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What if quantum mechanics is not fundamental? What if time itself is an illusion? In this new episode, physicist Julian Barbour returns to share his most radical ideas yet. He proposes that the universe is built purely from ratios, that time is not fundamental, and that quantum mechanics might be replaced entirely without the need for wave functions or Planck’s constant. This may be the simplest vision of reality ever proposed.As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toeJoin My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.comListen on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOEBecome a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos):https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/joinVideos Mentioned:Julian’s previous appearance on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bprxrGaf0OsNeil Turok on TOE (Big Bang): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUp9x44N3uENeil Turok on TOE (Black Holes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZCa1pVE20Debunking “All Possible Paths”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcY3ZtgYis0John Vervaeke on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVj1KYGyesIJacob Barandes & Scott Aaronson on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rbC3XZr9-cThe Dark History of Anti-Gravity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBA3RUxkZdcPeter Woit on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTSeqsCgxj8Books Mentioned:The Monadology – G.W. Leibniz: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1546527664The Janus Point – Julian Barbour: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0465095461Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat – Carnot: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1514873974Lucretius: On the Nature of Things: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0393341364Heisenberg and the Interpretation of QM: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1107403510Quantum Mechanics for Cosmologists: https://books.google.ca/books?id=qou0iiLPjyoC&pg=PA99Faraday, Maxwell, and the EM Field: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1616149426The Feeling of Life Itself – Christof Koch: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B08BTCX4BMArticles Mentioned:Time’s Arrow and Simultaneity (Barbour): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.14179On the Moving Force of Heat (Clausius): https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/2559_Therm_Stat_Mech/docs/Clausius%20Moving%20Force%20heat%201851.pdfOn the Motions and Collisions of Elastic Spheres (Maxwell): http://www.alternativaverde.it/stel/documenti/Maxwell/1860/Maxwell%20%281860%29%20-%20Illustrations%20of%20the%20dynamical%20theory%20of%20gases.pdfMaxwell–Boltzmann distribution (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell–Boltzmann_distributionIdentification of a Gravitational Arrow of Time: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.0917The Nature of Time: https://arxiv.org/pdf/0903.3489The Solution to the Problem of Time in Shape Dynamics: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.6264CPT-Symmetric Universe: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.08928Mach’s Principle and Dynamical Theories (JSTOR): https://www.jstor.org/stable/2397395Timestamps:Support TOE on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurtDiscord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs#science Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices