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3 episodes with Paul Dirac
2 episodes with Paul Dirac
2 episodes with Paul Dirac
3 episodes with Paul Dirac
2 episodes with Paul Dirac
2 episodes with Paul Dirac
3 episodes with Paul Dirac
2 episodes with Paul Dirac
Η 10η σεζόν είναι αφιερωμένη στις πιο βαθιές ιδέες της κβαντικής φυσικής.UNESCO: International Year of Quantum Science and TechnologyΣτο σημερινό επεισόδιο: Η εξίσωση του Paul DiracPre-show: Dubai ChocolateΕισαγωγή στην εξίσωση Dirac (1928): γιατί χρειαζόμασταν σχετικιστική κβαντική θεωρίαPaul Dirac: σπουδές, οικογενειακή τραγωδία και πορεία στην επιστήμηΠροβλήματα της προϋπάρχουσας κβαντομηχανικής (Heisenberg, Schrödinger) με την ειδική σχετικότητα και το spinΚαινοτομίες της εξίσωσης Dirac: τετραστοιχεία, spinors, αρνητικές λύσειςΠρόβλεψη της αντιύληςPost-show: ChatGPT όπως λέγαμε Google στα 2000sΕπικοινωνίαemail: hello@notatop10.fmInstagram: @notatop10Threads: @notatop10Bluesky: @notatop10.fmWeb: notatop10.fm (00:00:00) Pre show: Dubai Chocolate(00:04:38) Intro(00:04:52) Εισαγωγή στην εξίσωση Dirac(00:07:20) Βιογραφία του Paul Dirac(00:10:17) Προβλήματα QM & ειδικής σχετικότητας(00:19:00) Τεχνικά χαρακτ ηριστικά (spinors & “αρνητικές” λύσεις)(00:23:28) Πρόβλεψη αντιύλης & συνέπειες(00:26:27) Outro(00:26:39) Post-show: ChatGPT όπως λέγαμε Google
Many of us have plenty of experiences with math, especially when we were younger. Perhaps some of your memories of what math was like for you in school are unpleasant, to say the least. Yet there are many people who are passionate about mathematics, especially Christians who see mathematics as the God-given language by which we can better understand not only the physical world around us, but God Himself. Naturalism has no real answers for why mathematics is so useful and even beautiful and practical not only for doing science, but in our everyday lives. And how are beauty and mathematics linked? What do beauty and math tell us about God Himself? This week we wrap up our conversation with youth leader, math professor, friend of Watchman Fellowship and Christian apologist Paige Lehrmann. Paige will share with us her passion about mathematics, beauty, and how we can incorporate them in our defense for the hope that is in us (1 Peter 3:15). Paige Lehrmann is the Director of Student Ministries at St. Andrew's Community Church in Oklahoma City and a student at Dallas Theological Seminary. She earned her B.A. in Philosophy and Mathematics from Oklahoma Baptist University, where she completed an interdisciplinary thesis on the Trinity. Paige went on to pursue graduate studies in mathematics at the University of Oklahoma and has taught as an adjunct professor at Mid-America Christian University. She has presented at apologetics conferences on topics such as the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, and theistic arguments from beauty. Through her work, she hopes to help others think deeply about faith, truth, and the beauty of the Gospel.You may contact Paige via email at Paige.lehrmann@gmail.com. Free Resources from Watchman Fellowship Atheist New Testament scholar Dr. Bart D. Ehrman: www.watchman.org/Ehrman Atheism: www.watchman.org/Atheism Latter-day Saints: www.watchman.org/Mormonism Panpsychism: https://www.watchman.org/files/ProfilePanpsychism.pdf The New Age Movement: https://www.watchman.org/profiles/pdf/newageprofile.pdf Hinduism: https://www.watchman.org/staff/jwalker/ProfileHinduism.pdf Additional ResourcesFREE: We are also offering a subscription to our 4-page bimonthly Profiles here: www.watchman.org/FreePROFILE NOTEBOOK: Order the complete collection of Watchman Fellowship Profiles (around 700 pages -- from Astrology to Zen Buddhism) in either printed or PDF formats here: www.watchman.org/NotebookSUPPORT: Help us create more content like this. Make a tax-deductible donation here: www.watchman.org/GiveApologetics Profile is a ministry of Watchman Fellowship For more information, visit www.watchman.org © 2025 Watchman Fellowship, Inc.
Para comemorar que 2025 é, segundo a UNESCO, o Ano Internacional da Quântica, remasterizamos um episódio de 2013 sobre um dos mais importantes físicos do século XX, Paul Dirac. Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac foi um notável matemático e físico britânico cujo papel foi essencial na construção da moderna mecânica quântica. Entre suas tantas contribuições, formulou a chamada equação de Dirac, a generalização relativística da equação de Schrödinger – com quem dividiu o Nobel em 1933. Em uma conferência dada em Moscou, em 1956, alguém lhe perguntou qual seria sua filosofia da física e respondeu escrevendo no quadro “Leis físicas devem sempre ser matematicamente belas” – apesar da lenda de que este quadro esteja preservado até hoje, a imagem certamente não desapareceu do imaginário acerca de tào estranha personalidade. Neste episódio sobre o físico e esquisitão inglês, Marco Aurélio Idiart (IF-UFRGS), Jorge Quillfeldt (Biofísica-UFRGS), Jeferson J. Arenzon (IF-UFRGS) conversam com Fernanda Steffens (atualmente ligada à Universidade de Bonn na Alemanha). Produção: Jeferson Arenzon Edição: Francisco Guazzelli Créditos da Imagem: ChatGPT e equipe do FdC
Im Jahr 1937 hatte Paul Dirac eigentlich so alles erreicht, was man als theoretischer Physiker erreichen konnte: Der Brite hatte die Quantenphysik mit begründet und sie mit Einsteins Spezieller Relativitätstheorie vereint. Fast aus Versehen hatte er erstmals eine neue Form von Materie beschrieben, die wir heute als Antimaterie kennen. Paul Dirac hatte nicht nur eine Professur an der angesehen Universität von Cambridge bekommen, sondern bekam auch im Alter von nur 31 Jahren den Nobelpreis für Physik zugesprochen. Doch nun wandte sich Dirac größeren Dingen zu: der Kosmologie. Paul Dirac entwarf die „Large Numbers Hypothesis“, die Hypothese der großen Zahlen. Seine Vermutung besagte, dass das Verhältnis der Zahlenwerte von Naturkonstanten sich merkwürdigerweise immer wieder eine ziemlich große Zahl ergibt, nämlich zehn hoch 39. Was für die Meisten ein nicht besonders seltsamer Zufall sein mag, hatte für Dirac tiefere Bedeutung: Er schloss daraus, dass die Naturgesetze im Universum nicht immer und überall gleich waren – und dass die Naturkonstanten entgegen ihrem Namen nicht konstant, sondern variabel seien. Dabei hatte es Dirac vor allem auf eine Naturkonstante abgesehen: die Gravitationskonstante. Diese sei vor Jahrmilliarden viel größer gewesen. Und das würde bedeuten: Was wir als Schwerkraft kennen, nimmt mit zunehmendem Alter des Universums ab. Während Paul Diracs Ausflug in die Kosmologie – oder in die Zahlenmystik – von seinen Kolleginnen und Kollegen größtenteils ignoriert wurde, gab es einen deutschen Physiker, der die Hypothese der Großen Zahlen ernst nahm: Pascual Jordan beschäftigte sich vor allem damit, welche messbaren Auswirkungen so eine geringer werdende Schwerkraft auf unsere Erde haben könnte. Demnach sollte mit einer abnehmenden Gravitationskonstante unsere Erde selbst expandieren. In dieser Folge des AstroGeo-Podcasts erzählt Franzi die Geschichte hinter der sogenannten Expansionstheorie – und damit ist nicht das Universum selbst gemeint!
Plongez dans l'univers fascinant de l'antimatière, où la symétrie entre matière et antimatière se révèle à travers l'annihilation, la création de paires et les propriétés inversées des particules. Dans cette vidéo, découvrez comment Paul Dirac a révolutionné notre compréhension en prédisant l'existence du positron et des antiparticules grâce à son équation mêlant mécanique quantique et relativité restreinte, ouvrant ainsi la voie à la théorie quantique des champs.Explorez les mystères de l'annihilation matière-antimatière où, conformément à la formule d'Einstein E=mc², la conversion complète de la masse en énergie se produit, et interrogez vous sur l'asymétrie cosmologique qui fait que l'univers observable est majoritairement composé de matière classique. La vidéo aborde aussi des questions théoriques passionnantes, comme l'interprétation des antiparticules comme particules remontant le temps et le rôle des symétries CPT dans la conservation des lois fondamentales de la physique.
Colossians tells us that all things were made through Christ and for Christ. John tells us that all things came into being through the Word who was and is God incarnate, the second Person of the Trinity, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Through what God has made, Romans 1 tells us, the whole world knows something of God's invisible attributes - His "eternal power and divine nature," for example. But critics of Christianity deny that Jesus is God in the flesh. How can we as Christians be better equipped to respond to the critics of the incarnate Christ? This week we continue our discussion with Dr. Rob Bowman, Jr.,, president of the Institute for Religious Research about his new book The Incarnate Christ and His Critics. Rob will give us more insights from his "HANDS" acronym about how we can known Jesus is both Lord and God and how we can give an intelligent defense of what the Bible says of Jesus to non-Christians. Dr. Rob Bowman Jr., is an evangelical Christian apologist, biblical scholar, author, editor, and lecturer. He has lectured on biblical studies, religion, and apologetics at Biola University, Cornerstone University, and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Rob is the author of over sixty articles and the author or co-author of fifteen books including Jesus' Resurrection and Joseph's Visions: Examining the Foundations of Christianity and Mormonism, Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ, co-authored with J. Ed Komoszewski, and Faith Has Its Reasons: Integrative Approaches to Defending the Christian Faith, co-authored with Kenneth D. Boa. Dr. Bowman holds the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in biblical studies from Fuller Theological Seminary and South African Theological Seminary. He is widely regarded as the leading evangelical scholar addressing the uses and interpretations of the Bible by such religious groups as Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons.Related Links: FREE Four-Page Profile Articles from Watchman Fellowship! Atheist New Testament scholar Dr. Bart D. Ehrman. https://www.watchman.org/ProfileBartEhrman.pdf Atheism https://www.watchman.org/profiles/pdf/atheismprofile.pdf Latter-day Saints https://www.watchman.org/profiles/pdf/ldsprofile.pdf Watchtower Bible and Tract Society https://www.watchman.org/profiles/pdf/watchtowerprofile.pdf Islam https://www.watchman.org/profiles/pdf/islamprofile.pdf Additional ResourcesFREE: We are also offering a subscription to our 4-page bimonthly Profiles here: www.watchman.org/FreePROFILE NOTEBOOK: Order the complete collection of Watchman Fellowship Profiles (around 700 pages -- from Astrology to Zen Buddhism) in either printed or PDF formats here: www.watchman.org/NotebookSUPPORT: Help us create more content like this. Make a tax-deductible donation here: www.watchman.org/GiveApologetics Profile is a ministry of Watchman Fellowship For more information, visit www.watchman.org © 2025 Watchman Fellowship, Inc.
In today's episode of Theories of Everything, Curt Jaimungal and Julian Barbour challenge conventional physics by exploring Barbour's revolutionary ideas on time as an emergent property of change, the universe's increasing order contrary to entropy, and the foundational nature of shape dynamics. SPONSOR (THE ECONOMIST): As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe TOE'S TOP LINKS: - Support TOE on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal (early access to ad-free audio episodes!) - Enjoy TOE on Spotify! https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE - Become a YouTube Member Here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join - Join TOE's Newsletter 'TOEmail' at https://www.curtjaimungal.org LINKED MENTIONED: - The Janus Point (Julian Barbour's book): https://www.amazon.com/Janus-Point-New-Theory-Time/dp/0465095461 - ‘Relational Concepts of Space and Time' (Julian Barbour's 1982 paper): https://www.jstor.org/stable/687224 - ‘The Theory of Gravitation' (Paul Dirac's 1958 paper): https://www.jstor.org/stable/100497 - Carlo Rovelli on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF4SAketEHY - ‘On the Nature of Things' (book): https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674992009 - Leibniz: Philosophical Writings (book): https://www.amazon.com/Leibniz-Philosophical-Writings-Everymans-University/dp/0460119052 - Elementary Principles of Statistical Mechanics (book): https://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Principles-Statistical-Mechanics-Physics/dp/0486789950 - The interpretations of quantum mechanics in 5 minutes (article): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/the-interpretations-of-quantum-mechanics - Sean Carroll on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AoRxtYZrZo Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 02:12 - Working Outside of Academia 03:53 - Space, Time, Dimension 10:40 - Mach's Principle 21:33 - Mach Confused Einstein 24:22 - Two Particle Universe 31:46 - Carlo Rovelli 35:02 - Julian's Ontology 43:37 - Julian's Theory ‘Shape Statistics' 51:11 - Leinbiz's Philosophical Writings 56:14 - Expansion of the Universe (Scale Invariance) 01:05:02 - Cosmological Principle 01:15:34 - Thermodynamics 01:17:15 - Entropy and Complexity 01:30:40 - Wave Function / Double Slit Experiment 01:39:21 - God 01:44:48 - The Role of Instruments 01:47:44 - Etymology of Pattern and Matter 01:51:25 - Join My Substack! Other Links: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt - Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802 - Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything #science #sciencepodcast #physics #theoreticalphysics #time #space #dimensions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
La Asociación de Divulgación Científica de la Región de Murcia (ADCMurcia) se da cita este sábado en la Biblioteca Regional de Murcia. Como nos adelanta Fernando Ortuño en el programa, la jornada reunirá a destacados nombres del ámbito científico, destacando la conferencia principal de José Edelstein, físico y divulgador, quien hablará sobre ‘El espejismo de la belleza'. El propio Edelstein charlaba con nosotros y nos ofrecía un atisbo de lo que contará este sábado, con diversas referencias a la figura del físico teórico británico Paul Dirac.Fernando Ortuño también nos recuerda que la Asociación ha decidido reconocer a la Real Academia de Medicina y Cirugía de Murciacon el Premio de Divulgación Científica ADCMurcia 2024, por su inestimable labor en la defensa de la salud pública, por actuar como faro del conocimiento médico, acercando el papel de la medicina – en todas sus ramas- a la sociedad general y por un legado histórico de conocimiento y servicio.Por último, se mencionaba también que la clausura de esta celebración correrá a cargo del grupo de historiadores murcianos ‘Ad Absurdum' que se dedica a la divulgación histórica a través del humor. Son autores de libros como ‘Historia absurda de España' o ‘El pene perdido de Napoleón y otras 333 preguntas de la historia'.
Can consciousness be explained by quantum physics? What is quantum physics in the first place? Time to go down the rabbit hole. FRUMESS is POWERED by www.riotstickers.com/frumess JOIN THE PATREON FOR LESS THAN A $2 CUP OF COFFEE!! https://www.patreon.com/Frumess
Professor Robert Temple is an independent scholar and author of a dozen challenging and provocative books, commencing with the international best-seller, The Sirius Mystery. His books have been translated into a total of 44 foreign languages. He is Visiting Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and previously held a similar position at an American university.Robert has followed the study of plasma for decades and was personally acquainted with several of the senior scientists - including Nobel laureates - at its forefront, including Paul Dirac, David Bohm, Peter Mitchell and Chandra Wickramasinghe (who has co-written an academic paper with Temple).He has written for the Sunday Times, The Guardian, and was science reporter for Time-Life, as well as a frequent reviewer for Nature and profile writer for The New Scientist. He is available for interview, feature and events throughout 2022.https://robert-temple.com/index.htmlBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.
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Some of Dirac's notable works on Amazon: Lectures on Quantum Mechanics – https://amzn.to/3Q7ojMm The Principles of Quantum Mechanics – https://amzn.to/443HUTu All of Paul Dirac's books – https://amzn.to/3xziZLd Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. __________________________________________________ Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English mathematical and theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He is credited with laying the foundations of quantum field theory. He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, a professor of physics at Florida State University and the University of Miami, and a 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics recipient. Dirac made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics, coining the latter term. Among other discoveries, he formulated the Dirac equation in 1928, which describes the behaviour of fermions and predicted the existence of antimatter, and is considered one of the most important equations in physics, with it being considered by some to be the "real seed of modern physics". He wrote a famous paper in 1931, which further predicted the existence of antimatter. Dirac shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory". He also made significant contributions to the reconciliation of general relativity with quantum mechanics. His 1930 monograph, The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, is considered to be one of the most influential texts on quantum mechanics. Dirac's contributions were not only restricted to quantum mechanics. He contributed to the Tube Alloys project, the British programme to research and construct atomic bombs during World War II. Furthermore, Dirac made fundamental contributions to the process of uranium enrichment and the gas centrifuge, and whose work was deemed to be "probably the most important theoretical result in centrifuge technology". He also contributed to cosmology, putting forth his large numbers hypothesis. Dirac is also seen as having anticipated string theory well before its inception, with his work on the Dirac membrane and Dirac–Born–Infeld action, amongst other contributions. Dirac was regarded by his friends and colleagues as unusual in character. In a 1926 letter to Paul Ehrenfest, Albert Einstein wrote of a Dirac paper, "I am toiling over Dirac. This balancing on the dizzying path between genius and madness is awful." In another letter concerning the Compton effect he wrote, "I don't understand the details of Dirac at all." In 1987, Abdus Salam stated that "Dirac was undoubtedly one of the greatest physicists of this or any century . . . No man except Einstein has had such a decisive influence, in so short a time, on the course of physics in this century." Audio source Buy me a coffee Chapters: (00:00) Lecture 1: Quantum Mechanics (59:32) Lecture 2: Quantum Electrodynamics (2:04:06) Lecture 3: Magnetic Monopoles (2:54:58) Lecture 4: Does 'G' Vary? (Large Numbers Hypothesis) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theunadulteratedintellect/support
Am 10.12.1933 erhält der Physiker Paul Dirac den Nobelpreis. Seine Dirac-Gleichung schreibt Geschichte. Trotzdem gilt das britische Ausnahmetalent als Außenseiter. Von Wolfgang Burgmer.
Historically Thinking: Conversations about historical knowledge and how we achieve it
“The scientific community is by any measure a very strange kind of community”, writes my guest. “For starters, no one knows who exactly belongs to it... Its members are a miscellany of individuals but also of disparate institutions…Nor does it have a fixed location. …the village conjured up by the term “scientific community” is scattered all over the globe and its inhabitants meet only occasionally, if at all. Far from living in neighborly harmony or even collegial mutual tolerance, the members of this uncommunal community compete ferociously and engage in notoriously vitriolic polemics … Although modern science has been called the locomotive of all modernity, the scientific community more closely resembles a medieval guild…” Given this, one is bound to ask how precisely this scattered contentious stratified “community” even exists, let alone cooperates. Yet cooperation has been a continuous strand uniting modern science. Lorraine Daston has described the growth and mutations of that community in her new book Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate. She is the Director Emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and permanent fellow at the Berlin Institute of Advanced Study. For Further Investigation Lorraine Daston, Rules: A Short History of What We Live By Here is an excellent conversation with Lorraine Daston about her book Rules which, unfortunately, was not a conversation on Historically Thinking We've had numerous conversations about topics within the history of science over the years. Here is a list. The featured image below is of the Fifth Solvay Conference, at which every luminary of past and future physics seems to have been gathered. Hopefully you recognize the bushy-haired man with the big mustache more or less in the center of the first row. Less identifiable than Albert Einstein: Max Planck (first row, 2nd from left); Marie Curie (first, row 3rd from left); Niels Bohr (second row, extreme right); Paul Dirac (second row, fifth from left); Ernst Schrödinger (third row, sixth from right); Wolfgang Pauli (third row, fourth from right); Werner Heisenberg (third row, third from right). And many more who deserve mention, which you can find here.
El siglo XX fue testigo de una asombrosa revolución en la física, desde descubrir los secretos del átomo hasta resolver los misterios del cosmos. También fue el siglo en el que la radio y la televisión se generalizaron, por lo que por primera vez pudimos ver quiénes eran realmente las mentes más grandes. El uso de archivos poco comunes que datan de la década de 1920 "Secretos del universo: grandes científicos en sus propias palabras" proporciona una visión única de las vidas y personalidades de algunos de los físicos más brillantes. Aunque el intelecto y el talento fueron importantes para el éxito de los científicos, fueron en última instancia sus personajes los que impulsaron los grandes descubrimientos. La joven confianza en sí mismo de Albert Einstein, las excentricidades innatas de Paul Dirac, la obstinación explícita de Fred Hoyle, la astuta competitividad de Martin Ryle, el amor de Richard Feynman por lo poco convencional, la tenacidad de Jocelyn Bell-Burnell y la brillante convicción de Stephen Hawking.
