SPONSORS:- Go to https://shortform.com/toe for a free trial and an exclusive $50 OFF on your annual subscription- I subscribe to The Economist for their science and tech coverage. As a TOE listener, get 35% off! No other podcast has this: https://economist.com/TOEJuan Maldacena wrote the most cited paper in theoretical physics, birthing AdS/CFT and realizing holography — and today, the problem keeping him up at night is wormholes. He suspects space-time isn't fundamental at all, that geometry itself might be what entanglement looks like from the inside. The singularity isn't a place, it's a name for everything we don't yet understand. I hope you enjoy it.FOLLOW:- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Substack: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/subscribe- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs- Crypto: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9- PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4TIMESTAMPS:- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LINKS MENTIONED:- Juan Maldacena's Website: https://www.ias.edu/sns/malda- Large N Limit of Superconformal Field Theories [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9711200- Eternal Black Holes in AdS [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0106112- Holographic Derivation of Entanglement Entropy [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0603001- Real Observers Solving Imaginary Problems [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14014- Building Spacetime with Quantum Entanglement [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.3035- Entropy of Bulk Quantum Fields [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08762- Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08255- Comments on the Double Cone Wormhole [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11617- Traversable Wormholes in Four Dimensions [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04726- JT Gravity as a Matrix Integral [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11115- Single-Minus Gluon Tree Amplitudes [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12176- Bulk Locality and Quantum Error Correction [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.7041- Black Hole Information Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox- Chilloquium 2023 [Lecture]: https://youtu.be/Ow81IJyzmUQ- Erik Verlinde [TOE]: https://youtu.be/ilVImMHcr_g- Leonard Susskind [TOE]: https://youtu.be/2p_Hlm6aCok- Edward Frenkel [TOE]: https://youtu.be/RX1tZv_Nv4YMore links at https://curtjaimungal.substack.comGuests do not pay to appear. #scienceLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices