# Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

A podcast by Theories of Everything. Exploring theoretical physics, consciousness, Ai, and God in a technically rigorous manner. If you'd like to support this endeavor, then please visit the Substack https://curtjaimungal.com as you get ad-free extras. Thank you for your charitable and kindhearted support. My name's Curt Jaimungal, a Torontonian with a degree in mathematical physics from the University of Toronto and I analyze various Theories of Everything from this analytic perspective, though more and more opening up to alternative approaches. The separating factor of TOE from other podcasts is its focus on depth even at the risk of limiting the audience due to how much detail we delve into subjects. Paralleling the intensity found in academic discourse, we're increasingly embracing a spectrum of unconventional ideas to conduct research during this podcast, rather than merely conveying existing information.

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## Latest episodes

- [Scott Aaronson: “I Heard That a Robot Solved the Math Problem You Worked On”](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/baf3dc502cb4) (2026-10-26, 90 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI5219628591.mp3
- [Hirosi Ooguri: Could AI Find Physics We Can’t Understand?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/70c73de8a990) (2026-10-19, 130 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI9250070343.mp3
- [Philip Mannheim: Dark Matter and General Relativity Explained FROM SCRATCH](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/02911354aada) (2026-10-12, 137 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI4267450697.mp3
- [Jonathan Gorard: The Physicist Revolutionizing Physics With AI](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/051fe7432076) (2026-10-05, 134 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI6703313098.mp3
- [Olaf Dreyer: This One Number Explains the Beginning](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/56f22f5f0812) (2026-09-28, 153 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI6009173993.mp3
- [Jim Al-Khalili: The (Unsettling) Reason Time Only Runs One Way](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/78087e707958) (2026-09-21, 108 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI7085483013.mp3
- [She Says Spacetime Points Are Just Where Fields Meet](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/dac7d98b857b) (2026-09-14, 94 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI4510127634.mp3
- [Tanya Luhrmann: The Experience Is Real. But Is God?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/8b06d73a8f70) (2026-09-07, 70 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI9483338420.mp3
- [Tim Maudlin: Quantum Nonlocality Explained FROM SCRATCH](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/7687e4c7ca8b) (2026-08-31, 199 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI9509822951.mp3
- [Adrian Owen: Awake. Aware. Unable to Move.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/86041144d637) (2026-08-24, 94 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI4661864216.mp3
- [Peter Godfrey-Smith: This Scientist Found Earth’s “Alien” Minds](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/01b3e14d2842) (2026-08-17, 108 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI4996650257.mp3
- [Jacob Tsimerman: The Last Generation of Mathematicians](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/8042402f37cb) (2026-08-10, 91 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI6802015661.mp3
- [Becca Tarnas: The Unsettling Link Between Jung’s Red Book and Tolkien](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/13652ccefd2a) (2026-08-03, 115 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI3421121535.mp3
- [Tim Maudlin: Quantum Mechanics Explained FROM SCRATCH](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/be2b642b94b8) (2026-07-27, 183 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI5992208391.mp3
- [Emily Adlam & David Wallace: The Quantum Interpretation That Divides Physicists](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/618805a89760) (2026-07-20, 77 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI6251962415.mp3
- [Ginestra Bianconi: The Physicist Who (Unexpectedly) Derived Gravity From Entropy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/9ba4f99667e5) (2026-07-13, 59 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI3877039293.mp3
- [Curt Jaimungal: Reality Is Bloody Terrifying](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/922d477cf772) (2026-07-08, 10 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI1610894975.mp3
- [Philip Mannheim: No Big Bang. No Inflation. No Dark Matter.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/0bb904c7d661) (2026-07-06, 157 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI2146432952.mp3
- [Curt Jaimungal: What is Existence, Exactly?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/8109922ca558) (2026-07-01, 23 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI4803736065.mp3
- [Simon Saunders: The Unsettling Mysteries of Time](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/75b1ff8a3af9) (2026-06-29, 106 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI4205036974.mp3
- [Neil Turok: A Route to Quantum Gravity (Without Strings)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/6d6e8b90d6f3) (2026-06-22, 116 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI2350999199.mp3
- [Roman Yampolskiy: We're Simulated. AI Is Conscious. And We Can't Win.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/a7d8d399feda) (2026-06-01, 122 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI8653549667.mp3
- [Harvey Friedman: The Genius Who Invented Reverse Mathematics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/8d67ae29dd7e) (2026-05-18, 99 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI2245955112.mp3?updated=1779121811
- [Janna Levin: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Klein Bottle](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/3ed38debd674) (2026-05-11, 125 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI5300333358.mp3?updated=1778509277
