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Curt Jaimungal.

Theories of Everything — deep dives into theoretical physics, quantum mechanics, cosmology, and philosophy of science.

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Dan Freed: What Is Quantum Field Theory, Really?

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Quantum Gravity & the Origin of Mass Explained FROM SCRATCH

The final part of Philip Mannheim’s lecture on quantum gravity and mass

Eric Weinstein & Richard Borcherds: Fields Medalist & Eric Weinstein on the Future of Mathematics

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Dan Freed: What Is Quantum Field Theory, Really?

Harvard's Dan Freed on quantum field theory and AI

Eric Weinstein & Richard Borcherds: Fields Medalist & Eric Weinstein on the Future of Mathematics

Richard Borcherds and Eric Weinstein on AI and mathematics

Mark Solms: Consciousness Isn't in the Cortex

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Mark Solms: Consciousness Isn't in the Cortex

Mark Solms on feelings, dreams, and the brainstem

Scott Aaronson: “I Heard That a Robot Solved the Math Problem You Worked On”

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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: A New Explanation for Gravity

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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