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This week in my conversation with Seth Shostak, we chat about SETI and their search for intelligent extraterrestrial life and trying to find evidence that there's someone out there, other than us. I first heard Seth in his TED talk where he made a very grand prediction that we will hear from aliens in the next decade so it was exciting to hear that he still believes this to be true.   See more from Dr Seth Shostak   #sethshostak   Website: https://www.seti.org/our-scientists/seth-shostak    Further Reading and Resources: This episode is based on Invasion of the Body Snachers by Jack Finney and can be purchased here. ET is (probably) out there -- get ready - Seth Shostak   Follow Widdershins and please Rate and Review us in your favourite Podcast app so others can easily find Widdershins!   Visit our website: www.widdershinspodcast.com/ for member-only access and merchandise   Facebook: www.facebook.com/WiddershinsPodcast/   Twitter: https://twitter.com/WiddershinsP   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/widdershins_podcast/   Email us: connect@widdershinspodcast.com   Widdershins proudly uses the services of Letitia Stafford – The Ultimate Podcasting Virtual Assistant 

It was such a wonderful experience chatting with Professor Paul Davies, who is an incredible theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist and best-selling science author of 31 books. He has published hundreds of research papers and review articles across a range of scientific fields. He is also well-known as a media personality and science populariser in several countries. Professor Davies is the author of Demon In The Machine which, in the very first chapter, begins with the question ‘What is life?' so I naturally had to begin with the question of panspermia, which is the theory which suggests that life on Earth did not originate on our planet. Big questions were tackled this week as we dove into our origins, whether or not we are alone and the hunt for a new earth. See more from Professor Paul Davies   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PhysicistPaulDavies/    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-davies-33634114    Website: http://cosmos.asu.edu/    Further Reading and Resources: This episode is based on The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle and can be purchased here. The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life - by Paul Davies   Follow Widdershins and please Rate and Review us in your favourite Podcast app so others can easily find Widdershins!   Visit our website: www.widdershinspodcast.com/ for member-only access and merchandise   Facebook: www.facebook.com/WiddershinsPodcast/   Twitter: https://twitter.com/WiddershinsP   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/widdershins_podcast/   Email us: connect@widdershinspodcast.com   Widdershins proudly uses the services of Letitia Stafford – The Ultimate Podcasting Virtual Assistant 

In this episode, I chat with Robert Powell who is both a UFOlogist and Chemist. I sought out to interview Robert after I found he was the co-author of the book UFOs and Government alongside a cast of international authors headed by Michael Swords, a retired professor at Western Michigan University with extensive knowledge of UFO history, and managed by Robert Powell, director of research at the Mutual UFO Network. The authors spent more than four years researching thousands of government documents and archives in order to present a work of historical scholarship on the U.S. government's bungling response to the UFO phenomenon. How and why the U.S. government—and other governments around the world—have dealt with the UFO phenomenon during most of a century is the focus of this historical inquiry. We cover a lot of ground in this episode including the real-life x-files, how many sightings are legitimate and the most convincing, the element 115, the government, and the future with aliens. See more from Robert Powell Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/explorescu/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/explorescu?lang=en  Website: https://www.explorescu.org/    Further Reading and Resources: This episode is based on Chariots of the Gods by Erich von Däniken's and can be purchased here. UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry by Michael Swords and Robert Powell     Follow Widdershins and please Rate and Review us in your favourite Podcast app so others can easily find Widdershins! Visit our website: www.widdershinspodcast.com/ for member-only access and merchandise Facebook: www.facebook.com/WiddershinsPodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/WiddershinsP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/widdershins_podcast/ Email us: connect@widdershinspodcast.com   Widdershins proudly uses the services of Letitia Stafford – The Ultimate Podcasting Virtual Assistant 

