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Rex Riepe is a philosopher who created the Eristics Test as a tool for helping people understand how they process emotions. In his view, emotions are a deeply rational aspect of our personalities that argue for us to take specific actions in three spheres - the self, the world, and society. We discuss the structure that he has developed for understanding the relationship between emotions, how he identified the fundamental building blocks of our interior landscapes, the way that different personalities fit together, and how unexamined emotional strategies can take on a life of their own. Take the test at eristicstest.com and drop your results in the comments! Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB AND rock some Demystify Gear to spread the word: https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/ OR do your Amazon shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/4g2cPVV (00:00:00) Go! (00:02:32) The Structure of the Eristics Test

(00:05:50) Emotions and the Shadow Self

(00:23:27) Emotions as evolutionary adaptations

(00:32:23) Defining emotions and their role in arguments and survival

(00:51:39) Emotional Energy Allocation

(01:00:08) Fear Dominant Personalities

(01:14:21) Malleability of emotional archetypes and personal growth

(01:33:19) Understanding Detachment and Emotional Health

(01:41:59) Exploring the Concept of Guilt, Purpose, and Happiness

(01:57:42) Perception and variation in internal dialogue

(01:59:33) Enhancing connections through emotional self-awareness

(02:18:03) Technology adoption and abandonment by corporations

(02:22:26) Centralization and decentralization in internet ecosystems

#sciencepodcast, #longformpodcast, Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. Ruth Kastner is a historian of Physics and philosopher of Science who is preoccupied with rational interpretations of quantum mechanics. She serves as the third pole of the transactional quantum mechanics big tent where she, alongside John Cramer and Carver Mead, argue that the apparent mysteries of quantum mechanics can be rationalized by modeling everything from light to gravity as an exchange between atoms. Our conversation explores how she became enamored with this alternative approach to physics, the question of how accurate our models really are when it comes to the subatomic world, why the word "electron" is hopelessly confused, and why moving backwards in space and time aren't as different as they might seem at first glance. Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB AND rock some Demystify Gear to spread the word: https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/ OR do your Amazon shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/4g2cPVV (00:00:00) Go! (00:05:21) Evolution of Transactional Interpretations in Quantum Mechanics (00:07:12) Philosophical Motivations Behind Transactional Interpretations (00:23:26) Mechanistic vs. holistic views of nature (00:27:09) Quantum mechanics and mechanistic explanations (00:32:24) Wave functions and physical reality (00:46:14) Quantum Measurement and Macroscopic Objects (00:49:00) Electron Energy Eigenstates and Stability (00:55:44) Wave-Particle Duality and Transactional Interpretation (00:59:51) Quantum Measurement Problem and Direct Action Theory (01:00:46) Quantum Field Dynamics and Mutual Communication (01:08:30) Future Influence on Present Actions (01:11:03) Actualized vs. Possible Futures (01:14:19) Quantum Indeterminacy and Hidden Variables (01:21:56) Free Will and Determinism (01:31:15) Life as entropy and disorder (01:32:24) Consciousness and non-human life forms (01:39:21) Complexity in living systems (01:45:20) Challenges in quantum theory interpretations (01:53:30) Ontology and Space-Time Concept (01:55:07) Relativistic Quantum Direct Action Theory (02:00:47) Charge Interpretation and Field Source Dynamics #sciencepodcast, #longformpodcast, #QuantumMechanics #TransactionalInterpretation #PhilosophyOfScience #MechanisticVsHolistic #WaveFunctionReality #QuantumMeasurement #MacroscopicObjects #ElectronEnergy #WaveParticleDuality #DirectActionTheory #QuantumFieldDynamics #FutureInfluence #PossibleFutures #QuantumIndeterminacy #HiddenVariables #FreeWillVsDeterminism #LifeAndEntropy #ConsciousnessStudies #NonHumanLife #ComplexSystems #QuantumTheoryChallenges #Ontology #SpaceTime #RelativisticQuantum #ChargeDynamics #FieldSourceTheory #QuantumPhysics #QuantumPhilosophy #Determinism #QuantumFieldTheory #InterpretationOfQuantumTheory #WaveFunction Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

We sit down for a discussion about the futility of rationalism, by way of William James' Varieties of Religious Experience. We start with the question of utopias, and try to diagnose why, if they're doomed to fail, it's still worth trying to create them, and then move on to the question of the scientific project - which seems to be an attempt to create a rationalist utopia. James' take on mystical experiences - that they're nearly universally accessible, though rarely long dwelt in - seems to suggest that there is something about the tremulous experience of being alive that will leave us with the feeling of being part of something larger than ourselves no matter how rational we get. So, then, if we can never escape the mystical experience, is it worth trying? And if it is, and we take the project of science to be worthwhile, where does the mystic live? Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB AND rock some Demystify Gear to spread the word: https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/ OR do your Amazon shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/4g2cPVV (00:00:00) Go! (00:08:52) Capitalism vs. Utopia (00:20:06) The Nature of Utopian Projects (00:23:16) The challenges of maintaining utopian communities (00:26:21) The importance of starting small for larger projects (00:30:30) Navigating local laws and governance in new communities (00:34:13) The inherent risks of utopian projects (00:39:05) Embracing flexibility for successful organizations (00:44:04) Exploring the interface of science and mysticism (00:46:48) Exploration of Mystical Experiences and Science (00:51:25) Science and the Unseen (00:59:04) The Challenge of Defining Consciousness (01:06:00) Technology and Labor Dynamics (01:10:52) Dealing with Technology's Impact on Human Experience (01:13:11) William James and the Nature of Poverty (01:16:27) The Relationship Between Mystics and Society (01:20:21) Personal Accounts of Mystical Experiences (01:25:15) Balancing Mystical Insights and Practicality (01:30:21) Critique on Integrating Mysticism into Science (01:34:08) The interplay of belief and the unseen in religious and scientific contexts (01:37:00) The mystical dimensions of quantum physics and human experience (01:39:38) Art and mysticism: the limitations of science in capturing experiences (01:45:09) The inadequacies of science in addressing consciousness and existence (01:50:45) The pursuit of knowledge and the limits of scientific authority #sciencepodcast, #longformpodcast, #UtopianVision, #ScienceVsMysticism, #WilliamJames, #Philosophy, #Mysticism, #Rationalism, #DavidGraeber, #Utopia, #Psychology, #PhilosophicalDebate, #DemystifyingScience, #PodcastDiscussion, #CulturalCritique, #HumanExperience, #ConsciousnessExploration Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. Dean Radin is an investigator of parapsychological phenomena whose career has spanned Bell Labs, Stanford Research Institute as part of the Stargate Project, Princeton, and who is now the Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Radin approaches his search for evidence of psychokinesis and extrasensory perception as an engineer, and has spent his career building devices that can be reproducibly (though subtly) affected by the minds of experimental subjects that have ranged from his colleagues at Bell Labs to thousands of participants from across the web. We talk about how the buttoned up engineer started studying such esoteric phenomena, working for the CIA, how there's no proof that can convince a skeptic, his recent research that suggests that mental action can affect the outcome of quantum experiments, and his radically transparent approach to research.

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(00:00:00)  Introduction to Dean Radin and the Concept of Magic
(00:07:13) The Interplay of Magic, Science, and Consciousness
(00:10:55) The Role of Information in Understanding Reality
(00:21:05) Personal Journey into Parapsychology
(00:27:38) The Role of Consciousness and Motivation in ESP
(00:38:57) Practical Applications in Human Factors
(00:46:23) Classified Knowledge and Public Awareness
(00:49:50) Active Disinformation and the Skeptic Movement
(00:53:39) Evaluating ESP Research and Military Interest
(01:01:13) Successes and Controversies of Remote Viewing
(01:08:52) Discussion on CIA Remote Viewing and Public Perception
(01:16:30) Research into Psychic Abilities and Genetics
(01:26:00) Collective Consciousness in Music and Improvisation
(01:33:04) Hemisync and Altered States of Consciousness
(01:40:43) Skill Development and Psychic Abilities
(01:52:20) Quality of Life of Remote Viewers
(01:56:32) Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics
(02:01:35) Bridging Phenomena and Mainstream Physics
(02:13:52) Ideological Resistance in Discussions
(02:25:09) Experimental Innovations in Research
(02:29:47) Mentoring the Next Generation of Researchers
(02:35:11) Discussion on Theoretical and Empirical Approaches
(02:38:40) Upcoming Book Insights and Paradigm Shifts

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Kevin Fedarko is a writer, journalist and river guide explores the interface between wilderness and industrialization, most recently through the lens of the Grand Canyon. Fedarko recently published "A Walk In the Park," the story of his somewhat ill-conceived but ultimately successful quest to walk the trail-less expanse of desert wilderness that hides beneath the canyon's rims. We talk about the struggle to tell a story about the Colorado and the canyon that contains it that avoids the conventional morality tale of environment good, technology bad; the astonishing feat of engineering, unseen since the Great Pyramids that holds back Lake Powell; the punishment of untrailed nature; and the mythology of science, man as an island, and the wilderness as something we both crave and fear. Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB AND rock some Demystify Gear to spread the word: https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/ OR do your Amazon shopping through this link for Kevin Fedarko's book: https://amzn.to/4g2cPVV (00:00) Go! (00:06:42) The Process of Writing and Sharing (00:14:15) Parallels in Creative Industries (00:18:51) Interplay of Wilderness and Modernity (00:23:03) Natural vs. Industrial Forces (00:30:21) The 1983 Spillway Crisis (00:35:22) Contradictions of Nature and Technology (00:40:44) Stories Tell Themselves (00:47:00) How Humans Understand the World (00:50:12) Science and Storytelling Paradox (01:01:03) Challenges of Long-held Beliefs (01:09:57) River Dynamics and Geology (01:13:58) The Great Unconformity (01:19:11) Hiking the Grand Canyon (01:24:22) Trail Challenges (01:33:42) Navigating the Desert (01:40:05) No Trail is Walked Alone (01:42:07) Nature and Solitude (01:48:37) Deep Immersion #sciencepodcast, #longformpodcast, Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Christof Koch is a neuroscientist who studies consciousness, and is best known for integrated information theory. IIT is a consciousness-first theory, which states that the experience of being someone (or something) is directly related to the causal powers of the underlying system. Up until relatively recently, Koch was something of a materialist - he believed that it would be possible to find the specific series of neural events in the brain that produce lived experience. A series of events, which he details in his new book "The I Am Myself the World" have led him to embrace more of an idealist perspective, which says that we are instantiations of a a much larger universal consciousness that permeates the universe. We talk to him about his transformation, the nature of consciousness and will, what it "causal powers" of a system have to do with consciousness, and the value of mystical experiences. Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB AND rock some Demystify Gear to spread the word: https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/ OR do your Amazon shopping through this link for Dr. Koch's books: https://amzn.to/3Mleyrw (00:00) Go! (00:03:40) Consciousness and Clinical Practice (00:08:32) Practical Challenges and Developments (00:14:13) Ethical and Theoretical Considerations (00:17:43) Theories and Predictions in Neuroscience (00:21:08) Physics, Causality, and Consciousness (00:24:12) The Role of Physical Interpretation in Science and Technology (00:27:24) Exploration of Physical Theories in Science (00:29:03) The Intersection of Consciousness and Data Interpretation (00:33:35) Significance of Studying Consciousness (00:37:30) Understanding Consciousness through Neural Correlates (00:48:16) Evolutionary Complexity and Consciousness (00:54:04) Human Evolution and Desires (00:57:01) Idealism and Consciousness (01:02:23) Mystical Experiences and Consciousness (01:12:15) Near-Death Experiences and Psychedelics (01:14:29) Exploring 5-MeO-DMT Experiences (01:16:34) Idealism and Scientific Study (01:18:29) Universal Mind and Consciousness (01:21:30) Complexity and Consciousness (01:24:00) Split Brain and Consciousness Studies (01:27:53) Evolution and Self-Consciousness (01:31:48) Complexity of Consciousness Emergence (01:35:23) Integrated Information Theory and Consciousness (01:39:33) Impact of Substances on Microorganisms and Consciousness (01:44:26) Artificial Intelligence and the Possibility of Consciousness (01:51:05) Simulation vs. Reality in Causal Power (01:56:01) Importance of Hardware in Consciousness (02:01:15) Virtual Worlds and Reality (02:02:08) Consciousness and Computational Limitations (02:03:05) Scientific Rivalries and Theory Validation (02:06:05) The Intersection of Science and Philosophy (02:09:22) Science, Paradigms, and Metaphysical Assumptions (02:11:28) Science Evolution and Competing Theories (02:15:00) The Computational Universe and AI Perspectives (02:21:24) Metaphysical Reflections (02:23:47) Mystical Experience on the Beach (02:27:07) Nature's Influence (02:32:36) Flow States in Nature and Music (02:36:06) Limits of Scientific Understanding (02:41:00) Behind the Scenes and Future Endeavors #sciencepodcast, #longformpodcast, Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y

