The Peter McCormack Show

Prof. Jim Al-Khalili is a theoretical physicist, author, and public broadcaster who holds a chair in physics at the University of Surrey. Known for his BBC documentaries and popular science books, including On Time and The World According to Physics, his work spans quantum mechanics, nuclear reaction theory, and the fundamental nature of space-time.

Jim and I discuss the divide between psychological "manifest time" and the laws of physics. Jim explains general relativity, gravitational time dilation, and the astrophysics behind Interstellar, before tackling the mathematical conflict between general relativity and quantum mechanics. Jim breaks down quantum entanglement, Bell’s Inequality, and competing models of reality-from the Copenhagen view to the Many-Worlds interpretation. Finally, we discuss how AI systems are formalizing complex mathematical theorems and processing deep-space data to decode dark matter and dark energy.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Where Physics Breaks Down
00:01:10 - I'm 47 And Thinking About Time
00:03:45 - Is Time An Illusion?
00:06:44 - Why Your Phone Proves Einstein Right
00:07:47 - The Fifth Dimension In Interstellar
00:09:46 - Carl Sagan And The Invention Of Wormholes
00:12:36 - Is There A White Hole?
00:15:07 - Was The Big Bang A White Hole?
00:18:35 - Nobody Understands String Theory
00:19:18 - Gravity Is Not A Force
00:22:58 - Spooky Action At A Distance
00:25:39 - They Proved Einstein Wrong
00:27:56 - Nothing Exists Until You Measure It
00:30:58 - Schrödinger's Cat
00:36:40 - What I Want To Know Before I Die
00:43:12 - Fermat's Last Theorem
00:47:41 - What If You Pointed AI At Physics?
00:54:23 - Borrowing Energy From The Vacuum
00:57:07 - Dark Matter Is A Bad Name
01:06:10 - Is There An Edge To The Universe?

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Simon Dixon is an author, early Bitcoin investor, and co-founder of Bank To The Future, with over two decades of experience across stockbroking, market making, and investment banking. Having observed system mechanics from the inside, he specialises in macro structural shifts, sovereign debt cycles, and the emerging intersection between traditional finance, AI infrastructure, and digital assets.

Simon and I discuss the $40 trillion US national debt crisis, the mechanics behind Treasury debt rollovers, and how central banks socialise bond market losses onto ordinary citizens while privatising gains into stock markets. We also discuss the corporate debt boom driving the AI data centre build-out, real-term wealth erosion in the housing market, and how technocratic structures are positioning programmable money and CBDCs as crisis bailouts.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - The $40 Trillion US Debt Milestone
00:02:09 - Understanding Treasuries & The $9.7T Debt Rollover
00:06:30 - Socializing Losses & Inflation On The Middle Class
00:10:48 - Bond Vigilantes & Foreign Lenders (Cayman & Japan)
00:12:46 - The Triffin Dilemma & World Reserve Currency
00:16:00 - SpaceX Valuation & Stock Market Mechanics
00:19:03 - The Corporate AI Debt Build-Out
00:22:04 - Protecting Assets Against Currency Debasement
00:24:47 - AI Disinflation vs Currency Debasement
00:28:36 - Comparing The AI Boom To 2000 & 2008
00:31:36 - UK Property Market & Inflation-Adjusted Returns
00:33:46 - Wealth Taxes, Exit Taxes & Asset Acquisitions
00:41:20 - Will AI Eliminate Middle-Class Jobs?
00:44:14 - Programmable Money, CBDCs & Social Credit Systems
00:50:44 - Three Classes Of The Technocratic Era
00:54:47 - The Role Of Bitcoin In Financial Resistance
00:57:12 - Why Key Management Is The Ultimate Digital Skill
01:00:00 - The Coldcard Exploit & Hardware Wallet Lessons
01:08:16 - Simon's Origin: The 2000 Dot-Com Crash
01:13:58 - Rules Of The Game & Building A Sovereign Plan
01:21:50 - Reconnecting Outside Of The Digital Screen

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Johann Hari is an internationally bestselling author and journalist whose work - including Stolen Focus, Lost Connections, and Chasing the Scream - delves into the structural and societal drivers behind attention collapse, depression, anxiety, and addiction. Moving beyond individual blame, he explores how digital architecture, surveillance capitalism and the erosion of human connection are actively reshaping modern minds.

