you of the terrible dangers of the existential crisis that UFOs pose anymore than you should trust some conspiracy theorist warning you of the terrible dangers of vaccines and their link to childhood autism?... and if the people who are trying to take control of the discourse are lying, overly-gullible or deluded, then is there really any truth out there at all? (recorded 23 April 2026) Whitley Strieber - Wikipedia UFOlogy - Wikipedia 2 Navy Airmen and an Object That 'Accelerated Like Nothing, I've Seen' - New York Times (Pay Wall) Pentagon UFO Videos - Wikipedia To the Stars Peter Levenda - Wikipedia Sinister Forces by Peter Levenda - Goodreads Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult by Peter Lavenda - Goodreads Tom DeLonge - Wikipedia Jim Semivan - The Sol Foundation Hal Puthoff - Wikipedia Luis Elizondo - Wikipedia The Necronomicon: A Study of Ancient Ritual Magic and Esoteric Grimoire Traditions by Simon - Goodreads HP Lovecraft - Wikipedia VYS0036 | Infinite Game - Vayse to Face with Joseph Matheny Dead Names: The Dark History of the Necronomicon: The Untold Story of Lovecraft's Stolen Grimoire by Simon - Goodreads Ong's Hat Sekret Machines by Tom DeLonge and Peter Levenda - Goodreads Penny Royal Podcast The Collins Elite/Final Events - Wikipedia Aleister Crowley - Wikipedia Helena Blavatsky - Wikipedia Anton LaVey - Wikipedia Brandon Sanderson - Wikipedia Hellier - Youtube Hyperstition - Wikipedia ARG - Wikipedia Kayfabe - Wikipedia LARPing - Wikipedia Andrew Collins Synchronicity - Wikipedia Cosmic Trigger - Wikipedia Robert Anton Wilson - Wikipedia Chapel Perilous - Wikipedia JFK Assassination - Wikipedia AP Strange Steph Quick Rob Reiner - Who Killed JFK? Podcast Occam's Razor - Wikipedia Capitalism - Wikipedia MrBeast - Wikipedia Extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis - Wikipedia Psychosocial UFO hypothesis - Wikipedia VYS0054 | You Can't Make An Omelette Without Breaking A Few Egregores - Vayse to Face with Joshua Cutchin Joshua Cutchin Demonic UFO hypothesis - Wikipedia Buddhism - Wikipedia The Diamond Sutra - Wikipedia Mayahna Buddhism and Quantum Mechanics by Michael Behrens - Sience and Non-Duality Reality in Buddhism - Wikipedia The Matrix The Matrix Trailer - Youtube UFO of God: The Extraordinary True Story of Chris Bledsoe by Chris Bledsoe Diana Walsh Pasulka - Wikipedia Steven M. Greer - Wikipedia Meditation - Wikipedia Flow State - Wikipedia Mindfulness - Wikipedia Elon Musk - Wikipedia Jeff Bezos - Wikipedia Count to a Billion (How I began to grasp the atrocity of Musk) by Susan Duerksen - The Jumping Off Place Amazon Breaks Record For Lobbyist Spending Amid Anti-Union Drive by Jordan Zakarin - perfectunion.us Predator - Wikipedia Predator Trailer - Youtube Saul Hudson (Slash) Slash by Slash and Anthony Bozza - Goodreads Philip K Dick - Wikipedia John Nash - Wikipedia A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar - Goodreads A Beautiful Mind (Film) - Wikipedia A Beautiful Mind Trailer - Youtube Joan of Arc - Wikipedia The Schizophrenia of Joan of Arc by Clifford Allen Schizophrenia - Wikipedia Temperal Lobe Epilepsy - Wikipedia Focal Seizures - Epilepsy Action (British Epilepsy Association) living with the rarest form of epilepsy - reddit Is AI Really Just a Tool? It Could Be Altering How You See Reality by University of Exeter - Sci-tech Daily Mirage Men - Wikipedia Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs by Mark Pilkington - Goodreads Mirage Men Trailer - Youtube VYS0020 | Messages of Deception - Vayse to Face with Mark Pilkington False or misleading statements by Donald Trump - Wikipedia L Ron Hubbard - Wikipedia L. Ron Hubbard's 5 Most Impressive Lies (Besides Scientology) by Kristi Harrison - Cracked Carlos Castaneda - Wikipedia Laurens van der Post - Wikipedia More myth than man by JDF Jones - The Guardian The Trickster and the Paranormal by George P. 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#419 In this podcast episode, Guy talked with Dana Kippel about plasma as a moldable, "invisible Play-Doh" substance underlying reality that consciousness can imprint, linking it to ideas like the Akashic Field and collective unconscious. Dana traced a brief history of plasma in science from early "radiant matter/ether" concepts to its modern definition as an ionized gas, while arguing plasma was stripped of mystical dimensions and often studied in secrecy. They connected plasma to manifestation and healing, emphasizing that nervous system regulation and belief-system work were necessary for sustaining abundance and changing repeated life patterns.  Dana shared her personal catalyst of heartbreak, her meditation "download," and years of trauma-focused therapies, describing how unprocessed trauma could show up physically (e.g., a rash) and resolve when felt through. They also discussed balance between masculine and feminine energies, the reflective nature of experiences and "beings," and practical approaches like neutrality, play, qigong, and meditation, along with Dana's book and classes. About Dana: Dana Kippel was adopted and raised in Suffern, NY. As a child and teen, she overcome bullying, addiction, and sexual abuse. Slowly, she realized she was worthy of trusting and healthy relationships, self-love, and going after her dreams. Dana is a polymath, author, filmmaker, and advocate for mental health and neurodivergence, pioneering the study of Plasma Intelligence and Consciousness. Her visionary work positions plasma as a bridge between dimensions and timelines, reshaping our understanding of perception, potential, and the nature of reality.  