Quantum Mechanics Explained FROM SCRATCH
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Theories of Everything — deep dives into theoretical physics, quantum mechanics, cosmology, and philosophy of science.
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The Standard Model Lagrangian Explained
Term by term, as simply as possible
The Quantum Interpretation That Divides Physicists
What exactly is the wave function?
The eldritch things famous rationalists believed, doubted, and took seriously
God, spirit, telepathy, purpose, free will, and the limits of physics
Ginestra Bianconi: The Physicist Who (Unexpectedly) Derived Gravity From Entropy
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The Physicist Who (Unexpectedly) Derived Gravity From Entropy
In-depth interview with Ginestra Bianconi
Curt Jaimungal: Reality Is Bloody Terrifying
What does it mean to investigate the "nature of reality"?
This is a strange post
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent
Philip Mannheim: The Story of Conformal Gravity
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The Story of Conformal Gravity
Philip Mannheim's first podcast ever...
What Are The Octonions, Exactly?
A super gentle introduction to normed division algebras...
Curt Jaimungal: What is Existence, Exactly?
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Simon Saunders: The Unsettling Mysteries of Time
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What Are Principal Bundles? And Why Are They So Important in Physics?
The world through the language of principal bundles is much simpler, but quite radical.
The Unsettling Illusion of Time
And what this has to do with the wave function...
Why Some of the Greatest Minds Walk Away
It’s not often that you reach a level of prestige and walk away from what gave you that status.
What is Existence, Exactly?
When you say “I exist,” what are you saying?
Neil Turok: A Route to Quantum Gravity (Without Strings)
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What is the “Nature of Reality”?
A video on fundamentality, grounding, and the topology of justification
Neil Turok: A Route to Quantum Gravity Without Strings?
Firstly, thank you all for you kind messages regarding my health update a few days ago.
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For the past three months I’ve been going through some health problems...
We're Simulated. AI Is Conscious. And We Can't Win.
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We're Simulated. AI Is Conscious. And We Can't Win.
The simulation, consciousness, free will, and AGI, with Roman Yampolskiy
The Genius Who Invented Reverse Mathematics
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Janna Levin: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Klein Bottle
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The Genius Who Invented Reverse Mathematics
Harvey Friedman's first and only podcast.
Janna Levin on the Shape of Reality
Klein Bottles, Gödel, and the Sentence the Universe Can't Prove
Juan Maldacena: Geometry as Entanglement, and the Emergence of Spacetime
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Juan Maldacena: Geometry as Entanglement, and the Emergence of Spacetime
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