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961), sometimes written as Schroedinger or Schrodinger, was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian and naturalized Irish physicist who developed fundamental results in quantum theory: the Schrödinger equation provides a way to calculate the wave function of a system and how it changes dynamically in time. In addition, he wrote many works on various aspects of physics: statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, physics of dielectrics, color theory, electrodynamics, general relativity, and cosmology, and he made several attempts to construct a unified field theory. In his book What Is Life? Schrödinger addressed the problems of genetics, looking at the phenomenon of life from the point of view of physics. He also paid great attention to the philosophical aspects of science, ancient, and oriental philosophical concepts, ethics, and religion. He also wrote on philosophy and theoretical biology. In popular culture, he is best known for his "Schrödinger's cat" thought experiment. Spending most of his life as an academic with positions at various universities, Schrödinger, along with Paul Dirac, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 for his work on quantum mechanics, the same year he left Germany due to his opposition to Nazism. In his personal life, he lived with both his wife and his mistress which may have led to problems causing him to leave his position at Oxford. Subsequently, until 1938, he had a position in Graz, Austria, until the Nazi takeover when he fled, finally finding a long-term arrangement in Dublin where he remained until retirement in 1955. He died in Vienna of tuberculosis when he was 73. Original video here Full Wikipedia entry here Erwin Schrödinger's books here --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theunadulteratedintellect/support
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, a professor of physics at Florida State University and the University of Miami, and a 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics recipient. Dirac made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. Among other discoveries, he formulated the Dirac equation which describes the behaviour of fermions and predicted the existence of antimatter. Dirac shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory". He also made significant contributions to the reconciliation of general relativity with quantum mechanics. Dirac was regarded by his friends and colleagues as unusual in character. In a 1926 letter to Paul Ehrenfest, Albert Einstein wrote of a Dirac paper, "I am toiling over Dirac. This balancing on the dizzying path between genius and madness is awful." In another letter concerning the Compton effect he wrote, "I don't understand the details of Dirac at all." Original video here Full Wikipedia entry here Paul Dirac's books here --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theunadulteratedintellect/support
'I knew it was a book I needed to read' - VIVIENNE WESTWOOD'His book explains complex scientific theory in a graspable way' - LILY ASHLEY'This book is an important contribution, and I hope it will open many minds. What is particularly important in it are the discussions of David Bohm, of bioplasma, biophotons, and bioelectronics.' - PROFESSOR ZBIGNIEW WOLKOWSKI, Sorbonne University, Paris"Answers so many questions, scientific and esoteric, about the true nature of our reality... A seminal work... Will revolutionise how we frame reality and the thinking of everyone on this planet. Kudos to Professor Temple for striking the first match to light the fire." - NEW DAWNThe story of the science of plasma and its revolutionary implications for the way we understand the universe and our place in it.Histories of science in the 20th century have focused on relativity and quantum mechanics. But, quietly in the background, there has been a third area of exploration which has equally important implications for our understanding of the universe. It is unknown to the general public despite the fact that many Nobel prize winners, senior academics and major research centres around the world have been devoted to it - it is the study of plasmaPlasma is the fourth state of matter and the other three - gas, liquid and solids - emerge out of plasma. This book will reveal how over 99% of the universe is made of plasma and how there are two gigantic clouds of plasma, called the Kordylewski Clouds, hovering between the Earth and the Moon, only recently discovered by astronomers in Hungary. Other revelations not previously known outside narrow academic disciplines include the evidence that in certain circumstances plasma exhibits features that suggest they may be in some sense alive: clouds of plasma have evolved double helixes, banks of cells and crystals, filaments and junctions which could control the flow of electric currents, thus generating an intelligence similar to machine intelligence. We may, in fact, have been looking for signs of extra-terrestrial life in the wrong place.Bestselling author Robert Temple has been following the study of plasma for decades and was personally acquainted with several of the senior scientists - including Nobel laureates - at its forefront, including Paul Dirac, David Bohm, Peter Mitchell and Chandra Wickramasinghe (who has co-written an academic paper with Temple).PROFESSOR ROBERT TEMPLE is the author of a dozen challenging and provocative books, commencing with the international best-seller, The Sirius Mystery. His books have been translated into a total of 44 foreign languages. He is Visiting Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and previously held a similar position at an American university.For many years he was a science writer for the Sunday Times, the Guardian, and a science reporter for Time-Life, as well as a frequent reviewer for Nature and profile writer for The New Scientist.He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and has been a member of the Egypt Exploration Society since the 1970s, as well as a member of numerous other academic societies.He has produced, written and presented a documentary for Channel Four and National Geographic Channels on his archaeological discoveries in Greece and Italy, and he was at one time an arts reviewer on BBC Radio 4's 'Kaleidoscope'.With his wife, Olivia, he is co-author and translator of the first complete English version of Aesop's Fables, which attracted a great deal of international press attention at the time of its release, as the earlier translations had suppressed some of the fables because of Victorian prudery.Temple was a colleague of the late Dr. Joseph Needham of Cambridge, in association with whom he wrote The Genius of China, which has been approved as an official reference book (in Chinese) for the Chinese secondary school system, and which won five national awards in the USA. He has done archaeometric dating work and intensive exploration of closed sites in Egypt with the permission of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities. His research into historical accounts of the Sphinx is the first comprehensive survey ever undertaken.
Glory be to Him Who created all the pairs: from what the earth produces and from themselves and from things unknown to them. (Qur'an, 36:36) While "male and female" is equivalent to the concept of "pair," "things unknown to them," as expressed in the Qur'an, bears a broader meaning. Indeed, we encounter one of the meanings pointed to in the verse in the present day. The British physicist Paul Dirac, who discovered that matter was created in pairs, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1933. This finding, known as "parity," revealed the duality known as matter and anti-matter. Anti-matter bears the opposite characteristics to matter. For instance, contrary to matter, anti-matter electrons are positive and protons negative. This fact is expressed in a scientific source as follows: ... every particle has its antiparticle of opposite charge... [T]he uncertainty relation tells us that pair creation and pair annihilation happen in the vacuum at all times, in all places.48 Another example of duality in creation is plants. Botanists only discovered that there is a gender distinction in plants some 100 years ago.49 Yet, the fact that plants are created in pairs was revealed in the following verses of the Qur'an 1,400 years ago: It is Allah Who created the heavens with no support-you can see them-and cast firmly embedded mountains on the earth so that it would not move under you, and scattered about in it creatures of every kind. And We send down water from the sky and make every generous plant grow in it, in pairs. (Qur'an, 31:10) It is He Who made the earth a cradle for you and threaded pathways for you through it and sent down water from the sky by which We have brought forth diverse pairs of plants. (Qur'an, 20:53) In the same way, fruits, are of two types: male or female. As the Qur'an proclaims: He stretched out Earth and placed firmly embedded mountains and rivers in it, and made two types [male and female] of every kind of fruit. He covers over day with night. There are signs in that for people who reflect. (Qur'an, 13:3) The word "zawjayni," translated as "two types," comes from "zawj," meaning "one of a pair." As we know, fruits are the final product produced by ripening plants. The stage before fruit is the flower. Flowers also have male and female organs. When pollen is carried to the flower and fertilization takes place, they begin to bear fruit. The fruit gradually ripens and starts to release seeds. The fact that fruits have gender-specific features is another piece of scientific information indicated in the Qur'an. 48. Henning Genz, "Nothingness: The Science of Empty Space," 205, www.2think.org/nothingness.shtml 49. "Wanna C A Miracle: Quran: The Living Miracle," The Revival 5, Issue 2, www.therevival.co.uk/Revival_issue/vol5_iss2_quran_miracle.htm
What's up to my perspicacious clouds of plasma and scintillating strands of DNA! Welcome to the BNP and thank you for joining! Strap in and spark up friends: this episode is a banger for the ages. In addition to a most zany audio tidbit, I also share an original poem about poppies, and a soliloquy inspired by a recent meditation, regarding the nature of the human psyche, the delicate elegance of our emotions, how we grow as living beings, and what we can deduce from studying plant life in Nature. Then it's on to the main course. This episode I am thrilled to feature renowned scientific historian and professor Robert Temple, author of the bestselling new book, A New Science of Heaven, which explores how 99% of the universe is composed of plasma, and the unique life-like attributes of plasma that suggest it may have a consciousness which humans are just beginning to understand. Temple has been following the study of plasma for decades and was personally acquainted with several of the senior scientists – including Nobel laureates – at its forefront, including Paul Dirac, David Bohm, Peter Mitchell and Chandra Wickramasinghe. Temple spent many years as a science writer for the Sunday Times and the Guardian, and as a science reporter for Time-Life, Nature and The New Scientist. TIME STAMP: Robert Temple Interview Starts at 43:38Support Robert's Work: https://robert-temple.com/Get a copy of A New Science of Heaven here.Won't you please rate, review and subscribe to the BNP wherever you listen to podcasts? Bestow those sweet sweet 5 stars! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Patrons: I know you'd lasso the moon for me, but I'm just grateful you support the show. You are appreciated.Join our hallowed tribe of patrons and help me stay on the air at: www.patreon.com/noetics.Signing up at any tier gets you a dream interpretation coupon, an original haiku, and access to bonus content.You can also make a one-time donation at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/noetics!Subscribe to the Barbarian Yak Fest video show! Find Dr. Sylvie and I dishin' truth on Rokfin here. Thanks!Check me out on IG @ barbarian_noetics!Email the pod at: barbarian.noetics@gmail.comUntil next week,be exquisite to one another and kind to yourselves.One Love,Little Raven KAWWTRACKLIST FOR THIS EPISODE Krzysztof Rzeznicki - One World Manu Lopez - Careless Whisper Sax CoverDykotomi - Corvid CrunkChillhop Beat Tapes - El Train (Downtempo Mix)The Mar-Keys - My Sweet BabySoulection All Day 2023 - Joe Kay SetMario Savio - Bodies On The Gears Speech (Dec. 2, 1964)Outkast - SpottieOtieDopalicious (Joe Kay's Slowed Edit)Chillhop Beat Tapes - less.people (Mix)Allem Inversom & little blue - Cozy Lofi BeatsMeditative Mind - 528 Hz Miracle Tone Love FrequencyPete Wingfield - Eighteen w/ a BulletBJ the Chicago Kid - Smokin & Ridin (feat. Freddie Gibbs and Problem) (Fair Use Edit:Slowed n Verbed) Battle of Teutoburg Forest: https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-the-Teutoburg-ForestSupport the show
Andrew Dzurak, founder and CEO of Diraq, a company developing silicon-based quantum computers built with existing chip fabrication technology, is interviewed by Yuval Boger. Andrew and Yuval talk about the merits of their technology, the reason many companies have taken alternative approaches, when silicon dot computers will be available, a hypothetical dinner with Paul Dirac, and much more.
Questa puntata di Mc2 a cura di Matteo Curti e Francesco Lancia prende spunto da una famosa equazione del fisico britannico Paul Dirac per arrivare a mettere in relazione numeri, frazioni e teoremi - più semplicemente: la matematica, con l'amore. Che è quanto di meno calcolabile esista.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Rozmowa z prof. Markiem Demiańskim o jego drodze naukowej. Jak zostaje się astrofizykiem? Co zadecydowało o losie profesora, który dziś wykłada na Williams College w USA. Kogo spotkał na swojej drodze? Co jest obecnie przedmiotem jego zainteresowania? To pytania, na które można znaleźć odpowiedź w tym odcinku. Czaptery: (00:00) Intro (04:02) Długie wakacje 1939 (07:17) Pierwsze badania (10:45) Kozia góra (12:32) Szkoła Podstawowa w Karlinie (16:20) Liceum w Białogardzie (22:27) Co dalej? (25:20) Eustachy Tarnawski (28:08) Alfons Kapski (31:02) Jerzy Plebański (37:20) Leopold Infeld (38:39) Praca magisterska (42:49) Paul Dirac (44:09) Hybrydy (48:39) John Archibald Wheeler (49:59) Roger Penrose (50:34) Rainer K. Sachs (58:50) Stephen Hawking (01:05:16) Williams College (01:10:59) Zakończenie
Vad är antimateria och finns det bara i science-fiction eller på riktigt? Hur gick det till när Paul Dirac först bara råkade skriva en ekvation som fungerade med anti-elektroner men som sen visade sig finnas på rikt
El siglo XX fue testigo de una asombrosa revolución en la física, desde descubrir los secretos del átomo hasta resolver los misterios del cosmos. También fue el siglo en el que la radio y la televisión se generalizaron, por lo que por primera vez pudimos ver quiénes eran realmente las mentes más grandes. El uso de archivos poco comunes que datan de la década de 1920 "Secretos del universo: grandes científicos en sus propias palabras" proporciona una visión única de las vidas y personalidades de algunos de los físicos más brillantes. Aunque el intelecto y el talento fueron importantes para el éxito de los científicos, fueron en última instancia sus personajes los que impulsaron los grandes descubrimientos. La joven confianza en sí mismo de Albert Einstein, las excentricidades innatas de Paul Dirac, la obstinación explícita de Fred Hoyle, la astuta competitividad de Martin Ryle, el amor de Richard Feynman por lo poco convencional, la tenacidad de Jocelyn Bell-Burnell y la brillante convicción de Stephen Hawking.
In questa puntata parleremo dell'equazione di Paul Dirac.
El siglo XX fue testigo de una asombrosa revolución en la física, desde descubrir los secretos del átomo hasta resolver los misterios del cosmos. También fue el siglo en el que la radio y la televisión se generalizaron, por lo que por primera vez pudimos ver quiénes eran realmente las mentes más grandes. El uso de archivos poco comunes que datan de la década de 1920 "Secretos del universo: grandes científicos en sus propias palabras" proporciona una visión única de las vidas y personalidades de algunos de los físicos más brillantes. Aunque el intelecto y el talento fueron importantes para el éxito de los científicos, fueron en última instancia sus personajes los que impulsaron los grandes descubrimientos. La joven confianza en sí mismo de Albert Einstein, las excentricidades innatas de Paul Dirac, la obstinación explícita de Fred Hoyle, la astuta competitividad de Martin Ryle, el amor de Richard Feynman por lo poco convencional, la tenacidad de Jocelyn Bell-Burnell y la brillante convicción de Stephen Hawking.