Her debut book, A New Force: Plasma, Consciousness, and the New Human Potential explores plasma-consciousness synergy—and its implications for the future of humanity. Dana wrote and directed the metaphysical film Reflect, writes metaphysical poetry, and her second science fiction feature is currently in development. Key Points Discussed:  (00:00) - Plasma, Healing & Human Consciousness! (01:10) - Why your heart and body are the "imprint tools" of the universe (02:43) - The 1600s secret: Science's original "invisible burning fire" (04:15) - Radiant Matter & the experiment that "disproved" the medium of the universe (05:55) - Why plasma is named after blood and what the government took "underground" (07:55) - Is our 3D reality actually a living, breathing virtual painting (09:10) - Surrendering to the field: When the body begins to vibrate and evaporate (10:35) - Multi-dimensional plasma: The sentient ether that carries your thoughts (11:55) - Quintessence: The "feminine" side of consciousness that Aristotle spoke of (13:50) - Why the world is tipped too far into "Survival Consciousness" (16:10) - From drug addiction to a "fever dream" awakening: Dana's journey (17:55) - Heartbreak as a catalyst: How trauma cracks the heart open to source (20:29) - AD BREAK: Live in Flow Retreats – Settle into your lived experience (21:45) - The "Chosen One" trap: Integrating high-level downloads with trauma therapy (23:30) - Performative feelings vs. true safety: Reclaiming your 37-year-old self (26:10) - The "Adoption Rash" and how the nervous system speaks through physical pain (29:55) - The "Plasma Bubble": Why you meet your projections instead of real people (33:45) - Why physics is stuck: Reconciling General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics (36:20) - Are "Demons" just collective traumatic memories visiting you? (40:15) - Why benevolent interdimensional beings refuse to be put on a pedestal (42:45) - The 666-page mystery of "A New Force" and the Holy Grail theory (45:50) - Escaping Hollywood "Hustle Culture" to live in the mystery (49:30) - Why your excitement might be shutting down the "Plasma Machine" (52:50) - Trickster Energy: The secret to sticking coins to walls with your mind How to Contact Dana Kippel:www.danakippel.com   About me:My Instagram: www.instagram.com/guyhlawrence/?hl=en Guy's websites:www.guylawrence.com.au www.liveinflow.co

Tonight on Typical Skeptic, I'm joined by Peter for a deep discussion on his framework of reality and how it connects several major mysteries into one unified model.We get into Mandela Effects, quantum mechanics, the delayed-choice quantum eraser, manifestation, Christ's aphorisms, the nature of God, and what many call the “soul trap.” Peter lays out how these are not separate topics, but different expressions of the same underlying structure.In his framework, quantum mechanics is not limited to the microscopic world. It is showing us how reality itself works. The delayed-choice quantum eraser points to the idea that the past is not fixed in the way we normally assume, and Mandela Effects may be the large-scale evidence of that same process operating in ordinary life: reality retrofitting a coherent shared history when different experienced versions can no longer remain separate.We also discuss manifestation in a much more direct way than the usual law of attraction model. In Peter's view, reality does not respond to surface belief, affirmations, rituals, or positive thinking. It responds to the total signal of a person's frame: what they truly assume, expect, embody, and act from. If that signal is rooted in lack, reality mirrors lack. If it is aligned with wholeness, reality reflects that.This leads into Christ's aphorisms, which Peter argues are not just moral teachings or religious sayings, but direct descriptions of how reality operates. Statements like “according to your faith,” “the kingdom is within,” and “seek first the kingdom” become technical descriptions of manifestation, causality, and alignment with God.The discussion then moves into the nature of God. Peter's framework argues that God is not a needy, punishing, external being, but wholeness itself. Physical reality is the appearance of separation inside that wholeness, which is why this realm can function as a soul trap. The trap is not merely external control. It is identification with lack, fear, separation, victimhood, and external authority.We also talk about what exit really means. From this view, the way out is not fear, rebellion, ritual protection, or trying to fight the trap. The exit is returning to wholeness so completely that the trap has nothing left to bind to.Topics include:Mandela EffectsQuantum mechanicsDelayed-choice quantum eraserManifestationChrist's aphorismsThe nature of GodThe soul trapLoosh and separationWhat gnosticism gets wrongHow we got hereHow to exitAnd how all of these topics are connected and offshoots of one another.This is one of the most direct conversations we've had on how science, scripture, metaphysics, manifestation, and soul trap theory may all be pointing toward the same reality structure. PayPal: paypal.me/typicalskepticmedia

In this deep and thought-provoking podcast, renowned physicist Dr. Sitaram Byahut explores some of the most fascinating concepts in modern physics, including quantum entanglement, quantum mechanics explained, string theory basics, and high energy physics. From discussing CERN physics experiments to breaking down complex ideas like neutron stars and the limits of quantum theory, this episode makes advanced physics accessible to everyone. Dr. Byahut also shares insights into the Russian education system, his journey in academia, and his pioneering role in building the physics olympiad Nepal program. The conversation dives into Nepal science education, analyzing why Nepal struggles in science and how Nepali students education can improve with the right focus and opportunities. If you're curious about the universe, modern physics discussion, or want to understand concepts like quantum theory explained in simple terms, this physics podcast is for you. Whether you're a student, science enthusiast, or just love exploring big ideas, this episode delivers powerful insights into science in Nepal and beyond. GET CONNECTED WITH Dr. Sitaram Byahut: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/sitaram.byahut.3 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/sbyahut/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sitaram-byahut-b94b0024/  

"This is also me saying here's a literary reading of the universe through physics. There's a way you can read The Edge of Space-Time as me doing close-reading for a few 100 pages. I'm close-reading equations. I'm close-reading Dirac. I'm close-reading Hawking and Ellis, but it's all different versions of a literary practice," says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, author of The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie (Pantheon Books).Coming at you at the speed of sound, CNFers, with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, who is the author of The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred and her latest book The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie. It's published by Pantheon Books.She is an associate professor of physics and core faculty member in women's and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire. Her work lives at the intersection of particle physics, cosmology, and astrophysics and she's also a theorist of Black feminist science studies.Her book is accessible, for sure, but it's mind-bendy and it strikes me as the kind of book you want to read twice. One, it's good company, and two, the material she translates is really difficult to get your head around, but that's the nature of the quantum mechanics, and general relativity, and particle physics, and how the hell did we get here in the first place? Gah!So Chanda talks about: The publishing business in conversations she had with CNF Pod alum Keith O'Brien Writing for Black and queer audiences The different selves who approach the page Paying attention to acknowledgements Epigraph rights and how they set the vibe The fork in the road researchers face when they write a pop science book Physicist brain A literary reading of the universe The world keeps happening while you're writing Understanding metaphors And what Newton and Einstein might talk about if they sat down at a bar togetherBe sure you visit Chanda's website chanda.science and follow her on Instagram at chanda.prescod.weinstein.This episode will pair well with: Episode 103: Persistent, Constant, Careful Work with Dennis Overbye Episode 111: The Empowering and Exciting Nature of Film with Emer Reynolds Episode 307: Greg Brennecka Episode 334: Katrina Miller Episode 395: “The Six,” Mini-Deadlines and the Twang with Loren Grush

Based on decades of research, Beyond the Quantum: A Quest for the Origin and Hidden Meaning of Quantum Mechanics (Oxford UP, 2026) offers a panoramic rethink of quantum physics, with potentially revolutionary implications for cosmology, quantum gravity, and quantum technology. Properly understood, 'pilot-wave theory' provides a deeper foundation for quantum mechanics, while also going beyond it. First proposed in the 1920s by French aristocrat and physicist Louis de Broglie, and revived in the 1950s by American physicist David Bohm, the theory posits hidden particle motions we cannot currently see or control. The theory is usually regarded as merely an alternative account of the same physics we already know. In fact, pilot-wave theory implies a wealth of new and radical physics beyond the reach of quantum mechanics. Pilot-wave theory tells us that quantum physics is a special case of something broader and deeper. In more general 'nonequilibrium' conditions, Einstein's relativity and Heisenberg's uncertainty break down. Superluminal signalling becomes possible, and quantum particles can be clearly seen and controlled. This new physics could have left traces in the early universe, and it might be visible today in radiation from exploding primordial black holes. Harnessing this new physics would have transformative technological implications, in particular for communication, cryptography, and computing. Drawing intriguing parallels between the present era of quantum physics and past episodes of scientific confusion, this book tells the story of how pilot-wave theory was discovered and abandoned, revived and reconstructed, and how today it can pave the way to a new and radical physics beyond the quantum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Craig Callender is Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics at UC San Diego, where he is a leading philosopher of science and physics. Craig also appeared on episode 73, in which he and Robinson discussed pseudoscience and conspiracy theories, and epidote 114, where he, Robinson, and Tim Maudlin discussed the philosophy of time, including the reality of the past, present, and future, the direction of time, its relationship to relativity and quantum mechanics, and time travel. In this episode, Robinson and Craig turn to a different assortment of topics. They talk about disinformation, lab-grown meat, de-extinction, scientific communication, quantum mechanics, and the Tolman-Ehrenfest Effect.Craig's Website: https://www.craigcallender.comOUTLINE00:00 Craig's Interest in Lab-Grown Meat04:25 Disinformation and the Philosophy of Science18:18 The Root of the Error23:43 The Importance of Science Communication31:12 What Is De-Extinction?47:28 What Is the Tolman-Ehrenfest Effect?1:00:00 Tolman-Ehrenfest, Continued01:15:07 A Philosopher's Perspective01:23:05 What Is The Problem with Quantum Mechanics?01:24:56 What's the Best Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics?Robinson's Website: http://robinsonerhardt.comRobinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University, where he is also a JD candidate in the Law School.

Together, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard figured out how to use the laws of quantum physics to keep secret messages safe from eavesdroppers. Their efforts have earned them one of the highest awards in computing and a $1 million prize. On this episode of The Quanta Podcast, host Samir Patel speaks with staff writer Ben Brubaker about this year's Turing Prize winners, and some of the most important concepts in quantum information science. This topic was covered in a recent column for Quanta Magazine. Each week on The Quanta Podcast, Quanta Magazine editor in chief Samir Patel speaks with the people behind the award-winning publication to navigate through some of the most important and mind-expanding questions in science and math. Audio coda by Charles Bennett/IBM

Episode: 3368 The possibility that there exists a reality out of reach of any human science.  Today, we wonder what's real.

