In this episode Nobel laureate Gerard ’t Hooft argues that quantum mechanics is fundamentally wrong, describing the universe as a deterministic pinball machine without randomness. He explores superdeterminism, cellular automata, and the implications for black hole information and hidden variables.
- 00:00 - Why Quantum Mechanics is Fundamentally Wrong
- 05:00 - The Frustrating Blind Spots of Modern Physicists
- 11:27 - The "Hidden Variables" That Truly Explain Reality
- 17:00 - The "True" Equations of the Universe Will Have No Superposition
- 23:00 - Our Universe as a Cellular Automaton
- 30:02 - Why Real Numbers Don't Exist in Physics
- 39:14 - Can This Radical Theory Even Be Falsified?
- 46:29 - How Superdeterminism Defeats Bell's Theorem
- 58:19 - 't Hooft's Radical View on Quantum Gravity
- 1:08:24 - Solving the Black Hole Information Paradox with "Clones"
- 1:14:00 - What YOU Would Experience Falling Into a Black Hole
- 1:20:17 - How 't Hooft Almost Beat a Nobel Prize Discovery
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