Wasup everybody! Today we have on our friend who is a EE & BME grad student Connor Westfall. We get into the research he is involved in that takes place in the Material Science Lab here at UCO. This research is specifically in magnetic materials, and so we do a little diving into a wide variety of magnetic related topics. Hope you ENJOY!

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Professor Prather episodes are always epic. He is known for being knowledgeable in Classical Mechanics, but has recently taken a bit of a different trajectory into Machine Learning. We get into both topics, but spend a lot of time talking about the many popular ideas in AI and the meaning of mankind. Prof. Prather Website: https://www.peirastes.com/

How do we know what we know—and how much of that “knowledge” is an illusion? In this episode, Josh and Albert zoom out from the Scientific Method to explore the wild world of epistemology: the study of knowledge, belief, and justification.We’ll shake your confidence with quantum weirdness, psychological experiments, and logic paradoxes, then dive into philosophy, science, and even AI research to show why truth is far slipperier than you think.🔍 What’s Inside This Episode🔭 Quantum Mysteries: The Double-Slit Experiment and how observation changes reality.🧪 Authority vs. Truth: Milgram’s Obedience Study—why people obeyed orders to deliver lethal shocks.🧩 The Gettier Problem: When you’re right by accident, do you know anything?🔢 Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem: Why math itself has blind spots.🧠 Lenses of Knowledge: Empiricism, Rationalism, Pragmatism, Constructivism.🤖 AI as a Mirror: How machine learning challenges our definition of “understanding.”

Josh and Albert are back at it, wrapping up their deep dive into the Scientific Method and geeking out over some wild research finds you won’t want to miss.

Ever wonder if the Scientific Method you learned in school was just scratching the surface? 👀In this episode, we go beyond the basics and dive into a version that asks the hard questions—pushing scientists to really stress-test their theories. We’ll explore The Ethical Skeptic’s in-depth take on the Scientific Method and share our own thoughts along the wayLink to Article:https://theethicalskeptic.com/2019/09/28/the-scientific-method/

Today we have the privilege of sitting down with one of UCO’s most beloved professors, Professor Prather. With a master’s degree and a passion for teaching a wide range of engineering courses, he’s known across campus for his insatiable curiosity and the way he sparks it in others. In this episode, we trace his roots—where he grew up and how his curiosity first ignited—before diving into his fascinating research on gravity.

Albert and Josh dive head first into the mysteries of the Universe. This Pilot covers all of the different topics that will be EXPLORED in Future episodes. No experts here, but we are trying to get there. Join us on our exploration of IDEAS!!!

We got the privilege to interview one of UCO's very own Chemistry Professor and Researcher who has a BA in Chemistry, PhD in Pharmaceutical Science, and has spent some time at a NIH Laboratory. Not only is she great at these two things, but she is also seen by many as a great mentor. As with all of our first time guests who are professors we get into where Dr. Waters is from, and just where her insatiable curiosity comes from. We also dive into some of her research, and how she helps highlight not just her mentees research but many others that are wrapped up in a three headed research monster called the Tri-Center Symposium! This consists of the Center for Wildlife Forensics and Conservation Studies (CFACS), the Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Education and Research (CIBER), and the Center for Research and Education in Interdisciplinary Computation (CREIC).

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https://www3.uco.edu/centraldirectory/profiles/924485

Dr. Benjamin Tayo is a mentor to many here at UCO. He is the advisor of our beloved Physics Society, and a relentless Researcher. His research is in computational solid state/condensed matter physics. He recently published a ground breaking paper which is linked below. We dive into his background, his research, and some of his philosophies of life. Enjoy!

Dr. Tayo's Latest Research Paper:

Defect-Engineered Graphene Nanoribbons for Enhanced DNA Sequencing: A Study of Structural Defects and Their Impact on Nucleobase Interaction and Quantum Transport

Available on YouTube as well:

https://youtu.be/DiMpaTGnE30

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We sit down and reflect a bit on the semester that just passed. We also get into a couple of other fun engineering/physics topics of course!

