Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Theories of Everything
Time Travel in Physics: “We Still Don't Know”
2 hour 17 minutes Posted Mar 16, 2026 at 3:45 pm.
Unknowability of the Universe
Space-Time Maximality Metaphysics
Time Travel in GR
Causal Structure and Topology
Cauchy Surfaces and Determinism
Solving the Halting Problem
Cosmic Censorship Hypothesis
The God Point Theorem
Global Structure Underdetermination
Heraclitus Space-Times Defined
Hierarchy of Classical Space-Times
The Universe Puzzle Analogy
Underdetermination of the Self
Zen Buddhism and Non-Self
Repeatability and Heraclitus
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What if you gathered every possible piece of evidence about the universe — every observation, past, present, and future — and it still wasn't enough? That's not a philosophical parlor trick. It's 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.
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