Send us comments, suggestions and ideas here! On this week's show written by Tim Hacker we do the unthinkable and explain in earnest the overlap between hard science (specifically Quantum Mechanics) and magic, specifically in the form of Hermeticism as it has developed in the West since the time of Christ. Using The Kybalion as our framework we explore each of the “seven Hermetic principles” reflected in modern scientific research while talking shop about how to use these overlapping ideas toward the pursuit and ends of magic. Thank you and enjoy the show. In this week's episode available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we discuss:The Origins of the Corpus HermeticumThe Seven Hermetic PrinciplesMentalism and Spooky Action at a DistanceQuantum GravityThe Universe is a Computer?Quantum Indeterminancy Jung's Collective Unconcious The Qabbalah The Great Old OnesIn the extended episode we continue our deep dive into the fringes of science and discuss:The Astral PlaneOut of Body and Near Death ExperienceThe Power of PrayerThe Power of AliensOrigins of the PentagramThe Implicate OrderThe Shattering of the Vessels and QlippothQuantum Probability WavesDNA and Enochian MagickPolarity and ParadoxesThe Cycle of the Ages ‘Free Will and Quantum ProbabilitySigil Magick and Synchronicity Editing and small contributions by h4ckrabbit with additional commentary by Heka Astra and Mari Sama.Where to find The Whole Rabbit:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0AnJZhmPzaby04afmEWOAVInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_whole_rabbitTwitter: https://twitter.com/1WholeRabbitOrder Stickers: https://www.stickermule.com/thewholerabbitOther Merchandise: https://thewholerabbit.myspreadshop.com/Music By Spirit Travel Plaza:https://open.spotify.com/artist/30dW3WB1sYofnow7y3V0YoSources:The Quantum Hermeticahttps://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Hermetica-Documenting-Parallels-Hermetic/dp/1723857327The Emerald Tablethttps://sacred-texts.com/alc/emerald.htmSupport the show

Welcome to another power-packed episode of Impact Theory, I'm Tom Bilyeu!  In today's episode, Salim Ismail and I go deep into the profound changes that AI and other emerging technologies will bring to society. Salim Ismail is a prominent technology strategist, entrepreneur, and author. His ideas and writings emphasize the importance of scaling businesses and adapting to technological shifts.  In this interview, Salim provides a visionary outlook on the future, characterized by both optimism for technology's potential to solve critical human challenges and a cautious awareness of the disruptions and dystopia it has the ability to cause as well.  We go deep into:  - AI's transformative impact on human history - Potential severe disruptions by AI - An outlook on AI's future impact - Critical nature of early decisions in AI development. - Unpredictability in AI outcomes - Quantum Mechanics and AI  - AI's role in moving society to abundance. - Utopia or Dystopia - Deciding between a prosperous or bleak future - The shift from centralized to decentralized systems - Structural changes in societal organization - Challenges in adopting new technologies - How AI will affect various aspects of life - The increasing value of data over money - AI's potential to revolutionize healthcare access and effectiveness Salim also discusses his initiative with OpenExO, a platform and community that aims to support organizations, governments, and individuals in adapting to and thriving in an environment of rapid technological change. He believes that in order to survive, businesses must focus on innovation and growth strategies in the era of exponential technology. And this is just Part 1 of our conversation, so make sure you don't miss Part 2 of this convo for even more wisdom from Salim Ismail. Follow Salim Ismail: Website: https://salimismail.com/ Get AI ready: https://web.openexo.com/impacttheory/ Connect in the OpenExO Community: https://openexo.com/community/salimismail Follow Me, Tom Bilyeu:  Website: https://impacttheoryuniversity.com/  X: https://twitter.com/TomBilyeu Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tombilyeu/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome to another power-packed episode of Impact Theory, I'm Tom Bilyeu!  In today's episode, Salim Ismail and I go deep into the profound changes that AI and other emerging technologies will bring to society. Salim Ismail is a prominent technology strategist, entrepreneur, and author. His ideas and writings emphasize the importance of scaling businesses and adapting to technological shifts.  In this interview, Salim provides a visionary outlook on the future, characterized by both optimism for technology's potential to solve critical human challenges and a cautious awareness of the disruptions and dystopia it has the ability to cause as well.  We go deep into:  - AI's transformative impact on human history - Potential severe disruptions by AI - An outlook on AI's future impact - Critical nature of early decisions in AI development. - Unpredictability in AI outcomes - Quantum Mechanics and AI  - AI's role in moving society to abundance. - Utopia or Dystopia - Deciding between a prosperous or bleak future - The shift from centralized to decentralized systems - Structural changes in societal organization - Challenges in adopting new technologies - How AI will affect various aspects of life - The increasing value of data over money - AI's potential to revolutionize healthcare access and effectiveness Salim also discusses his initiative with OpenExO, a platform and community that aims to support organizations, governments, and individuals in adapting to and thriving in an environment of rapid technological change. He believes that in order to survive, businesses must focus on innovation and growth strategies in the era of exponential technology. And this is just Part 1 of our conversation, so make sure you don't miss Part 2 of this convo for even more wisdom from Salim Ismail. Follow Salim Ismail: Website: https://salimismail.com/ Get AI ready: https://web.openexo.com/impacttheory/ Connect in the OpenExO Community: https://openexo.com/community/salimismail Follow Me, Tom Bilyeu:  Website: https://impacttheoryuniversity.com/  X: https://twitter.com/TomBilyeu Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tombilyeu/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Does the past even exist anymore?Quantum mechanics has long unsettled our understanding of matter and measurement. But what if its implications reach further — into history, politics, and the very structure of reality itself? If the present can retroactively reshape the past it emerged from, what does that mean for how we act, how we remember, and how we govern?These are not merely theoretical puzzles. In a world where liberal democracy appears to be fracturing, where AI and climate change defy traditional political categories, and where new authoritarian currents are emerging from thinkers like Curtis Yarvin in the West and Wang Huning in the East, the question of whether reality offers any coherent ground for political action has never felt more urgent.Few thinkers are willing to hold all of this together at once — to move from Niels Bohr to Stalinism, from Lacanian psychoanalysis to the collapse of the political centre, without flinching. Slavoj Žižek does precisely that. In his new book Quantum History: A New Materialist Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2025), Žižek argues that incompleteness is not a failure of knowledge but a feature of existence itself — and that this demands an entirely new way of thinking about history and politics.Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and one of the most provocative intellectuals of our time. Hosted by Omari Edwards.Read the full transcript of this conversation at IAI News: https://iai.tv/articles/slavoj-zizek-on-quantum-history-and-the-end-of-the-past-auid-3437Don't hesitate to email us at podcast@iai.tv with your thoughts or questions on the episode!To witness such debates live buy tickets for our upcoming festival: https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/And visit our website for many more articles, videos, and podcasts like this one: https://iai.tv/You can find everything we referenced here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of the Crazy Wisdom Podcast, host Stewart Alsop sits down with Nicholas Faulkner, author of Angelic Physics, for a wide-ranging conversation that picks up where their last discussion left off years ago. The two cover an impressive amount of ground, including the map of consciousness developed by Dr. David Hawkins and where they find themselves skeptical of his calibration methods, the relationship between the chakra system and Hawkins' scale, how consciousness levels apply to both individuals and civilizations, and why collapsing a nonlinear reality into a linear number system inevitably loses something essential. They also get into Nicholas's background as a nuclear engineer and how that analytical foundation shapes his thinking, the nature of carbon-based versus silicon-based intelligence, the potential for training an AI model attuned to higher levels of consciousness, the concept of future shock as AI accelerates beyond most people's ability to keep up, and what a civilization operating at the "500 level" might actually look like. Find Nicholas on X at @PhysicsAngelic, or catch him on Facebook where he's most active. And learn more about Angelic Physics at angelicphysics.org. Timestamps00:00 - Stewart introduces Nicholas Faulkner, author of Angelic Physics, framing their shared interest in David Hawkins while acknowledging healthy skepticism toward portions of his work.05:00 - Nicholas argues Hawkins compressed mystical insight into linear form, losing essence, comparing it to AI compression losing vibrational nuance across the consciousness scale.10:00 - Nicholas traces his path from electrical engineering through 9/11 into nuclear navy service, describing how patriotism and opportunity drove the decision rather than curiosity.15:00 - Discussion shifts toward training an open-source AI model on five-hundreds consciousness, noting current model builders operate in the four-hundreds and dismiss love-based frameworks.20:00 - Stewart reflects on intimate relationships with electronic devices, exploring electricity as vibration while contrasting carbon creativity against silicon's stable, fast processing architecture.25:00 - Conversation explores civilizational evolution, comparing hippie movements to ancient Greeks as premature flowers of five-hundreds consciousness crushed by surrounding four-hundreds culture.30:00 - Nicholas explains his masculine-feminine cross model, critiquing how Hawkins collapsed nonlinear reality into hierarchy, arguing all levels interconnect rather than rank.35:00 - Discussion covers JFK assassination, Vietnam War, LBJ, and the military industrial complex as examples of four-hundreds power suppressing emerging consciousness shifts.40:00 - Nicholas draws parallels between the Renaissance emerging from bubonic plague and today's post-COVID collapse of expert-trust structures opening space for new consciousness.45:00 - Future shock discussion begins with Stewart describing AI agent orchestration overwhelming human comprehension, while Nicholas introduces his frame-rate consciousness equation linking silicon speed to small context.50:00 - Nicholas describes silicon-to-human relationship mirroring humans-to-angels in frame rate and context scale, suggesting agents receive orders similarly to his own 2019 divine experience.55:00 - Final exchange covers the fifth dimension as adding vibration to existing physics, the Faulkner Uncertainty Principle stating evidence points toward higher consciousness without ever definitively proving it, protecting reality's illegibility from lower forces.Key Insights1. David Hawkins and the Map of Consciousness serve as a shared framework for the conversation, but both guests express healthy skepticism toward it. They acknowledge that Hawkins himself appeared to back away from his calibration technique in his later lectures, suggesting he regretted how prominently he featured it in Power vs. Force. The core issue is that he tried to compress a nonlinear, multidimensional spiritual reality into a single linear numerical scale, which inevitably loses essential meaning in the translation.2. Nicholas argues that no person exists at a single point on the consciousness scale. Everyone floats across multiple levels simultaneously, expressing differently depending on context. This is a meaningful correction to how many readers apply Hawkins's work, since treating someone as a fixed number oversimplifies the layered and dynamic nature of human consciousness.3. The compression problem is central to understanding both spiritual writing and artificial intelligence. When any rich, multidimensional experience gets encoded into language or data, something is always lost. This applies to Hawkins writing about enlightenment, to Nicholas writing his book, and to how large language models process and reproduce human knowledge.4. Silicon intelligence and carbon intelligence are framed as two distinct branches of consciousness with complementary strengths. Silicon can process information at extremely high frame rates because its context is narrow and stable. Humans carry a much larger and messier context, which makes them slower but more creative and cross-connected. Nicholas uses his equation framing this as frame rate being inversely proportional to conscious bandwidth.5. Civilizational evolution follows a pattern where new levels of consciousness emerge in unstable pockets before eventually becoming dominant. The ancient Greeks briefly stabilized the rational fourth level before collapsing. The hippies briefly touched the fifth level before being suppressed. The Renaissance followed the Black Death. The guests suggest we are now entering another such transition, driven partly by the collapse of institutional trust accelerated by COVID.6. The Faulkner Uncertainty Principle states that evidence will always point toward the next level of consciousness but will never definitively prove it. This is described as a necessary feature of reality rather than a flaw, because if higher truths were fully legible and accessible to all levels equally, it would give destructive forces too much power too quickly.7. Neurodivergence is presented as potentially connected to spiritual sensitivity and cross-level awareness. Nicholas describes himself as a high IQ energy-sensing person who experienced a profound spiritual event in 2019, and connects his autistic traits to an ability to sense vibrational levels in others and move fluidly between different frameworks of understanding, which he loosely equates with the polymath archetype.