Season 4 is all about making contact with Aliens and how to do so effectively. This week I chat with Dr Douglas Vakoch, president of Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI) a nonprofit research and educational organization dedicated to transmitting intentional signals to nearby stars and hopefully Aliens. There are so many things to consider, wether or not we will be dealing with AI extraterrestrials, how to send messages that express the better traits of humans, how to respond to signals without starting a war.  "There may be more 'wise' civilizations out there, I would bet on humanity being the civilization with the most exquisite balance of joy and sorry of any species in the milky way." - Dr Douglas Vakoch   See more from Dr Douglas Vakoch Facebook: https://facebook.com/METIintl Twitter: https://twitter.com/METIintl LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/19190208/admin/   Further Reading and Resources: This episode is based on The War of The Worlds by H.G Wells and can be purchased here.   Message sent from northern Norway, to a star 12 light-years from Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hYAz68lJzo The need to take a long terms perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryLWL-24GMo Dr Vakoch discussing the messages people would want to send and an analysis of  the words to use in those messages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx9i-KRMCCc   Follow Widdershins and please Rate and Review us in your favourite Podcast app so others can easily find Widdershins! Visit our website: www.widdershinspodcast.com/ for member-only access and merchandise Facebook: www.facebook.com/WiddershinsPodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/WiddershinsP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/widdershins_podcast/ Email us: connect@widdershinspodcast.com   Widdershins proudly uses the services of Letitia Stafford – The Ultimate Podcasting Virtual Assistant 

This week I chat with Dr Federico Carminati the chief innovation officer at CERN openlab. Dr Carminati is investigating potential applications of machine learning and quantum computing for high-energy physics. We talk about the increasing need for stable quantum computing and the race to discover the elusive algorithm that will inevitably launch quantum computers into the mainstream market. The penny drops when I finally realise the true value of efficient quantum computing coupled with machine learning being the ability to truly analyse data for the benefit of mankind.  See more from Dr Fedrico Carminati Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fcacarminati Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcacarminati?lang=en    Further Reading and Resources: This episode is based on The Quantum Spy: A Thriller by David Ignatius and can be purchased here.   Follow Widdershins and please Rate and Review us in your favourite Podcast app so others can easily find Widdershins! Visit our website: www.widdershinspodcast.com/ for member-only access and merchandise Facebook: www.facebook.com/WiddershinsPodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/WiddershinsP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/widdershins_podcast/ Email us: connect@widdershinspodcast.com   Widdershins proudly uses the services of Letitia Stafford – The Ultimate Podcasting Virtual Assistant 

This week I have a conversation with Casey Pfluger, the founder of Cortex Brainwave Technologies who is building a brain-computer interface headset (BCI) for the treatment of ADHD and Autism. Casey has spent the past two decades as a medical researcher and has a degree in Biotechnology, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology. The goal of his BCI project is to build technology that allows people to effortlessly harness the potential of neurofeedback in reducing symptoms of neurocognitive conditions. See more from Casey Pfluger Cortex Brainwave Technologies: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cortexbraintech/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ouroboros/?originalSubdomain=au   Follow Widdershins and please Rate and Review us in your favourite Podcast app so others can easily find Widdershins! Visit our website: www.widdershinspodcast.com/ for member-only access and merchandise Facebook: www.facebook.com/WiddershinsPodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/WiddershinsP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/widdershins_podcast/ Email us: connect@widdershinspodcast.com   Widdershins proudly uses the services of Letitia Stafford – The Ultimate Podcasting Virtual Assistant 

This week I have a conversation with Dr Sofia Vallecorsa from CERN Open-Lab regarding AI and The Singularity. There are two sides of the camp on AI. The first is that AI and robots will take over the world and the second is that we are so far away from this reality we have enough time to make sure this doesn't happen. In my conversation with Dr Sofia Vallecorsa we discuss her work at Cern, home of the Large Hadron Collider. Sofia's extensive experience in software development in the High Energy Physics domain, in particular on Quantum Computing and Deep Learning applications makes for a very interesting conversation on the future of AI.   Further Reading and Resources: This episode is based on Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge and can be purchased here.   Follow Widdershins and please Rate and Review us in your favourite Podcast app so others can easily find Widdershins! Visit our website: www.widdershinspodcast.com/ for member-only access and merchandise Facebook: www.facebook.com/WiddershinsPodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/WiddershinsP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/widdershins_podcast/ Email us: connect@widdershinspodcast.com   Widdershins proudly uses the services of Letitia Stafford – The Ultimate Podcasting Virtual Assistant 

This week I have a conversation with Dr. Jordi Prat Camps on Invisibility Cloaking devices and the technologies, fabrics, and science being developed to make this once sci-fi idea a reality.  Further Reading and Resources: This episode is based on The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells and can be purchased here.   See more from Dr Jordi Prat Camps Website: https://pratcamps.weebly.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordi-prat-camps-a9bba177/   Follow Widdershins and please Rate and Review us in your favourite Podcast app so others can easily find Widdershins! Visit our website: www.widdershinspodcast.com/ for member-only access and merchandise Facebook: www.facebook.com/WiddershinsPodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/WiddershinsP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/widdershins_podcast/ Email us: connect@widdershinspodcast.com   Widdershins proudly uses the services of Letitia Stafford – The Ultimate Podcasting Virtual Assistant 

This week's episode is a conversation with Dr Fiona Kerr on the ethical approaches to humans merging with machines. We discuss the incredible science and technology currently being used in medicine as well as the huge advances in Medtech.   Further Reading and Resources: This episode is based on Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan and can be purchased here.   See more from Dr Fiona Kerr   https:Twitter: https://twitter.com/FionaKerr82 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrFionaKerr/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-fiona-kerr/ Website: https://www.theneurotechinstitute.com/   Follow Widdershins and please Rate and Review us in your favourite Podcast app so others can easily find Widdershins! Visit our website: www.widdershinspodcast.com/ for member-only access and merchandise Facebook: www.facebook.com/WiddershinsPodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/WiddershinsP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/widdershins_podcast/ Email us: connect@widdershinspodcast.com   Widdershins proudly uses the services of Letitia Stafford – The Ultimate Podcasting Virtual Assistant 

This week I dive into the future of AI and Robots with Professor Tom Drummond, Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Monash University, where he is also Chief Investigator and Monash Node Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence in Robotic Vision. His research interests include High-Performance Computing, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision, with a particular emphasis on real-time systems for Augmented Reality, Robotics, and Assistive Technologies. This week's podcast is bought to you by our sponsors and preferred retailers Wordery and the book depository. The book who's theme we are reflecting on this week is The Culture Series by Ian M Banks which is centered on Artificial Intelligence (in the books they are called the ‘minds') where the robots control the universe and AI are accepted as citizens in the series with incredible authority and wisdom. My conversation with Tom Drummond is centered around the ethical dilemmas of AI and Robots governing the world, driving our cars and potentially participating in society alongside humans. Further Reading and Resources: This episode is based on The Culture Series and can be purchased here.   See more from Professor Tom Drummond   https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-drummond-9b3158b8/    Follow Widdershins and please Rate and Review us in your favourite Podcast app so others can easily find Widdershins! Visit our website: www.widdershinspodcast.com/ for member-only access and merchandise Facebook: www.facebook.com/WiddershinsPodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/WiddershinsP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/widdershins_podcast/ Email us: connect@widdershinspodcast.com   Widdershins proudly uses the services of Letitia Stafford – The Ultimate Podcasting Virtual Assistant 

