Gerard 't Hooft: Why the Universe Is a Deterministic Machine
Gerard 't Hooft (Nobel laureate) argues quantum mechanics is wrong—the universe is a deterministic machine. He explores superdeterminism, cellular automata, and the implications for black hole informa...
12 Aug 20251h 33min
Felix Finster: How Dirac's 90-Year-Old Error Unifies All of Physics
Felix Finster proposes causal fermion systems unify physics by building spacetime from quantum correlations. The conversation covers the Dirac sea, emergence of geometry, the Born rule, and implicatio...
29 Juli 20252h 12min
Elan Barenholtz and William Hahn: Your Thoughts Were Never Your Own
Elan Barenholtz and William Hahn argue that language functions as a self‑generating organism that writes its own software into our minds, shaping cognition and behavior. Drawing on large language mode...
22 Juli 20251h 13min
Nikita Nekrasov: Why Physicists Still Don't Understand QFT
Nikita Nekrasov explains why quantum field theory remains mysterious despite experimental success. We explore his solution to the Cyberg‑Witten puzzle, the Nekrasov partition function, and the role of...
14 Juli 20251h 48min
Jenann Ismael: Why Free Will Is Written Into the Laws of Physics
Physicist and philosopher Jenann Ismael argues that free will is a physical reality grounded in thermodynamics and relativity. She explains why no system, not even a perfect computer, can predict its ...
10 Juli 20252h 18min
Eva Miranda: Fluid Motion Is Turing-Complete (Proving Penrose Right)
Mathematician Eva Miranda reveals a new proof that fluid motion can be Turing‑complete, making certain fluid paths undecidable. The episode explores the consequences for chaos theory, the Navier‑Stoke...
7 Juli 20251h 52min
Jacob Barandes: The Mathematical Accident That Rewrites Quantum Theory
Jacob Barandes challenges a hidden assumption in quantum theory, linking classical probability to quantum mechanics through a so‑called mathematical accident. The episode explores how this view reshap...
1 Juli 20252h 12min
John Norton: The 300-Year-Old Physics Mistake No One Noticed
Professor John Norton dismantles long‑standing assumptions in physics, from Newtonian determinism to the myth of Landauer’s principle. He argues that causation may be illusory, explores the breakdown ...
27 Juni 20251h 53min