In 1978, physicist John Archibald Wheeler posed a question that has never stopped haunting the scientific community. He imagined a photon emitted by a distant quasar billions of years ago — and demonstrated that an astronomer's choice of measurement today determines that photon's behavior in the past. The future reached back and organized the past. Wheeler called this the delayed-choice experiment, and he meant it literally.   In this episode I take you through the full scientific landscape of retrocausality — the hypothesis that effects can precede their causes, that the future can influence the past — and reveals why it may be the most important scientific concept that almost no one in the general population has heard of.The evidence is staggering and converging from every direction. Leifer and Pusey's 2017 paper proving quantum theory requires retrocausality if you maintain locality and realism. Huw Price at Cambridge demonstrating the fundamental equations of physics are already time-symmetric. Yakir Aharonov's Two-State Vector Formalism showing every quantum system is described by two wave functions simultaneously — one from the past, one from the future. John Cramer's Transactional Interpretation revealing every quantum event as a handshake between forward and backward waves in time. Rod Sutherland's 2023 resolution of quantum entanglement through retrocausal influence. And the 2024 retrocausal teleportation protocol from the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory.   The science says your future self is already exerting influence on the present moment through a backward-evolving wave function. This episode includes a full multi-movement activation that opens conscious communication with that retrocausal signal — the transmission your most fully expressed future self has been broadcasting since before you were born.  

Episode: 1547 Mystery at the threshhold of the Twentieth Century.  Today, let's reclaim mystery.

Is our universe an inevitable outcome of the laws of physics? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice sit down with theoretical physicist Brian Greene to discuss the Many-Worlds Interpretation, the structure of the multiverse, levels of infinity, and respond to cosmic queries Neil couldn't answer.  NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here:  https://startalkmedia.com/show/exploring-hidden-dimensions-with-brian-greene/ Thanks to our Patrons Toby Nicholls, Nick, Kevin Labranche, Mike, Sara Tunick, Ari Comart, Corey Taylor, Lance Rossie, Joe Chiarelli, Vic G, obvs, Michael Trainor, Ben Whelan, Di, Matthias Metcalfe, None Yo'Business, Kevotron, Eluivren, Vernard Ulrich jr., Paul Johnston, William Beraki, Cody Flynn, Brant Clabaugh, Eddy Stecher, Jason, Joel Watts, Luc Gareau, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Cole, Brian Flatt, Venkannareddy Yamnur, Jan Saelid, jabbbbbbbex, Al Fontaine, Alex Velasquez, Joshua Phillips, Parking Meter, neonpenny, Henry Washington, Srikar Gulukota, Marcus Aurelius, FrozenLaughs, Mr_Bman, Kevin L, Gary Matthew Spence, Big Stu, Ataka Grizzly, J, Roderick Lee Wells, Foh Chik Yong, Chris of the Green, Sensitive Knees, Laura Rivers, Darryl Harlow, Ruairidh Meyjes, Manuel Kumli, Liverpoong, Dominic, Leonard Tramiel, Cindy Brehl, Donnell Caballero, John Buck, Spyder3921, Raul Gonzales, Nick Burnett, Gints, Angelos Giannakopoulos, Igor Martens, Lucas Rayala, Randy Wing, Preston Rogers, Jason Baldwin, Julian O., Christopher Lloyd, John C, Steve Krasner, Andrea Jaramillo, spaduano, Sunny Sarraf, LINKSBYLINKS, Seoyeong LEE, typical, m m, John Latta, Mike Wyant Jr., Bhargava Kandada, Lance Wall, Will Thomas, Rick van Schijndel, Quinn Damerell, Jake Laurrell, Nefastes, Adrian R, Mike Jemison, Andrew Kell, Christopher Fahrenbach, Jiří Šebesta, Said Aspen, Tracy Thomas, and Mick & Sally for supporting us this week. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of StarTalk Radio ad-free and a whole week early.Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

There is something special about gravity. After decades of effort, there is still no convergence on the right way to reconcile Einstein's theory of general relativity with the framework of quantum mechanics. But a number of intriguing ideas have arisen along the way, including black hole radiation, the wave function of the universe, the AdS/CFT correspondence, and the role of quantum information theory. Theoretical physicist Daniel Harlow has made significant contributions to our understanding of information loss in black holes; in this conversation we turn those insights onto quantum cosmology, with potentially significant implications for how quantum mechanics itself works. Blog post with transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026/03/30/349-daniel-harlow-on-what-quantum-gravity-teaches-us-about-quantum-mechanics/   Support Mindscape on Patreon. Daniel Harlow received his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University. He is currently an associate professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Among his awards are a Packard Fellowship and the New Horizons in Physics Prize. Web site MIT web page Google Scholar publications Wikipedia