This Week on Widdershins Podcast I chat about time travel with the hilarious host of YouTube's 'Ask A Spaceman' with over 30,000 subscribers. Dr. Sutter is an astrophysicist and is known for his commentary on time travel. In fact, it was Dr. Sutter's episode on time travel here that convinced me that he absolutely must share his ideas on Widdershins Podcast.   Further Reading and Resources: This episode is based on The Time Machine and can be purchased here.   The article we talk about in the episode from Space.com can be found here and Dr Sutters YouTube channel 'Ask a Spaceman' can be found here.   See more from Dr Paul M. Sutter:   www.facebook.com/PaulMattSutter www.twitter.com/PaulMattSutter www.instagram.com/PaulMattSutter     Follow Widdershins and please Rate and Review us in your favourite Podcast app so others can easily find Widdershins! Visit our website: www.widdershinspodcast.com/ for member-only access and merchandise Facebook: www.facebook.com/WiddershinsPodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/WiddershinsP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/widdershins_podcast/ Email us: connect@widdershinspodcast.com   Widdershins proudly uses the services of Letitia Stafford – The Ultimate Podcasting Virtual Assistant 

This week in season 2 episode 4 we launch into parallel universes and multiverses. My conversation with Professor Yasunori Nomura was deep and I did not expect the reality that we are simply waiting on the technology to allow the science to flourish. For us to view inside the 'bubble' of a parallel universe, we will need quantum computing to speed up...the race is on so we couldn't be waiting that long...could we? Further Reading and Resources: This episode is based on The Man Who Folded Himself and can be purchased here.   See more from Professor Yasunori Nomura: https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/yasunori-nomura  https://physics.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/yasunori-nomura  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasunori_Nomura  https://www.facebook.com/yasunori.nomura.7    Follow Widdershins and please Rate and Review us in your favourite Podcast app so others can easily find Widdershins! Visit our website: www.widdershinspodcast.com/ for member-only access and merchandise Facebook: www.facebook.com/WiddershinsPodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/WiddershinsP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/widdershins_podcast/ Email us: connect@widdershinspodcast.com   Widdershins proudly uses the services of Letitia Stafford – The Ultimate Podcasting Virtual Assistant 

In part 2 of our two-part series we are joined this week by Caroline Mallary a PhD student at the University of Massachusettes and our past guest Dr Gaurav Khanna from Episode 1 on Hyperspace. This episode is more focussed on time travel where last week's episode we dove right into time loops. Caroline Mallary has discovered that her time machine, although in its simplest form, does not need exotic matter... matter once thought to be required if a time machine was ever to be built. Further Reading and Resources: Carolines Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub6PGaygVwA&feature=youtu.be Gaurav and Caroline's paper: Closed Timelike Curves and "Effective" Superluminal Travel with Naked Line Singularities  https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.09505 Gaurav's article: Time Travel is Technically Possible—But We Need An Object With Infinite Mass. https://www.newsweek.com/time-travel-infinite-mass-einstein-hawking-relativity-time-loop-singularity-1257527   This episode was inspired by the book: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy -Douglas Adams  See more from Dr. Gaurav Khanna at: http://gravity.phy.umassd.edu Follow Widdershins and please Rate and Review us in your favorite Podcast app so others can easily find Widdershins! Visit our website: www.widdershinspodcast.com/ for member-only access and merchandise Facebook: www.facebook.com/WiddershinsPodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/WiddershinsP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/widdershins_podcast/ Email us: connect@widdershinspodcast.co Widdershins proudly uses the services of Letitia Stafford - The Ultimate Podcasting Virtual Assistant

In part 1 of our two part series we are joined this week by Caroline Mallary a PhD student at the University of Massachusettes and our past guest Dr Gaurav Khanna from Episode 1 on Hyperspace. The theory of time travel and time loops we discuss require two long spaceships parked in parallel. One moves forward really fast, while the other is parked. Caroline explains that a time loop forms between the two cars such that space and time folds on itself. Although almost impossible to create and imagine right now, the science is now here and we have just witnessed another breakthrough in space-time. Further Reading and Resources: Carolines Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub6PGaygVwA&feature=youtu.be Garuav and Caroline's paper: Closed Timelike Curves and "Effective" Superluminal Travel with Naked Line Singularities  https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.09505 Gaurav's article: Time Travel is Technically Possible—But We Need An Object With Infinite Mass. https://www.newsweek.com/time-travel-infinite-mass-einstein-hawking-relativity-time-loop-singularity-1257527   This episode was inspired by the book: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy -Douglas Adams  See more from Dr Gaurav Khanna at: http://gravity.phy.umassd.edu Follow Widdershins and please Rate and Review us in your favourite Podcast app so others can easily find Widdershins! Visit our website: www.widdershinspodcast.com/ for member-only access and merchandise Facebook: www.facebook.com/WiddershinsPodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/WiddershinsP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/widdershins_podcast/ Email us: connect@widdershinspodcast.co Widdershins proudly uses the services of Letitia Stafford - The Ultimate Podcasting Virtual Assistant

