SPONSORS: - Sign up for Claude today at http://Claude.ai/theoriesofeverything and checkout Claude Pro — which includes access to all of the features mentioned in today's episode. - Let AI do the note-taking. Visit https://plaud.ai/toe and use code TOE for 10% off at checkout. - Go to https://shortform.com/toe for a free trial and an exclusive $50 OFF on your annual subscription. - Accelerate your efficiency. Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at http://shopify.com/theories. Every episode days early, ad-free, plus my essays: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/subscribe What if you gathered every possible piece of evidence about the universe — every observation, past, present, and future — and it still wasn't enough? This is a theorem. J.B. Manchak proves it using the very tools of general relativity, and then connects it to Zen Buddhism's teaching on the self. This one is a quiet storm, blending the philosophy of physics with math. FOLLOW: - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e - Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt - Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs - Crypto: https://nowpayments.io/donation/TOE - PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE LINKS MENTIONED: - JB's Papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dmsB0DwAAAAJ - Leibniz: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz/ - Global Aspects of the Cauchy Problem in GR [Paper]: https://projecteuclid.org/journals/communications-in-mathematical-physics/volume-14/issue-4/Global-aspects-of-the-Cauchy-problem-in-general-relativity/cmp/1103841822.pdf - General Relativity Is Not (Technically) Deterministic [Article]: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/general-relativity-is-not-deterministic - The Gödel Metric: https://kurtgoedel.de/cms-83FO/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Goedel.pdf - The Class of Continuous Timelike Curves [Paper]: https://www.scribd.com/document/490611872/Malament-D-The-CLass-of-Continuous-Timelike-Curves-etc-Spacetime-1977-pdf - When Spacetime Lets You Cheat at Logic [Article]: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/when-spacetime-lets-you-cheat-at - Bangs, Crunches, Whispers and Shrieks [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/019509591X?tag=toe08-20 - David Malament: https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/malament/ - Gravitational Collapse [Paper]: https://the-center-of-gravity.com/documents/145/Roger-Penrose_Gravitational-Collapse-The-Role-of-General-Relativity.pdf - The Dome [Paper]: https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/DomePSA2006.pdf - The Field Equations of Gravitation [Paper]: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:The_Field_Equations_of_Gravitation - Singularities in Closed Universes [Paper]: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.17.445 - Observationally Indistinguishable Spacetimes [Paper]: https://pages.jh.edu/rrynasi1/Cosmology/Articles/Malament1977ObservationallyIndistinguishableSpace-Times.pdf - Scalar Curvature: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ScalarCurvature.html - World Enough and Spacetime [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/0262050404?tag=toe08-20 - De Sitter Spacetime: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/de+Sitter+spacetime - Duhem-Quine Thesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duhem%E2%80%93Quine_thesis - Physics, Structure and Reality [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/0192894102?tag=toe08-20 - Roger Penrose 1 [TOE]: https://youtu.be/iO03t21xhdk - Roger Penrose 2 [TOE]: https://youtu.be/sGm505TFMbU - Jennan Ismael [TOE]: https://youtu.be/7kvXihDAOi0 - Ted Jacobson [TOE]: https://youtu.be/3mhctWlXyV8 - Roy Baumeister [TOE]: https://youtu.be/aXoK-C2c2AQ - Neil Turok [TOE]: https://youtu.be/zNZCa1pVE20 - Neil Turok 2 [TOE]: https://youtu.be/ZUp9x44N3uE - Stephen Wolfram [TOE]: https://youtu.be/0YRlQQw0d-4 - David Wallace [TOE]: https://youtu.be/4MjNuJK5RzM - Tim Maudlin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/fU1bs5o3nss - Robert Sapolsky [TOE]: https://youtu.be/z0IqA1hYKY8 - John Norton [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Tghl6aS5A3M - Emily Adlam [TOE]: https://youtu.be/6I2OhmVWLMs - Subir Sarkar [TOE]: https://youtu.be/epkuoytFJWA - Matthew Segall [TOE]: https://youtu.be/DeTm4fSXpbM - John Vervaeke [TOE]: https://youtu.be/3p8o3-7mvQc