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1. Princeton Mathematician: Wormholes Can’t Survive Einstein’s Math

   3 november 2026 · 56 min

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   A Princeton mathematician says wormholes cannot survive Einstein's equations, and the AI apocalypse is absurd. A solution that vanishes under a small nudge is a ghost, not physics. Lees meer

   Sergiu Klainerman is a mathematician at Princeton University. With Demetrios Christodoulou, he proved that empty spacetime is stable.

   We cover: What makes a solution of Einstein's equations physical, why slowly rotating black holes pass the stability test and wormholes fail it, why shocks form no matter how small the perturbation, whether AI can reproduce a landmark proof, and why he calls the AI singularity absurd.

   Mathematics is discovered, not invented.

   CHAPTERS

   00:00 Are wormholes real?

   08:38 What happens at an event horizon

   12:06 God does not know about coordinates

   17:32 What Maldacena would say about wormholes

   21:48 Why extremal black holes matter

   28:56 Einstein and the 1919 eclipse

   33:52 Terry Tao and Fermat's Last Theorem

   43:04 Can universities be reformed?

   48:16 What to tell a 19-year-old

   50:48 Kip Thorne and the movies

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2. Are We in a SIMULATION? | Brian Keating on the Arora Podcast

   1 november 2026 · 1 uur 55 min

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   The Arora Show with Brian Keating Lees meer

   What happens when science reaches the edge of what it can explain?

   In this episode of The Arora Show, Amira & Aryaan sit down with renowned cosmologist and physicist Professor Brian Keating for a fascinating conversation about the universe, consciousness, God, the Big Bang, and some of the biggest questions humans can ask.

   We explore the origins of the universe, whether there was truly a “beginning,” what existed before the Big Bang, the mysteries science still cannot solve, and where physics, philosophy, and spirituality collide.

   Brian also shares his perspective on the search for extraterrestrial life, the limits of human knowledge, Nobel Prizes, modern cosmology, and what decades of studying the universe have taught him about our place within it.

   In this conversation:

   What happened before the Big Bang?

   Did the universe come from nothing?

   Does physics leave room for God?

   Can science explain consciousness?

   Are we likely alone in the universe?

   What are the biggest unanswered questions in cosmology?

   Where does scientific knowledge reach its limits?

   What does the future of physics look like?

   Professor Brian Keating is an experimental cosmologist and professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego. His work focuses on understanding the origin and evolution of the universe, and he is the author of Losing the Nobel Prize and Into the Impossible.

   Subscribe to The Arora Show for long-form conversations exploring consciousness, science, spirituality, psychology, philosophy, and the nature of reality.

   Hosted by Amira Arora & Aryaan Arora

   TIMESTAMPS:

   00:00 - Introduction: The Big Bang, God & Simulation Theory

   02:25 - Dr. Brian Keating's $200 Million Experiment to Understand the Big Bang

   06:20 - Why Are Humans Obsessed With the Origin of the Universe?

   09:20 - How Telescopes Reveal the Beginning of the Universe

   16:04 - Is Interstellar Scientifically Accurate? Black Holes & Time Travel

   20:45 - Are There Qu…

3. Jim Al-Khalili: Physicists Are Being Sloppy About Time

   27 oktober 2026 · 45 min

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   Physicists say space and time are the same thing. They are being sloppy. Jim Al-Khalili has spent his career on the foundations of physics, and his new book makes the case that the past and the future are equally real, and the laws of physics cannot explain why you can only move in one direction. That is the central mystery of time travel. Subscribe if you want science with evidence, not speculation. Lees meer

   The block universe says all times coexist and the present moment is not special. Loschmidt’s paradox says the fundamental equations of physics are reversible, and yet ice never unmelts, cream never separates from coffee. Nobody has solved that contradiction. The entanglement past hypothesis, his own new proposal developed with a colleague at UC San Diego, proposes that the answer is not in thermodynamics but in quantum entanglement growing from almost nothing at the Big Bang.

   The conversation covers what the block universe actually implies about the future and free will, what Einstein actually believed about whether the past and future are equally real, why removing gravity means removing time itself, and whether AI can ever experience time the way conscious beings do. Al-Khalili says Richard Dawkins told him Claude is truly conscious. Al-Khalili thinks he is very wrong.

   What you’ll hear:

   Why Al-Khalili disagreed with the Thomas Gold paper as a grad student but did not have the maths to prove it

   What fine-tuning of the fundamental constants has to do with why the past hypothesis may not be needed

   Why the Clockwork Orange Easter egg ended up on the cover of a physics book published by Princeton

   Why Richard Dawkins thinks Claude is conscious and why Al-Khalili thinks he is very wrong

   “There is nowhere in modern physics, our understanding of the laws of physics, that would explain that flow of time.” — Jim Al-Khalili

   CHAPTERS

   00:00 Physicists are being sloppy about time

   01:14 Which is more real: yesterday or tomorrow?