- [Juan Maldacena: Geometry as Entanglement, and the Emergence of Spacetime](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/9d8c0325a7bb) (2026-05-04, 108 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI3383048298.mp3?updated=1777903715
- [Slavoj Zizek: “Buddhism Can’t Explain This”](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/fc119a37cc4b) (2026-04-27, 96 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI2684168828.mp3?updated=1777299407
- [Curt Jaimungal: Consciousness, Irreducibility, and the Local to Global](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/4a69b36bc221) (2026-04-22, 61 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI4430256495.mp3?updated=1776894324
- [George Ellis: Hawking's Co-Author on Why Reductionism Is Dead](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/24cbaec27e95) (2026-04-20, 96 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI1972948328.mp3?updated=1776982517
- [Aephraim Steinberg: The Physicist Who Measured Negative Time](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/0edfc527ee0e) (2026-04-13, 148 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI6731135926.mp3?updated=1776095261
- [Curt Jaimungal: Why You Are Brighter Than You Think](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/01b5ef409e5c) (2026-04-10, 16 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI2060413461.mp3?updated=1777410197
- [Curt Jaimungal: What Is Infinity, Actually?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/43fc803be35c) (2026-04-07, 18 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI9934999028.mp3?updated=1777410178
- [Emily Riehl Makes Infinity Categories Elementary](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/c5cab602c377) (2026-04-06, 170 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI6824529213.mp3?updated=1775501775
- [Renato Renner: Quantum Mechanics Contains Its Own Contradictions](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/eb2880ee3a18) (2026-03-30, 207 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI6679926113.mp3?updated=1774898702
- [Jenny Wagner: What If We've Been Wrong About Dark Matter For Decades?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/18101badd4d3) (2026-03-26, 159 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI9076421815.mp3?updated=1774539180
- [Curt Jaimungal: I'm Worried About Us](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/7d5cc18077e9) (2026-03-19, 7 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI5139034197.mp3
- [JB Manchak: Time Travel in Physics and What We Still Don't Know](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/1ad2355a1955) (2026-03-16, 138 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI9161905119.mp3?updated=1773679517
- [Curt Jaimungal: Why General Relativity Is Not Deterministic](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/994807ebfedd) (2026-03-12, 22 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI6514364715.mp3?updated=1773331907
- [John Donoghue: We Have Already Quantized Gravity (And It Works)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/aa077b04c316) (2026-03-11, 67 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI1557227374.mp3?updated=1773254018
- [Nir Lahav: What If Consciousness Follows the Rules of Relativity?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/4a0710aaf058) (2026-03-05, 189 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI4803305030.mp3?updated=1772724312
- [Curt Jaimungal: Why Neil deGrasse Tyson Gets "Belief" Wrong](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/971e1bf49689) (2026-03-02, 17 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI8504614918.mp3?updated=1772466875
- [David Bessis: The Mistake We All Make About Mathematics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/e2c05c705df4) (2026-02-23, 139 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI2675343707.mp3?updated=1771864686
- [Erik Verlinde: Gravity Is Not Fundamental, It Is Entropic](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/c7f04853ee80) (2026-02-16, 119 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI8768032724.mp3?updated=1771269042
- [Vitaly Vanchurin: The Universe Is a Neural Network That Learns](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/1b0ef47a26b1) (2026-02-09, 119 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI7604807571.mp3?updated=1770656087
- [Rob Spekkens: Why the Quantum Wave Function Is Not Real](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/116aa7945cb2) (2026-02-02, 168 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI9779067749.mp3?updated=1770060827
- [Subir Sarkar: Why Dark Energy Is a Local Illusion](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/e03b8afbcff2) (2026-01-26, 124 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI8821482244.mp3?updated=1769465728
- [Stuart Kauffman: “If I’m Right, There Is No Theory of Everything”](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/ffa5c2bb466b) (2026-01-20, 89 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI4934301527.mp3?updated=1768926531
- [Timothy Williamson: The Logician Who Says Vagueness Has Exact Answers](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/57c7095dcdd9) (2026-01-13, 118 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI8774969718.mp3?updated=1768323202
- [I’m Giving Away $5,000 to Explain Hard Physics (and AI)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/de3d8590f264) (2025-12-18, 11 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI2367468486.mp3?updated=1766082890
- [Bas van Fraassen: Why Science Does Not Reveal the Truth](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/2274d7a63090) (2025-12-15, 138 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI5666655479.mp3?updated=1765818762
- [Roger Penrose and Ivette Fuentes: A Bold New Test of Gravity](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521758802/f6238b28c9b2) (2025-11-25, 74 min): audio https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p346854/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI2544988039.mp3?updated=1764090192

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