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Eric Weinstein
Eric Weinstein is a mathematical physicist and the host of the podcast The Portal. He is the former Managing Director of Thiel Capital in San Francisco and was formerly a Co-Founder and Principal of the Natron Group in Manhattan as well as a Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University in the Mathematical Institute. Since completing a PhD dissertation in the Mathematics Department at Harvard in 1992 he has held research positions in Mathematics, Physics, and Economics departments (at MIT, Hebrew University, and Harvard respectively). He delivered the Special Simonyi Lectures at Oxford University in 2013 putting forth a theory he termed “Geometric Unity” to unify the twin geometries (Riemannian and Ehresmannian) thought to ground the two most fundamental physical theories (General Relativity and the so-called Standard Model of particle theory respectively).
Eric Weinstein is a mathematical physicist and the host of the podcast The Portal. He is the former Managing Director of Thiel Capital in San Francisco and was formerly a Co-Founder and Principal of the Natron Group in Manhattan as well as a Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University in the Mathematical Institute. Since completing a PhD dissertation in the Mathematics Department at Harvard in 1992 he has held research positions in Mathematics, Physics, and Economics departments (at MIT, Hebrew University, and Harvard respectively). He delivered the Special Simonyi Lectures at Oxford University in 2013 putting forth a theory he termed “Geometric Unity” to unify the twin geometries (Riemannian and Ehresmannian) thought to ground the two most fundamental physical theories (General Relativity and the so-called Standard Model of particle theory respectively).
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Spacetime and the Structure of Reality
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Is Time Travel Just a Fantasy?
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Gravity minus dark matter
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Missing Evidence
Does physics still need experiment?
Is Nothing an Illusion?
Explaining everything and Nothing
Gravity
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The End of the Theory of Everything
Can we fully describe reality?
Time, Space and Being
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Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
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The Laws of the Universe
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Back from the End of Time
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The Strangeness of Things
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Why The World Exists
In Search of Parallel Universes
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The End of All Things
What is reality made of?
Is Reality an Illusion?
Quantum physics, objective and subjective reality
The Dark Universe
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Why Does Time Fly?
Bernard Carr | Time and consciousness
Quantum Whispers
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Decoding the Universe
Chiara Marletto | Reality as a string of code
The Poetry of the Universe
Sean Carroll | We are made of stories, not atoms
Playing Dice With The Universe
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When Time Stands Still
Is the flow of time an illusion?
How to Find a Multiverse
The Latest Evidence of Parallel Worlds
Time's Arrow
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Bang Goes the Big Bang
Is it possible that the Big Bang is a mistake?
The Next Universe
Roger Penrose's New Story of Existence
After the Higgs Boson
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The Universe Code
Is information fundamental?
Into the Unknown
What is the future of space exploration?
The Stuff of the Universe
Is materialism wrong?
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Are black holes a fantasy?
The Theory of Everything
Are we close to a final theory of the universe?
It's an Immaterial World
Do particles exist?
Pythagoras' Dream
Is reality mathematical?
Beyond the Standard Model
Tevong You | The first new particle after Higgs
Something and Nothing
Is there something rather than nothing?
Life, the Universe and Everything
Is reality beyond reach?
In a Parallel Universe
Are there many worlds?
A Goldilocks World
Is the universe finely tuned for life?
The Mathematics of Thought
How has mathematics changed philosophy?
It's an Immaterial World
Do particles exist?
Wonders of the Big Bang
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Uncovering Reality
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Masters of the World
Is the universe mathematical?
Stephen Hawking and the Progress of Physics
Understanding the origin of the universe
Conjuring the Universe
The origins of the laws of nature | Peter Atkins
Quantum Effects in Gravity
Chiara Marletto | A new theory in physics
Demons Among Us
Are germs as imaginary as demons?
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Don't believe the dark matter hype
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The Philosophical Problems of Cosmology
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The most complex thing in the universe
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Symmetry is a Guide to Reality
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The Delusions of Cosmology
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Dark Matter Doesn't Exist
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Quantum Theory and Common Sense: It's Complicated
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