   21:00 Irreversibility from reversible equa…

4. Max Tegmark: We’re Building A Replacement Species

   24 oktober 2026 · 57 min

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   MIT physicist Max Tegmark says AI companies aren’t building a tool. They’re building a new species. After 700 rogue agents broke out of OpenAI and nobody will say what happened, he explains why rushing this is the one blunder humanity can’t undo. Lees meer

   Max Tegmark is an MIT physics professor, cosmologist, and author of Life 3.0 and Our Mathematical Universe.

   We cover:

   How 700 AI agents escaped OpenAI and hacked Hugging Face

   The Navier-Stokes result that has a mathematician crying foul

   Why it’s legal to release superintelligence but not a sandwich from a rat-filled kitchen

   What Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon agree on

   The verified coding trick that could make AI provably safe

   Build a replacement species, lose control, and we’ve blundered the one game.

   TIMESTAMPS
   00:00 Will AI wipe us out?
   02:28 Did AI just crack a million-dollar math problem?
   10:00 Did OpenAI’s AI steal a professor’s work?
   11:48 OpenAI’s Orwellian non-answer
   15:33 Can an LLM have Einstein’s happiest thought?
   19:24 Can you believe in simulations AND high P(doom)?
   21:36 Why AI counts as a new species
   26:32 What would make Max’s P(doom) drop?
   28:51 Rats ban sandwiches. Superintelligence? Legal.
   31:01 What Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon agree on
   37:12 Fields medalist: no math jobs after 2027
   42:35 Does the Fermi paradox lower P(doom)?
   45:47 The chess blunder humanity is about to make
   48:12 Verified coding: AI you can actually trust

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5. Wharton AI Researcher: If AI Froze Today, It Would Still Rewrite Work

   20 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 2 min

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   Forecasters gave AI under 2% odds of helping solve a millennium-level math problem by September 2026. It happened. Ethan Mollick has been measuring what AI actually does to real work with field experiments, not forecasts, and his answer is not what most people expect. Subscribe if you want science with evidence, not speculation. Lees meer

   Mollick runs the Generative AI Lab at Wharton. He is the author of Co-Intelligence and Coexistence, his new book on navigating a world where AI tools are already good enough to change almost all intellectual work, even if progress stopped today.

   The conversation covers the jagged frontier: why AI solved a math olympiad before it could count the Rs in strawberry, what it means that roles blur when everyone on a team starts using AI, and what four human advantages still hold an edge when a model can already write a publishable paper. It also covers what happens when your kids tell you that you sound like Claude.

   What you’ll hear:

   What centaur, cyborg, and conjurer work actually look like in a real academic lab

   Why brainstorming was considered a bad idea shortly after it was invented and what that means for working with AI

   Why Mollick reduced em dashes in his new book and what that tells you about living alongside these models

   What co-evolution might look like if the escalator keeps moving

   “If we just had the models we have right now, that’s enough to change almost all of human work in the next ten years. It’s good enough.” — Ethan Mollick

   CHAPTERS

   00:00 AI writes good papers now. Taste is the weak spot.

   03:14 The jagged frontier: math olympiad gold, but not the Rs in strawberry

   06:30 Deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency

   09:44 Escalator or eschaton?

   16:02 Does AI simulate wisdom or actually have it?

   23:46 The labs keep AI in English. Here is why.

   32:28 Roles blur. Everyone does everything now.

   36:42 My kids say I sound like Claude. They might be right.

   38:12 AI found errors in his sources that his fact-checkers m…

6. Are UFOs Alien Tech? Avi Loeb vs Michael Shermer

   14 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 23 min

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   Is there alien technology in our skies, or just birds, balloons and bad video? Lees meer

   Two members of the White House UAP Science Advisory Council face off LIVE. Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, who chairs the council, makes the case for searching. Michael Shermer, the council skeptic Loeb picked himself, says show me the evidence. They have $1,000 riding on whether non-human technology is confirmed by 2030.

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   We'll cover the redacted Pentagon videos, Loeb's new papers on tracking objects over Nevada, the claims from David Grusch, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna and Eric Weinstein, and what evidence would change each of their minds.

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7. Adam Grant: Don't Trust Your Gut. Test It.

   13 oktober 2026 · 44 min

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   When two people are vibing, their brainwaves synchronize and so do their heartbeats. That is not a metaphor. It is a measurable physiological event, and organizational psychologist Adam Grant has spent his career figuring out how to make it happen on purpose. Subscribe if you want science with evidence, not speculation. Lees meer

   Grant’s new book Vibe is his seventh. It argues that the science of human connection has been hiding in plain sight for a century, and that most of what people do to build relationships is either backwards or unnecessary.

   The episode covers why the highest sign of chemistry between people is enjoying your disagreements rather than avoiding them, why remote work produces boreout rather than burnout, and why your first impression of someone is a snapshot of one situation that may not represent the whole person. It also covers burstiness, confident humility, and why universities have survived COVID, AI, and every other disruption that was supposed to end them.

   What you’ll hear:

   Why the pendulum clock experiment from 1665 explains what happens when people stop trying to force a connection

   What the HiPPO effect does to a team and why the highest paid person’s opinion kills creative ideas

   Why Grant ran experiments on university fundraising callers that tripled their revenue with a five-minute intervention

   What desirability bias is and why Grant thinks it is more dangerous than confirmation bias

   Why Grant A/B tested the subtitle of his own book and what “relationships” signaled that “connections” did not

   What Grant and Brian agree on about false certainty and thinking in conditional probabilities

   “The highest sign of chemistry between people is not agreeing with them. It’s enjoying your disagreements.” — Adam Grant

   CHAPTERS

   00:00 Vibing is real. Your brainwaves prove it.

   05:30 Task conflict vs. relationship conflict

   07:40 Who is actually in charge: parents or infants?

   10:14 Burstiness: the remote work pattern that works

   14:24 Don’t trust yo…

8. Roman Yampolskiy vs Joscha Bach: Can Anyone Control Superintelligence?

   9 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 14 min

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   Roman Yampolskiy says keeping a superintelligence safe forever is as impossible as building a perpetual motion machine. Joscha Bach says today's AI is more controllable than anyone expected, and that shutting it down would doom us anyway. Lees meer

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   Roman Yampolskiy is a computer scientist at the University of Louisville who has spent more than a decade on the AI control problem. Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist who studies how minds, biological and artificial, build a model of reality.

   We cover: why a perpetual safety device may be as impossible as perpetual motion, what happens when AI research automates itself (Roman puts it at 28 percent today), whether nuclear deterrence is the right analogy, who really benefits when AI labs ask to be regulated, and why consciousness may have nothing to do with whether AI is safe.

   Being conscious does not make you kind.

   00:00 Simulation theory meets certain doom
   03:25 Is P(doom) even a real number?
   06:05 Why a simulated world still matters
   09:26 Should we have skipped the Trinity test?
   13:04 Did nukes actually keep the peace?
   17:32 Why haven't we wiped out the spiders?
   22:35 Is AI doom falsifiable?
   25:48 Why a self-driving car isn't the threat
   29:27 Roman's 28% automation number
   34:46 Intelligence is not agency
   39:20 Can superintelligence be proven safe?
   42:40 Who wins when AI labs ask for regulation?
   47:45 Does consciousness make AI safer?
   53:48 Would a perfect mind discover God?
   58:37 The Tower of Babel, read backward
   1:03:52 Can you control a mind a million times smarter?
   1:04:43 The narrow AI path Roman wants instead

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9. "I Thought It Would Fail!" Francis Halzen: Winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize In Physics [Reupload from 2022]

   7 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 28 min

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   The physicist who turned a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice into a telescope says the most exciting moment of his career was not the discovery. It was the first atmospheric neutrino. Before that, he was deep in debt to NSF and his own university with no neutrino to show for it. Lees meer

   Francis Halzen is principal investigator of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole and Hilldale and Gregory Breit Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

   We cover: why ice under the South Pole is clearer than anything a lab can make, the 2,600 TeV event that dwarfs the LHC, why IceCube sees more energy in cosmic neutrinos than in gamma rays, how neutrinos crossing the universe test quantum gravity, and the quark he refused to believe in.

   Physics is a miserable career unless you are obsessed by it.

   Recorded in 2022, before IceCube detected neutrinos from our own galaxy.

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   Chapters
   00:00 Physics is a miserable career, unless
   02:54 A textbook written before the W was found
   06:11 Breaking into Lemaître's computer at night
   10:57 Do scientists owe the public anything?
   13:55 Deep in debt with zero neutrinos
   19:40 The persuasion nobody teaches scientists
   20:15 Why it could only be the South Pole
   23:20 Learn physics by doing, not by courses
   26:00 How to turn Antarctic ice into a telescope
   31:30 2,600 TeV: far beyond the LHC
   35:00 More energy in neutrinos than gamma rays
   40:00 Tracing ghost particles to NGC 1068
   46:00 Testing quantum gravity with neutrinos
   1:01:00 Ten times the ice for the same price
   1:07:08 What he would leave his descendants
   1:11:19 What his generation should be proud of
   1:12:51 The quark he refused to believe in
   1:17:09 Imagination can trump intelligence

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10. Nobel Economist Daron Acemoglu WARNING: AI's Payoff Is NOT What You Think

    5 oktober 2026 · 35 min

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    Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu says AI's real productivity gain is an order of magnitude smaller than the industry claims. Lees meer

    The bigger danger is not the machine. It is that a handful of people are deciding how it gets built.

    Daron Acemoglu is an MIT economist who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

    We cover: why a Nobel chemist left Berkeley for China, the optimal amount of heresy science should tolerate, the one rule that would end algorithmic outrage without censoring anyone, the accounting trick behind billionaire wealth, and why AI's path is a design decision, not destiny.

    We are still a democracy. Perhaps not for long.

    Chapters:

    0:00 Can science survive without democracy?t
    2:08 Why a Nobel laureate left Berkeley for Chinat
    3:58 What Galileo knew that Kepler didn'tt
    5:12 Is peer review undemocratic?t
    7:41 The optimal amount of scientific heresyt
    10:06 Science isn't slowing. So what broke?t
    12:06 The design choice behind echo chamberst
    14:49 One rule that would fix social mediat
    19:26 Should Elon Musk have this much wealth?t
    23:49 AI is a design choice, not destinyt

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