The story of the science of plasma and its revolutionary implications for the way we understand the universe and our place in it. Histories of science in the 20th century have focused on relativity and quantum mechanics. But, quietly in the background, there has been a third area of exploration that has equally important implications for our understanding of the universe. It is unknown to the general public, despite the fact that many Nobel prize winners, senior academics and major research centres around the world have been devoted to it - it is the study of plasma. Plasma is fourth state of matter, and the other three - gas, liquid and solids - emerge out of plasma. This audiobook will reveal how more than 99 per cent of the universe is made of plasma and how there are two gigantic clouds of plasma, called the Kordylewski Clouds, hovering between the Earth and the Moon, only recently discovered by astronomers in Hungary. Other revelations not previously known outside narrow academic disciplines include the evidence that in certain circumstances, plasma exhibits features that suggest they may be in some sense alive: clouds of plasma have evolved double helixes, banks of cells and crystals, filaments and junctions, which could control the flow of electric currents, thus generating an intelligence similar to machine intelligence. We may, in fact, have been looking for signs of extra-terrestrial life in the wrong place. Best-selling author Robert Temple has been following the study of plasma for decades and has worked with several of the senior scientists - including Nobel laureates - at its forefront, including Paul Dirac, David Bohm, Peter Mitchell and Chandra Wickramasinghe (who has co-written an academic paper with Temple).
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
Graham Farmelo is an award-winning biographer and science writer. Based in London, he is a Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge and a regular visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He was a lecturer in physics at the Open University, 1977-1990. Briefly the youngest tenured academic in the UK. Quickly specialized as a teacher, chaired the team that produced the Science Foundation Course in the late 1980s and conceived its inter-disciplinary science course ‘Science Matters'. Farmelo is author of 'The Universe Speaks in Numbers', published in May 2019. It explores the relationship between mathematics and the search for the laws of physics, and highlights the contributions of several theoretical physicists, natural philosophers and mathematicians, notably Isaac Newton, Pierre-Simon Laplace, James Clerk Maxwell, Albert Einstein and Paul Dirac. Farmelo's Dirac biography ‘The Strangest Man' won the 2009 Costa Prize for Biography[1] and the 2009 'Los Angeles Times Science and Technology Book Prize'.[2] The book was chosen by Physics World as the physics book of the year in 2009,[3] when it was selected as one of Nature's books of the year. Farmelo's 2013 book 'Churchill's Bomb' focuses on Winston Churchill's role in British nuclear research 1939-53, with hitherto unpublished information on its influence by Churchill's science adviser Frederick Lindemann. The book emphasizes conflicts between scientific opportunity and political direction. Farmelo is critical of Churchill's wavering attention and changes of policy as he aged. https://grahamfarmelo.com/ 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:12 Do we need a theory of everything? 00:04:33 Fundamental Physics is a small part of the whole field. 00:06:55 What is the mathematical language of the Universe? Intergers? Rationale numbers? Other? 00:10:10 We're at an odd time in physics! The standard model works better than expected! 00:16:21 Never say never! What is untestable today may be testable tomorrow. 00:17:04 Bridging Maxwell, Yang-Mills and Chern-Simons and the view of Ed Witten 00:24:19 Is there a role for "beauty" in physics and math? 00:26:50 What rubric could be used to grade candidates for theories of everything? 00:32:22 How to break the standard model. 00:38:41 Is string theory already falsified? What can it tell us now? 00:47:57 How do you engage young people to get inspired in physics today? Where should our resources go? 00:52:51 What mysteries are you currently most engaged with? What did Freeman Dyson mean to you? 00:58:14 Discussing Nima Arkani-Hamed. 01:04:00 What do you think about the work of Gerard 't Hooft? http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php
Die Nobelpreise sind eine der höchsten wissenschaftlichen Auszeichnungen. Die Gefahr: Wenn ein Nobelpreisträger eine Meinung hat, egal wozu, ist ihm die Aufmerksamkeit sicher. Auch wenn später so manch einer krude Ansichten vertritt.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the theoretical physicist Dirac (1902-1984), whose achievements far exceed his general fame. To his peers, he was ranked with Einstein and, when he moved to America in his retirement, he was welcomed as if he were Shakespeare. Born in Bristol, he trained as an engineer before developing theories in his twenties that changed the understanding of quantum mechanics, bringing him a Nobel Prize in 1933 which he shared with Erwin Schrödinger. He continued to make deep contributions, bringing abstract maths to physics, beyond predicting anti-particles as he did in his Dirac Equation. With Graham Farmelo Biographer of Dirac and Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge Valerie Gibson Professor of High Energy Physics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College And David Berman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Queen Mary University of London Producer: Simon Tillotson
Learn about what antimatter is and how we discovered it. Then, Dr. Gen Gunter will demystify menopause. How we discovered antimatter by Briana Brownell Marco Gersabeck,The Conversation. (2019, March 21). Why Is There More Matter Than Antimatter? Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-is-there-more-matter-than-antimatter/ Antimatter from bananas. (2015). Symmetry Magazine. https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/2009/07/23/antimatter-from-bananas Dirac’s equation predicts antiparticles | timeline.web.cern.ch. (2021). Cern.ch. https://timeline.web.cern.ch/diracs-equation-predicts-antiparticles Thompson, A. (2017, June 23). In 1928, One Physicist Accidentally Predicted Antimatter. Popular Mechanics; Popular Mechanics. https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a27049/in-1928-one-physicist-accidentally-predicted-antimatter/ Vidmar, D. (2011). The Dirac equation and the prediction of antimatter. PDF document provided on the internet by the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Additional resources from Dr. Jen Gunter: Pick up "The Menopause Manifesto" from Amazon: https://amzn.to/33dlIYy Website: https://drjengunter.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrJenGunter Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJGunter/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjengunter/ Follow Curiosity Daily on your favorite podcast app to learn something new every day withCody Gough andAshley Hamer — for free! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
ก่อ กอง Science ในตอนนี้จะพูดถึงประวัติของสุดยอดนักฟิสิกส์ทฤษฎีชาวอังกฤษ หนึ่งในผู้ให้กำเนิดกลศาสตร์ควอนตัม นั่นคือ “Paul Dirac” เขาเป็นผู้สร้าง "สมการดิแรก" เพื่อใช้อธิบายพฤติกรรมของอิเล็กตรอน สมการดิแรกเป็นการรวมกลศาสตร์ควอนตัม เข้ากับทฤษฎีสัมพัทธภาพพิเศษได้อย่างถูกต้องเป็นครั้งแรก สมการนี้ทำนายสปิน และโมเมนต์แม่เหล็กของอิเล็กตรอน และนำไปสู่การคาดการณ์ถึงการดำรงอยู่ของปฏิสสาร เขาได้รับรางวัลโนเบลสาขาฟิสิกส์ในปี 1933 ร่วมกับ เออร์วิน ชเรอดิงเงอร์ สำหรับการ "ค้นพบรูปแบบใหม่ของทฤษฎีอะตอม" เรามาฟังประวัติและลักษณะนิสัยของพอล ดิแรกในพอดแคสตอนนี้เลยครับ
Feeling stuck and not sure how to get on track? If you've ever wanted a complete breakthrough in your life, then do we have the show for you! Today I'll be talking with Dr. John DeMartini human behaviour and personal development specialist, the bestselling author of over 40 books, and the creator of The Breakthrough Experience A Revolutionary New Approach to Personal Transformation. That is just what I want to talk with him about today, about how to get unstuck, get on track, and have a complete and total breakthrough in your life. That plus, we'll talk about Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Paul Dirac, Ludwig Boltzmann, positive and negative particles and anti-particles, and what in the world philias and phobias have to do with anything! Are you ready to shine? To find out more visit: https://drdemartini.com/ https://drdemartini.com/breakthrough-experience/ https://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-Experience-Revolutionary-Approach-Transformation/dp/1561708852 ……. Follow Michael and Jessica's exciting journey and get even more great tools, tips, and behind-the-scenes access. Go to https://www.patreon.com/inspirenation For free meditations, weekly tips, stories, and similar shows visit: https://inspirenationshow.com/ We've got NEW Merch! - https://teespring.com/stores/inspire-nation-store Follow Inspire Nation, and the lives of Michael and Jessica, on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/InspireNationLive/ Find us on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@inspirenationshow
In 1913, New York publicist John Duval Gluck founded an association to answer Santa's mail. For 15 years its volunteers fulfilled children's Christmas wishes, until Gluck's motivation began to shift. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll describe the rise and fall of "Santa's Secretary" in New York City. We'll also survey some splitting trains and puzzle over a difference between twins. Intro: Edward Lear once had to prove his own existence. Paul Dirac proposed that a math problem could be solved with -2 fish. Sources for our feature on John Duval Gluck and the Santa Claus Association: Alex Palmer, The Santa Claus Man: The Rise and Fall of a Jazz Age Con Man and the Invention of Christmas in New York, 2015. Harry Pelle Hartkemeier, John Duvall Gluck, and Emma Croft Germond, "Social Science and Belief," Social Science 9:2 (April 1934), 202-208. Eve M. Kahn, "'Mama Says That Santa Claus Does Not Come to Poor People,'" New York Times, Nov. 26, 2015. Alex Palmer, "Meet the Con Artist Who Popularized Writing to Santa Claus," New York Post, Sept. 20, 2015. Kathleen Read, "What Becomes of Santa Claus Letters?", [Washington, D.C.] Evening Star, Dec. 21, 1930, 3. "'Santa Claus' Gluck Ignores His Critics," New York Times, Dec. 11, 1928. "Submits Accounting on Santa Claus Fund," New York Times, Jan. 11, 1928. "Santa Claus Group Again Balks Inquiry," New York Times, Dec. 31, 1927. "Santa Claus, Inc., Now Offers Books," New York Times, Dec. 25, 1927. "Santa Claus Group in Postal Inquiry," New York Times, Dec. 24, 1927. "Santa Claus Group Under Coler's Fire," New York Times, Dec. 23, 1927. "Now the Santa Claus Letters Are Falling Into the Mail," New York Times, Dec. 4, 1927. "Santa Claus Association Will Send Gifts To 12,000 Poor Children Who Wrote Letters," New York Times, Dec. 20, 1925. "Thousands Write Santa," Richmond [Va.] Times-Dispatch, Dec. 21, 1919, 4. "Probe Upholds Contentions of the Boy Scout Leaders," Harrisburg [Pa.] Telegraph, Aug. 24, 1917. John Duval Gluck, "Boy Scouts: Suggestion That the Rival Bodies End Their Quarrel and Get to Work," New York Times, Aug. 19, 1917. Max Abelman and John Duval Gluck, "Methods Proposed to Control Charity; Plans for a Charity Service League," New York Times, Aug. 5, 1917. "Making Santa Real to Poor Children," New York Times, Nov. 22, 1914. "Santa Claus Association Incorporated," New York Times, March 26, 1914. "Played Santa Claus and Solved an Economic Problem," New York Times, Jan. 18, 1914. "Letters to Santa Really Answered," New York Times, Dec. 25, 1913. "Plays Santa Claus to Poor," New York Times, Dec. 12, 1913. "Santa Claus Will Answer His Mail," New York Times, Dec. 7, 1913. "Form Santa Claus Body," New York Times, Dec. 6, 1913. USPS Operation Santa. Listener mail: Wikipedia, "S1 (Munich)" (accessed Aug. 22, 2020). S1 (Munich) schedule. Wikipedia, "Dividing Train" (accessed Sept. 17, 2020). "France in Detail: Getting Around," Lonely Planet, accessed Aug. 22, 2020. "'Where the Train Will Divide...' - Portion Working," Southern Electric Group (accessed Aug. 22, 2020). Wikitravel, "Wakayama" (accessed Aug. 22, 2020). Amtrak Empire Builder schedule, March 16, 2020. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was devised by Sharon. Here are two corroborating links (warning -- these spoil the puzzle). You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!