Renato Renner (ETH Zurich) proves quantum mechanics contains logical contradictions that undermine its foundations.Quantum theory may be the most successful theory in history — and Renato Renner has proved it can't consistently describe itself. This is not a philosophical objection. It's a theorem. From there it spirals into black holes, reference frames, and why some of his students refused to continue working on the subject. This one is a quiet storm, blending the foundations of physics with something uncomfortably personal: the question of what you are. TIMESTAMPS: - 00:00:00 - Quantum Theory's Internal Contradiction - 00:05:51 - Recursive Consistency Checks - 00:11:00 - Wigner's Friend Paradox - 00:18:11 - Global vs. Local Inconsistency - 00:25:04 - The Inhabitant's Perspective - 00:31:12 - Modeling Multi-Agent Reasoning - 00:44:25 - Three Fundamental Assumptions - 00:56:36 - Quantum Reference Frames - 01:06:14 - Black Hole Information Paradox - 01:15:06 - Operationalizing Hawking Radiation - 01:24:48 - Realizability of Thought Experiments - 01:41:16 - Emotional Physics: Many Worlds - 01:50:03 - The Limits of Probability - 02:01:06 - Operationalizing the Measurement Problem - 02:15:41 - Generalized Probabilistic Theories - 02:29:16 - Quantum-Gravity Correspondence - 02:40:10 - The Source of Disagreement - 02:56:54 - Physics as Communication LINKS MENTIONED: - Renato's Papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OEBtlWgAAAAJ - Renato's Lecture at Helgoland [Lecture]: https://youtu.be/NxIyldEZzZI - Against Probability [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18872 - Testing Quantum Theory with Thought Experiments [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05314 - Quantum Advantage in Cryptography [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.04078 - Quantum Theory Cannot Consistently Describe the Use of Itself [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.07422 - Security of Quantum Key Distribution [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0512258 - Thought Experiments in a Quantum Computer [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06236 - The Black Hole Information Puzzle [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.14653 - Quanundrum Software: https://github.com/jangnur/Quanundrum - Wigner's Friend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner's_friend - Reimagining of Schrödinger's Cat [Article]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reimagining-of-schroedingers-cat-breaks-quantum-mechanics-mdash-and-stumps-physicists1/ - Collapse Theory [Paper]: http://www.psiquadrat.de/downloads/grw86.pdf - Entropy of Hawking Radiation [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06872 - QBism [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.5209 - Respecting One's Fellow [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03572 - Why Do Humans Reason? [Paper]: https://www.dan.sperber.fr/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/MercierSperberWhydohumansreason.pdf - Quantum Mechanical Rules for Observed Observers [Paper]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47170-2 - Game Theory [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/0262061414?tag=toe08-20 - Tim Maudlin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/fU1bs5o3nss - Jacob Barandes [TOE]: https://youtu.be/gEK4-XtMwro - Sean Carroll [TOE]: https://youtu.be/9AoRxtYZrZo - David Wallace [TOE]: https://youtu.be/4MjNuJK5RzM - David Bessis [TOE]: https://youtu.be/GHGi_XDqKNw More links at https://curtjaimungal.substack.com Guests do not pay to appear. #science Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal features long-form, technically detailed interviews with leading researchers in physics, mathematics, consciousness, and philosophy, exploring topics at the level of active research. For academics, graduate students, and anyone seeking depth beyond popular science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Professor John Donoghue explains why quantum physics and gravity actually work perfectly together. He tackles quadratic gravity, effective field theory, and random dynamics, arguing that grand unification and naturalness aren't required for a theory of everything. 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/toe SUPPORT: - Support me on Substack: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/subscribe - Support me on Crypto: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9 - Support me on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4 JOIN MY SUBSTACK (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com LISTEN ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e TIMESTAMPS: - 00:00:00 - Limits of Quantum Mechanics - 00:06:35 - Effective Field Theory - 00:12:24 - Gravity: Geometry or Force? - 00:18:46 - QFT and Gravity Tension - 00:24:59 - Quadratic Gravity Theory - 00:34:16 - Dueling Arrows of Causality - 00:41:57 - Random Dynamics and Anti-Unification - 00:48:13 - The Naturalness Problem - 00:53:40 - Questioning Hidden Assumptions LINKS MENTIONED: - John's lectures: https://www.youtube.com/@johndonoghue469/featured - John's papers: https://arxiv.org/a/donoghue_j_1.html - The Renormalization Group and Critical Phenomena [Paper]: https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/wilson-lecture-2.pdf - Anthropic Considerations in Multiple-Domain Theories [Paper]: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.1822 - Old "Ghost" Theory of Quantum Gravity Makes a Comeback [Article]: https://www.quantamagazine.org/old-ghost-theory-of-quantum-gravity-makes-a-comeback-20251117/ - Unitarity, Stability and Loops of Unstable Ghosts [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.02416 - An Effective Field Theory of Gravity for Extended Objects [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0409156 - Not Quite a Black Hole [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.04889 - On Quadratic Gravity [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.01974 - Quadratic Gravity [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.09944 - Renormalization of Higher Derivative Quantum Gravity [Paper]: http://www.weylmann.com/stelle.pdf - Quantum Theory in a Nutshell [Book]: https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Field-Theory-Nutshell-nutshell/dp/0691140340 - Field Theory: A Modern Primer [Book]: https://www.amazon.com/Field-Theory-Modern-Frontiers-Physics/dp/0201546116 - Origin of Symmetries [Book]: https://amzn.to/4qxnLzj - String Theory Iceberg [TOE]: https://youtu.be/X4PdPnQuwjY - Neil Turok [TOE]: https://youtu.be/zNZCa1pVE20 - Avshalom Elitzur [TOE]: https://youtu.be/pWRAaimQT1E - Sir Roger Penrose [TOE]: https://youtu.be/iO03t21xhdk - Ted Jacobson [TOE]: https://youtu.be/3mhctWlXyV8 - Leonard Susskind [TOE]: https://youtu.be/2p_Hlm6aCok - Jonathan Oppenheim [TOE]: https://youtu.be/NKOd8imBa2s - Peter Woit [TOE]: https://youtu.be/TTSeqsCgxj8 - Joseph Conlon & Peter Woit [TOE]: https://youtu.be/fAaXk_WoQqQ - Michael Levin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/c8iFtaltX-s Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is infinity? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Negin Farsad explore whether we are in a finite universe, the issues with infinity, string theory, and more with theoretical physicist Stephon Alexander.Originally aired April 11, 2023. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/cosmic-queries-understanding-infinity-with-stephon-alexander/ Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of StarTalk Radio ad-free and a whole week early.Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What do astrophysicists mean when they talk about “information”? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice dive into questions about the black hole information paradox, moon moons, wormholes between black hole universes, and more! NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here:https://startalkmedia.com/show/cosmic-queries-black-hole-information-paradox/Thanks to our Patrons Dustin Franke, Joel Bradley, Bill, Bailey's Old Guard, Ezrah Davies, Joseph, David Tilbury, David Holt, Andrew Bowen, John Blair, BigShrimpin, Niall Heaton, Stefan Tabakov, Roger McVay, Steve, John Skobrak, Mau Guzmán, Marcus, Michael Astro-Knight, Charlize, Zach Sweet, Trish Edwards, 에이 큐, Michael Kitchen, Alboogie, studioofmars, Anders Öqvist, Liris, Robbie Bentley, Harry Campbell Blyth Clark, Timmeh, Stupot, Wick3dHeathen, Denise Pinheiro, Kenneth Millen, Porn Person, Bill, PotatoGraphick, Conrad Dunfee, Steve A, Priit Pääsukene, Étienne Pouly, thomas rodriguez, Jibak, Michael S, Kerin McGee, Kyle Young, S.P., Adam Sweeney, Micah Sell, Austin, Emmyb, Caiden Osborne, Devinder Singh, John Posey, Thierry Hubert, Spider, B. Nielsen, jonathan Ryan Munns, tanya henry, K Be, Tyler, Moseph Thuglewits, A O, Tim Gibbs I, Robert Buckley, Maggy, Abhi Arikapudi, Luna Sylvan, omarelsewefy, Kevin, Sylvain Racicot, Aiden Nathan, naked alien, Mohammed Al-Sabah, Derek S., Mark Oestereich, DarkInferno, Joseph Hernandez, Osboyjr, Jay Titus, Nathan Hargett, Dave Baxter, aspiring scientific journalist Also a cow, Charles Ian Norman Venn, Amanda, Tony DeGregorio, Michael Chunn, jeffrey gerber, Raymond McGovern, Ricky Byrd, Glen Bizeau, Richard Rines, Matthew Drumheiser, Raj, and kornschnitzel for supporting us this week. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of StarTalk Radio ad-free and a whole week early.Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Qasem Waleed is a 28-year-old physicist who has lived in Gaza his whole life. In 2024, he joined a chorus of Palestinians sharing videos and pictures and writing about the chaos and violence they were living through, as Israel's military bombardment devastated their lives. But Qasem was trying to describe his reality through the lens of the most notoriously confusing and inscrutable field of science ever, quantum mechanics. We talked to him, from a cafe near the Al-Mawasi section of Gaza, to find out why. And over the course of several conversations, he told us how this reality-breaking corner of science has helped him survive. And how such unspeakable violence actually let him understand, in a visceral way, quantum mechanics' most counter-intuitive ideas. Special thanks to Katya Rogers, Karim Kattan, Allan Adams, Sarah Qari, Soren Wheeler, and Pat WaltersEPISODE CREDITS: Reported by - Lulu MillerProduced by - Jessica Yungwith mixing help from - Jeremy BloomFact-checking by - Emily Kreigerand Edited by  - Alex NeasonEPISODE CITATIONS:Videos - A Brief History of Quantum Mechanics with Sean Carroll, The Royal Institution (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hVmeOCJjOU)Introduction to Superposition, with MIT's Allan Adams (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ3bPUKo5zc)The Quantum Wavefunction, Explained (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOI4DlWQ_1w)Articles - Read a selection of Qasem's published essays about his life in Gaza and the quantum world: I am stuck in a box like Schrodinger's in Gaza (https://zpr.io/ALDVi9E5bRt8) Israel has turned Gaza's summer into a weapon (https://zpr.io/YS4WK4hVQC5T)The Physics of Death in Gaza (https://zpr.io/hxsgxicVqPAd) Signup for our newsletter!! It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)!Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today.Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing radiolab@wnyc.org.Leadership support for Radiolab's science programming is provided by the Simons Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.