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Physics is everywhere! Including MUSIC! No we dont make any huge discoveries or dive as deeply as we set out to, but we got to do what we always enjoy doing-- having fun and getting to learn about a new classmate of ours, while learning a bit about the physics of music.

In this episode we interview another fellow student here at UCO! We had such a fun time with this one, and the Topic of The Electrical Grid is so fascinating and more nuanced than we gave it credit for. Come hang out with us and you might just be blown away with some of the issues in the grid that don't get talked about in the main stream.

This is our first episode with a fellow student! Jack Woodward set down with us to explore the topic of Quantum Mechanics. We all do our best at explaining the weird and wacky world that is the Quantum World, and as undergrad students I think we did fairly well! We don't ever say we are experts, only Passionately Curious!

What if reasoning itself behaves like a physical system?
In this episode, we explore an idea that blurs the boundary between logic, feedback, and the search for truth.

It starts with a single abstract… and unravels into something much larger — touching everything from the structure of thought to the structure of matter.

That’s all we’ll say here. You’ll have to listen to hear where it leads.

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Albert and Josh take a journey through Information Theory: Shannon’s entropy, Landauer’s “information is physical,” and why black holes store “memory” on their horizons—plus a quick nod to Wheeler’s It from Bit, simulation hypothesis, and of course few tangents to keep things fun.🔗 Resources and ReferencesShannon’s A Mathematical Theory of Communication (overview)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematical_Theory_of_CommunicationShannon entropy (definition, intuition, examples)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)Original Shannon paper (archival PDF mirror)https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdfComputation, Cryptography, & “Information is Physical”Landauer’s Principle (erasing 1 bit costs kT ln 2)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principleLandauer’s 1961 paper (PDF reprint)https://homepages.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~vondelft/Lehre/InformationProcessingInQMSS09/Literature/Landauer61.pdfMaxwell’s Demon (history + modern resolution)https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/maxwell-demon/Black Holes, Entropy, & HolographyBekenstein–Hawking entropy (area law)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein%E2%80%93Hawking_entropyBlack hole information paradox (overview)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradoxHolographic principle (overview)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principleSusskind, The World as a Hologram (classic review)https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9409089’t Hooft, The Holographic Principle (short primer)https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0003004Don Page (1994), Information Loss in Black Holes and/or Conscious Beings?https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9411193History: Shannon ↔ TuringAlan Turing (bio + the universal machine)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_TuringClaude Shannon (bio; logic circuits thesis)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon“It from Bit” & PhilosophyWheeler’s “It from Bit” (context + quotes)https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=2181Bostrom’s Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? (paper + hub)https://www.simulation-argument.com/Simulation hypothesis (overview)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesisDeep-Dive Reviews You MentionedBekenstein (2003), Black holes and information theoryhttps://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0311049Lowe & Thorlacius (1999), AdS/CFT and the Information Paradoxhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9903237Page (1993), Average Entropy of a Subsystem (the Page curve math)https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9305007

In this episode we talk multiple personalities, simulations, and much more. This is kinda what happens when you get a Biomedical Engineer and a Computer Engineer together.... Check out our website and join our discord!⁠Physics Society — Blog & EventsNeed a T-Shirt email us @physicsociety2025@gmail.com

Today we sit down with a Mechanical Engineering Friend of ours Joey Yang. We talk about INTRINSIC vs EXTRINSIC Motivation, and the science/research behind how your brain can start to rewire itself to like more one then the other. Per usual we talk a little engineering and a little philosophy. Hope you enjoy!

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We sit down with one of the Physics Soceity Officers here at UCO. Anjali Poulo is the Secretary of Defense for Physics Society, Engineering Physics Major, and Material Science Researcher. She wanted to come on to talk about a topic she is passsionate about "Biomemicry". Per usual we got to talk to Anjali about a wide variety of topics, and were thrilled to finally have her on!

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Round 2 with the one and only Dr. Benjamin Tayo. We dive into a variety of topics per usual. Quantum Computing, its future at UCO, future PhD programs here at UCO by 2027, and so much more! Hope you enjoy.

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