David Kaiser is a truly unique scholar: he is simultaneously a physics researcher and a historian of science whose writing beautifully melds the past and future of science. As a historian, he studies mostly 20th-century physics, and in particular the history of quantum mechanics, Feynman diagrams, physics in the counterculture era, and much more. As a physicist, he studies particle physics and theories of cosmology, focused mostly on the early expansion of the universe. In this New Books Network podcast, I speak to David Kaiser about his new book, Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World (University of Chicago Press, 2020). It's a collection of essays, many of them adapted from magazine and newspaper articles he's penned over the years. The book paints intimate portraits of some incredible luminaries—Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, and Paul Dirac, among many others—explains how physics has changed as a discipline in the last century, and demonstrates how science is inseparable from its social context. David Kaiser is an incredible ambassador for physics and its history, and it was a delight to speak with him. David Kaiser is the Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Matthew Jordan is an instructor at McMaster University, where he teaches courses on AI and the history of science. You can follow him on Twitter @mattyj612 or his website matthewleejordan.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
David Kaiser is a truly unique scholar: he is simultaneously a physics researcher and a historian of science whose writing beautifully melds the past and future of science. As a historian, he studies mostly 20th-century physics, and in particular the history of quantum mechanics, Feynman diagrams, physics in the counterculture era, and much more. As a physicist, he studies particle physics and theories of cosmology, focused mostly on the early expansion of the universe. In this New Books Network podcast, I speak to David Kaiser about his new book, Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World (University of Chicago Press, 2020). It's a collection of essays, many of them adapted from magazine and newspaper articles he's penned over the years. The book paints intimate portraits of some incredible luminaries—Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, and Paul Dirac, among many others—explains how physics has changed as a discipline in the last century, and demonstrates how science is inseparable from its social context. David Kaiser is an incredible ambassador for physics and its history, and it was a delight to speak with him. David Kaiser is the Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Matthew Jordan is an instructor at McMaster University, where he teaches courses on AI and the history of science. You can follow him on Twitter @mattyj612 or his website matthewleejordan.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
David Kaiser is a truly unique scholar: he is simultaneously a physics researcher and a historian of science whose writing beautifully melds the past and future of science. As a historian, he studies mostly 20th-century physics, and in particular the history of quantum mechanics, Feynman diagrams, physics in the counterculture era, and much more. As a physicist, he studies particle physics and theories of cosmology, focused mostly on the early expansion of the universe. In this New Books Network podcast, I speak to David Kaiser about his new book, Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World (University of Chicago Press, 2020). It’s a collection of essays, many of them adapted from magazine and newspaper articles he’s penned over the years. The book paints intimate portraits of some incredible luminaries—Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, and Paul Dirac, among many others—explains how physics has changed as a discipline in the last century, and demonstrates how science is inseparable from its social context. David Kaiser is an incredible ambassador for physics and its history, and it was a delight to speak with him. David Kaiser is the Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Matthew Jordan is an instructor at McMaster University, where he teaches courses on AI and the history of science. You can follow him on Twitter @mattyj612 or his website matthewleejordan.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
David Kaiser is a truly unique scholar: he is simultaneously a physics researcher and a historian of science whose writing beautifully melds the past and future of science. As a historian, he studies mostly 20th-century physics, and in particular the history of quantum mechanics, Feynman diagrams, physics in the counterculture era, and much more. As a physicist, he studies particle physics and theories of cosmology, focused mostly on the early expansion of the universe. In this New Books Network podcast, I speak to David Kaiser about his new book, Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World (University of Chicago Press, 2020). It’s a collection of essays, many of them adapted from magazine and newspaper articles he’s penned over the years. The book paints intimate portraits of some incredible luminaries—Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, and Paul Dirac, among many others—explains how physics has changed as a discipline in the last century, and demonstrates how science is inseparable from its social context. David Kaiser is an incredible ambassador for physics and its history, and it was a delight to speak with him. David Kaiser is the Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Matthew Jordan is an instructor at McMaster University, where he teaches courses on AI and the history of science. You can follow him on Twitter @mattyj612 or his website matthewleejordan.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
David Kaiser is a truly unique scholar: he is simultaneously a physics researcher and a historian of science whose writing beautifully melds the past and future of science. As a historian, he studies mostly 20th-century physics, and in particular the history of quantum mechanics, Feynman diagrams, physics in the counterculture era, and much more. As a physicist, he studies particle physics and theories of cosmology, focused mostly on the early expansion of the universe. In this New Books Network podcast, I speak to David Kaiser about his new book, Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World (University of Chicago Press, 2020). It’s a collection of essays, many of them adapted from magazine and newspaper articles he’s penned over the years. The book paints intimate portraits of some incredible luminaries—Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, and Paul Dirac, among many others—explains how physics has changed as a discipline in the last century, and demonstrates how science is inseparable from its social context. David Kaiser is an incredible ambassador for physics and its history, and it was a delight to speak with him. David Kaiser is the Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Matthew Jordan is an instructor at McMaster University, where he teaches courses on AI and the history of science. You can follow him on Twitter @mattyj612 or his website matthewleejordan.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
David Kaiser is a truly unique scholar: he is simultaneously a physics researcher and a historian of science whose writing beautifully melds the past and future of science. As a historian, he studies mostly 20th-century physics, and in particular the history of quantum mechanics, Feynman diagrams, physics in the counterculture era, and much more. As a physicist, he studies particle physics and theories of cosmology, focused mostly on the early expansion of the universe. In this New Books Network podcast, I speak to David Kaiser about his new book, Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World (University of Chicago Press, 2020). It’s a collection of essays, many of them adapted from magazine and newspaper articles he’s penned over the years. The book paints intimate portraits of some incredible luminaries—Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, and Paul Dirac, among many others—explains how physics has changed as a discipline in the last century, and demonstrates how science is inseparable from its social context. David Kaiser is an incredible ambassador for physics and its history, and it was a delight to speak with him. David Kaiser is the Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Matthew Jordan is an instructor at McMaster University, where he teaches courses on AI and the history of science. You can follow him on Twitter @mattyj612 or his website matthewleejordan.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Qué es la Materia y la Antimateria. En este programa de “Obsesión por el Cielo” Edgar y Pedro platican en general sobre las propiedades de la materia, incluyendo la variedad de materia que llamamos “antimateria”. Simplificando mucho: la antimateria es solamente materia con gravedad positiva (que atrae) pero con las propiedades, como la carga eléctrica, invertidas. En el modelo estándar de partículas subatómicas cada partícula tiene su correspondiente antipartícula. Así, la antipartícula del electrón es el positrón, y la antipartícula del protón es el antiprotón, por ejemplo. Paul Dirac, en 1928, predijo la existencia de la antimateria, aunque el término es treinta años más antiguo. Actualmente vivimos en un Universo formado por materia con muy poca antimateria que constantemente es creada, ya sea por rayos cósmicos o decaimiento radioactivo, y casi inmediatamente destruida al hacer contacto con la materia ordinaria. El cómo se formó un Universo de materia normal y no antimateria es uno de los grandes misterios de la ciencia. En este programa trataremos de explicarlo, junto con algunas otras propiedades interesantes de la antimateria. Además de nuestra sección semanal de noticias, ofrecemos en este programa nuestra sección mensual del “El Verdadero Reporte del Cielo” en la que conmemoramos los eventos astronómicos que podrán ser observados en el mes de Julio de 2020. Esperamos que disfruten del programa.
In this volume characters start to come across points of no return, with plenty talk on quantum theory and Bento boxes! Skip plot summary @ 3:46 048: Neon Genesis Evangelion vol. 6 Chapters 34 to 40 (‘the fourth child’ to ‘staining the twilight black’) By Yoshiyuki Sadamoto Adapted to English by Fred burke, Carl Gustav Horn, William Flanagan and David Ury Topics: Talk of s2 engine etc. Super solenoid (electromagnetic coil) Kaji to Toji Segue Injured/nursing shinji segue (a lot of Segues!!!) Asuka’s confession and expressing love (Basically more Tsundere stuff) Other references and Product Placement The Magi - Within Zorastrianism or Mazdayasna they are mages. Gospel of Matthew calls them kings and wise men. Never named in the new testament but are known as the saints, Malchior, Casper and Balthazar. Dirac sea - Named after Paul Dirac who created the concept so to unify theories of relativity and quantum theory. It remains as a mathematically sound theory of infinity that exists in our universe. In Eva it’s used as an explanation for why the American base vanished or imploded. “ a hole in the sea of fermions”. “Armoured Gear” Asuka’s watermelon lollipop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfAfQiXqJGo Bento boxes Plot Summary Shinji learns that his classmate Hikari has feelings towards his friend, Toji Suzuhara. Asuka intervenes and tries to help to help Hikari in getting Toji’s attention. Later on, Asuka takes her own advice and confesses her love to Kaji, Kaji is quick to condescend but respectfully denies her. Asuka is angry but is more so angry when she discovers who the next eva pilot will be. Toji is focused on other things, specifically his sister who is hospitalized after an angel attack on Tokyo-3 and the fact that he is chosen to be the new pilot for Eva 3. On his first test run Toji becomes attacked by a new parasitic, almost viral form of an angel which takes full control and assimilation of his eva unit. The remaining Eva pilots gather to fight it until Shinji is left standing. Toji is uncommunicative whilst trapped inside his Eva and Shinji refuses to fight back so not to harm his friend. By his father’s command, Shinji loses control of his Eva as a dummy system takes over. A distraught Shinji can do nothing but be witness to the murderous assault on Toji. Hikari spends the night alone, cooking for Toji and being proud of how much he would love the recipe she made for him. Instagram – weappreciatemanga.co.uk Twitter - @RealJamesFitton Website – Weappreciatemanga.com Email – Weappreciatemanga@gmail.com
* List of 25 Ways the Shudown (and a recession) Kills People: (See also our List of 25 rsr.org/covid-conspiracies.) Real Science Radio's Bob Enyart and Fred Williams list the ways that an economic downturn (from COVID-19 or otherwise) kills people... - Suicide increases (typically, its the 10th leading cause of death; 2nd cause of death for young adults; see Utah Highway Patrol's 80% increase in quarantine mental health interventions; 1000% surge in contacts with the Federal Emotional Support Hotline)- Stress, a major factor in increased disease, depression, and directly, death itself - Starvation as recession could horrifically increase the nine million annual deaths worldwide - Unemployment increases death rate by 50% from disease, accidents, etc. (so 36 million Americans apparently have dramatically increased death rates) - Charitable giving sharply declines during a recession - Forego routine healthcare/early diagnosis (TB to kill a million due to quarantine; 80k Americans to miss cancer diagnoses through June) - Forego known and needed medical treatment for known ailments (Hospitals losing $1.1 billion daily so laying off healthcare workers) - Forego needed vehicle maintenance increasing crashes - Forego recreational exertion and work-related physical exercise - Forego equipment maintenance increasing workplace accidents - Forego healthier foods to eat less nutritiously deteriorating health - Extended disappointment can lead to depression, then to death- Increasing family debt leads to increased stress (which kills, see above) - Increase in polluted water and air not tolerated by prosperous societies - Farmers may produce less for various economic reasons - Manufacturers may cut corners producing less safe and satisfactory products - Increased crime including because less money is spent on security - Failed businesses bring enormous stress to owners and employees - Career employment is replaced by poorly paying jobs - Marriages fail leading to depression in adults and children - Raised by a mom alone is the primary indicator of kids ending up on welfare, as criminals, addicts, and early death - Increased loneliness from fewer family visits leading to death by broken heart - Increased marijuana and other drug use (drug overdose deaths up 50% in 2020 in Franklin County, Ohio, for ex.) - Increased alcohol abuse - Increased abortion - Government leaders who don't understand godly principles of government introduce additional socialist measures which overtime lead to increased societal dysfunction, depression, and death. A few final points indicate the myriad ways the COVID shutdown kills and otherwise harms people. First, it has stopped elective surgery, much of which the patients themselves do not consider elective. Then, by the law of unintended consequences, in a surge in armed robberies, criminals are explioiting public mask wearing. And third, for every one person who dies as a consequence of the shutdown or any economic recession, many many more people grieve and have an increase in stress, unhappiness, failure, depression, disease, and divorce. * Call for Memes or Other Artwork: To help spread this list generally to improve the chance that this argument will reach governing officials, if you'd like to create a meme or other form of promotion for this page, please include something along the lines of: rsr.org/ways for 25 ways the shutdown kills people. Offsetting Factors: Recession consequences that may actually save lives include... - people, friends, families and church members relying more on one another - some social government services being curtailed - more kids liberated from public school as an unintentional return to single-income households gives a parent the opportunity to homeschool - the emotional fulfillment from increased economization - the economic benefit of an increase in preparedness for future hard times - reduced traffic - reduced respiratory illness from temporarily reduced traffic pollution - recognition of our dependence upon and need for Jesus may result not only in more conversions to Christ but in more godly wisdom to light and salt society. * Rejected Ways: We've rejected a decrease in blood donations and an increase in the orphaning of children and in domestic violence as factors on our above list. And please don't hesitate to email Bob@rsr.org to suggest additions or arguments for deletions from either of the above to lists. Thanks! * rsr.org/ways: You can easily access this page and share it on social media with its abbreviated URL rsr.org/ways. Our classic rsr.org/lists include today's program and our List of Ways to Reduce Crime. * This Above is Actually our List of Ways a Recession Kills People: (It's just that for now, shutdown communicates more clearly and of course a prolonged shutdown causes a recession, that is, an economic downturn.) The opposite of a nationally-improving standard of living is an increase in dying. Bob and Fred first ask the question, What makes an economy function? And answer that it is not money but its when we do as the Bible commands and "serve one another." Then they mention that so much economic calculation, including many of these ways that increase death, often happen "on the margins", to people and in circumstances where events could go one way or another, and a "tipping point" otherwise avoided is reached because of economic stress. * Thought Experiments: Items in the above list not sourced to actual scientific studies can be evaluated by simple thought experiments. As we discuss at rsr.org/math thought experiments are incredibly effective and have led to many amazing discoveries even in the hard sciences, including: - Virtually all of Albert Einstein's discoveries - The LaGrange point parking spaces for our space satellites discovered in 1736 - Paul Dirac's discovery of antimatter including its positrons - Max Planck's discovery of the Planck constant - Peter Higgs of the Higgs boson - James Clerk Maxwell's 1859 discovery that Saturn's rings were made of disconnected particles, a discovery not confirmed by observation until 122 years later by NASA's Voyager 2 mission. So on today's program Bob and Fred briefly discuss thought experiments, a methodology within economics and the broader science of praxeology, as strongly recommended by Ludwig von Mises in one of Bob's favorite books, Mises' magnum opus, Human Action. * Wuhan Flu: (See our main rsr.org/covid page.) We designed this map of China with the widely-recognized SARS-CoV-2 virus graphic superimposed to not let their communist government get away with the lies and cover-up that ignited the pandemic.
