I’m Giving Away $5,000 to Explain Hard Physics (and AI)
Host Curt Jaimungal launches #CORE1, a competition seeking high-level video explainers for physics, AI, and philosophy. If you're a researcher or student, you'll have a chance to win part of the $5,00...
18 Des 202510min
Bas van Fraassen: Why Science Does Not Reveal the Truth
Bas van Fraassen argues science doesn't deliver literal truth, so unobservable physics is a model. The self isn't a thing, logic permits free will, and he keeps faith in God without metaphysics. I pe...
15 Des 20252h 17min
Roger Penrose and Ivette Fuentes: A Bold New Test of Gravity
Sir Roger Penrose and Professor Ivette Fuentes analyze the Ron Folman T-cubed experiment and whether the equivalence principle holds in quantum mechanics. SPONSORS: - Thank you Nolah for sponsoring!...
25 Nov 20251h 13min
Curt Jaimungal: The Most Terrifying Philosopher I’ve Encountered
Curt Jaimungal dives into Kierkegaard’s three stages of life—aesthetic, ethical, and religious — showing how each promises freedom yet traps us in its own way. Through the lens of modern anxiety and c...
20 Nov 202518min
Ivette Fuentes: Quantum Gravity Predictions We Can Test Today
Professor Ivette Fuentes makes impossible physics testable, with verified predictions on the Casimir effect and quantum vacuum. Now she's building a "third way" to quantum gravity, a surprisingly simp...
10 Nov 20251h 9min
Curt Jaimungal: Can Physics Explain Its Own Laws?
Why do physical laws have their specific form? Host Curt Jaimungal shows this question is a philosophical knot, because any "explanation" must itself stand on a law. Sponsors: - I personally subscrib...
5 Nov 202518min
Roger Penrose: Why The Big Bang Was Not The Beginning
Nobel laureate Sir Roger Penrose dismantles standard cosmology, arguing the Big Bang wasn't the beginning and quantum mechanics is fundamentally wrong. He then connects a real, gravitational wave func...
3 Nov 20251h 58min
Aaron Schurger: Neuroscience Does Not Threaten Free Will
The Libet experiment didn't kill free will, says professor of neuroscience Aaron Schurger; the brain's "readiness potential" is simply stochastic neural noise. We then tackle consciousness's role in i...
30 Okt 20251h 32min
