Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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.substack.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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Every guest on Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

215 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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Coleman Hughes
Coleman Hughes: Have Podcasts Replaced Universities? · Jul 2022

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Robert Sapolsky
Robert Sapolsky: Free Will Is an Illusion and Justice Must Change · Dec 2023

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Anil Seth
Anil Seth: Why Consciousness Is a Controlled Hallucination · Nov 2020

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Sabine Hossenfelder
Sabine Hossenfelder: What Went Wrong with Fundamental Physics · 3 episodes

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Iain McGilchrist
Iain McGilchrist: How Your Brain's Two Halves Shape Consciousness · 3 episodes

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Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker: The Radical Left, Jordan Peterson, and Sam Harris · Jul 2020

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Anna Lembke
Anna Lembke: How Dopamine Hijacks Your Brain (And How to Fix It) · Nov 2023

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Rupert Sheldrake
Rupert Sheldrake: The Evidence for Morphic Resonance and Telepathy · 2 episodes

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Rupert Spira
Rupert Spira: Non-Duality, God, and What Happens When You Die · Jun 2021

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Luis Elizondo
Lue Elizondo: Pentagon's UFO Investigator Breaks 2 Year Silence · 5 episodes

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David Deutsch
David Deutsch: Einstein Would Fail Modern Grant Applications · Oct 2025

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Alex Honnold
Alex Honnold: What Free Solo Climbing Reveals About Human Purpose · Jan 2024

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Daniel Dennett
Daniel Dennett: Why Free Will Survives in a Deterministic Universe · Dec 2023

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David Chalmers
David Chalmers and Scott Aaronson: What If We Are Simulated? · 4 episodes

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Lawrence Krauss
Lawrence Krauss: Multiverse, Dark Energy, Living Forever · Oct 2023

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Tim Maudlin
Tim Maudlin: Quantum Nonlocality Explained FROM SCRATCH · 5 episodes

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Carlo Rovelli
Carlo Rovelli: Why Space and Time Are Not Fundamental · 2 episodes

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Jim Al-Khalili
Jim Al-Khalili: The Ontology of Time. We Had It Backwards · Sep 2026

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Susan Blackmore

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Steven Greer
Steven Greer: UAPs, CE5, Skinwalker Ranch, and Disinformation · Oct 2022

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Carissa Véliz
Carissa Veliz: Surveillance, Privacy, and the Digital Identity Crisis · May 2024

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Dennis McKenna
Dennis McKenna: Why Psychedelics Deceive as Much as They Reveal · Aug 2023

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Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton: Why the Godfather of AI Now Fears His Creation · Jan 2025

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Nathan Myhrvold
Nathan Myhrvold: Working with Hawking, NASA's Errors, and Innovation · Jan 2021

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Peter Gray
Peter Gray: Why Unschooling Produces Better Learners Than School · May 2022

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Zubin Damania
Zubin Damania: How Non-Dualism and Fasting Reshape Consciousness · Aug 2021

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David Bentley Hart
David Bentley Hart: The Hardest Question No Religion Can Answer · Jan 2025

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David Bessis
David Bessis: What Mathematics Really Is and How to Learn It · Feb 2026

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Mick West

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Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Zizek: “Buddhism Can’t Explain This” · Apr 2026

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Barry Loewer
Barry Loewer and Eddy Chen: Do the Laws of Physics Actually Exist? · Jun 2025

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Chiara Marletto
Chiara Marletto: The Experiment That Could Reveal Quantum Gravity · 2 episodes

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Chloe Valdary
Chloe Valdary and Curt Jaimungal: The Turmoil of Studying Consciousness · May 2022

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Claudia de Rham
Claudia de Rham: The Theory of Gravity That Shouldn't Exist · 2 episodes

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David Kaiser
David Kaiser: MIT Physicist on Black Holes Older Than the Universe · May 2025

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David Wallace
David Wallace: Why Many Worlds Is the Only Consistent Interpretation · May 2025

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Emily Riehl
Emily Riehl Makes Infinity Categories Elementary · Apr 2026

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Jacob Barandes
Jacob Barandes: The Mathematical Accident That Rewrites Quantum Theory · 6 episodes

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Jenann Ismael
Jenann Ismael: Why Free Will Is Written Into the Laws of Physics · Jul 2025

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John Greenewald
John Greenewald: Mojave UAPs, FOIA, and What the Government Won't Release · Jun 2023

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Janna Levin: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Klein Bottle
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Juan Maldacena: Geometry as Entanglement, and the Emergence of Spacetime
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Slavoj Zizek: “Buddhism Can’t Explain This”
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Curt Jaimungal: Consciousness, Irreducibility, and the Local to Global
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George Ellis: Hawking's Co-Author on Why Reductionism Is Dead
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