Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Tim Palmer is a Royal Society Research Professor in the Department of Physics at Oxford. Tim Maudlin is a Professor of Philosophy at New York University, specializing in the philosophy of physics. We discuss superdeterminism, chaos theory, and free variables.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:04 Explaining Superdeterminism & Fractal Cosmology

00:05:06 What is Tim Palmer working on

00:09:24 What is Tim Maudlin working on

00:11:47 Assumptions of Bell's inequality / theorem

00:22:40 Locality and Superdeterminism

00:28:33 Summary of disagreement + why do we care what Bell said?

00:32:54 Counterfactuals & Counterfactual definiteness

00:59:38 Chaos theory, attractors, and fractals

01:26:32 Free variables and ensembles

01:36:30 Invariant set theory

01:48:21 Relevant links and teaser for Part 2

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00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:52 What Neil is working on

00:04:57 What fundamental aspect of our universe will change?

00:06:27 Nobel Prize, Bell's Inequality, and Locality

00:09:27 Chaitin's Incompleteness Theorem

00:13:59 The role of philosophy in physics

00:17:32 Norton's Dome

00:29:24 Carlo Rovelli, Lee Smolin, and John Baez on Philosophy

00:39:50 The limitations of the scientific method

00:45:48 Whistleblower David Grusch and UFO "testimony"

00:49:15 The government is not as incompetent as people say

00:56:09 Increscent evidence and extraordinary claims

00:57:44 If Neil encountered an alien but didn't film it, what would he do?

01:06:18 Analyses by Kevin Knuth, et al.'s on UAP radar

01:07:54 Why not apply "where's the evidence" to String Theory and the social "sciences"?

01:13:32 How Neil prepares for interviews and speeches

01:25:10 Straw man vs. the Strongest man (Neil disparagers the UFO topic)

01:31:05 Curt suggests Neil may have a biased set...

01:37:35 Debunking that Aristotle thought heavier bodies fall faster

01:41:19 Neil doesn't have "beliefs"

01:46:09 Impending asteroids colliding with Earth

01:48:42 Curt proposes a bet on the UAP topic to Neil...

01:57:03 Closing thoughts

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Edward Frenkel is a renowned mathematician, professor of University of California, Berkeley, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and winner of the Herman Weyl Prize in Mathematical Physics. In this episode, Edward Frenkel discusses the recent monumental proof in the Langlands program, explaining its significance and how it advances understanding in modern mathematics.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 - Edward’s Previous Appearance on TOE

01:15 - Discoveries in Mathematics

04:31 - Langland’s Program

11:02 - Counting Problem

14:58 - Symmetries of the Unit Disc

26:55 - Part 1 of Edward’s Talk

30:20 - Shimura-Taniyama-Weil Conjecture

40:02 - Quick Recap

42:38 - Langlands Dual Group

51:50 - Rosetta Stone of Math

01:00:10 - Riemann Surfaces

01:10:20 - Proof of the Geometric Langlands Conjecture

01:21:42 - Tribute to Legends

01:26:02 - Langlands Correspondence for Riemann Surface

01:43:30 - Galois Groups

01:53:33 - Other Objects Involved

02:10:40 - Outro / Support TOE

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