Johann and I discuss why material progress has failed to deliver psychological fulfilment, how our 19th-century factory-model education system deadens curiosity in children, and why depriving youth of unsupervised, risky play has fuelled a global spike in anxiety.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - The Kind Are Muffled, The Cruel Get A Megaphone
00:05:31 - The Room In Monaco
00:08:52 - AI Is Like Fire
00:18:35 - The School With No Lessons
00:28:12 - Am I Preparing My Kids Wrong?
00:32:03 - The Hewlett Packard Experiment
00:40:11 - Flair, Football And Changing The Game
00:45:11 - Negativity Bias On Steroids
00:49:15 - Dance To The Algorithm Long Enough
00:55:03 - We're Building A Worse World For Our Kids
01:02:30 - Lead Made Us Dumber
01:11:17 - Half Of Britain Used To Smoke
01:18:30 - It Would Have Sounded Like Science Fiction
01:29:03 - We Built A Fort
01:38:45 - Oasis 1995 vs Elton John 2019
01:44:28 - I Know Exactly How To Get To 5 Million
01:56:59 - Let's Not Murder Each Other
02:07:14 - The Thing I Suppressed
02:15:39 - Almost Every Rich Person I've Met Is Miserable
02:25:16 - It's A Wonderful Life

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Ann Pettifor is a world-renowned political economist, author of The Production of Money, and former director of the Jubilee 2000 campaign, which successfully mobilised millions to cancel over $100 billion in sovereign debt for developing nations. Correctly predicting the 2008 Great Financial Crisis in her 2006 book The Coming First World Debt Crisis, she has spent decades exposing how unregulated global finance, central bank printing and Wall Street speculation starve the real economy of productive investment.

Ann and I discuss how a grassroots army of ordinary citizens forced Gordon Brown and Tony Blair to cancel third-world debt, the reality of commercial and central bank money creation and how Richard Nixon’s 1971 decision to sever the dollar from gold handed total economic control to global financial markets.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - They Are Never Going To Repay
00:01:22 - How To Cancel $100 Billion Of Debt
00:06:50 - Germany Had Its Debt Cancelled In 1953
00:10:12 - Arms Dealers, Dictators And Guarantees
00:13:40 - Creditors Love An Empty Balance Sheet
00:16:42 - Where Money Actually Comes From
00:17:30 - We Entered The Number Into A Computer
00:19:24 - Debt Is A Function Of A Weak Economy
00:24:04 - Why Everyone Is Angry At The Same Time
00:26:02 - The Queen Asked Why Nobody Predicted It
00:30:11 - The Next Crisis Is Imminent
00:33:37 - Private Credit And The South Sea Bubble
00:37:15 - What Happened In 1971
00:43:15 - The Bankers Who Expected Prison
00:49:49 - The Strongman Takes Them To War
00:51:45 - I'd Nationalise Thames Water Tomorrow
00:57:05 - Who Inflation Targets Actually Protect
01:03:00 - The State Invented The iPhone
01:09:22 - Nationalism And Patriotism Are Not The Same
01:13:16 - Why She Still Has Hope

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Eric Kaufmann spent over two decades as a professor of politics studying demography, identity, and voting behaviour before leaving Birkbeck College to launch the Centre for Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham. He argues that Western universities have abandoned analytical rigor and truth-seeking in favour of "cultural socialism" - an ideology prioritising equal outcomes and emotional harm protection for marginalised groups above standards, reason, and merit.

Eric and I discuss the Jason Day scandal at Cambridge as the tip of a massive institutional iceberg, an AI-driven meta-analysis showing that 90% of political social science papers now slant to the left, and how 80% of young Britons have been taught critical race and gender concepts at school without counterarguments.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:05:18 - Is Fake Science In Academia A Scam?
00:08:08 - The Media Storm & Media Ethics
00:12:43 - What Universities Are Hiding
00:16:18 - 90% Left-Wing Bias In Research
00:20:12 - Do Parents Know What Kids Learn?
00:23:18 - Indoctrination In British Classrooms
00:26:44 - The Origins Of Critical Race Theory
00:30:11 - Microaggressions & Enforced Trauma
00:33:08 - How Activists Captured Universities
00:36:56 - Why Under-30s Vote 80/20 Left
00:40:00 - Has "Peak Woke" Passed?
00:45:51 - Was Rishi Sunak "English"?
00:51:33 - The Psychological Trigger Of Populism
00:56:13 - The War Over White British Identity
01:03:13 - Do Demographics Change Identity?
01:08:15 - The Anti-Racism Taboo Exposed
01:13:42 - Why Minorities Support Right-Wing Views
01:17:53 - Rebalancing Public Morality
01:21:05 - The First Major Loss For Activism
01:25:40 - How Political Power Fixes The System
01:29:31 - The Heterodox Science Movement

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