The DemystifySci Podcast

How an Extra Filter Actually Lets More Light Through - LIVE! (DemystifySci +462)

12K views · 1d ago · 1:55:29

Order our the book, Paradox Lost We're back to continue reading from our new book, Paradox Lost, where we examine the loss of material mediators in fundamental physics and then apply a simple set of axioms to imagine what the future of that abandoned physics might look like. Previously we introduced a material model of extended atomic architecture and used it to explain electromagnetism, and then the intricate nuance of transmission and opacity.

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Scaling Laws: the Numbers that Drive Death & Stoke Life - Dr. Geoffrey West (DemystifySci +461)

6.1K views · 6d ago · 1:52:01

Guests: Dr. Geoffrey West, Scaling Laws

Today we're sitting down with Professor Geoffrey West from the Santa Fe Institute, to talk about his work on scale: Kleiber’s law, entity lifespan, fractal circulatory networks, multicellularity, compartmentalization, and bureaucracy, Along the way we touch on cities vs. companies, open-ended growth, stultified institutions, soulless planned cities, and what it takes to beat Nature at her own game.

Topics: Go! From Cells to Corporations · Kleiber’s Three-Quarter Law · Galileo’s Square-Cube Law · Puzzle of the Quarter Power · Three Rules of Every Network · Navier-Stokes in the Aorta

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What Would It Take to Tip Earth Over? - The Ethical Skeptic (DemystifySci +460)

24K views · 1w ago · 1:59:03

Today's episode features Roger Cunningham, The Ethical Skeptic, discussing his ECDO theory of true polar wander. He reopens the case for the Dzhanibekov effect behind the possibility that the could Earth tip over and we push him for the details of the mechanism, covering core-mantle decoupling, exothermic iron phase change, and crystal-lattice geomagnetism.

Topics: Go! Not a Prophecy · Dzhanibekov's Wingnut · Energized Aqueous Aerosol · Refractory Metal Clue · Two Kinds of Pole · Wrong Axis to Flip

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Paradox Busted: How Photons Interfere One at a Time - LIVE! (DemystifySci +459)

21K views · 2w ago · 2:04:17

Guest: Paradox Busted

Order our the book, Paradox Lost We're back to continue reading from our new book, Paradox Lost, where we examine the loss of material mediators in fundamental physics and then apply a simple set of axioms to imagine what the future of that abandoned physics might look like. Previously we introduced a material model of extended atomic architecture and used it to explain electromagnetism, and then the intricate nuance of transmission and opacity.

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The Physics Monks (DemystifySci +458)

11K views · 2w ago · 9:30

This week, we headed to Moab, Utah, to meet up with Thad Roberts and his merry band of physics monks. Thad heads the Physics Monestery, an organization of physicists who have devoted their lives to understanding the hidden meaning of the constants of nature - from the speed of light to Planck’s constant, the theoretical landscape is plastered with numbers that have no apparent physical connection to one another.

Topics: Go! Unexplained Constants of Nature · Thad Roberts' First Principles · The Simplest Manifold · Knot Theory as Arena

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Quantum Entanglement Reveals a Hidden Material Network- LIVE! (DemystifySci +457)

30K views · 3w ago · 2:10:44

Order our the book, Paradox Lost We're back to continue reading from our new book, Paradox Lost, where we examine the loss of material mediators in fundamental physics and then apply a simple set of axioms to imagine what the future of that abandoned physics might look like. Previously we introduced a material model of extended atomic architecture and used it to explain electromagnetism, and then the intricate nuance of transmission and opacity.

📚 Book mentioned: Buy the book

How Rome Actually Fell 200 Years Before Anyone Noticed - Dr. Kyle Harper (DemystifySci +456)

14K views · 3w ago · 1:59:52

Guest: Dr. Kyle Harper

Today's guest is Professor Kyle Harper, author of The Fate of Rome, a radical reimagining of the fall of the Roman Empire. It is a saga of plague, volcanism & climate shifts, and coups, that reveals multiple fractures in the empire long before its final collapse.

