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Theories of Everything — deep dives into theoretical physics, quantum mechanics, cosmology, and philosophy of science.
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Scott Aaronson: “I Heard That a Robot Solved the Math Problem You Worked On”
The most significant moment in math history just happened...
What is a Differentiable Manifold?
Lecture 3 of Frederic Schuller’s Theoretical Mechanics, translated from the German
Hirosi Ooguri: Could AI Find Physics We Can’t Understand?
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What is a Topological Manifold?
Lecture 2 of Frederic Schuller’s Theoretical Mechanics, translated from the German
Hirosi Ooguri: Could AI Find Physics We Can’t Understand?
The (legendary) Hirosi Ooguri on AI, physics, and a possible 2,250-year wait…
Philip Mannheim: Dark Matter and General Relativity Explained FROM SCRATCH
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What Is Rationality?
Something I’ve been thinking about lately is: what’s precisely meant when someone says you’re not being rational?
Philip Mannheim: Dark Matter and General Relativity Explained FROM SCRATCH
Part One of Philip Mannheim’s lecture on dark matter and gravity
Jonathan Gorard: The Physicist Revolutionizing Physics With AI
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The “Crisis” in Physics Chronicle
The below is a list of achievements in theoretical (and some experimental) physics which is updated on a regular basis, so you can bookmark this if you like.
Jonathan Gorard: The Physicist Revolutionizing Physics With AI
Math has a proof checker... Can physics get one?
What is Physics?
If you know Frederic Schuller, you know that he has three legendary lecture series:
Olaf Dreyer: This One Number Explains the Beginning
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Olaf Dreyer: This One Number Explains the Beginning
The (strange) number this physicist says cannot be a coincidence…
How Witten Used Quantum Field Theory to Understand Knots
Explaining what Edward Witten did in 1989...
Jim Al-Khalili: The Ontology of Time. We Had It Backwards
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She Says Spacetime Points Are Just Where Fields Meet
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Jim Al-Khalili: The (Unsettling) Reason Time Only Runs One Way
Jim Al-Khalili on the strange physics of time…
Lucrezia Ravera: Take Away the Fields and Spacetime Disappears
An interview with Lucrezia Ravera
Tanya Luhrmann: The Experience Is Real. But Is God?
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Tanya Luhrmann: The Experience Is Real. But Is God?
On prayer, attention, and the space between real and not real…
Tim Maudlin: Quantum Nonlocality Explained FROM SCRATCH
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Every Guest Who’s Been on Theories of Everything
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Quantum Nonlocality Explained FROM SCRATCH
This is Part 2 of the previous lecture with Tim Maudlin (which went obscenely viral).
Adrian Owen: Awake. Aware. Unable to Move.
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Awake. Aware. Unable to Move.
The unsettling cases that led this scientist to find ways of testing consciousness…
Peter Godfrey-Smith: This Scientist Found Earth’s “Alien” Minds
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Earth’s Alien Minds: How Many Minds Can One Body Have?
Interview with Peter Godfrey-Smith on octopuses and other bizarre consciousnesses...