SPONSORS: - Accelerate your efficiency. Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at http://shopify.com/theories - Go to https://vanman.shop/curt to get 15% off your order - Go to https://www.plaud.ai/curt to get a Plaud device today Every episode days early, ad-free, plus my essays: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/subscribe Janna Levin — Claire Tow Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College, founding Director of Sciences at Pioneer Works, and co-host of Quanta's The Joy of Why — is one of those guests who makes you feel the universe is stranger than you feared. Working with Brian Greene, she's exploring whether the shape of hidden dimensions, specifically a Klein bottle, could explain why matter won the war against antimatter after the Big Bang — no fudged parameters required. The geometry does the work. The universe's lopsidedness isn't a mystery to be plugged in; it's a consequence of the space we're sewn into. FOLLOW: - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e - Substack: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/subscribe - Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt - Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs - Crypto: https://nowpayments.io/donation/TOE - PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4 LINKS MENTIONED: - Janna's Substack: https://jannalevin.substack.com - Janna's Books: https://amazon.com/stores/author/B001IXTNZQ - Janna's Papers: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1000438 - Pioneer Works: https://pioneerworks.org - Whales Don't Want to Go to Mars [Article]: https://jannalevin.substack.com/p/billions-of-exoplanets-zero-aliens - Black Hole Blues [Book]: https://amzn.to/4cPOcfr - A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/1400032407?tag=toe08-20 - Gödel Incompleteness Theorems: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel-incompleteness - Gödel Numbering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_numbering - Wave Function of the Universe [Paper]: https://isidore.co/misc/Physics%20papers%20and%20books/Classic%20Papers/Wavefunction%20of%20the%20Universe%20(Hartle%20&%20Hawking).pdf - Janna & Penrose at Oxford: https://jannalevin.substack.com/p/penrose-and-mein-oxford - Hard Problem of Consciousness [Paper]: https://consc.net/papers/facing.pdf - Klein Bottle: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/KleinBottle.html - Klein Bottle Cosmology [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.23447 - Brane-World Motion in Compact Dimensions [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2174 - Dark Energy & Extra Dimensions [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1062 - Particle Creation by Black Holes [Paper]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02345020 - BH Complementarity [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9306069 - Black Holes: Complementarity or Firewalls? [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.3123 - Thermodynamics of Spacetime [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9504004 - Most Abused Theorem in Math [TOE]: https://youtu.be/OH-ybecvuEo - Roger Penrose [TOE]: https://youtu.be/sGm505TFMbU - Roger Penrose [Part 2]: https://youtu.be/iO03t21xhdk - Neil Turok [TOE]: https://youtu.be/zNZCa1pVE20 - David Chalmers [TOE]: https://youtu.be/5r9V1ryksnw - Brian Greene [TOE]: https://youtu.be/O2EtTE9Czzo - Leonard Susskind [TOE]: https://youtu.be/2p_Hlm6aCok - Ted Jacobson [TOE]: https://youtu.be/3mhctWlXyV8 - Juan Maldacena [TOE]: https://youtu.be/6LbRHMvyrik More links at https://curtjaimungal.substack.com Guests do not pay to appear. #science