{"podcast":{"title":"Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal","slug":"theories-of-everything-with-curt-jaimungal-6685488","podcast_index_feed_id":6685488,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/WoEHhoGp","website_url":"https://youtube.com/TheoriesOfEverything","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/3775439c-21d9-11ef-ba0a-0f2bf7e94c97/image/909651088bd04115de5cbc733f02b07e.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Curt Jaimungal","episode_count":346,"summary":"Exploring theoretical physics, consciousness, Ai, and God in a technically rigorous manner. If you'd like to support this endeavor, then please visit the Patreon ( https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal ). Thank you for your charitable and kindhearted support. My name's Curt Jaimungal, a Torontonian with a degree in mathematical physics from the University of Toronto and I analyze various Theories of Everything from this analytic perspective, though more and more opening up to alternative approaches. The separating factor of TOE from other podcasts is its focus on depth even at the risk of limiting the audience due to how much detail we delve into subjects. Paralleling the intensity found in academic discourse, we're increasingly embracing a spectrum of unconventional ideas to conduct research during this podcast, rather than merely conveying existing information. Contact toe [at] indiefilmTO [dot] com for business inquiries / sponsorship.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/theories-of-everything-with-curt-jaimungal-6685488"},"episode":{"title":"Subir Sarkar: Why Dark Energy Is a Local Illusion","slug":"subir-sarkar-why-dark-energy-is-a-local-illusion","published_at":"2026-01-26T21:56:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/theories-of-everything-with-curt-jaimungal-6685488/subir-sarkar-why-dark-energy-is-a-local-illusion","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/theories-of-everything-with-curt-jaimungal-6685488","url":"https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI8821482244.mp3?updated=1769465728","audio_url":"https://s.gum.fm/s-62d83916a854b1cc0031878d/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/TEMI8821482244.mp3?updated=1769465728","summary":"Hot off the press, Professor Subir Sarkar makes the case that dark energy doesn’t exist (and he’s not being provocative for its own sake). He’s the former head of Oxford’s particle theory group, serves on the Particle Data Group. Sarkar's group has found that the cosmic acceleration supposedly driving the universe's expansion is directional—not uniform as required by a cosmological constant—appearing only in the direction we're moving through space. He claims the 2011 Nobel Prize-winning discovery rests on a century-old assumption of cosmic isotropy that his data now falsifies at over 5 sigma. \"We need to go back to square one.\" SUPPORT: - Support me on Substack: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/subscribe - Support me on Crypto: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9 - Support me on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4 LINKS MENTIONED: - https://inspirehep.net/literature/52370 - https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.174.2168 - https://www.nature.com/articles/srep35596 - https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.08972 - https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993ApJ...413L.105P/abstract - https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.01229 - https://inference-review.com/article/heart-of-darkness - https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/206/2/377/1024995 - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235329300_The_NRAO_VLA_sky_survey - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.3627 - https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06483 - https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=hYPXSjkAAAAJ&citation_for_view=hYPXSjkAAAAJ:k_IJM867U9cC - https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.18.533281v2.full - https://amazon.com/dp/0486472051?tag=toe08-20 - https://youtu.be/xZnafO__IZ0 - https://youtu.be/kUHOoMX4Bqw - https://youtu…","meta_description":"Hot off the press, Professor Subir Sarkar makes the case that dark energy doesn’t exist (and he’s not being provocative for its own sake). He’s the former…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7430,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/theories-of-everything-with-curt-jaimungal-6685488/episodes/subir-sarkar-why-dark-energy-is-a-local-illusion/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/theories-of-everything-with-curt-jaimungal-6685488/subir-sarkar-why-dark-energy-is-a-local-illusion.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}