(See the transcript of today's important program just below.) Today's public service pandemic program is brought to you by Crawford Broadcasting continuing Real Science Radio's series on how we got here, that is... - Why now and never before - The list of ways a shut down also kills people , where is this global phenomenon headed, and what are the relevant principles of governance that governments should be adhering to. All that, while rebutting a few conspiracy theories along the way including The Shaun Hannity Interpretation of China's Flights. See also part one, our Stunning Report 1: Why the Unprecedented Shut Down at rsr.org/why-now-and-never-before. If you're interested, see also our COVID science interviews at rsr.org/michael-behe-covid, rsr.org/kevin-anderson-covid, and rsr.org/james-tour-covid. * List of 25 Ways a Downturn Kills People: (One of our classic kgov.com/lists including our List of Ways to Reduce Crime.) The opposite of an improved standard of living is an increase in the ways of dying. What makes an economy function is not money but when we do as the Bible commands, and "serve one another." As discussed below, like so much economic calculation, these increases in death often happen "on the margins", to people and in circumstances where events could go one way or another, and a "tipping point" otherwise avoided is reached because of economic stress. So here is BEL's list of ways that economic decline kills people: - Suicide increases (normally, the 10th leading cause of death; 2nd for young adults)- Stress, a major factor in increased disease, depression, and directly, death itself - Starvation as recession could horrifically increase the nine million annual deaths - Unemployment increases death rate by 50% from disease, accidents, etc. - Extended disappointment can lead to depression, then to death - Increase in polluted water and air not tolerated by prosperous societies - Increasing family debt leads to increased stress (see above) - Forego needed medical treatment for known ailments - Forego routine healthcare/early diagnosis (TB to kill a million due to quarantine) - Forego needed vehicle maintenance increasing crashes - Forego recreational exertion and work-related physical exercise - Forego equipment maintenance increasing workplace accidents - Forego healthier foods to eat less nutritiously deteriorating health - Farmers may produce less for various economic reasons - Manufacturers may cut corners producing less safe and satisfactory products - Increased crime including because less money is spent on security - Failed businesses bring enormous stress to owners and employees - Career employment is replaced by poorly paying jobs - Marriages fail leading to depression in adults and children - Raised by a mom alone is the primary indicator of kids ending up on welfare, as criminals, addicts, and early death - Increased loneliness from fewer family visits leading to death by broken heart - Increased marijuana and other drug use - Increased alcohol abuse - Increased abortion - Government leaders who don't understand godly principles of government introduce additional socialist measures which overtime lead to increased societal dysfunction, depression, and death. Finally, for every one person who dies as a consequence of economic recession, many many more people grieve and have an increase in stress, unhappiness, failure, depression, disease, and divorce. Offsetting Factors: Recession consequences that may actually save lives include... - people, friends, families and church members relying more on one another - some social government services being curtailed - more kids liberated from public school as an unintentional return to single-income households gives a parent the opportunity to homeschool - the emotional fulfillment from increased economization - the economic benefit of an increase in preparedness for future hard times - reduced traffic - reduced respiratory illness from temporarily reduced traffic pollution - recognition of our dependence upon and need for Jesus may result not only in more conversions to Christ but in more godly wisdom to light and salt society. Note: For the Ways a Downturn Kills People list, above, we've considered but rejected a decrease in blood donations and an increase in the orphaning of children and in domestic violence. * COVID 19 Deaths Overcounted and Why that Doesn't Matter: See below in the transcript. Today's Resource: Real Science Radio 2018 Welcome to Real Science Radio: Co-hosts Bob Enyart and Fred Williams talk about science to debunk evolution and to show the evidence for the creator God including from biology, genetics, geology, history, paleontology, archaeology, astronomy, philosophy, cosmology, math, and physics. (For example, mutations will give you bad legs long before you'd get good wings.) We get to debate Darwinists and atheists like Lawrence Krauss, AronRa, and Eugenie Scott. We easily take potshots from popular evolutionists like PZ Myers, Phil Plait, and Jerry Coyne. We're the home of the popular List Shows! And we interview the outstanding scientists who dare to challenge today's accepted creed that nothing created everything. This audio disk features all of the Real Science Radio episodes from 2018. * Transcript of Today's Program: Today, April 27th, 2020, as a public service for the COVID-19 pandemic brought to you by Crawford Broadcasting, we'll continue our presentation of how we got here, why now and never before such an extensive economic shut down, what are the relevant just principles of governance that governments should adhere to, where this global experience is headed. We've looked at the science and we've been rebutting a few conspiracy theories along the way to hopefully mitigate some misplaced anger. The Hannity Conspiracy Interpretation of China's Flights: One conspiracy we rebutted was the Shaun Hannity interpretation of what China was doing when they permitted international flights to continue. Countless conservatives think that this was part of China's intentional plan to infect the world. Here at RSR we have as strong a record, or greater, of condemning China, including for their own abortion holocaust, as does almost any other conservative or Christian outlet. Yet much of our last program strongly rebutted that air traffic conspiracy interpretation. We documented the dates, and showed that with the whole world on alert for the virus, and it spreading, and President Trump wisely shutting down flights to and from China, yet most of the rest of the world recklessly ignored his approach, and continued flying to China. Yes, they shut down their own domestic travel out of Wuhan. But they weren't forcing other countries to fly their. Each country evaluated their own level of risk. Based even just on the number of planes available in any fleet or nation, no airline or country, including China, could sustain continuing to send flights out of their country unless those same planes were first flying into their country. So the countries that planes were flying into, out of China, were the same countries that continued of their own decision making, and with some recklessness, to fly planes into China. And China's communist tyrant, Xi Jinping, did what tyrants do, in selfishness, incompetence, and hubris, took whatever benefits flew in on the incoming flights, and cared nothing for what harm flew out on the return flights. That's much different than the paranoid belief, generating even more anger, needlessly, than already exists, to claim that China was implementing an intentional plan of infecting the world. Wickedness and recklessness by themselves are not sufficient to convict someone of every suspicion, and God did say, Do not bear false witness against your neighbor. We began our Crawford-COVID series of programs interviewing brilliant scientists, if you missed any, they're archived for you online at rsr.org, to understand the virus and the disease. [rsr.org/michael-behe-covid, rsr.org/kevin-anderson-covid, rsr.org/james-tour-covid.] We heard from audience favorites like molecular biologist Kevin Anderson, and world renowned scientists Michael Behe, and James Tour discussing his nanoprobe device that, like a guided missile, seeks out pathogens, like a bacteria or even a virus, attaches, and drills into them at three million RPMs, three million revolutions per minute, to destroy them! It's stunning how human beings can use the brilliance that God gave us, to learn about His creation, and to some degree, as He encouraged us, to take control over it. Use of Thought Experiments: Now we moved on to what's called the soft sciences of economics, psychology, and as Ludwig von Mises called it, who's the former leader of the Austrian School of economics, praxeology, the study of Human Action, and he used the tool, the thought experiment. The hard sciences make great use of thought experiments. That's how Einstein made his discoveries; we park our space satellites far above Earth in what's called the LaGrange points which were discovered by thought experiments in 1736; Paul Dirac discovered antimatter, and positrons, before they were actually observed, Max Planck the Planck constant, Higgs the Higgs boson, in fact, James Clerk Maxwell, the father of the science of electromagnetic radiation, discovered in 1859, not with a telescope, but by his thoughts, that the rings of Saturn were not, as was supposed, solid nor a continuous liquid, but that they were made up of disconnected particles, a discovery not confirmed by observation until 122 years later by NASA's Voyager 2 mission. The National/Wealthy Family Epidemic Response: We applied von Mises encouragement of using thought experiments to figure out, why now, and why never before, for this extensive economic shut down. And we used an observation made by another Austrian conservative author, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn in his work, Leftism Revisited, that some leaders have the capacity to view their own citizens as part of their own family. And so, just like a wealthy family would do almost anything in their power, even bankrupting themselves, if they thought a spreading disease was anything like, say Ebola, which killed about one out of every two people who got it. But, suppose this was a highly infectious disease, spreading rapidly. If a successful father thought that a spreading infection would likely kill one of his own children, or more, if a son or daughter happened to catch it, he of course would go to extreme lengths, especially if he had the financial wherewithal, to try to prevent that horror. Then think of nations, and their leaders, and to the time in world history, namely, today, when as compared to the past thousands of years, we have both a better understanding of the spread of pathogens, and we have vast wealth, compared to the past, available to governments. So, this shutdown has been coming at us for a long time. Why now, and never before? Because we can. That's why. How Economic Decline Kills People: The cure might be worse than the disease, and far more people may die from the shut down. Almost like a medically-induced coma, we have a medically-induced, actually, an intentionally, politically-induced, recession. And how bad might it get? The worldwide economy could get bad enough to kill more people than the disease kills, and that could be either with or without all this mitigation. A depression is worse than a recession, long considered a decline in real GDP of more than 10% in one year. GDP, that's gross domestic product; and no, that's not our public school graduating class, that's the value of all goods and services produced. The GDP. Economic forecasters, as Fortune Magazine points out, "are downgrading their predictions almost as fast as they can make them." For example, within just a few weeks, Goldman Sachs downgraded its second quarter GDP estimates from –2%, to –24% to –32%, and that's all within a few weeks. Annualized, that would qualify as a depression, except that our underlying productivity gains, wealth, diversification of the economy, and so on, could prevent anything like what we historically perceive as a depression from hitting us. But they do say, nothing is certain except death and taxes! But even death can be cheated, through Jesus Christ. So maybe the only certainty is that the government is likely to take more from you than it should. Ha! Economic decline, regardless of what you call it, kills people. How do people die from a drop in the standard of living? Well, of course it's called a standard of living, and the opposite of that is dying. Donald Trump unfortunately hasn't found a way to verbalize what he knows to be true, that when the economy faulters, people die. The most I've heard him get out of his mouth is: - suicide, and he mentioned only suicide on a number of occasions; perhaps in the last few days he's expanded on that. While suicide is not nearly the only way people die from an economic downturn, it is terribly serious. Under normal circumstances, suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in America, far higher than traffic fatalities, which doesn't even make the list. 47,000 people die of suicide each year in America, and for young adults, tragically, suicide is the number two cause of death, which is one of the reasons, not the main one, but one of the reasons why we oppose and despise those who seek to decriminalize and normalize suicide. So an increase in suicide, when a business fails, when a father can't figure out how to provide for his family, when a mom sees her children struggling, when a teenager goes further into depression because his life isn't working out how he or she had expected, those deaths are even more insufferable than COVID 19 deaths. I'll give one example, from Thailand. We just had a massive trilobite fossil donated to us here at RSR from a listener in Thailand. well, a Bangkok media outlet has reported that suicides have increased measurably from the lockdown there and they document one example, a man who joined a government protest, a 58-year old taxi driver Nam Jiamsupa, killed himself because he didn't have enough money to pay his next three months taxi lease, $555, and their mental health hotline has gone from 30 calls a month to 600. So Donald Trump is right, of course, suicide is a major result of economic difficulty, but that's only one manner of recession death. Oh, and by the way, what is the top cause of death in the U.S.? It used to be heart disease, at 650,000 a year, with cancer at #2, at 600,000 a year. And here at RSR we've predicted, based on our reporting on and interviews with leaders in the field of targeted antibody treatments, that cancer will drop by 2025 from the second to the fifth cause of death. That's an astounding prediction, and since we made it a couple years ago, it has been heading downward, thankfully. But right now, forget all that, because the #1 cause of death in America, right now, is COVID 19. Yes, COVID deaths have been overcounted, and that's been a problem for decades with many diseases, identifying the correct cause of death, and COVID deaths have been undercounted, as frequently happens also (esp. with home deaths, and as an example, a NY nursing home). That's not a conspiracy, and the two hopefully cancel out, and regardless, that number goes in the numerator of the fraction, and the vastly larger denominator, the number of cases, then helps us decide how deadly a particular infection can be. So, today, at about 2,000 COVID deaths per day, if that was annualized, and if this continued for another year or two, which it could, especially seeing that the virus has experienced 30 point mutations already, and they could make it even far more lethal than the flu-like, or twice-flu like fatality rate that the coronavirus has right now. But at 2k a day, if that became routine, that would be 700,000 deaths per year, but hopefully, we'll have nothing like that. So, an increase in death from an economic downturn, includes from suicide, which could bring it from tenth, as high as above the normal flu and pneumonia deaths of 55,000 per year, and that could disproportionately include children and young people. Then, just like an increase in suicide, there is death from all the other ways that people die, only moreso. One large and lengthy study in Europe has shown that the rate of death increases by 50% for the unemployed as compared to for people who are working. And that includes increases in death rates from virtually all causes, disease, accidents, and so on. People are increasingly unhappy, over a lengthening period of time, and while some have inherent biochemical problems that need psychiatric care, the vast majority need God, and a healthy relationship with Him, becoming increasingly conformed to the image of Jesus Christ, as Paul urges us, becoming more Christ-like, and loving and serving others so much we hardly have time to notice our own twinges of unhappiness. When people can't afford better food, the eat cheaper food. When they can't afford medical care, or the hospitals are otherwise occupied, they forego normal healthcare that could have given an early diagnosis of a treatable disease. When farmers can't afford more productive seeds, and the right amount of irrigation, that use cheaper seeds and don't water their crops enough. When manufactures can't afford to use the best materials, they use cheaper materials. Someone is inclined to commit crime, and he sees corrupt opportunity in a store's reduced security measures. When a man's good business fails, he takes a job that barely sustains his loved ones. And much of this, like virtually all economic calculation, is on the margins. Someone who might not have come down with a disease, but the financial and emotion stress it brings, pushed her over the edge and now she's sick. A business was on the verge of being sustainable, but it fails. A marriage just might have survived, but the added stress results in divorce, and now three kids are growing up with only mom in the household, and that's the number one indicator for the kids eventually to commit crimes, go on welfare, use drugs, and otherwise ruin their lives, and even, die young. And, governmental leaders who don't know right from wrong, and who say things like, America will never be a socialist nation as long as I'm in charge, while handing out thousand dollar checks to everyone, and saddling the next generation with trillions of dollars of debt beyond even Obama deficit spending, and even those measures lead to eventual further downturn, and death. And when a global economy shrinks, short-sighted governments may further increase import tariffs, which primarily is a tax on their own people, again increasing the economic pain. You hit the buyers of Japanese cars with a 10% surcharge, or tariff, and then domestic manufacturers increase the price of their cars by 9%, 100% of which is paid for by the consumer. So the list goes on and on, of how people die from economic decline, and those deaths can be far more than from this SARS-CoV-2 virus, what we call the Wuhan Flu, because of the cover-up and other lies from the Chinese communists. But far more important than all that are the moral questions. And we'll get to them tomorrow. I was supposed to get to them today, but felt that I had to provide my bona fides, showing perhaps newer listeners that here at RSR, we carefully think through the science, and the current events, that we report on, and more importantly, that we do all this with a Christian biblical worldview. So tomorrow, does the government have the right to shut down an economy to fight an epidemic. There's a tremendous amount of anger out there, and it's become a right vs left thing. If Obama had been reigning right now, in office, just like with the H1N1 in 2009 when 60 million Americans were infected, and he shut down nothing, and over 12,000 died, the media couldn't care less and wouldn't have said "boo" against him, nor would they hardly criticize a single thing he did or didn't do if he were here today. And what proof do I have? Look at how they support the Democratic governor of New York, the most hard hit state in the nation, whether he says what the condemn Trump for saying, or does what they condemn Trump for doing, and even when Trump's right and he's wrong. Reality matters not for the fake news blinded by hatred. So because of the left's Trump derangement syndrome, there is an intense fight over whether to reopen, because the Democrats, the media, and millions on the left want to see the economy crash further to hurt Trump's chances of reelection. So the more they support the quarantine, the more conservative Christians are enraged. And from my vantage point, here atop the RSR Towers, overlooking the front range… Hmm. I can't see much careful and principled thinking on either side. The best some conservatives have done is to ask if this is constitutional, and I'm not especially interested in that. I want to know about right and wrong, and there are a hundred other nations that are quarantining. God's not going to other judge nations, or even us, on whether or not they violate, or we uphold, our constitution. He's going to judge us on whether we obey Him or not. Former NJ appeals court judge Andrew Napolitano, a Fox regular until he turned against Trump; we've interviewed him here on the air. He wrote two weeks ago that the only time that a government can interfere with a man's freedom is when he is convicted by a jury of a crime. Oh really? How about when the police arrest a mass murderer, and he's held for months, incarcerated until the trial. You mean Judge Napolitano couldn't think of that? So he provides a perfect example of the kind of sloppy thinking that I have seen conservatives engage in, to keep their anger up. So until tomorrow Lord-willing (if you'd like to share this Crawford-sponsored public service program with a friend, just go online to rsr.org) until tomorrow, this is Bob Enyart for my co-host Fred Williams and Real Science Radio! May God bless you.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the theoretical physicist Dirac (1902-1984), whose achievements far exceed his general fame. To his peers, he was ranked with Einstein and, when he moved to America in his retirement, he was welcomed as if he were Shakespeare. Born in Bristol, he trained as an engineer before developing theories in his twenties that changed the understanding of quantum mechanics, bringing him a Nobel Prize in 1933 which he shared with Erwin Schrödinger. He continued to make deep contributions, bringing abstract maths to physics, beyond predicting anti-particles as he did in his Dirac Equation. With Graham Farmelo Biographer of Dirac and Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge Valerie Gibson Professor of High Energy Physics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College And David Berman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Queen Mary University of London Producer: Simon Tillotson
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the theoretical physicist Dirac (1902-1984), whose achievements far exceed his general fame. To his peers, he was ranked with Einstein and, when he moved to America in his retirement, he was welcomed as if he were Shakespeare. Born in Bristol, he trained as an engineer before developing theories in his twenties that changed the understanding of quantum mechanics, bringing him a Nobel Prize in 1933 which he shared with Erwin Schrödinger. He continued to make deep contributions, bringing abstract maths to physics, beyond predicting anti-particles as he did in his Dirac Equation. With Graham Farmelo Biographer of Dirac and Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge Valerie Gibson Professor of High Energy Physics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College And David Berman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Queen Mary University of London Producer: Simon Tillotson
Decía el físico teórico Paul Dirac que “Dios usó las hermosas matemáticas al crear el mundo”. Y es que el cosmos, la propia naturaleza, los templos religiosos, la literatura, las obras de arte o los textos sagrados como La Biblia o El Corán suelen tener claves matemáticas, códigos ocultos y símbolos profundos que a veces son difíciles de detectar y de interpretar. Un tema atractivo el que nos proponemos dilucidar con Guillermo N. Bergmann, uno de los coautores del libro “Sefart: el software divino”, una investigación original y novedosa en la que dicen haber descubierto no solo códigos secretos sino pictogramas en la Torá aplicando un código binario. También hablaremos con Fermín Mayorga de esos libros religiosos y mágicos que estuvieron prohibidos por la Inquisición y que, por su contenido heterodoxo, tuvieron que ser ocultados o quemados, convirtiéndose en obras malditas. Juan Ignacio Cuesta nos contará casos de geometría sagrada, como son los fractales, o las maravillas del Templo de Salomón. Jesús Callejo hablará de la Cábala, los nombres secretos de Dios o los capiteles románicos de algunos claustros en los que hay una música escondida. Todo ello presentado, en esta ocasión, por el gran David Sentinella. Un programa donde se revelarán demasiados secretillos...
How can we evolve our expectations of aging professionally? And why don't we like vanilla more? [21:17] This week, Joey and Jess talk about peaking, Paul Dirac, second careers, vanilla planifolia, "real vanilla experiences," and redefining 'basic'. They don't talk about how much accidental shade Jess throws at chocolate this episode while standing up for vanilla justice. references The somewhat clickbaity-sounding Atlantic article that inspired Joey this week. Jeremy Lin's emotional speech in Taiwan Global market value stats on chocolate and vanilla. Bon Appétit's Chocolate Chip Cookie episode (and passing vanilla commentary) Next time you're in Ann Arbor, Jess personally recommends a scoop each of Madagascar and Tahitian vanilla in your waffle cone at Blank Slate Creamery.