The Venus Project was started in the 1980s by Jacques Fresco and Roxanne Meadows with the aim of showing that it was possible to lead a more human centered existence… as long as you built outside of the capitalist market system. Over the decades, the fortunes of the project have fluctuated - from an initial burst of enthusiasm and action (Meadows and Fresco built almost all the structures on the property by hand themselves) to the grinding reality of what it means to grow a stable and vibrant community, to the immense surge of popularity just as Fresco’s life came to an end. Project members Roxanne Meadows and Nate Dwindiddie come by the show with previous guest Simon Michaux to talk about the failures and successes of the project, and what it might look like when its reborn as the framework for Michaux’s Prometheus Project. Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB AND rock some Demystify Gear to spread the word: https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/ OR do your Amazon shopping through this link for Fresco's work: https://amzn.to/3WNYMdx (00:00) Go! (00:01:10) Evolution from Venus Project to Prometheus Project (00:02:45) Challenges and Iterations in Alternative Social Systems (00:05:19) Vision for Societal Change (00:22:59) Fresco's Innovations in Architecture and Design (00:29:34) Technocracy Inc. and its Influence on Jacques Fresco (00:31:53) Jacques Fresco's Impact on Science Fiction (00:39:20) Jacques Fresco's Move to Venus, Florida and Community Building (00:44:54) Jacque Fresco's Vision and Beginnings (46:18) Social Engineering and Technological Innovation (47:41) Shift from Technical Designs to Social Values (49:13) Impact of Digital Age and Global Outreach (51:44) Jacque Fresco's Vision for a Resource-Based Economy (57:14) Simon Michaux and Continuing Fresco's Legacy (01:09:18) Sustainable City Design (01:13:36) Challenges and Successes of the Venus Project (01:19:12) Funding and Economic Models (01:26:02) Experimentation with Alternative Systems (01:31:20) Building a City According to Jacque Fresco's Design (01:32:41) Research Institute and Industrial Clusters in the City (01:37:02) Shifting Focus: Optimizing for Quality of Life (01:53:08) Community Structure and Stability (01:56:19) Societal Experiments and Human Nature (02:00:11) Advancements in System Science (02:05:14) Urban Living and Cultural Development (02:14:33) The Future Vision of The Venus Project (02:15:01) The Role of Advisory Board in The Venus Project (02:16:52) Educational Initiatives at The Venus Project (02:18:27) Prometheus: Testing and Innovating Building Materials #sciencepodcast, #longformpodcast, #VenusProject, #PrometheusProject, #JackFresco, #ResourceBasedEconomy, #SustainableCities, #SocialRedesign, #TechnocracyMovement, #FutureOfSociety, #UtopianDesign, #CircularEconomy, #AlternativeSociety, #EcoInnovation, #SocialExperiment, #FutureTech, #GlobalSolutions Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y

Dr Luca Turin is a biophysicist, writer, and perfume connoisseur whose work on fragrances seems to suggest that we don’t smell molecules, per se - we smell the complex vibrations of an atomic structure. Turin came to be convinced of this model for olfaction at the expense of the standard model of receptors binding smell molecules just on the basis of their shape due to a prediction he made about the smell of sulfur. If the pungent odor of rotten eggs and brimstone was due to the vibrational frequency of the sulfur atom attached to the molecule, then any other atom with a similar vibrational frequency, no matter its shape, should also smell of sulfur. He found a compatible molecule in an unexpected place, and the rest fell into place. We talk about his nascent passion for perfumes, why people are so reluctant to smell things, and the overlap between smell, resonance, and consciousness. Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB AND rock some Demystify Gear to spread the word: https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/ OR support us when you do your Amazon shopping through this link for Dr. Turin's books: https://amzn.to/4fLMbQR (00:00:00) Go!! (00:05:12) The Concept of Fragrance

(00:11:39) Evolution and Decline of Vibrational Theory in Smell Science

(00:23:47) Social Dynamics in Scientific Progress

(00:26:30) Impact of Public Perception on Scientific Discourse

(00:29:23) Musical Analogies in Smell Perception

(00:31:00) Harmonic Analogies in Molecular Structures

(00:33:17) Exploring Dissonance in Perfumery and Music

(00:39:06) Longevity of Perfumes and Environmental Factors

(00:46:44) Theory development on molecular vibration and smell perception

(00:48:23) Discovery of Boron hydrides and their olfactory similarities to sulfur

(00:51:36) Public reception and impact of the vibrational theory of smell

(01:11:20) Electrical properties of molecules in drug design

(01:13:09) Radical formation and drug interaction with receptors

(01:18:05) Electrical vs. shape-based theories in GPCR activation

(01:24:21) Electron transfer in cellular metabolism

(01:31:11) ATP synthesis and electrostatic gradients in mitochondria

(01:34:36) Electrons' Spin Behavior in Biology

(01:37:05) Revolution in General Anesthesia

(01:42:05) Mechanism of Anesthesia and Brain Function

(01:49:23) Quantum Effects in Brain Function

(01:57:40) Brain Stimulation and Consciousness

(01:58:52) Spin and Conductivity

(02:05:02) Radio Frequency Emission from Brain Activity

(02:09:54) Mitochondrial Activity and Brain Function

(02:18:09) Quantum Aspects in Brain Function

(02:21:08) The Intersection of Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness

(02:25:01) Historical and Technological Influences on Consciousness Studies

(02:30:13) Quantum Biology: Origins and Evolution

(02:34:26) The Central Role of Chemistry in Quantum Biology

(02:37:11) Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

(02:44:15) Philosophical indifference to facts

(02:45:22) Science as myth-making

(02:46:15) Finding joy in science #sciencepodcast, #longformpodcast, #QuantumMechanics, #PhysicsPodcast, #TransactionalInterpretation, #WaveFunctionCollapse, #Schrödinger, #Heisenberg, #QuantumTheory, #Cosmology, #StringTheory, #QuantumPhysics, #TimeReversal, #NonLocality, #QuantumInterpretation, #CarverMead, #MitochondrialResearch, #AntiAgingScience, #EnergyTransactions, #QuantumPhilosophy, #CosmologicalTheories, #QuantumBeats PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Today we're examining the impact of bureaucracy and financialization on modern society through the lens of David Graeber's "Utopia of Rules," with reference to another of his works, "Bullshit Jobs." We explore how these forces shape political ideologies, wealth extraction, and everyday life. Starting with the alienation caused by bureaucratic systems, the discussion moves through the fusion of finance and bureaucracy, which influences both worker-corporate relationships and democratic processes. Then we look into the global justice movement's exposure of systemic violence and the role of technology in societal challenges as a potential model for criticism. We also address the perception of value shaped by financial abstractions, the issues within the retirement system, and the personal reassessment prompted by psychedelics. The podcast concludes with a discussion on the potential of worker ownership and the importance of societal renewal through new linguistic templates to combat institutional stagnation. Tell us your thoughts in the comments! Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB AND rock some Demystify Gear to spread the word: https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/ OR do your Amazon shopping through this link for Graber's work: https://amzn.to/3WD1yT3 (00:00) Go! (00:08:49) - Bureaucracy breeds alienation despite material comfort (00:15:06) - Political disillusionment reflects bureaucratic capture of ideologies (00:20:08) - Financialization and bureaucracy fuse, extracting wealth (00:31:25) - Credential inflation bureaucratizes everyday life (00:37:25) - 1971: Financialization alters worker-investor-corporate relationships (00:43:43) - Financial reliability prioritized over democratic processes (00:52:46) - Global justice movement exposes systemic violence (01:04:24) - Technology application, not existence, causes issues (01:15:32) - Financial abstractions shape perception of value (01:28:54) - Retirement system exposes life-structuring issues (01:33:14) - Psychedelics confront mortality and reassess values (01:40:57) - Opting out: freedom versus interconnected challenges (01:45:13) - Worker ownership addresses external investment problems (01:52:35) - Societal renewal prevents institutional stagnation #sciencepodcast, #longformpodcast, #Bureaucracy, #Financialization, #PoliticalIdeologies, #WealthExtraction, #GlobalJustice, #WorkerOwnership, #DemocraticProcesses, #CredentialInflation, #SystemicViolence, #RetirementIssues, #TechImpact, #Psychedelics, #ValuePerception, #InstitutionalRenewal, #EconomicJustice, #CorporatePower, #SocialChange, #FinancialAbstraction, #1971Economy, #WorkerRights #Graeber Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Today we're looking at how atoms talk to one another using light. This transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics, was developed by today's guest, Dr. John Cramer and former guest, Dr. Carver Mead back in the 1980s. We cover key concepts such as the double atom, handshake process, and the roles of Schrödinger and Heisenberg's approaches. The conversation explores wave function collapse, non-locality, and advanced potentials, along with the influence of ghost waves, time reversal, and phase relationships in energy transactions. We then examine the evolution of quantum mechanics interpretations, the intersection of physics and philosophy, and critiques of string theory. The episode concludes with insights into cosmology, the uniqueness of life, anti-aging research, and the development and material interpretations of the transactional interpretation.Tell us your thoughts in the comments! Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB AND rock some Demystify Gear to spread the word: https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/ OR support us when you do your Amazon shopping through this link for Dr. Cramer's books: https://amzn.to/4dAmwss (00:00:00) Go!! (00:03:26) Transactional Interpretation and Double Atom Concept (00:06:26) Handshake Process and Quantum Mechanics (00:09:21) Quantum Process and Mathematical Representation (00:15:09) Schrödinger vs. Heisenberg Approaches (00:24:39) Understanding Wave Function Collapse in Quantum Mechanics (00:27:12) Overcoming Non-locality with Advanced Potentials (00:30:13) The Role of Beats in Quantum Transactions (00:33:07) Exploring Time Reversal and Phase Relationships (00:37:02) Ghost Waves and Their Influence (00:41:10) Phase Relationships and Energy Transactions (00:47:37) Universe and Transactional Exchange (01:36:50) Physics Fashion Changes and String Theory Critique (01:42:00) Quantum Mechanics Interpretations and Philosophy Intersection (01:47:40) Standard Models and Cosmology Theories (01:53:10) Life's Randomness and Cosmological Uniqueness (01:57:03) Aging, Anti-Aging Research, and Mitochondrial Treatments (02:24:03) Origin and Development of the Transactional Interpretation (02:26:48) Collaboration with Carver Mead (02:30:01) Advancing the Interpretation with Criticism #sciencepodcast, #longformpodcast, #QuantumMechanics, #PhysicsPodcast, #TransactionalInterpretation, #WaveFunctionCollapse, #Schrödinger, #Heisenberg, #QuantumTheory, #Cosmology, #StringTheory, #QuantumPhysics, #TimeReversal, #NonLocality, #QuantumInterpretation, #CarverMead, #MitochondrialResearch, #AntiAgingScience, #EnergyTransactions, #QuantumPhilosophy, #CosmologicalTheories, #QuantumBeats Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. Emily Casanova is a professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at Loyola University in New Orleans who studies autism, human/neanderthal hybridization, and sundry soft tissue disorders that are often co-inherited with autism. Her research has shown that autism spectrum disorders are underpinned by a complex network of genetic interactions whose first emergence can be traced back to human/neanderthal interbreeding nearly 40,000 years ago. This suggests that, contrary to popular belief, the grounds for autism spectrum disorders long predate the first diagnoses made in the early 20th century. We talk about why it’s so hard to come up with a genetic cause for autism, why “species” might not mean what we think it does, intricacies of embryogenesis, and why environmental causes are so hard to talk about. Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB AND rock some Demystify Gear to spread the word: https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/ OR do your Amazon shopping through this link for Dr. Casanova's Book, Defining Autism: https://amzn.to/4d8sK30 (00:00) Go! (00:07:46) Is autism actually exploding? (00:16:15) Culture of autism? (00:26:10) Genetic linkage not so clear (00:31:51) Defining autism (00:47:39) Genetics v. cause (00:56:28) How much does genetics matter in autism? (01:04:00) Environmental arguments (01:13:33) Species don't really exist (01:26:29) Neaderthal roots of autism? (01:40:38) Continued human evolution (01:50:56) Making the world knowable as inherently valuable (02:08:36) AI applications in education #sciencepodcast, #longformpodcast, #AutismResearch, #NeurodiversityScience, #HumanEvolution, #NeanderthalDNA, #GeneticComplexity, #NeuroscienceInsights, #SpeciesBlending, #AutismOrigins, #EmbryologyTalks, #EnvironmentalFactors, #AutismSpectrum, #HumanNeandertalHybridization, #GeneticInteractions, Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. Yeva Nersisyan is a professor of economics at Franklin and Marshall College whose research focus includes Modern Monetary Theory, Post-Keynesianism, and the Institutionalist traditions. She has published widely on the subject of banking and financial instability, which is why we invited her on to talk about how the economy *actually* works. MMT theorists argue that Neo-classical economists have a deeply limited understanding of the economy, as demonstrated by the Fed’s recent inability to control inflation by adjusting interest rates - which is basically the only lever available to it. We discuss how it seems that no one who is sitting at the top of the economic pyramid seems to understand how to shift the course of the economy, how providing jobs is the key to stability, the emergence of modern economic policy in the post-war years, and much more. Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB AND rock some Demystify Gear to spread the word: https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/ (00:00:00) Go! (00:06:41) What are the basic economic levers?

(00:13:14) Regulation comes either way

(00:20:29) Keynes says

(00:26:15) Money supply first

(00:34:26) What is money?

(00:43:29) FDIC - has it been tested?

(00:56:00) Industry & money

(01:07:08) Jobs needed v. jobs wanted

(01:13:20) Patreon Ask

(01:13:27) Revised MMT

(01:28:50) Government brain drain

(01:40:10) Extreme povery at home

(01:53:00) Economic policy starts post war

(02:04:26) Inflation v. employment

(02:19:40) Financialization v. humanization

(02:30:04) Today's democrazy

(02:40:03) Infrastructure vs. ATMs #sciencepodcast, #longformpodcast, #ModernMonetaryTheory, #EconomicsExplained, #PostKeynesian, #FinancialStability, #JobsFirst, #EconomicPolicy, #MoneySupply, #BankingInsights, #InflationDebate, #GovernmentSpending, #EconomicLevers, #FiscalPolicy, #MonetaryTheory, #EmploymentFocus, #EconomicInequality Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. Tom Cheetham is a naturalist, poet, and author who has spent the last few decades of his life engrossed in the work of Henry Corbin, who inspired a century of studies of the unconscious mind. Corbin’s aim was to understand the line that cut across the mystic traditions of the world, in the hopes of finding something that was the universal ground of being. To that end, he searched for answers in the work of everyone from Continental philosophers, to the medieval gnostics, to the Persian mystics and honed in on something he called the “imaginal realm,” inhabited by angels who guide their human charges towards a life of meaning and profundity. We talk with Cheetham about the nature of inspiration, the universal ground of experience, the search for truth, and the visionary power of psychedelic experiences Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB AND rock some Demystify Gear to spread the word: https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/ Check out (00:00) Go! (00:08:46) Cheetham's road to Corbin (00:13:17) Eranos conferences (00:22:21) Poetry as undefinable revelations (00:38:20) Interpretation of visions (00:58:24) Needing a handbook for visions (01:06:37) Escaping death (01:15:26) True open-mindedness can be dangerous (01:26:28) Need to plant cap T truth flags (01:31:28) Conquest & western psychology (01:42:19) UFO hits the NYTimes & opens up esotericism (01:52:30) Abductees & Mack (02:08:16) Psychdelic breaks & burden of the self (02:32:44) Wave equation for a symphony (02:47:45) Search for shared reality #sciencepodcast, #longformpodcast, #HenriCorbin, #ComparativeReligion, #Mysticism, #Gnosticism, #Hermeneutics, #Psychedelics, #Consciousness, #PhilosophyOfMind, #SpiritualityAndScience, #ImaginationAndReality, #ModernMysticism, #AngelologyAndUFOs, #JungianPsychology, #PoeticBasisOfMind, #ExploringConsciousness Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. Jeremi Suri is a professor of Public Affairs and History at the University of Texas, Austin whose recent work explores the idea that the American civil war never ended. Suri argues that the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse at the end of the Civil War was just a superficial conclusion of outright hostilities, not a true end to the massive division that ran across America during colonial times. Our conversation with Suri centers around the question of where these divisions come from, what has entrenched them, why the same social rifts are opening not just in America, but all around the world. Most importantly, we wrestle with what can be done about a seeping wound of discontent that refuses to heal. Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB AND rock some Demystify Gear to spread the word: https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/ Read Jeremi's Books and Fund DemystifySci: https://amzn.to/4dhjidg (00:00) Go! (00:05:22) Low points in history (other than now) (00:09:45) Bring back the CCC! (00:11:28) Civil unrest in the US (00:15:40) Racial divide at the core of the US (00:22:00) A revolutionary's lifestyle (00:26:29) 2nd order messes (00:31:03) Does the president matter that much? (00:37:37) Solution set for systematic inequality (00:49:11) Order v. chaos in society (00:56:16) Post civil war wounds (01:06:25) Anxiety below racism (01:19:08) Journalism was never clean truth (01:33:19) Reality v. internet universe (01:48:53) Moving away from home v. adaptation to the new world (02:01:21) Every kid to college? (02:15:04) Economics & extremism (02:19:32) Is this actually a democracy??? (02:26:07) Tech politics #sciencepodcast #longformpodcast #AmericanHistory, #CivilWar, #Democracy, #PoliticalUnrest, #SocialChange, #HistoricalPerspective, #AmericanMobility, #CivilRights, #PoliticalPolarization, #HistoricalCycles, #SocialJustice, #AmericanIdentity, #PoliticalReform, #HistoricalContext, #DemocraticEvolution Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

The last few weeks we've had some really explosive theories on the show, which have caused a stir in the comments and beyond. We sit down to talk about the philosophy behind why we believe exploring far out theories is so important, and use Paul Feyerabend's Against Method as the backbone for our discussion. We introduce the idea of scientific anarchy, which encourages us to lean into the uncomfortable reality that ideas cannot be prized simply because of their age, or their apparent agreement with existing data. The history of science is littered with theories that were wrong but useful, detectors that are engineered to give us the results we are expecting, and the weighty knowledge that the absence of evidence tells us nothing about what we'll find when we take a closer look at the inner workings of nature. Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB AND rock some Demystify Gear to spread the word! https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/ Pick up some Feyerabend and support the pod when you do it here: https://amzn.to/3Y7bcQ8 (00:00) Go! (00:09:56) Podcast insider conspiracy theories (00:16:10) Surrendering to being a useful idiot (00:20:55) becoming a valuable mouthpiece (00:23:48) Patronage of the billionaire king (00:28:24) Two types of conspiracies (00:35:48) Can a free internet rise again? (00:44:35) Monoliths vs chaos, enter Paul Feyerabend (00:48:56) Heuristics and other cognitive offloads (00:55:08) Calcifying opinion into fact (00:58:02) Science is a historical process (01:01:37) Subservience of science to technology (01:04:31) Why Michael Hudson doesn't take libertarians seriously (01:06:49) Handling non-human entities (01:09:40) Triggering the psychological immune system (01:14:06) Counter-rule science (01:17:07) The approach of the Platonic Redditor (01:21:49) An argument for scientific anarchy (01:26:25) All theories have a little bit of gold (01:29:18) Does the buck stop anywhere? (01:35:45) All models suck, but I want to believe (01:41:39) Searching for the needle in the hay (01:47:26) Closing thoughts #sciencepodcast #longformpodcast #ScientificAnarchy, #PaulFeyerabend, #AgainstMethod, #PhilosophyOfScience, #ExploringTheories, #UncomfortableTruths, #ScientificRevolution, #ScientificDebate, #FarOutTheories, #ChallengingNorms, #SciencePhilosophy, #InnovativeIdeas, #BreakthroughScience, #ScientificMethod, #CriticalThinking, #AlternativeScience, #RevolutionaryThoughts, #NewPerspectives, #ScienceAndPhilosophy, #HistoryOfScience Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Forrest Maready is an author, filmmaker, and radio show host who is driven by trying to understand alternate versions of the history of religion, culture, and disease. He's written a number of books on the subject of environmental toxins and disease, which include radical revisions to the story of polio and autism. In this conversation we explore his somewhat radical perspective - that the vast majority of disease, if not all disease, is the result of industrial pollutants getting into our bodies and wreaking havoc. Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Support both Forrest and us when you shop for his books here: https://amzn.to/3WfU73I Check out Forrest's radio show: www.forrestmaready.com Follow Forrest on X: https://x.com/forrestmaready Rock some Demystify Gear to spread the word: https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/ (00:00:00) Go!

(00:05:50) Strangeness of Smallpox

(00:12:14) a dark history of medicine

(00:18:57) questionable outcomes of common meds

(00:20:58) When did doctors become nobility?

(00:27:46) A strange palate

(00:31:46) unique genetic sensitivities

(00:35:54) EM & sound pollution

(00:41:07) On finding your tribe

(00:44:55) On orienting towards truth & invention

(00:57:44) Polio and the confluence of environment and technology

(01:06:43) YouTube folks start here

(01:07:10) Loose threads in the polio story

(01:11:58) The art of retelling settled history

(01:18:55) The sudden appearance of widespread viral paralysis

(01:28:15) Evolving from a rural scourge to an urban epidemic

(01:35:40) Was paralytic polio caused by enviromental toxicity?

(01:41:18) Did the polio vaccine end the epidemic?

(01:48:22) The Polio story as a gateway drug

(01:50:26) Autism, epidemics, and censored discourse

(02:01:10) The absence of a clear genetic cause

(02:09:12) Where did autism begin, and what caused its rise?

(02:12:35) Unpacking the Wakefield study

(02:19:53) The American ethic of money

(02:31:53) A dramatic expansion of the vaccine schedule

(02:39:41) The mysterious mechanism of adjuvants

(02:48:38) What caused the explosion of cases?

(02:55:42) A horrible theory that would be best disproven

(03:01:21) What's the tradeoff here?

(03:07:25) A wrinkle in vaccine justification

(03:11:14) Closing thoughts #sciencepodcast #longformpodcast #Epidemiology, #PublicHealth, #InfectiousDiseases, #EnvironmentalHealth, #Pollution, #HealthScience, #DiseasePrevention, #Toxicology, #HealthResearch, #GlobalHealth, #EnvironmentalImpact, #DiseaseEcology, #PandemicHistory, #HealthPolicy, #Contamination, #AirPollution, #WaterPollution, #IndustrialPollution, #DiseaseOutbreaks, #HealthAwareness Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Prof. Gabriele Carcassi is a University of Michigan Physicists who became obsessed with a simple question during his training. Where do the mathematics of physics actually come from? They are handed down to us as students as if they were immutable laws of nature… but are they? Or are they simply mathematical transformations that have long ago left the realm of reality and made their home in the spheres of theory? It turns out that we really don’t know where the line between pure theory and physical reality can be drawn! Luckily, Carcassi and his research partner Prof. Christine Aidala have dedicated their time to deciphering what they call the “Assumptions of Physics,” a project which they hope will let them take apart the basic principles of the foundational science and put the whole thing back together again in a way that makes much more sense. Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB AND rock some Demystify Gear to spread the word! https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/ Check out Carcassi's Assumptions of Physics project: https://assumptionsofphysics.org/ Check out Carcassi's Youtube Page:  @gcarcassi  Check out the Assumptions of Physics YouTube page:  @AssumptionsofPhysicsResearch  00:00 Go! 00:06:00 Reverse physics 00:07:07 Standard physics approach 00:09:36 Lagrangian rulers 00:19:15 What is a physical dimension? 00:27:51 What is an electron, really? 00:34:30 Physical objects as informational bins 00:48:45 Math & intuition 01:00:57 Begging for money in basic science 01:21:48 Physics envy 01:36:47 Reverse physics undermines standard approach? 01:48:38 Constants of nature 02:05:52 Empiricists v. rationalists 02:35:36 Interpreting quantum spin 02:53:22 Michael Levin #sciencepodcast #longformpodcast #physics, #scienceeducation, #quantumphysics, #physicsresearch, #assumptionsofphysics, #physicsdimensions, #electron, #physicsintuition, #empiricism, #rationalism Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Simon Shack is an amateur astronomer, independent researcher, and author. He is the modern champion of an old idea, last held in Tycho Brahe’s time, that the sun is not at the center of the solar system. At first blush, this sounds preposterous, for we have hundreds of years of data that supports the heliocentric Copernican model. But the more you listen, the more your mind melts, because not only does the data fit… it seems to fit better than the conventional model in multiple cases. We spend the conversation unpacking Simon’s model, figuring out what makes it run, the assumptions that make sense, and the loose threads that still need to be woven in. It is a WILD ride, and a truly great exploration of what it means when the same set of observations can produce a radically different interpretation. To follow along visually, check out https://www.tychos.space/ where you can find a copy of Simon’s book and the Tychosium, a stellarium-type simulator built to show the inner workings of the model. Lets go!!! Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB AND rock some Demystify Gear to spread the word! https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/ 00:00 Go! 00:09:52 Revisiting Tycho Brahe's solar system 00:12:45 Did Kepler cheat to win the race? 00:16:20 Tycho himself 00:21:05 Copernicus 00:22:37 Precession problems 00:29:37 Earth's tiny orbit, the PVP 00:40:46 If Earth wobbles, why don't the planet's declination wobble too? 00:53:28 Creating the Tychos model 01:00:50 Even if wrong, Tychos is important 01:07:48 Overview of Tychos model - the binary system 01:21:41 The elephant in the room: gravity 01:22:29 Sirius as model binary system - partner system? 01:31:11 Newton's relation works pretty well 01:32:31 NASA data discarded 01:35:08 NASA satellites in heliocentric orbits 01:41:22 Assuming NASA's data is good to go 01:46:30 Any evidence that would change your mind? 01:51:04 Size of conspiracy matters? 01:57:34 Rescuing Newtonian mechanics 02:03:08 Stars are much much closer? 02:08:48 Parallax issues 02:17:20 Sirius returns 02:25:25 Distance assumptions 02:28:17 Stellar metamorphosis 02:32:07 Moons of the sun? 02:36:56 Halley's comet by other names #sciencepodcast #longformpodcast #astronomy, #solarSystem, #TychoBrahe, #Tychos, #Copernicus, #Kepler, #binarySystem, #stellarParallax, #Sirius, #HeliocentricModel Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Today's episode features Jason Padgett, a physicist and artist whose path to a mathematical conception of reality began with a violent attack in his early 30s. We discuss this transformation after brain injury. How with zero mathematical background he found himself reinventing calculus. We discuss his attempts to bring himself into line with peers who had a very different formal training. Then we discuss his particular theoretical projects in physics. In particular he has developed a theory of informational constants of nature, which he calls holographic quantum information theory in an effort to unify quantum mechanics and Einsteinian relativity. To make sense of that we unpack concepts like cubits, hidden information, and quantum vector spin models. We close with a discussion of probabilistic reality and the nature of material reality versus mathematical models. Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB AND rock some Demystify Gear to spread the word! https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/ Jason's latest AI conversation about his model: https://chatgpt.com/share/a32bc04b-b811-408f-9ea1-6489c23c55eb Jason's artwork: https://jason-padgett.pixels.com/ 00:00 Go! 00:05:59 Ideas in different languages 00:10:58 Before the attack 00:14:25 The attack 00:27:00 My mind starts changing overnight 00:35:52 Reinventing calculus with no formal training 00:49:05 Savantism 00:57:56 Informational constant of nature 01:02:33 Cubits? 01:06:56 Hidden information between Planck times 01:14:03 Reconciling probabilistic reality 01:21:32 Everything is light, QS vectors 01:26:15 Quantum Vector Spin models Einstein's time dilation 01:37:37 Material reality v. math 01:59:58 Hawking radiation 02:08:48 Translation through free education 02:17:36 Using AI to translate your math into words 02:25:51 Eternal recurrence #sciencepodcast #longformpodcast #PhysicsInjuryRecovery, #MathematicalSavant, #QuantumTheory, #BrainInjurySurvivor, #MathematicalGenius, #ArtisticTransformation, #NeuroscienceDiscovery, #SavantSyndrome, #BrainInjuryRecovery, #MathematicalInsights, #QuantumPhysics, #GeniusAfterInjury, #PhysicistStory, #NeuroscienceResearch, #MathematicalIntuition, #QuantumMechanics, #BrainDamageRecovery, #SavantAbilities, #MathematicalDiscovery, #QuantumMind. Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Jim Keller is a microprocessor engineer who has run the gauntlet of today’s leading tech companies during their peak performance years. He’s designed for Intel, AMD, Apple, and Tesla, he’s worked for Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, he’s survived the boom and bust cycle of the tech world, and is still surfing a wave of progress at least partially of his making. He’s currently CEO of Tenstorrent,  an AI chip startup that’s out to unseat NVIDIA, and is the co-founder of Atomic Semi, which aims to produce the world’s first tabletop semiconductor fabrication device. Normally, Jim’s interviews are all about the technical aspects of his work - chips, computer architecture, and the future of AI. We sat down for a conversation about the soft-power side of progress - building teams, surviving bubbles, why small orgs are better, how no one knows how to maintain the sweet spot between chaos and order, and the weird coincidence of living on a planet that’s basically made of the raw materials needed for computers.

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00:04:09       Institutional expiration dates
00:10:38       Life-cycles of companies
00:16:52       Steve Job on trend setting in tech
00:22:03       Do no evil doesn't pay
00:26:43       Predicting outcomes
00:34:55       Bigger company isn't smarter
00:40:12       Tesla & autopilot woes
00:46:02       Making new tech affordable
00:49:46       Gen one computer customers
00:53:29       The unrelenting progression of tech gens
01:02:24       Organization dynasties v. company lifetimes
01:11:46       End of life plan for companies?
01:20:29       Civilization level lifecycles in the background
01:26:54       Tools that re-engineered our culture
01:35:59       What is non computational about being human
01:43:07       Thinking subconsciously
01:49:44       Can computers announce and address a novel problem?
01:54:26       Super-intelligent machines aren't a threat
01:59:16       Stuck at a computed social optimum v. chaos
02:07:02       AI tailored personal realities
02:13:30       Scarcity mindsets are public enemy #1
02:24:25       Limits on government architecture
02:26:15       More small indy operations are better
02:30:52       "You can't build that"
02:36:26       Interesting v. perfection
02:42:51       Being part of the solution
02:49:24       Happiness v. progress

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Today on the show we are meeting up with Kehlan Morgan, from  @Formscapes  on YouTube. Kehlan is a master of the past and helps wrestle with a wide range of favorite philosophical dilemmas. We question whether matter can produce consciousness or if it's a separate phenomenon.We discuss intergenerational memory and Sheldrake's theory of morphic fields, proposing a collective memory beyond genetics. We examine of the distinction between description and explanation in science, and how it impacts our understanding of reality. We critique modern science's disempowering effects, including the inversion of beneficial myths and the exploitation of unseen forces. Finally we glean insights from Rudolph Steiner's work, highlighting a schism between relational reality and objective reality, questioning the dominance of physics and exploring the limitations of a monistic worldview. Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB AND rock some Demystify Gear to spread the word! https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/ Kehlan's website: https://www.formscapes.org/about on X: https://x.com/Nalhek_Morgan & his Discord: https://discord.gg/fecMjjWQ56 (00:00) Go! (00:04:24) Matter doesn't "do" consciousness? (00:08:03) Intergenerational memory, Sheldrake's morphic fields (00:13:27) Matter having wants (00:18:21) Description v. explanation on center stage (00:25:42) Disempowering science (00:37:00) Alchemy as analogy (00:47:51) Inversion of beneficial mythos (00:58:59) Functional philosophies & Rudolph Steiner (01:10:56) The unseen is exploited (01:23:33) Goethe, perception, & Material Atomics (01:36:50) Failures of monism (01:48:51) Relational reality v. objective reality (01:56:51) Relativism's corrosion & phenomenology face off (02:14:11) Possible v. impossible distinguishes theory (02:22:03) Physics might not deserve to be king #sciencepodcast #longformpodcast #Consciousness, #MorphicFields, #PhilosophyOfScience, #AlternativeScience, #RudolphSteiner, #IntergenerationalMemory, #HolisticScience, #RelationalReality, #ObjectiveReality, #MindAndMatter, #ModernScienceCritique, #FunctionalPhilosophy, #Phenomenology, #GoetheanScience, #MonismVsDualism, #ScienceAndSpirituality, #UnseenForces, #AlchemicalAnalogy, #CollectiveMemory, #ExplorationOfReality Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Devon Eriksen is the author of the ongoing Space Orbital trilogy, which opened up with Theft of Fire, described as a "Shoot-em-up space opera, [of] mysterious alien artifacts, freedom-minded Belters versus corporate oligarchs..." In his work, Devon explores many of the themes we tinker with on the show - particularly the ethics of space exploration. A steadfast exploration of space-colonization, Devon brings a very different perspective to the human project not often embraced by the analytic academics we often encounter, who seem to be concerned with de-growth and the scaling back of our material economy. We talk about the role of government in space exploration, the colonial perils of the past in the context of the New Frontier, and the role of fiction in shaping objective reality.

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00:05:16 Theft of Fire & an optimistic sci-fi
00:11:53 Cultural wars...in space
00:20:56 Are we doomed to repeat the past?
00:34:32 Is there a way out?
00:45:35 An ever-present risk of technological decay
00:55:22 Why'd we lose the taste for space?
01:05:10 A faulty arc of pessimism
01:13:31 The design of future children
01:19:02 Is fertility panic misguided?
01:29:07 a conversation about race
01:39:32 How to balance progress with fairness?
01:44:18 Full speed ahead, but what about porn addiction?
01:49:32 Closing thoughts

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Dr. Simon Michaux is a professor of geometallurgy at the Geological Survey of Finland. After having spent several years in private industry, he was laid off during one of the regular busts that inevitably accompany booms in the mining sector. In that period, Simon found a new appreciation for the material basis of civilization while taking temporary work as an organic farmer. When he returned to intellectual work as a professor, he brought this real-world understanding to geopolitical assessments, presenting his analyses to everyone from economists to UN delegations. Ultimately, what separates Simon from his peers is his ability to suggest a realistic solution set to the difficulty of planning a technologically accelerating future within the confines of a fundamentally finite material ecosystem. He lays out a set of alternative approaches to nuclear power, combustion power, and engines that will absolutely make you stop and reconsider the possibilities. His presentation begins with the idea that we may be running out of petroleum, but that doesn't mean we have to be running out of fuel. A subsequent podcast will explore Simon's ongoing work to demonstrate his principles in an idealized city-of-the future in the desert of Peru. More on his Prometheus Project to come, very soon. Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB 00:00 Go! 00:07:41 How I got here and what's the problem 00:15:19 Why the green revolution will fail 00:24:27 Getting involved in government work 00:31:23 An endless war for oil 00:34:59 Are we past peak oil? 00:44:26 an explosion in volatility across the board 00:53:05 Is debt spiraling out of control? 01:02:56 What does joining BRICS look like? 01:09:38 An argument for moving away from oil that has nothing to do with supply or pollution 01:19:56 Productivity and post-oil economies 01:28:53 Resourcing the transition 01:37:41 What are the alternatives? 01:51:42 The Purple Transition 01:56:25 Thorium Molten Salt Reactor 02:14:06 Where does anti-nuclear come from? 02:21:14 Combustion of Iron Powder 02:32:50 Novel battery tech 02:35:46 Ammonia internal combustion engines 02:45:03 Closing thoughts #sciencepodcast #longformpodcast #Geometallurgy, #SimonMichaux, #GeologicalSurvey, #OrganicFarming, #MaterialBasis, #Civilization, #GeopoliticalAssessments, #SustainableEnergy, #TechnologicalFuture, #FiniteResources, #NuclearPower, #AlternativeEnergy, #Petroleum, #FuelAlternatives, #MiningIndustry, #EnergySolutions, #RenewableEnergy, #EcoInnovation, #PrometheusProject, #FutureCities, #Prometheusproject #venusproject Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. Barbara Corkey is an Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at Boston University. Over her prolific and outstanding academic career she went deep into the mechanics of metabolic disease. Along the way, she stumbled upon some shocking insight about the nature of obesity as she watched the epidemic unfold in real time. Despite the popular wisdom that weight gain is a simple matter of calories in v. calories out, Dr. Corkey came to understanad that there was a sea of environmental toxins wreaking havoc on our food supply which seemed to influence weight outcomes more than anything else. Her revelations reach into every aspect of the food supply and the organization of our modern civilization. What do you make of it? Tell us your thoughts in the comments! Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB 00:00 Go! 00:06:17 What are we doing this for? 00:09:05 Fat vs Carbs 00:16:13 Can you effectively control weight through diet? 00:21:05 The process of processed foods 00:34:09 Is cancer a metabolic disease? 00:45:51 Is there variability in deciphering bodily sensations? 00:54:24 Redox as a master balance of weight 01:08:18 Difficulties of a bottom-up approach 01:18:00 Questionable practices of mass production 01:27:54 Salient myths about obesity 01:35:39 Sitting all the time has no effect? 01:47:11 Sources of Obesogens 01:58:04 Closing thoughts #sciencepodcast #longformpodcast #ObesityEpidemic, #EnvironmentalToxins, #MetabolicDisease, #FoodSupply, #WeightLossJourney, #HealthRevolution, #ModernCivilization, #CaloriesInCaloriesOut, #NutritionalScience, #ToxinsInFood, #PublicHealth, #DrBarbaraCorkey, #Biochemistry, #HealthResearch, #ObesityAwareness, #HealthyLiving, #ScientificBreakthrough, #WeightManagement, #DietAndHealth, #FoodSafety Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. Gopi Vijaya began his scientific career in solar physics but quickly branched out into fields as diverse as projective geometry, Goethean Science, foundations of astronomy, calculus, and the Reciprocal System of physics. Our conversation begins with the relationship between science and technology and moves into the philosophical realm asking seemingly bizarre questions like - can we do science without models? Also - how do we collaborate as thinkers without competing? Along the way we explore outstanding anomalies in light, electromagnetism, gravity and color theory. It's a wild ride through many of our favorite topics here. Let us know your thoughts in the comments! Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB 00:00 Go! 00:05:09 What is the Difference Between Science and Technology? 00:12:23 The Difference Between Humans and Nature 00:18:59 Is tech without collateral damage possible? 00:22:14 The absurdity of an end to science 00:26:02 Can we understand without models? 00:31:20 How to understand Gravity without a model 00:39:30 Throwing mass into the mix 00:48:45 A sea of measurements, but what is measured? 01:00:51 The coherence of an entire field at once 01:10:35 Obscurantism of analogy 01:22:01 The zero sum game of knowledge 01:28:22 The thing about color 01:33:08 Missing Magenta 01:41:39 Why is light so unaffected by electricity and magnetism? 01:48:14 Functionality is just a starting point 01:54:16 Missing cause and effect in plain sight 02:03:41 Closing thoughts 02:07:33 Renewal of Science Conference #sciencepodcast #longformpodcast #DrGopiVijaya, #SolarPhysics, #ProjectiveGeometry, #GoetheanScience, #FoundationsOfAstronomy, #ReciprocalSystem, #PhilosophyOfScience, #ScienceWithoutModels, #CollaborativeThinking, #LightAnomalies, #Electromagnetism, #GravityTheories, #ColorTheory, #InnovativeScience, #ScientificAnomalies, #NonCompetitiveCollaboration, #ExploringScience, #ModernPhysics, #PhilosophicalScience Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. Miklos Lukacs is a Research Professor of Science and Technology Policy at the University of San Martin de Porres in Lima, Peru. He also happens to be one of the leading critics of transhumanism, which he defines as the technologically-driven push for super longevity, super intelligence, and super wellbeing. Lukacs argues that this campaign threatens the historical relationship between humans and technology, where our tools serve us, rather than the other way around. He worries that by placing such an outsize importance on external tools, we allow ourselves to be molded into an entirely new form that emerges not from bottom-up evolutionary forces, but from an external, top-down locus of control. Our conversation lays out the basics of what Lukacs identifies as transhumanism, and then turns to an exploration of how to balance progress with tradition. Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB 00:00 Go! 00:03:55 What is transhumanism, really? 00:11:58 Out-shining god 00:18:17 Does transhumanism have a clear vision of the future? 00:24:30 Bottom up planning 00:36:35 Morality & evolution 00:45:27 Killing in the name of 00:57:01 The human animal 01:01:21 Institutions and human nature 01:09:42 Porn, universal morality 01:14:00 Blame culture, Bentham 01:20:29 Clubs v. universality 01:26:14 Reacting to the pain of traditional gender roles 01:32:04 Body modification & the human-machine hybrid 01:38:56 Corruption of protected identity groups 01:45:50 City life & tradition wasting #Transhumanism #Humanity #Technology #Ethics #Philosophy #Evolution #SciencePolicy #Longevity #Intelligence #Wellbeing #Progress #Tradition #HumanNature #TechnologicalSingularity #Posthumanism #Enhancement #BottomUpEvolution #TopDownControl #HumanTechnology #Futurism #TranshumanCriticism #longformpodcast Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Anastasia has been reading Vaclav Smil's Energy and Civilization, so we decided to sit down for a meta conversation about petroleum, prime movers, and geopolitics. This solo chat ties together a bunch of the conversations we've had on the show in the last year about climate, technology and the energy transition. Historically, we've been pretty skeptical when people start banging on about the need to transition to a completely electric grid, but Smil makes a really compelling point - all human endeavors depend on motive power. We go further to consider the downstream consequences of the prime movers we rely on, the risk of this being the last civilization for the next 20 million years, and the strange software called "progress" that was installed in humans when we departed from our primate roots. Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB00:00 Go! 00:03:34 Material supplies do run out: assumption#1 00:09:38 Oil production going down or no? 00:15:38 If we run out, do we go back to horse & buggy times? 00:20:08 Why can't nuclear save the day? 00:24:47 The actual electric universe 00:29:00 Lucius Appeleus 00:39:14 Population & growth fears 00:43:48 Who or what are the barriers to Electricland 00:49:47 Diesel's failed vision 00:54:15 Why are we racing toward the future? 00:57:57 Relief of sufferring at the cost of all else 01:03:07 Calhoun & density epibehavior 01:06:51 Godlike machine future 01:10:49 Does AI threaten meaningful life? 01:18:56 Convenience v. painlessness 01:26:35 Solution set is in sight #Transhumanism #Humanity #Technology #Ethics #Philosophy #Evolution #SciencePolicy #Longevity #Intelligence #Wellbeing #Progress #Tradition #HumanNature #TechnologicalSingularity #Posthumanism #Enhancement #BottomUpEvolution #TopDownControl #HumanTechnology #Futurism #TranshumanCriticism #longformpodcast Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/Demystifyin... AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Demys... - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. C.S. Unnikrishnan is a professor at the School of Quantum Technology at the Defense Institute of Advanced Technology. Unnikrishnan is also a key member of the LIGO-India project and a member of the global LIGO Scientific Collaboration. His work has led him to some revolutionary conclusions about the nature of gravity, light, and the missing medium for these invisible actions. Our conversation gets into the details of his Machian approach to understanding the cosmos, which his calls "cosmic gravity." We discuss Henri Bergson's criticism of relativity, Einstein's transformation into quantum mascot, and issues with simultaneity in cosmic physics. Tell us your thoughts in the comments! Paper discussed in this podcast: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1466/1/012007 Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB 00:00 Go! 00:04:57 Revisiting old experiments to learn something new 00:13:23 A lack of absolute reference points 00:25:05 Reevaluating Einstein a Century On 00:35:22 Testing the constancy of the speed of light 00:43:25 Why is breaking physics preferred to an undetectable aether? 00:54:36 Evidence of light speed changes 01:04:39 Could Michaelson & Morley have given a different result? 01:21:16 Why was Michaelson's 1925 detection of the aether ignored? 01:25:38 Henri Bergson, Einstein, and Simultaneity 01:33:17 Simultaneity that is experienced 01:42:19 Mathematical elegance in conflict with reality 01:48:59 Is revisiting the constancy of light speed possible? 01:56:08 The solutions offered by a Machian paradigm 02:03:59 One universal frame intro 02:09:10 Are there two theories about light possible, or can only one prevail? 02:20:54 Is there an alternative to fields? 02:29:36 Closing thoughts #sciencepodcast, #QuantumPhysics, #CosmicGravity, #LIGOIndia, #MachianPhysics, #QuantumTechnology, #Einstein, #HenriBergson, #Relativity, #QuantumMascot, #Simultaneity, #GravityTheory, #PhysicsPodcast, #ScientificCollaboration, #Astrophysics, #CosmicPhysics, #ScienceRevolution, #theoreticalphysics , #QuantumMechanics, #LIGOProject, #PhysicsCommunity Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

This is Dr. Hughes second appearance on the podcast. His background is in biochemistry and biophysics of protein folding, and water hydration structures. But today we're digging under the floorboards of science itself. Is it possible to have a science that isn't built on some set of assumed values? To tackle this issue, we dig into esoteric mysticism - particularly the work of Rudolph Steiner, who prophesized many of the features of the world we see today back in the late 19th century. This leads us to a path where we explore the modern scientific approach to understanding nature, grounded in materialism in all its splendor and shortcomings, asking where do we go from here? What does a healthy science of the future actually look like? Tell us your thoughts in the comments! Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB REFERENCES FROM THIS PODCAST: Remote viewing archeology w/ Stephen Schwartz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwcEyflmaxk Tom Campbell Interview with Curt Jaimungal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kko-hVA-8IU Tom’s home page: https://www.my-big-toe.com/ Dolores Cannon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Cannon Gigi Young Esoteric keys to disclosure: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpGFUcLNHueY9of3kmOxpjok_aNGx_Z6W Rudolf Steiner Archives: https://rsarchive.org/Volumes.html New thinking aloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX4j4qBsqyk Bashar/Darryl Anka https://www.bashar.org/about Interview w/ Danica Patrick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCtvgJG1I5A CIA gateway/interview with remote viewer on Shawn Ryan show? CIA gateway tapes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRTon6qgVws Ways of being by James Bridle https://jamesbridle.com/books/ways-of-being 00:00 Go! 00:05:39 Genetics Alchemy vs Structural Biology Mechanism 00:15:44 A natural mechanism that's distinct from science 00:21:07 Scientific literature as esoterica 00:30:10 Is scientific myth-making meaningful? 00:36:14 Science as a way of putting order to pure chaos 00:44:29 A full theory of nature has to contain more than science 00:52:13 Can science pinpoint the source of ideas, inspiration, and instinct? 01:01:00 Rudolph Steiner's spiritual science 01:10:40 preference for sensation as a driver of evolution 01:19:34 Religious allegory as an evolutionary roadmap? 01:29:41 A fracturing of evolutionary paths - technological, spiritual, material 01:41:00 The arc of dematerialization over the course of a lifetime 01:44:41 The immaterial vs the material, the crisis of our time? 01:53:29 Where is the source of misanthropy? 02:05:46 Stay awake 02:14:40 Reconciling a desire for Newtonian outcomes with the chaos of possibility 02:25:30 Closing thoughts Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Kate Raworth is an Economist best known for “donut economics,” a model that attempts to map the balance between essential human needs and planetary boundaries. She proposes that the last few hundred years of economic theories were created with a monomaniacal focus on growth that was only possible on a planet with relatively untapped natural resources. After more than two hundred years of industrial development, older economic theories cannot be applied to the necessities of today. Namely, a sustainable material economy for the generations yet to come. We talk about what an economic system that provides for everyone’s basic humans needs can look like, places that have started putting donut economics to use, and how to balance personal responsibility with survival in an unjust system. Check out more of Kate Raworth's work at the Donut Economics Action Lab: https://doughnuteconomics.org/about-doughnut-economics Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB 00:00 Go! 00:04:33 Economics as moral philosophy 00:06:59 How do you measure human development? 00:10:19 Why don't we economically develop "developed" countries 00:13:36 Donut economics 00:20:50 Regulation as friend of foe? 00:31:17 Michael Hudson & GDP failures 00:42:57 Feeding the economic algo 00:53:34 Escaping the market 01:05:20 Democratic spending 01:14:10 Siingle handed top down effectiveness 01:23:29 Applying Donut Econ 01:31:00 Air traffic is mostly private flights 01:36:27 Convenience vs. doing the right thing 01:41:49 Voting with your credit card #sciencepodcast #DoughnutEconomics #SustainableEconomics #PlanetaryBoundaries #HumanNeeds #EconomicTheory #GreenEconomics #CircularEconomy #SocialFoundations #EnvironmentalCeiling #EconomicJustice Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Warren Mosler is an economist, hedge fund manager, and proponent of modern monetary theory, an economic model that posits fiscal crises are caused by governments not spending enough money. From Mosler’s perspective, the reversal of any recession starts with getting very comfortable with deficit spending. Opponents argue that unchecked spending eventually leads to inflation of the currency and economic collapse, which Mosler argues is impossible as long as you know how money actually works. We dive deep into chartalism, the theory about the creation of money that sits at the heart of MMT, lay out why deficit spending doesn’t have to lead to inflation, and why the Federal Government’s checks will never bounce. To read more about Modern Monetary Theory and Mosler’s take on it, check out https://moslereconomics.com/ Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Check out Nira Lighting, Scott's Company: https://niralighting.com/our-mission/ (00:00) Go! (00:03:05) Do interest rates actually influence inflation? (00:11:36) Purpose of taxes is not what you think (00:19:26) Economy as faith based activity (00:27:22) Feds have no idea where money comes from? (00:37:33) Fed lacks tools to control inflation (00:53:37) Interest at the Treasury is unnecessary (01:07:00) Informed democracy & decision making (01:20:15) Michael Hudson (01:25:11) Why are we poorer despite the GDP? (01:41:53) Weimar repeat possible? (02:06:44) Threats from external economies? (02:28:58) Oil demand can't be ignored #sciencepodcast #ModernMonetaryTheory #MMT #Macroeconomics #FiscalPolicy #GovernmentSpending #Chartalism #MonetaryTheory #DeficitSpending #Inflation #EconomicTheory Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Scott Zimmerman is a mechanical engineer whose life took a sharp turn when he started to think about the relationship indoor lighting, biology, and solar radiation. He believes that near-infrared light, an invisible component of sunlight from ~800 to 3,000 micrometer wavelengths, is vital for human health. Unfortunately, these are the exact frequencies that our indoor lights and digital devices are incapable of producing. Zimmerman believes that the shift away from incandescent lighting inside of homes has contributes massively to wide-spread hormonal issues in modern population. His mechanism is that our skin, the largest endocrine gland in the universe, is actually a light harvesting organ that uses all the components of light to produce everything from sex hormones to vitamin D. We talk to him about the effect of sunlight on the human body, how he transitioned from mechanical engineering to making lightbulbs, the active harm of blue light, and much more.Tell us your thoughts in the comments!!! Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Check out Nira Lighting, Scott's Company: https://niralighting.com/our-mission/ 00:00 Go! 00:03:50 A monstrous change in solar spectrum 00:08:11 A shift from engineering to biology 00:18:37 The influence of near-infrared 00:27:52 Free radical generation in the skin 00:38:05 Melanin, Melatonin, and Sunlight network 00:46:48 A solar influence on illness? 00:56:17 Why is blue light so damaging? 01:03:15 Designing a better bulb 01:12:40 Adding UV into indoor lighting? 01:22:32 Are the eyes made for gathering invisible light? 01:32:20 Medical sensitivites to EMF 01:39:21 Closing thoughts #sciencepodcast #NearInfraredLight #SunlightTherapy #LightHarvesting #SkinEndocrineGland #HormoneHealth #VitaminDProduction #BluelightHazards #MissingLightSpectrum #CircadianDisruption #IndoorLightingImpact #HolisticWellness #RediscoverSunlight #EngineerTurnedLightExpert #RevolutionaryLighting #ModernLightingParadigm Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. Rajendra Gupta is a physics professor at the University of Ottawa who was in the headlines a few months ago for his assertion that the universe might be at least twice as old as we realize. He’s back at the radical reshaping of physics with his latest paper, which proposes that we can do away with dark matter and dark energy. Currently, these invisible substances are thought to make up something like 70-90% of our universe, depending on who you ask. But they’re invisible, undetectable, placeholders for some force or particle that can make the math work out. As an alternative, Gupta proposes modeling the universe with two ideas in mind. One, that the constants of nature are not, in fact, constant and two, that the red light shift seen in the cosmos that is considered to be a signature of expansion is actually the fingerprint of “tired light.” Together, these concepts allow him to recalculate the mechanics of the universe without relying on dark matter and dark energy, which is pretty cool. We talk about the impetus for this work, the meaning of tired light, why expansion isn’t going away any time soon, and the future of physics. Tell us your thoughts in the comments!!! Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Read more about Dr. Gupta's recent papers: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad1bc6 https://www.uottawa.ca/about-us/media/news/new-research-suggests-our-universe-has-no-dark-matter 00:00 Go! 00:02:35 Moving the age of the universe 00:07:37 Supernovas as standard candles 00:19:16 What does it mean for the universe to expand? 00:28:51 Is Dark Matter on the way out? 00:38:01 Variable evolution of the universe & galactic formation 00:47:07 Where did tired light go wrong in Hoyle's day? 00:57:49 How does tired light solve the problem of galaxies in the early universe? 01:06:46 Alternative causes of gravitational lensing 01:16:16 Why gravity is the end all be all 01:22:59 What causes light to be tired? 01:30:23 What's left to learn about light? 01:37:58 Closing thoughts #sciencepodcast #DarkMatterAlternative #TiredLightTheory #VaryingCosmicConstants #RedefiningCosmology #RajendraGuptaPhysics #UnconventionalUniverse #ChallengingPhysicsParadigms #RadicalCosmologicalModels #TwistOnExpansion #ReshapingPhysics Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Another talk from our recent April conference in Austin, TX, with Thad Roberts from The Physics Monastery. Thad speaks about his institute's recent progress in an ongoing struggle to comprehend the secrets of the constants of nature. These are the steady quantities that scale all the behaviors of the natural world, from electricity and magnetism, to gravity, or even elasticity. It seems strange that there are these fixed numbers inside of all our scientific formulas, but the physical significance is often forsaken. Even worse, we often have no idea why the constant is fixed as it is. Why is the speed of light limited? Why does the electron orbit at that speed? Why are they related just so? These questions and more get aired out in depth. Tell us your thoughts in the comments!!! Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB (00:00( Go!

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Visualizing the atom

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Learning to see in the dark

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Grandfather of science

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Tools & science

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Empires of the mind

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Flatland

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Perspective and relativism

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Newtonian revelations

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Einsteinian revelations

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Gravity as density field

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Remember the atom, Feynmann

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NIST & constants of nature

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Fine structure constant

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Q&A #sciencepodcast, #Physics, #Science, #ConstantsOfNature, #Research, #ThePhysicsMonastery, #ScientificInquiry, #QuantumPhysics, #NaturalLaw, #TheoryOfEverything, #Astronomy, #Cosmology, #Einstein, #ThadRoberts, #ConferenceTalk, #AustinTX, #ScientificProgress, #Electromagnetism, #Gravity, #Elasticity, #SpeedOfLight Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Humans have long encountered experiences that challenge their rational ideas about the world. Encounters with angels, demons, fairies, gnomes, or other spirits have been the standards of folklore since time immemorial. We agree with Jung that these revelations are scientifically valuable, though best explored though any lens but materialism; i.e. physics. When we learn about common bizarre experiences, we learn about ourselves. Author Ogi Ogas joins us again, alongside Qualia Research Institute's Andrés Gómez Emilsson, to discuss close encounters with the modern version of those elusive, yet timeless, entities. We begin with the phenomenological approaches to studying consciousness. We then compare both guest's experience with non-human minds. Tell us your thoughts in the comments!!! Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB (00:00) Go! (00:05:33) Daniel Dennett (00:07:09) Armchair science? (00:11:10) Philosophical zombie (00:15:30) Consciousness science driven by AI dream? (00:21:27) Dualism: activity vs. actors (00:29:54) Mathematical objects vs. physical bodies (00:37:37) Patterns of what? (00:44:44 All in your head? (00:47:43) Where in the head, exactly? (00:52:21) Any scientific theory of consciousness must... (01:03:33) Boundaries are the mind's machinery (01:17:32) Godlike entities, Laplace's daemon, all-powerful AI (01:19:10) Intex entities & Failsafe Supreme (01:21:53) Ground rules for studying entity encounters (01:25:35) Semantic v. phenomenal content of experience (01:30:11) More about the need for multiplicity of conscious experiences (01:39:14) Eternal recurrence (01:44:23) Recording, observation, attention (01:50:44) Entities as civilizations (02:06:06) Good v. evil civilizations? (02:17:43) Left and right handed minds (02:30:01) Fighting for strength, wisdom embodied (02:41:18) Entity personalities (02:47:14) Closing thoughts #sciencepodcast, #ConsciousnessExploration, #FolklorePhenomena, #SpiritEncounters, #JungianPerspectives, #NonHumanIntelligence, #MetaphysicalInquiry, #ParanormalPodcast, #MysticalEncounters, #PsychonautAdventures, #TranspersonalPsychology, #AnomaliesResearch, #BeyondMaterialism, #QuantumConsciousness, #SpiritualJourney, #PhenomenologyOfMind, #PsychedelicExploration, #SupernaturalEncounters, #MetaphysicalPodcast, #CosmicConsciousness, #AncestralWisdom, #InterdimensionalEncounters Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Today we are sitting down with Dr. Stephanie Seneff, an MIT researcher, who has spent more than a decade obsessively investigating the role that industrial herbicides play in the modern health-scape. This is our second conversation with Dr. Seneff, following up on our detailed discussion of the myriad ways that the herbicide, glyphosate, interferes with cellular processes throughout the body. This time we are digging a bit deeper into how herbicides affect the balance of deuterium, or heavy hydrogen, in the body, and how this dysregulation might promote various disease states. We also go much further into the solution sets facing humanity as these startling realizations become more and more difficult to ignore. Tell us your thoughts in the comments!!! Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Support Dr. Seneff and the podcast when you pick up her book here: https://amzn.to/4b9se3W (00:00) Go! (00:04:36) The deuterium story (00:13:51) Disturbing the electrical balance of cells (00:23:41) How sugar destroys proteins (00:32:26) Why is the link between glyphosate and cancer so elusive? (00:42:10) Cancer as a metabolic disease? (00:53:02) Low doses are more toxic than high doses? (01:03:24) How dependent are we on glyphosate? (01:10:08) Abandoning the cities is hardly an answer (01:18:30) Why can't we have another silent spring? (01:25:00) Industry pressure on researchers? (01:33:16) Closing thoughts #sciencepodcast, #IndustrialAgriculture, #Pesticides, #HealthEffects, #MITScience, #ChemicalRegulation, #DeuteriumBalance, #BiologicalSystems, #AgriculturalChemicals, #HealthScience, #EnvironmentalHealth, #ToxicChemicals, #PesticideRegulation, #PublicHealth, #FarmingPractices, #ToxinExposure, #SustainableAgriculture, #ChemicalToxicity, #FoodSafety, #HealthResearch, #EnvironmentalImpact, #ChemicalContamination Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Today we're proud to share another talk from DemystiCon '24 with legendary history of physics, Dr. Alberto Martinez from the University of Texas, Austin. This is our second podcast with Dr. Martinez, unpacking the hidden history of the physicists that brought us to the strange quantum foundation for reality where reality stops making sense. In his talk, Dr. Martinez explores a few key moments where things appear to have gone astray around the turn of the 20th century. He then entertains a luxuriously deep Q&A session exploring solution sets, alternative approaches to physics education, and the role of epistemic humility in truly productive science. Professor Martinez is a prolific, and ingenious author and we can't recommend his books enough. Tell us your thoughts in the comments!!! Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Grab one of Dr. Martinez' many books and support both us and the author here: https://amzn.to/4a0tnt6 (00:00) Go! (00:37:12) Q&A (00:37:12) Debates over the nature of negative and imaginary numbers (00:41:05) If Niels Bohr had been a regular mechanic instead of a quantum mechanic, how would history have gone differently? (00:45:04) On the helical travel of light (01:00:25) What should physics education look like? (01:05:20) Are experimental apparatuses obscuring the real meaning of results? (01:09:57) How did the history of the world affect the evolution of physics? (01:19:52) What was Niels Bohr's Problem? (01:21:42) The seductive influence of fame (01:23:35) Is obscurantism a way of never saying "I don't know"? (01:25:17) How difficult are honest assessments of any influential field? (01:29:07) How does mathematics play into the power of physics? (01:40:14) How do "particles" contribute to the confusion at the heart of physics? (01:46:38) Has the word "materialism" been ruined? (01:53:45) Who else played a role in the development of fundamental physics? (01:58:28) Is there a graceful way of dealing with the problems of modern physics? (02:06:35) What is the relationship between quantum and mysticism? (02:16:04) Closing thoughts #sciencepodcast, #PhysicsHistory, #QuantumParadoxes, #AtomicTheory, #RealityShifts, #QuantumMechanics, #HistoricalPhysics, #EinsteinRevolution, #QuantumDebate, #RealityDuality, #WaveParticleDuality, #QuantumWorldview, #PhysicsDiscussion, #HistoricalAnalysis, #QuantumJourney, #PhysicsParadoxes, #RealityPerception, #QuantumConcepts, #AtomicEra, #PhysicsEvolution, #QuantumExploration Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

It's our final solo conversation from the tour and we're breaking down an issue that we have held different perspectives on for quite some time: the limits & importance of free speech. In part, we are responding the documentary "This Place Rules" by Channel 5 creator, Andrew Callaghan, which tracks the absurdity, hipocracy, and more than anything, the profiteering surrounding the buildup to the 2021 invasion of the Capitol in Washington D.C. Shilo argues that it could have been avoided if dissidents hadn't had their voices removed from the internet. Nastia isn't convinced, on account of the power of the incentives backing the revolt. In the end, we circle around the need for a de-algorithmatized public forum, which might provide the basis for an actual democratic republic. Tell us your thoughts in the comments!!! Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB (00:00) Go! (00:04:30) The case for free speech absolutism (00:15:04) The days of rage and sanctioned protest (00:24:19) Handling a neighbor that's killing your chickens (00:34:33) Is an appreciation for dialogue on the rise? (00:43:59) Is the getting banned from internet to blame for the power of fringe movements? (00:50:07) The raw wound of forbidden speech (00:56:30) The central importance of (01:04:05) The need for a true public square (01:13:50) Closing thoughts #sciencepodcast, #FreeSpeech, #Democracy, #PoliticalPhilosophy, #InformationRegulation, #Populism, #FreedomOfExpression, #CivilRights, #PublicDiscourse, #IntellectualDialogue, #Liberty, #CensorshipDebate, #CriticalThinking, #DigitalEthics, #OnlineDebate, #PoliticalTheory, #EthicalCommunication, #MediaFreedom, #OpenSociety, #TruthSeeking, #DemocraticValues Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

This presentation was recorded on April 7th, 2024 at the first DemystifySci conference in Austin TX. Dr. Pierre-Marie Robitaille presents an overview of his multi-decadal quest to understand the material basis of the stars. He also reveals a new theory to explain Mercury's anomalous precession - one that doesn't revert to warped spacetime or mathematical acrobatics. In the process, a clever solution to the mysterious solar cycles of magnetism is revealed, along with a possible mechanism for planetary formation, and sun spot production. Dr. Robitaille has faced an onslaught of attacks from the astrophysical community since he first turned his attention to the sun, perhaps because the material basis of the sun underpins all astrophysical revelations of modern times from black holes to the big bang. Like it or not, the material understanding of the sun appears to be in dire need of revision, and Dr. Robitaille has some unimpeachable concerns about the status quo. Tell us your thoughts in the comments!!! Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB (00:00) Go! (00:03:28) The secret to Pierre's Success (00:06:32) The Solar Photosphere (00:08:51) What the continuous solar spectrum tells us about the structure of the sun (00:11:56) Studying the Corona (00:14:39) William Harkeness at the Naval Observatory (00:19:33) Is the corona really at millions of degrees? (00:21:23) Does the sun have a surface? (00:24:28) The standard solar model and the gaseous sun (00:31:31) Does the sun have a surface? (00:37:32) Evolution of liquid sun theories (00:41:49) Liquid metallic hydrogen solar model (00:47:13) The little cousin of carbon (00:55:44) Liquid Metallic Hydrogen Solar Model (01:02:11) Limb darkening and the liquid sun (01:05:00) Sunspots as evidence of lattice structure (01:06:17) Chemistry in the Chromosphere (01:12:53) An Encounter with the Sun (01:14:12) Celestial Geometry of a Total Eclipse (01:16:24) Eclipses through history (01:20:16) Eclipses and Ancient Civilizations (01:24:36) Lockyer's & Janssen's Eclipse Studies (01:25:54) The Transit of Venus (01:30:01) Le Verrier and The New Planets (01:31:34) The Problem of Mercury's Perihelion (01:33:43) Searching for Vulcan (01:40:19) Two Vulcans? (01:42:49) The Dzhanibekov Effect and Mercury #sciencepodcast, #Astrophysics, #SolarScience, #StellarStructure, #SpaceResearch, #SunAndStars, #AstronomyTalks, #CosmicInsights, #SpaceExploration, #ScientificDebate, #SolarMystery, #StarFormation, #GalacticResearch, #AstroDiscussion, #SolarPhysics, #CuttingEdgeScience, #SpaceDiscovery, #CosmicMysteries, #AstroDebate, #SolarComplexity, #StellarPhysics Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

It’s week 5 on the road, and we’re deep in the weeds about the question of what we, as scientists, owe the world. Technological progress alone seems like a weak orienting principle, as does abandoning the pursuit of knowledge completely. So how do we hew a path that makes sense, when it seems like the institutions and organizations around us have gone astray? To help us make sense of the interface between science and ethics, we turn to an essay called “To Young Scientists,” read by Ayn Rand at MIT in the 1960s. Rand was writing at the peak of the nuclear age, where the destruction of the species, if not the planet, seemed imminent. Today, the threat of nuclear conflict looms once again, but the cutting edge risk lies in the ceaseless development of machine learning and AI technologies that threaten to engulf all of human practice. There are no easy answers at hand, but we eke out a few basic principles that can serve as the starting point for building a life where progress & meaning can align. Check out the essay and support the podcast by purchasing Ayn Rand's Essays in Objectivist Thought: https://amzn.to/3UaKnH4 Tell us your thoughts in the comments!!! Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB (00:00) Go! (00:04:11) The separation of science and spirit (00:14:00) To Young Scientists (00:23:28) The anthill of social collectivism (00:33:19) Ethics as a moral feeling (00:43:16) Can you divest from the machine? (00:53:51) Living through an ebb in institutional faith (01:02:28) Self-directed motion into the future (01:12:40) The dynamic arc of a single life #sciencepodcast, #ScienceEthics, #SpiritualityInScience, #EthicalScience, #FutureTech, #AIethics, #ScienceAndSociety, #ScientificResponsibility, #TechEthics, #ScienceCommunity, #EthicalInnovation, #EthicalAI, #TechProgress, #ScienceAndEthics, #AIResponsibility, #EthicalLeadership, #ScientificIntegrity, #ScienceAndEthicsDebate, #TechAndEthics, #EthicalTechnology, #ScienceFuture Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Marcell Fóti is an ancient mysteries researcher who is trying to figure out how the ancient Egyptians and other cultures were able to carve stones with sub-millimeter precision with relatively primitive bronze tools. Fóti’s experiments with geopolymers - ceramic polymers that can easily be mistaken for natural stone - have led him to the conclusion that the inexplicable stonework of the ancient world doesn’t have to remain a mystery. We talk to him about Natron Theory, the five part explanation for how Egyptians made their false stones, the role that natural salt deposits play in the development of a stone-making civilization, evidence that precise stonework and natron are correlated around the world, and the open questions about the ancient stone makers that remain. Check out Fóti’s website: natrontheory.com Follow Fóti on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FoMaHun Tell us your thoughts in the comments!!! Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB (00:00) Go! (00:03:55) Marcel Foti and Scoop Marks Mystery (00:09:11) Natron: The Key to Ancient Stonework (00:13:35) Figuring out the etching process (00:19:45) The Tomb of Rekhmire (00:23:24) Making waterglass (00:31:18) Geopolymers in the ancient world (00:40:18) Distinguishing between rock and geopolymers (00:51:32) Laboratory testing of geopolymers? (00:57:07) Were the great pyramid stones quarried or poured? (01:01:58) Spatial links between natron source and geopolymer construction (01:11:04) Intricacies of dating sedimentary rocks (01:18:51) Accidental creation of geopolymers? (01:29:15) Closing thoughts #sciencepodcast, #AncientMysteries, #EgyptianTechnology, #GeopolymerResearch, #StoneCarving, #AncientCivilizations, #BronzeTools, #NatronTheory, #Archaeology, #HistoricalTechnology, #AncientEngineering, #CulturalHeritage, #PrecisionCraftsmanship, #ArchaeologicalDiscoveries, #LostCivilizations, #StoneAgeTechnology, #HistoricalInnovation, #CeramicPolymers, #ExperimentalArchaeology, #AncientCraftsmanship, #MysteriesOfThePast Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