This week in season 2 episode 1 we launch into the Time Travel season with an episode on portals. I first learned of Dr Broussard when I came across an NBC article stating that Dr Broussard from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee, is trying to open a portal to a parallel universe. My conversation with Leah did get a little science-y and that is what I love most about my interviews, they introduce me to concepts and ideas that have been itching at me for years. Could there be a parallel universe?  I think yes, but can we prove it? well with the fire in the belly of Dr Leah Broussard. I think yes.  Further Reading and Resources: This episode is based on the books in the Narnia series and can be purchased here.   See more from Dr Leah Broussard at: Twitter: https://twitter.com/leahjbroussard    Follow Widdershins and please Rate and Review us in your favourite Podcast app so others can easily find Widdershins! Visit our website: www.widdershinspodcast.com/ for member-only access and merchandise Facebook: www.facebook.com/WiddershinsPodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/WiddershinsP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/widdershins_podcast/ Email us: connect@widdershinspodcast.com   Widdershins proudly uses the services of Letitia Stafford – The Ultimate Podcasting Virtual Assistant 

This week on our episode I discuss Space Stations with Dr Brad Tucker https://www.facebook.com/DrBradTucker an Astrophysicist/Cosmologist at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mt. Stromlo Observatory and the National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, at the Australian National University. Further Reading and Resources:This episode was inspired by the book: Downbelow Station - CJ Cherryh https://widdershinspodcast.com/season-one%3A-space-1 See more from Dr Brad Tucker at:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrBradTuckerTwitter: http://twitter.com/btucker22 Follow Widdershins and please Rate and Review us in your favourite Podcast app so others can easily find Widdershins!Visit our website: www.widdershinspodcast.com/ for member only access and merchandiseFacebook: www.facebook.com/WiddershinsPodcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/WiddershinsPInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/widdershins_podcast/Email us: connect@widdershinspodcast.com Widdershins proudly uses the services of Letitia Stafford – The Ultimate Podcasting Virtual Assistant

This week on our episode I discuss Space Travel with Dr Seth Shostak #sethshostak. Seth Shostak is involved with the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life at the SETI Institute in California—trying to find evidence that there's someone out there. He is also committed to getting the public, especially young people, excited about astrobiology and science in general. Further Reading and Resources:Ted talk https://www.ted.com/talks/seth_shostak_et_is_probably_out_there_get_ready?language=enBig picture science http://radio.seti.org/Sex in space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLwoYUvEi6AHR8799 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIadRr0QX_Q This episode was inspired by the book: Foundations - Isaac Asimov https://widdershinspodcast.com/season-one%3A-space-1 See more from Dr Seth Shostak at: #sethshostak Follow Widdershins and please Rate and Review us in your favourite Podcast app so others can easily find Widdershins!Visit our website: www.widdershinspodcast.com/ for member only access and merchandiseFacebook: www.facebook.com/WiddershinsPodcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/WiddershinsPInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/widdershins_podcast/Email us: connect@widdershinspodcast.com Widdershins proudly uses the services of Letitia Stafford – The Ultimate Podcasting Virtual Assistant

