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Contact UsIf you would like to get in contact with Irene or I, you can reach us at beyondthephysics.jg@gmail.comFollow UsPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/beyondthephysicsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BeyondthePhysics/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Beyond_PhysicsFree Opinion Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed on Beyond the Physics are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any university, employer or program. Any content provided by our authors are of their opinion, and are not intended to malign any religion, ethic group, club, organization, company, individual or anyone or anything.
Contact UsIf you would like to get in contact with Irene or I, you can reach us at beyondthephysics.jg@gmail.comFollow UsPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/beyondthephysicsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BeyondthePhysics/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Beyond_PhysicsIf you want to keep up with the program.LinksWhere to find the Eigenbros: https://www.youtube.com/c/Eigenbros/featuredhttps://www.patreon.com/eigenbroshttps://eigenbros.com/Rough Timestamps:QFT Discussion (Scattering Amplitudes, Feynman Rules, References): Start to 30 minsAstro stuff (Quantizing Gravity, Neutron Stars, Black Holes): 30 to 50 minsMovies / TV (Tenet, Primer, Interstellar, 2001 Space Odyssey, Moon Knight (DID), Jesus Christ Superstar) 50 to 70 minsReligion (Social Utility, Education, Politics): 70 to 85 minsMicroplastics and Clippy: 85 to End
Is this the last episode of the eigenbros??! Juan and Terence discuss the future of the channel and how the content will be changing over the next few months.
Contact UsIf you would like to get in contact with Irene or I, you can reach us at beyondthephysics.jg@gmail.comFollow UsPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/beyondthephysicsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BeyondthePhysics/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Beyond_PhysicsIf you want to keep up with the program.LinksWhere to find the Eigenbros: https://www.youtube.com/c/Eigenbros/featuredhttps://www.patreon.com/eigenbroshttps://eigenbros.com/ReferencesAt the beginning of the episode Juan tries to recall the "Sandia National Laboratories" in New Mexico.Rough Timestamps (hh:mm:ss)Start - 00:02:07: Introduction00:02:07 - 00:03:52 : Where'd We Leave off00:03:52 - 00:09:07 : Eigenbros is changing, New jobs, Catching Omicron00:09:07 - 00:21:37 : Recap on events since last interview00:21:37 - 00:24:22 : Why apply to schools?00:24:22 - 00:28:22: Working for Uber Eats and the Post Office00:28:22 - 00:31:37 : Struggles with interviews00:31:37 - 00:36:22 : How is Eigenbros changing?00:36:22 - 00:42:07 : Conflict between the bros?00:42:07 - 00:51:07 : Producing Higher Quality00:51:07 - 01:05:07 : Honest thoughts about leaving program00:52:51 : “Feelings leaving grad school” Quote00:54:29 : “Stillborn” Quote01:05:07 - 01:13:22 : Philosophy of the Physics Department01:13:37 - 01:43:22 : Centering Your needs, Equity01:21:10 : “It's their loss” Quote01:26:07 : “We never see you” Quote01:39:25 : “Controlled Rage” Quote01:43:22 - 01:48:37 : Difference in perception after passing Qualifying exam01:51:07 - 2:02:37 : Treatment of students by teachers02:02:37 - 02:19:55 : Appreciation of empathy in professional spaces02:19:55 - End : Outro Free Opinion Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed on Beyond the Physics are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any university, employer or program. Any content provided by our authors are of their opinion, and are not intended to malign any religion, ethic group, club, organization, company, individual or anyone or anything.
Juan, Terence, and Jackson reunite with marine biologist Jackson. They discuss several concepts related to biology
Juan and Terence invite guest Harold Sonny White who is responsible for writing the paper on the Alcubierre White warp drive. The Alcubierre metric was made practical by Sonny White after modifying the ship geometry into a torus. This reduced the required energy to bend spacetime by several orders of magnitude bringing this theoretical novelty closer to reality.
Juan & Terence discuss what the STEM job market is like and some of the things to look out for when applying for jobs.
Juan & Terence discuss the arguably most important physics conference ever held. The fifth Solvay conference of 1927 had some of the heaviest hitters in physics at the time. Albert Einstein, Neils Bohr, Erwin Schrodinger, Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg, Madame Curie, and many more
This week the eigenbros discuss computational physics and what it entails with regards to subject material. They discuss different models including the Monte Carlo Method and Lagrange Interpolation.
Juan & Terence debunk the myth that it takes a genius to do physics.
Juan & Terence discuss Roger Penrose's theory for what happened before the Big Bang, known as Conformal Cyclic Cosmology
Juan & Terence have Sam Dietterich on to discuss Quantum Field Theory, Self Learnng, and more.
Juan & Terence discuss Quantum Gravity and what it means to quantize a theory of gravity. Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are two of the most robust theories of physics but they are incompatible currently. It is presumed that a complete theory of everything will be a theory of quantum gravity.
Eigenbros Patreon members finally reveal themselves and discuss the current state of science and technology in 2021 with Juan & Terence this Christmas Eve. Enjoy this special final podcast of the year and Happy Holidays eigenfriends.
Juan & Terence rank well know physicists and mathematicians.
Juan & Terence give tips on how to pass your physics finals despite never passing any themselves.
Juan & Terence discuss the pros and cons of physics versus Engineering. This episode is intended to help students decide whether they'd prefer to navigate towards the physics or engineering career path
Juan & Terence discuss the long avoided topic of the principle of least action and the euler lagrange equations. This is probably one of the most important subjects in physics. They discuss what the principle means and some of the finer points regarding it.
Juan & Terence discuss how to be a chad / stacy tier physicist with the help of Gerard 't Hooft's webpage "How to become a good theoretical physicist" https://goodtheorist.science/
Juan & Terence discuss the nature of politics in physics. They discuss the politics in academia an how it can be navigated
Juan & Terence discuss Constructor Theory, proposed by David Deutsch and carried by Chiara Marletto. The theory proposes a new way to do physics besides using initial conditions and calculating trajectories.
This week the Eigenbros welcome return guest Jonathan Gorard (@getjonwithit), Associate Director of Research at the Wolfram Physics Project and researcher at the University of Cambridge. He discusses starting from spacetime being discretized, particles, emergence and much more
Juan & Terence discuss Salvatore Cesar Pais, mysterious scientists who is responsible for a handful of UFO technology patents, and the plasma compression fusion device paper he wrote for IEEE.
Juan & Terence discuss the winners of the 2021 Nobel prize in physics and why they were the winners. Complex systems, Replica symmetry breaking, and spin glasses are discussed during the episode.
Juan & Terence discuss pros and cons of being a racial minority in physics and their thoughts in general.
Juan & Terence discuss the different types of quantum computing qubits
Juan & Terence discuss life as an experimental physicist.
Today we take your twitter questions before doing a deep dive into the Weinstein fiasco (Bret and Eric, not Harvey.) If you haven't heard of the Weinstein's before, then we suggest you run away before we drag you down into a rabbit hole filled with acronyms, anti-vaxxers, and theories of ... everything? anything? literally anything at all? Topics we touch: - We take your twitter questions! - Filos with a weird one: (https://twitter.com/iamFilos/status/1424025239370047488) I have a weird one that could be fun. It seems to me that the idea that we could upload our minds to a computer is nonsense. I agree with Kastrup that what we would upload is a description of our minds and a description of something is not that something. And it seems this desire to immortality is the nerd's reinvention of God via AGI, and heaven via uploading a mind to a silicon substrate. Where do you fall in this mind uploading fantasy? possible? Religious impulse? Reasonable? - Dan would like us to talk about: (https://twitter.com/danieljhageman/status/1424008345309126660) The pervasive skepticism that seems to run through much the Popperian and Crit Rat communities regarding nonhuman animals' capacity to suffer, particularly factory farmed animals. - Karl is interested in: (https://twitter.com/krlwlzn/status/1424025137481912330) I'm interested in the meta-question of why that issue seems to split the community in two. Why hasn't one view become the dogmatic truth yet as it seems to have in most other communities? - WTF is up with Bret and Eric Weinstein - The allure of reflexive contrarianism - The (horrible! awful! stop it!) tendency of academics to use convoluted language to impress their non-peers - The notion of "secular gurus" and what distinguishes a secular guru from a person with a large platform - And the special responsibility of researchers to communicate clearly. References: Animal Suffering - Bruce Nielson's blog post (https://fourstrands.org/2021/04/15/do-animals-experience-qualia/) on whether animals experience qualia, and his second (https://fourstrands.org/2021/06/08/the-current-science-of-animal-emotions/) on animal emotions. We mostly discuss the first. Weinsteins - Eric Weinstein's excellent first appearance (https://samharris.org/podcasts/faith-in-reason/) on Sam Harris's podcast - Geometric Unity website (https://geometricunity.org/) - Geometric Unity pdf (https://geometricunity.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/Geometric_Unity-Draft-April-1st-2021.pdf) - See Timothy Nguyen on the Wright Show (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j86WIfRfPDk&ab_channel=Bloggingheads.tv) and Decoding the Gurus (https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/special-episode-interview-with-tim-nguyen-on-geometric-unity) for an excellent overview of the whole scandal - ... and check out Timothy Nguyen on Eigenbros (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o31cGMENDTI&ab_channel=Eigenbros) for a deep dive into the technical nitty-gritty - Norbert Blum's original paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.03486v1.pdf) purporting to show that P is not equal to NP. - A nice answer (https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/38803/is-norbert-blums-2017-proof-that-p-ne-np-correct) on Stack Exchange detailing why Blum's proof was wrong. Quotes: Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying. In return, he owes it to his fellow men (or 'to society') to represent the results of his study as simply, clearly and modestly as he can. The worst thing that intellectuals can do - the cardinal sin - is to try to set themselves up as great prophets vis-à-vis their fellow men and to impress them with puzzling philosophies. Anyone who cannot speak simply and clearly should say nothing and continue to work until he can do so. Karl Popper, Against Big Words (http://www.the-rathouse.com/shortreviews/Against_Big_Words.pdf) What would you say to your half million twitter followers who want to know your opinion on everything? Tell us at incrementspodcast@gmail.com.
Juan & Terence discuss the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, which is a leading concept in the field of condensed matter physics.
This week, the Eigenbros answer r/AskPhysics most pressing questions (top upvoted questions in the past year) whether they wanted this or not. NOTE: Apologies for the audio/video folks, we had some technical issues with hardware that were corrected in post. But we'll be back next week with things back to normal.
Juan & Terence discuss the powerful and modern physics mathematics known as Geometric Algebra. Geometric Algebra (Clifford Algebra) is one of the lesser known mathematics in physics, yet it is very powerful. The geometric product is related to complex numbers, spin, and other aspects of physics.
Juan & Terence discuss popular public intellectuals like Neil Degrasse Tyson, Brian Greene, and Michio Kaku. They also discuss the Intellectual Dark Webs which contains Eric Weinstein, Bret Weinstein, Joe Rogan, Sam Harris, and Jordan Peterson. The discussion is about the role of public intellectuals and whether they are good for society or not.
Juan & Terence discuss time crystals as conceived of by Frank Wilcek (physicist/mathematician/nobelaureate). The gents give their thoughts about what it is and why its important. Quantum Computing, many-body physics, and spintronics are all related topics that are discussed during the show.
Juan & Terence discuss the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics and their thoughts regarding it.
Juan & Terence discuss Grover's algorithm. Grover's algorithm is one of the few quantum algorithms that hold promise for a significant speedup compared to the classical version of the algorithm. The Eigenbros (try to) decipher the way Grover's algorithm works in a more discussion based format.
Juan & Terence discuss quantum information and what it is. Entropy and quantum teleportation are a couple of the heavy topics discussed.
Juan & Terence react to Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic commercial space flight on Spaceship 2.
Juan & Terence explain what quantum field theory is and what several videos on the subject. David Tong, Dietterich Labs, and Zap Physics have videos in the podcast that demonstrate important aspects of the theory. This video goes over how to quantize the real free scalar field (Klein-Gordon).
The eigenbros do a late evening podcast to try and tackle a modern quantum mechanical topic: the "Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser" experiment. They also discuss foundations of quantum mechanics.
Juan & Terence discuss tips on applying to physics graduate schools.
Juan & Terence interview mathematician PhD, with a background in gauge theory, Timothy Nguyen. Tim along with Theo Polya wrote a paper titled "A Response to Geometric Unity," which went through the major flaws in Eric's Weinstein's theory of physics. 1) Problems with the shiab operator, 2) gauge anomalies, 3) Supersymmetry issues in 14 dimensions, and 4) a lack of technical details.
Juan & Terence test their physics trivia knowledge by taking a couple multiple choice online physics quizzes. Take the first physics quiz here: https://www.britannica.com/quiz/all-about-physics-quiz
Juan & Terence discuss religion and whether it's compatible with science.
Juan & Terence talk with guest Jonathan Gorard about the Wolfram computational model of the universe. They take a deeper dive into the more fundamental aspects of the theory.
Juan & Terence talk about their background and what highschool was like for them.
Juan & Terence discuss Elon Musk's $100M Xprize for reducing carbon emissions.
Contact UsIf you would like to get in contact with Irene or I, you can reach us at beyondthephysics.jg@gmail.comFollow UsPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/beyondthephysicsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BeyondthePhysics/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Beyond_PhysicsIf you want to keep up with the program.LinksVeritasium Luck Video (Not Affiliated) :https://youtu.be/3LopI4YeC4INeeds Inventory: https://www.cnvc.org/training/resource/needs-inventoryFeelings Inventory: https://www.cnvc.org/training/resource/feelings-inventoryRough TimestampsIntroduction (Fan music): Start - 1:50Irene’s Classes + Research : 1:50 - 8:50 Joe’s Classes : 8:50 - 11:00Opening up: 11:00 Patterns of thought: 12:57 - 14:50Retaking coursework: 15:05 - 18:35Anxiety, Imposter Syndrome, emotional blocks : 18:50 - 26:50Perceptions of self: 27:50 - 29:50Experience with Therapy: 30:05 Source of feelings: 32:40 - 39:05Effects of that event: 39:05 - 41:50Why was that experience so hurtful? 42:50 - 47:20Luck and hierarchy in physics: 47:30 - 53:55Naming the story: 55:00 - 1:02:50Values bring perspective: 1:02:50 - 01:07:30Breakthrough: 01:07:50 - 01:13:35Full Fanmade Song: 1:25:30Free Opinion Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed on Beyond the Physics are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any university, employer or program. Any content provided by our authors are of their opinion, and are not intended to malign any religion, ethic group, club, organization, company, individual or anyone or anything.
Juan & Terence try to tackle Stephen Wolfram Path towards a Fundamental Theory of physics. Wolfram's theory uses computational models to try and find patterns with the most beautiful and basic laws of fundamental physics.
Juan & Terence discuss the recent UAP sightings at USS Russell, confirmed by the Pentagon. They discuss the fastest UAVs and government black projects.
Juan & Terence attempt to tackle the monster topic of Yang-Mills theory. Gauge Theory, topology, quantum field theory, differential geometry, group theory, and more all have a relationship with Yang-Mills theory.