On the road between Austin and Santa Fe we make a pit stop in Roswell, New Mexico and sit down to make heads or tails of the UAP phenomena. Both of us are skeptics who want to believe, but are cursed by a nature that prevents us from committing to a single perspective. Instead, we dive into the mythological signifiers that surround the phenomenon, the deep yearning for someone who can take care of us, and the psychological innovations that are driven by the fear of living on a planet whose uncaring systems are so immense that they appear wholly beyond our control. Tell us your thoughts in the comments!!! Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB (00:00) Go! (00:04:10) Is there a there, there? (00:14:39) What's so tasty about alien invaders (00:23:49) Fear as a catalyst for psychological innovation (00:29:57) AI sky god vs alien sky god (00:35:30) UAP as a moral technological template (00:39:34) Memories of ancestral events (00:43:38) Luciferian tale of the gardener (00:47:19) Oddities of non-interference (00:52:43) An alien source of eco-consciousness (01:00:47) Supernatural gloss of civilization (01:04:41) Closing thoughts #UAP, #UFOs, #Extraterrestrial, #Mythology, #JungianAnalysis, #PsychoanalyticApproach, #PodcastConversation, #AlienEncounters, #AncientAliens, #UnexplainedPhenomena, #ConspiracyTheories, #Paranormal, #ExploringTheUnknown, #HumanHistory, #MythAndReality Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Dr. Steven Koonin is a theoretical physicist, former Chief Scientist at BP, former Under Secretary for Science at the Department of Energy in the Obama administration, and is currently a professor of Civil and Urban Engineering at NYU. He is also the author of Unsettled, a book about the abilities and limits of climate science. We talk with him about the great distance between the scientific reports and public conception, the social unrest that's seeded by unwarranted fear of impending catastrophe, and the delicate art of speaking out against motivated consensus. Tell us your thoughts in the comments!!! Sign up for our Patreon and get episodes early + join our weekly Patron Chat https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Support the podcast by buying Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn't, and Why it Matters (00:00) Go! (00:08:34) Koonin's entry into the climate sciences (00:16:14) Not trying to save the world, just doing science (00:26:53) Cleaning the air & global warming (00:36:30) What affects sensitivity of the models (00:53:10) Better simulations later? (01:08:02) Economics v. taking care of the Earth (01:28:45) Values discussion v. facts? (01:31:53) Working skeptically for the Obama admin (01:42:43) Energy externalities (01:46:23) Nuclear alternatives (02:01:25) Fusion possibilities? (02:09:02) Nuclear as transition - shaping our future (02:15:36) Cost of progressive policy #ClimatePhysics #ClimateScienceFacts #RealClimateScience #ClimatePhysicsDebate #ClimateRealityCheck #ClimateDissent #ScientificIntegrity #ClimateHysteriaDebate #ClimateScienceTruth #PhysicsOfClimate #ScienceAndSkepticism #ClimateFactsMatter #ScienceOverHype #ClimateDebateReality #PhysicsOfGlobalWarming Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 Sign up for a yearly Patreon membership for discounted conference tickets: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 This is our second week on the road and we're broadcasting from uber-sunny Joshua Tree, California. Today we start out with the observation that a dominant faction of the techno-futurist community seems to believe that if our civilization maximizes intelligence, everything will be just fine in the end. We intuitively balk at this promise - and in general, we are skeptical at the lack of vision about what that future might look like. To understand this belief we have to understand what is meant by "intelligence." Then we have to consider the alternatives. We look at the evolution of this dream/nightmare from the earliest days of computer science through the lenses of sci-fi authors like Bradbury & PKDick up through a recent JRE interview with Ray Kurzweil. Tell us your thoughts in the comments! Follow our band Secretary of Nature as we're on tour! https://www.instagram.com/secretary.of.nature/ Listen to Secretary of Nature! https://soundcloud.com/laterisgone Sign up for a yearly Patreon membership for discounted conference tickets: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB (00:00) Go! (00:06:14) Futurists value computation above all (00:08:14) Quality matters for vision (00:10:20) Intelligence: wisdom, insight, computation (00:14:45) Futurists dream to become god? (00:17:44) Insight & wisdom at the cellular level (00:23:13) False wisdom & hallucinatory insight (00:31:53) Comfort, computational value structure, and slavery (00:38:54) Bradbury corollaries (00:45:24) Soviet model: computational decision making (00:53:23) Exponential computation goes to bureaucratic singularity (00:58:09) We could be wrong. Let's be honest. (01:03:02) Tech should work for us, not the other way (01:09:19) Allure of authority (01:16:52) When computational futurists go blind (01:23:37) Caution for catastrophism. Looking within. #science #sciencepodcast #TechnoFuturism #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureVision #SciFiAnalysis #RayKurzweil #JoshuaTreeBroadcast #IntelligenceDebate #FuturistPerspectives #SkepticalViewpoints #ScienceFiction #TechnologyTrends #FutureSociety #EvolutionOfIdeas #JREInterview #Bradbury #PKDick #FutureOutlook #VisionaryThinking #PodcastDiscussion #SpeculativeFutures Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 Today we are hanging out with our friend Dr. Michael Hughes, a post-doctoral fellow at St. Jude's Research Hospital in Memphis. Michael has a long history of trying to understand the role that water plays in fundamental biological operations from structural assembly to diseases like Alzheimers and Prion disorders. Presently, he is hard at work on a biological theory of everything where water plays out the role of central actor in biological processes from form to consciousness. Our conversation today begins with Michael's journey into the water rabbit hole, exploring the strange way that water structures itself within cells. We work toward an understanding of water as a photo-electrically, an electro-statically sensitive molecule capable of mechanically altering cellular function in response to conscious and external signals. We hope to have Michael back to explore a mutual fascination with the historic interface of spirituality and science by way of Rudolph Steiner and Western esotericism. Tell us your thoughts in the comments!!! Sign up for a yearly Patreon membership for discounted conference tickets: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Gilbert Ling's website & books: https://www.gilbertling.org/books.html Modern review based on the Association Induction Hypothesis: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32565181/ Rice University Archives of the Impossible: https://libguides.rice.edu/impossiblearchives (00:00) Go! (00:09:25) APS 2024 (00:11:01) Biochemistry to Cell Biology to Water Physics (00:12:49) Math has true answers (00:16:21) Prions, amyloids (00:25:49) Stress granules as proto-organelle (00:32:38) Aging as disease or no? (00:44:08) Water as biological theory of everything (00:57:19) Transient h-bonding structures (01:15:11) Water density as biological master switch? (01:26:41) Water as dark matter of consciousness (01:40:13) UAPs to be taken seriously? (01:54:36) Evidence-based beliefs? (02:11:43) Remote viewing (02:28:10) Science without spirituality? #science #sciencepodcast #BiologicalResearch #WaterInScience #ConsciousnessStudies #CellularFunction #MedicalScience #StJudesResearch #Biochemistry #AlzheimersResearch #PrionDisorders #ScienceAndSpirituality #PodcastInterview #MedicalInnovation #ResearchInsights #ScienceCommunication #HealthAndWellness #WaterMolecule #StructuralBiology #ConsciousnessExploration #SpiritualScience #SciencePodcast #structuredwater #waterscience #waterchemistry Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 We are finally en route to DEMYSTICON 2024! While we're on the road we've decided to take a moment each week to review and articulate our own insights the past year's podcast conversations. In our first On Tour Solo Edition we're examining how a theorist's metaphysics shape their inquiry. We establish metaphysics as the underlying assumptions that allow for the logical processing of a natural phenomenon. We see how several of our guests have differed in metaphysics, particularly with respect to fundamental physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. Follow our band Secretary of Nature as we're on tour this spring! https://www.instagram.com/secretary.of.nature/ Listen to Secretary of Nature! https://soundcloud.com/laterisgone Sign up for a yearly Patreon membership for discounted conference tickets: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB (00:00) Go! (00:03:52) Wars are fought over metaphysics (00:08:49) Dualism (00:13:32) Metaphysics of QM (00:21:45) Unzicker & Roberts' metaphysics (00:28:27) Utility of materialist physics (00:32:18) Thomas Gold, Michael Levin (00:39:03) Proving metaphysical value (00:41:18) Cosmology, astro, planetary science revolutions (00:45:15) Monolithic cosmological narratives (00:49:44) Cosmic egg v. outsider cultures (00:56:34) Logic, reason, & immaterial actions (01:02:50) Mental illness & causelessness (01:08:42) Good v. bad, progress, & metaphysics (01:13:13) Intellectual generosity (01:16:11) Examination, the Aiello, Zharkova fires #science #sciencepodcast #MetaphysicsMatters, #PodcastReview, #PhilosophyDiscussion, #QuantumMetaphysics, #CosmologyDebate, #TheoreticalPhysics, #AstrophysicsInsights, #MetaphysicalInquiry, #LogicAndReason, #IntellectualDiscourse, #CosmicNarratives, #MaterialistPhysics, #SpiritualInquiry, #PhilosophicalDebate, #MindBodyDualism, #ScienceAndPhilosophy, #ExistentialQuestions, #IntellectualExchange, #MetaphysicalPerspectives, #PhilosophicalReflections Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 Dr. Michel Barsoum is a materials scientist at Drexel University who is the champion of a controversial theory about the great pyramids of Giza, which says the pyramids were not fully carved from natural stone, but were cast from a geopolymer concrete mixture. For decades, Egyptologists have dismissed the notion that the pyramids incorporated any human-made cement-like materials. But Barsoum's team at Drexel University has uncovered startling new evidence from advanced microscopy analysis of pyramid samples. We talk to him about becoming entranced with the deep history of Egypt, the process of determining the true nature of a stone, and the open questions about this lost civilization that keep him up at night. What if these discoveries are enough to reshape our understanding of just how advanced and ingenious the ancient Egyptian builders were? Sign up for a yearly Patreon membership for discounted conference tickets: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB (00:00) Go! (00:04:00) Who is Dr. Barsoum? (00:12:29) The romance of differential equations (00:18:47) Academic careers over the years (00:28:12) Geopolymers in Egypt (00:45:49) Visual vs. chemical analysis (01:04:05) The Impossibility of Egyptian Construction (01:17:25) Geometry of Pyramid Construction (01:20:36) Casing Stones alone? (01:25:07) Cast stone in other parts of the world (01:32:45) Geochemistry & material properties (01:44:45) Boundary conditions #science #sciencepodcast #AncientEgypt #Pyramids #Giza #Archaeology#Egyptology #MaterialsScience #Geopolymers #Concrete#SyntheticStone #AncientTechnology #AncientEngineering#ConstructionMarvels #PyramidCode Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 In this episode we are exploring the origins of the metaphysics that underpin the modern approach to a scientific understanding of nature with Dr. Helen De Cruz, who is the Danforth Chair in the Humanities at Saint Louis University. Professor De Cruz' research focuses on philosophy of cognitive science and philosophy of religion, with an eye for historic progressions through ideologies across the ages. In her own words, she is guided by the following question: "We spend what seem on the face of it outlandish amounts of time and energy on these pursuits, which appear to be inessential in keeping us alive in the struggle for survival and reproduction. Why do we make life even more complicated than it already is?" We aim this line of inquiry at understanding the state of today's modern physical conception of the universe: a highly mathematized, often paradoxical interpretation of fundamental material reality. Sign up for a yearly Patreon membership for discounted conference tickets: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Professor De Cruz' website: https://helendecruz.net/ (00:00) Go! (00:03:55) Seeking out the Renaissance (00:11:11) Missing piece of the middle ages (00:18:31) Downstream of the invention of the printing press (00:26:50) Eternal recurrence (00:34:30) Necessary waypoints for collaboration (00:44:51) A kind of thought that touches all domains (00:56:04) Aristotle - friend or foe to the age of reason? (01:06:55) Getting rid of the prime mover (01:14:45) Untangling "why" from "how" (01:18:51) Kant throws fuel on the fire (01:28:04) Crowning physics as king of the castle (01:36:54) Mystical power of mathematics (i.e. runes) (01:47:46) Wonder in Newton vs Wonder in Descartes (01:56:44) The Conduit of Inspiration to Reality (02:07:49) Is there such a thing as an "accident"? (02:13:48) Closing thoughts #science #sciencepodcast #philosophy #philosophypodcast #MetaphysicalOrigins, #PhilosophyofScience, #ModernScientificUnderstanding, #PhilosophicalInquiry, #IntellectualEvolution, #ScientificMetaphysics, #RenaissanceIdeas, #PhilosophicalPerspectives, #HistoricalProgressions, #CognitiveScienceInsights, #ReligionandScience, #PhilosophyofCognition, #ScientificInquiry, #IdeologicalEvolution, #ScientificRevolution, #MetaphysicalConcepts, #ContemporaryPhilosophy, #IntellectualJourney, #ScientificIdeas, #philosophicaldebate Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

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This is our second conversation with esteemed physics professor, Dr. Andrê Koch Torres Assis. Following our earlier discussion of Weber's electrodynamics, we now move into Professor Assis' other passion: Machian dynamics. Mach is perhaps one of the most well-known behind-the-scenes players in the saga of modern physics. Einstein and others often point to Mach as inspiring their ideas but it is often unclear exactly what Mach was proposing when he said that inertia was simply the result of the gravity of the sum total of all of the distant celestial bodies acting upon something locally. In this podcast we explore Mach's ideas through a few simple experiments. Please tell us your thoughts in the comments!

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(00:00) Go!
(00:04:36) Mach's Principle
(00:09:21) There are no two body problems
(00:18:46) Setting a reference frame
(00:22:17) Newton Proves the Existence of the Vacuum
(00:32:21) Newton letting go of material cause
(00:40:48) Newton v Ernst Mach
(00:51:54)  What Newton Got Wrong about Gravity
(00:57:32) Weber's law of relational mechanics
(01:06:32) Space time as "absolute space"
(01:08:55) Mach's principle and the rotation of the Earth
(01:20:56) Experimental proof of relational mechanics?
(01:22:16) Gravity probe B
(01:34:10) Pitfalls of assuming a homogenous universe
(01:48:24) Why accept an expanding universe?
(02:12:35) Closing thoughts

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