Frederic Schuller: The Physicist Who Derived Gravity From Electromagnetism
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Curt Jaimungal
4.6 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 149 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I was stunned as a theoretical physicist. |
| 0:03.2 | We now believe to have cracked at least two of the three most prominent problems. |
| 0:10.0 | Professor Frederick Schuller has done something that should be impossible. |
| 0:14.8 | He's derived Einstein's general relativity from Maxwell's electromagnetism alone. |
| 0:20.7 | Not postulated, not assumed, but derived. |
| 0:25.0 | So you start with electromagnetic fields on an arbitrary background, you demand predictivity, |
| 0:30.1 | and out pops not only that must the geometry be Laurentian, but the dynamics must be |
| 0:35.8 | Einsteinian. However, Schuller's Maverick conclusions don't end there. |
| 0:40.8 | He's found a formalism from engineering, which may help shed light on the measurement problem |
| 0:46.1 | from an extremely unlikely place. This podcast was tremendously impactful to me, which is not |
| 0:52.8 | something I often say about the math and physics |
| 0:55.2 | podcasts on this channel. The heartfelt impacts tend to come from explorations of meaning and even |
| 1:01.3 | consciousness, but today, Frederick reveals for the first time his teaching philosophy and why |
| 1:07.0 | starting from propositional logic and building all the way through set theory to differential geometry has resonated with millions of people. |
| 1:14.6 | Professor Schuller shows physics as it actually is, a conceptual masterpiece where every piece interlocks like a Da Vinci painting. |
| 1:24.3 | This podcast will not only give you a new perspective on physics, but will fundamentally |
| 1:29.8 | change how you think about physics. Welcome, Professor. Thank you very much, Kurt. This was a long |
| 1:37.3 | time in the making, right? Yes, many, many months. Yes, yes. So tell me, what are you working on |
| 1:42.5 | these days? What's in your mind, research-wise? |
| 1:45.9 | Research-wise, I am thinking about foundations of quantum mechanics these days, and I never |
| 1:51.9 | wanted to do that because that's a very, very thorny subject. |
| 1:56.2 | And, of course, there are obvious problems, the measurement problem above all, that bother me, |
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