Topics: Go! An Empire Split in Three · Why Rome Still Matters · Gibbon's Decline and Fall · Rich But Sick · Death in the Palace · City of Cesspits

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Did Sumer Come From the Sea? - Nick Collins (DemystifySci +455)

21K views · 1mo ago · 1:33:21

Guest: Nick Collins

Today's episode features a conversation with author Nick Collins concerning the obscure origins of the Mesopotamian "Cradle of Civilization." Collins points to a shared origin of Sumer and the Indus Valley Civilization, painting a picture of an interconnected culture connected by maritime trade.

Topics: Go! A Shipbroker's Hunch · Drowned Coastlines · Colonial Chronologies · Seven Sages From the East · Persian Gulf Trade Routes · Uruk's Egyptian Gambit

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How Atoms Turn Heat Into Light - LIVE! Drs. Bendebury & DeLay (DemystifySci +454)

20K views · 1mo ago · 1:45:23

We're back to continue reading from our new book, Paradox Lost, where we examine the loss of material mediators in fundamental physics and then apply a simple set of axioms to imagine what the future of that abandoned physics might look like. Previously we introduced a material model of extended atomic architecture and used it to explain the basics of light transactions. This week, we look at absorption - and the ideal absorber, the blackbody.

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Schrödinger's Cat Was a Warning

6.8K views · 1mo ago · 6:42

Is the cat in a superposition, or did we just get something really, really wrong? Full conversation here

Gravity Breaks Here, and Nobody Knows Why - Dr. Stacy McGaugh (DemystifySci +453)

20K views · 1mo ago · 1:52:01

Guest: Dr. Stacy McGaugh

Today's episode features Professor Stacy McGaugh, Director of Astronomy at Case Western Reserve University. We discuss his journey to Modified Newtonian Dynamics [MOND] via a slow growing dissatisfaction with dark matter as the sole hypothesis to explain anomolous galaxy rotation curves, touching on the missing mass, dark matter halos, and empty WIMP detectors along the way.

Topics: Go! Setting Out to Disprove MOND · Rotation Curves Missing at the Edges · What Nucleosynthesis Allows · Dark Matter's Exotic Turn · WIMP Searches Succeeding at Failing · Low Surface Brightness Surprises

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How Mirrors Actually Work, Atom by Atom - LIVE! Drs. Bendebury & DeLay (DemystifySci +452)

25K views · 1mo ago · 1:57:12

We're back to continue reading from our new book, Paradox Lost, where we examine the loss of material mediators in fundamental physics and then apply a simple set of axioms to imagine what the future of that abandoned physics might look like. Previously we introduced a material model of extended atomic architecture and used it to explain the basics of light transactions.

📚 Book mentioned: Buy the book

Did the Maya Collapse, or Just Quit?

4.3K views · 1mo ago · 7:00

Listen to the full conversation here What happened to the Maya? Theories abound about their collapse, but during our trip to the Yucatan we discovered that there might be a different story lurking - about an elite society that slowly outruns their own usefulness, but are sure enough of themselves that they don't pay attention to the world as it's crumbling around them

How Bad Math Spread to Physics & Beyond - Steve Patterson (DemystifySci +451)

26K views · 1mo ago · 1:53:52

Guest: Steve Patterson

Today we're talking with philosopher Steve Patterson about how a lack of conceptual clarity in the foundations of 20th century mathematics led to problems not only downstream of this in physics, but eventually feeding irrationalist movements in diverse disciplines. From points with no size summing to lines, to sets of infinite quantities, formalism traded truth for usefulness, and that habit was transferred onto everyone from quantum physicists to economists.

Topics: Go! Why can physics calculate light but not explain it? · Who convinced us that reason is broken? · What gets lost when you turn the world into math? · Does math discover anything, or just refine it? · What happened when math lost its foundation? · How does anything move if every step can be halved?

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