Curt Jaimungal

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31,632 appearances 110 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 2d ago

Curt Jaimungal’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 53 in all, peaking in Mar 2026 with 8.

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Jim Al-Khalili: The Ontology of Time. We Had It Backwards · 21 Sep 2026 podcast

Why does embeddedness put a limitation for us knowing it, though? voice-verified

Allow me to paint the picture just so that we can be clear. voice-verified

And also I can show something on screen. voice-verified

So remember this hairy ball? voice-verified

There's this theorem about you can't comb a hairy ball. voice-verified

Okay. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

And then there's a vector field on a sphere. voice-verified

But in the block universe, supposing we're taking one person's perspective and we just have this 3D universe, then the flow of time also becomes like vectors in this block of ice. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

They're just vectors. voice-verified

It's a vector field. voice-verified

But there's not flowing. voice-verified

You can have a vector field without flowing per se. voice-verified

So that's what I'm viewing as what you mean when you say there's an arrow of time. voice-verified

And that's why I was asking about, does anything actually change? voice-verified

Or is it just that right there with the arrows embedded, but there's no changing arrows? voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

foliation from which everything is just moving upward, upward. voice-verified

of time, thank you for spending so much of it with me and with the audience. voice-verified

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