This week I discuss Wormholes with Dr Jordi Prat-Camps https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordi-prat-camps-a9bba177/ a physicist from Barcelona with a background in electromagnetism, superconductivity, and metamaterials, with a very applied vision. Further Reading and Resources:Contact by Carl Sagan:https://wordery.com/contact-carl-sagan-9781501197987#oid=%202173_1 This episode was inspired by the book: Final days - BY Gary Gibson https://widdershinspodcast.com/season-one%3A-space-1 and the movie Interstellar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z-fCIqm4KY We also chat about the book 'Contact' by Carl Sagan. You can get your hands on 'Contact' HERE. See more from Dr Jordi Prat-Camps at: https://pratcamps.weebly.com/ Follow Widdershins and please Rate and Review us in your favourite Podcast app so others can easily find Widdershins!Visit our website: www.widdershinspodcast.com/ for member only access and merchandiseFacebook: www.facebook.com/WiddershinsPodcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/WiddershinsPInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/widdershins_podcast/Email us: connect@widdershinspodcast.com Widdershins proudly uses the services of Letitia Stafford – The Ultimate Podcasting Virtual Assistant

This week on our episode I discuss Exoplanets with Dr Cassandra Hall Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=%40cassidentprone&src=typd a Winton Exoplanet Fellow at the University of Leicester, UK. Dr Hall works in the Theoretical Astrophysics Group in the School of Physics and Astronomy. Further Reading and Resources:This episode was inspired by the book: Dying of the Light - George R.R Martin https://widdershinspodcast.com/season-one%3A-space-1 See more from Dr Cassandra Hall at: Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=%40cassidentprone&src=typd Follow Widdershins and please Rate and Review us in your favourite Podcast app so others can easily find Widdershins!Visit our website: www.widdershinspodcast.com/ for member only access and merchandiseFacebook: www.facebook.com/WiddershinsPodcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/WiddershinsPInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/widdershins_podcast/Email us: connect@widdershinspodcast.com Widdershins proudly uses the services of Letitia Stafford – The Ultimate Podcasting Virtual Assistant

This week on our debut episode I discuss Hyperspace with Dr Gaurav Khanna www.linkedin.com/in/gaurav-khanna a Professor in the Physics Department, and the Associate Director of the Center for Scientific Computing at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He works on a variety of challenging problems in theoretical and computational physics. Dr Gaurav introduces me to hyperspace and blackholes and as a non-scientist (although learning everyday) I learn very quickly that in theory travel through a blackhole won't necessarily be dangerous at all. In fact science indicates the 'Yes' if you have a large enough blackhole and if it is spinning fast enough then travel through would be safe and that the main issue is what is on the other side of the singularity? Further Reading and Resources:Life of the Cosmos's written by Lee Smolin: https://www.bookdepository.com/Life-Cosmos-Lee-Smolin/9780195126648?ref=grid-view&qid=1574913237375&sr=1-6&a_aid=widdershins&a_bid=ba35a05bRotating black holes may serve as gentle portals for hyperspace travel: http://theconversation.com/rotating-black-holes-may-serve-as-gentle-portals-for-hyperspace-travel-107062This episode was inspired by the book: The Hyperspace Trap - Christopher G Nuttall https://widdershinspodcast.com/season-one%3A-space-1 See more from Dr Gaurav Khanna at: http://gravity.phy.umassd.edu Follow Widdershins and please Rate and Review us in your favourite Podcast app so others can easily find Widdershins!Visit our website: www.widdershinspodcast.com/ for member only access and merchandiseFacebook: www.facebook.com/WiddershinsPodcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/WiddershinsPInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/widdershins_podcast/Email us: connect@widdershinspodcast.com Widdershins proudly uses the services of Letitia Stafford – The Ultimate Podcasting Virtual Assistant

This week on our Bonus episode I discuss Future Weapons with Skeeve Stevens www.linkedin.com/in/skeeve/?originalSubdomain=au. Skeeve was the first Australian to be imprisoned for hacking. He is a Futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, technology architect, consultant and visionary in number of areas including: Futurism, Network Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure, Advisor in Future Technology Crime and Critical Infrastructure Protection, Virtual & Augmented Reality, Internet of Things, NFC/RFID, Personal/Commercial and Security Robotics, Smart Cities, Consumer Behaviour and Psychology, Trend Analysis and Technology based Neuroscience aka Brainwear. The conversation with Skeeve is an intense one and not only due to the nature of weapons as a topic but also due to the reality that strikes like a slap in the face when we uncover just how easy it is to take everyday electronics, including toys and convert them into weaponry. The future is a reoccurring theme in my chat with Skeeve and although the dark shadow of children as weapons and super humans taking our jobs is high on our radar, Skeeve assures me micro-chipping, human upgrade and smart drugs will be an ordinary feature in the lives of everyday people in the very near future. Further Reading and Resources:Wikileaks - Hilary Clinton: https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/25404 This episode was inspired by the book: Ghost Fleet - P.W. Singer and August Cole https://widdershinspodcast.com/season-one%3A-space-1 See more from Skeeve Stevens at: https://skeevestevens.com/ Follow Widdershins and please Rate and Review us in your favourite Podcast app so others can easily find Widdershins!Visit our website: www.widdershinspodcast.com/ for member only access and merchandiseFacebook: www.facebook.com/WiddershinsPodcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/WiddershinsPInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/widdershins_podcast/Email us: connect@widdershinspodcast.com Widdershins proudly uses the services of Letitia Stafford – The Ultimate Podcasting Virtual Assistant

This week on our first ever Bonus episode I discuss Space Law with Professor Steven Freeland.Steven Freeland https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-freeland-52081b124/ is a Professor of International Law at the University of Western Sydney, Visiting Professor in International Law at the University of Copenhagen, and a Member of Faculty of the London Institute of Space Policy and Law. In my conversation with Steven, he emphasizes why space is so important from science, to commerce, to politics and why he believes its useful to have education around the use of space and the broader perspective of how human interference can impact on the use of space. A major concern of Stevens' is space debris, fueled largely by the rapidly increasing number of companies who say they want to go to space. He tells us that this would massively change the dynamics of space not only because of the potential of debris, but for a whole range of legal questions. Steven provides hypothetical examples of these issues and stresses the importance of exercising caution when exploring space. Further Reading and Resources:This episode was inspired by the book: Stranger in a strange land - Robert A. Heinlen and is the story of a boy born on Mars who makes his way back to earth as man only to find his legal entitlement to the whole planet of Mars. https://widdershinspodcast.com/season-one%3A-space-1 See more from Professor Steven Freeland at: www.linkedin.com/in/steven-freeland Follow Widdershins and please Rate and Review us in your favourite Podcast app so others can easily find Widdershins!Visit our website: www.widdershinspodcast.com/ for member only access and merchandiseFacebook: www.facebook.com/WiddershinsPodcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/WiddershinsPInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/widdershins_podcast/Email us: connect@widdershinspodcast.com Widdershins proudly uses the services of Letitia Stafford – The Ultimate Podcasting Virtual Assistant

As part of our launch we are dropping 3 episodes on January 20th, 2020. Here is a sneak peak into our Episode with Steven Freeland on Space Law.

Widdershins Podcast - Coming soon | Trailer #2 From the minds of the world's greatest scientific experts, comes the truth hidden within the pages of science fiction.In a NEW Sci-Fi Podcast we present WIDDERSHINS. We take the science fiction themes you know and love and put them under the microscope with the worlds leading engineers, scientists and experts who are developing the technology right not. Technology that you thought was impossible or even magic.COMING JANUARY 2020 Support the show

From the minds of the world's greatest scientific experts, comes the truth hidden within the pages of science fiction. In a NEW Sci-Fi Podcast we present WIDDERSHINS. We take the science fiction themes you know and love and put them under the microscope with the worlds leading engineers, scientists and experts who are developing the technology right not. Technology that you thought was impossible or even magic. COMING JANUARY 2020 Support the show