La simmetria è stata un principio guida per l'arte sin dall'antichità, ma con la scienza moderna ha assunto un significato ancora più ricco, da Gian Carlo Ghirardi a Paul Dirac
Dall'uomo vitruviano alla fisica dei quanti, il valore della simmetria e della bellezza come principio guida della scienza, a partire dai libri di Paul Dirac e Gian Carlo Ghirardi.
EM MINHA MENTE, SOU COMPLETAMENTE LIVRE. 1% de Stephen Hawking, foi um físico teórico e cosmólogo britânico e um dos mais consagrados cientistas do século. Considerado gênio da atualidade, foi professor lucasiano emérito na Universidade de Cambridge, um posto que foi ocupado por Isaac Newton, Paul Dirac e Charles Babbage. IG: @fernaobattistoni facebook.com/fernaobattistoni
Quantum Field Theory is the current best understanding of the nature of reality that we have. It's also the strangest. Join me as we break down how we got there and what it all means. Support me on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/answerswithjoe Get some cool t-shirts yo! Follow me at all my places! Instagram: https://instagram.com/answerswithjoe Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/add/answerswithjoe Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/answerswithjoe Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/answerswithjoe LINKS LINKS LINKS: From The Royal Institution - David Tong on Quantum Field Theory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNVQfWC_evg Part one on Quantum Electrodynamics and Paul Dirac at PBS Digital Studios https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYkaahzFWfo Fermilab on Quantum Field Theory https://youtu.be/FBeALt3rxEA
What does it mean for an electron to spin? Why do we have such a hard time measuring it? And why doesn’t Paul Dirac get any attention anymore, anyway? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/pmsutter All episodes: http://www.AskASpaceman.com Follow on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/PaulMattSutter Like on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/PaulMattSutter Watch on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/PaulMSutter Keep those questions about space, science, astronomy, astrophysics, physics, and cosmology coming to #AskASpaceman for COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF TIME AND SPACE! Big thanks to my top Patreon supporters this month: Justin G., Matthew K., Kevin O., Justin R., Chris C., Helge B., Tim R., Michael C., Lars H., Ray S., John F., James L., Mark R., David B., and Silvan W.! Music by Jason Grady and Nick Bain. Thanks to WCBE Radio for hosting the recording session, Greg Mobius for producing, and Cathy Rinella for editing. Hosted by Paul M. Sutter, astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, Chief Scientist at COSI Science Center, and the one and only Agent to the Stars (http://www.pmsutter.com).
Metaphysical Visionary Stuart Wilde 04:14 - Tom Lishman 09:18 - Jeff Casper 16:18 - DeeDee Wilde (Stuart's Twin Sister) 18:42 - The Hooded Sage, Khris Krepcik 21:32 - Stuart Wilde Discussing Freedom 24:17 - Tracee Dunblazer 30:16 - Stuart Wilde Discussing Freedom Part II 31:01 - Paul Eno, National Radio Host 37:14 - Richard Tyler 43:17 - Stuart Wilde Discussing Religion 45:10 - Dawn Dalcourt 49:10 - Chad Achenbach 52:00 - Stuart Wilde Discussing Abundance 54:10 - Psychic Medium Kerrie O'Connor 1:03:44 - Astrologer Constance Stellas 1:10:04 - Psychic Empath Lisa Caza About Stuart Wilde Stuart Wilde has written twenty books on spirituality, consciousness, and self-empowerment, which have been published by Random House, Hay House, and other publishers and they are also translated into fifteen languages. He's produced and written six music albums, and an operetta called Heartland (Tim Wheater, Almo Records). He's written two films, one of which, Snowball, was sold to Konstantine Films (Germany), Europe's largest film company, whose most famous film was Da Boat and The Damned. Stuart has roughly sixty audio recordings, published by hay house, Nightingale and Quiet Earth, Australia. Stuart Wilde has done 500 radio shows and a number of TV shows including the Michael Parkinson Show, BBC London. He's appeared on the Channel 10 Good Morning Australia show with Kerri-Anne Kennerly several times, as well as a number of affiliated TV stations in the United States. For a full list of Stuart Wilde's published works, you can search Wikipedia. =============== More About Stuart Wilde (from wikipedia) Career He studied alternative religions and Taoist philosophy for five years from the age of twenty-eight, and when he was thirty-three, he emigrated to the United States of America where he lived in Laguna Beach, California with his first wife Cynthia. He wrote his first book, Miracles, in 1983.[3] Shortly thereafter he began a career as a lecturer appearing mainly in New Thought Churches and at New Age conferences. In the 1990s he toured regularly with Deepak Chopra, Dr. Wayne Dyer and Louise Hay,[7] appearing at venues such as the Sydney Entertainment Centre. Wilde's London street slang and comedic way[8] of presenting self-empowerment and spiritual ideas continue to attract a wide and diverse audience.[2][8] He's been called ahead of his time," 'the teacher's teacher' because of the influence he has had on other writers and lecturers in the field", provocative, poignant, controversial, funny, and his writing "timeless".[2][9] He remains a recognized figure for progressive thought in metaphysics and the field of human potential, and is often quoted with references to his work appearing across a wide swath of international cultural, business, and educational forums from the Kennedy Center for the Arts',[10] interviews with American hip-hop artists and slam poets,[11] international investment conferences,[12] and the pages of international media such as CNET's "Top 10 List: Human Development Gurus"[13] and The Times of India's "Sunday Life" section.[14] Principal Philosophy & Early Work Wilde's principal philosophy states that, while many citizens may seem to be normal, acquiescing to the status quo, there exists, in fact, a vast population of what he calls Fringe Dwellers whose mind and soul do not align to the constraints of life in regular society that Wilde called Tick-Tock.[2][16] Wilde believed through use of the theta state of meditation (4–7 cycles per second), humans can better control their emotional life and their bio-rhythms, and begin to see visions, and that those visions and extrasensory feeling will lead to a greater balance and more freedom.[2][17][18] To that end, he emphasized the importance of going beyond the habit of struggling, and advocated the need for financial freedom,[2] themes stated in his books Life was Never Meant to be a Struggle (1987), The Trick to Money is Having Some (1989),[19] and The Little Money Bible (1998). In Affirmations (1986), Wilde laid out systems of self-talk that empower an individual to change their core beliefs.[20] His book Sixth Sense (2000) discusses practical techniques for developing extrasensory perception. Later Work He earned both praise and criticism for his later works which advance controversial concepts such as other dimensions, dematerialization, and Morph worlds.[9] His most avant garde philosophy is based on the idea that Paul Dirac's hypothesis of parallel antiparticle worlds is, in fact, correct, and that humans adept at trance meditation can become aware of spiritual dimensions placed at 90° from them left and right—dimensions, Wilde said, that follow Hawking's theory of transverse waves of light. Wilde acknowledged there was no empirical data to support his claim, but anecdotal evidence, gathered from more than two-thousand people whom he taught, stated they had experienced such transcendental 90° perception which led him to conclude these worlds exist.[21] Grace, Gaia, and the End of Days (2009) maps out coordinates for these spiritual dimensions and offers "a twenty-first century understanding of grace and spiritual evolution"—and tools to activate it in one's life. In a 2009 interview Wilde said, "Grace is a golden light, pure love, a divine energy, seen coming from these inner spiritual worlds. It is data-driven and laced with trillions of bits of fractal information that will guide you and help you evolve. The human system is configured to read this fractal data through visions and extra sensory intuitive feelings."[21] Serenity and balance developed through regular trance meditation enable access this 'pure information', which he called stream of consciousness from a 'Higher Knowing', 'The Source', 'God'.[21] While Wilde believed humans are multi-dimensional beings who possess both the celestial light and the dark, he posited they gravitate to one or the other based on inner feelings, thoughts, and actions. The quality of these feelings, moreover, determine the spiritual dimension an aspect of oneself will reside in any moment.[21][22] Redemption (and a life of love and serenity) is possible for all by choosing the ways of the celestial. On the larger plane, he believed the light will eventually overcome the dark and advised aligning with the forces of light, the forces of God. He laid out techniques for doing so through cultivation of tenderness, generosity, respect, "the soft eye", mindfulness, meditation, time in nature and with animals,[23] and avoidance of dark places, people, and media that sell specialness, fear, degradation, and greed. Move from the cold cerebral mind into the warmth of heart and feeling. "There is strength in softness. Remember, It's all backwards," he was oft quoted.[21] Additional Themes Wilde was a staunch supporter of peace in the world, the philosophy of live and let live,[9] animal rights and vegetarianism. Tom Lishman eulogised him this way— We must remember that just because he has gone back to the non-physical realm he is still very much with us, we should not forget that his time here was set and agreed upon and he has completed his mission, that being said all fringe dwellers must now rise above the despair and confusion they feel and turn it into positive energy and by doing this they will honour his work in the best possible way. Stuart will be remembered for making a huge contribution towards the new golden age of peace and love that is fast approaching, his followers will indeed take up his torch and light up planet earth like never before. We must ponder this question...What if by him leaving his body at this time he can contribute even more to world peace ?, anyone that knows him will know that he will be doing just that."[24]
Wir beschäftigen uns in dieser Episode mit der Geschichte der Quantenphysik und sprechen über Paul Dirac (1902–1984), der in nur 8 Jahren so ziemlich alles erreichte, was ein Physiker so erreichen kann: Er wurde mit 27 Jahren zum Fellow der Royal Society gewählt, hatte mit "The Principles of Quantum Mechanics" ein Werk verfasst, das heute noch als Standardwerk gilt und von dem es heißt, dass es Einstein selbst in den Ferien bei sich trug und mit 29 bekam er den Lucasischen Lehrstuhl, den bereits Isaac Newton innehatte. Und 1933 erhielt er gemeinsam mit Erwin Schrödinger den Physik‐Nobelpreis für "die Entdeckung neuer und wichtiger Versionen der Atomtheorie".
This week I explore the life of Bristol's Nobel Prize winning physicist, Paul Dirac. Born in Bishopston in 1902, educated at what is now Cotham School, by his early twenties Dirac was writing papers that have profoundly influenced our understanding of how the world works. Professor Sir Michael Berry and Dr Vincent Smith of Bristol University's School of Physics join me to tell this remarkable story.
Paul Dirac (1902-1984) oli brittiläinen fyysikko, joka palkittiin fysiikan Nobelilla vuonna 1933. Hän löysi matemaattisen päättelyn tuloksena teorian, joka kuvasi antiaineen, positronin eli elektronin antihiukkasen. Positronit löydettiinkin sitten pian kosmisesta säteilystä. Aiemmin ei tiedetty antiainetta olevan olemassakaan. Dirac oli erikoinen persoona, matemaattisesti hyvin lahjakas mutta luonteeltaan eristäytynyt, harvapuheinen ja mahdollisesti autistinen. Diracin persoonasta ja töistä on haastateltavana professori Kari Enqvist Helsingin yliopistosta. Toimittajana on Sisko Loikkanen.
Paul Dirac (1902–1984) was an English theoretical physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. In 1933, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger. Sir Michael Atiyah is one of the world's greatest living mathematicians and is well known throughout the mathematical world. He is a recipient of the Fields Medal, the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prize, as well as the Abel Prize—two of mathematics' highest honors—and is still at the peak of his career. Atiyah received a knighthood in 1983 and the Order of Merit in 1992. He also served as president of the Royal Society from 1990–1995. He joins us on Culture Insight to share his insight into the life and work of British physicist Paul Dirac. He joins us on Culture Insight to share his insight into the life and work of British physicist Paul Dirac.
Jim al-Khalili was sitting in a physics lecture at the University of Surrey when he suddenly understood the power of equations to describe and predict the physical world. He recalls that sadly his enthusiasm was lost on many of his fellow students. Jim wants to persuade the listeners that equations have a beauty. In conversation with fellow scientists he reveals the surprising emotions they feel when describing the behaviour of matter in the universe in mathematical terms. For Carlos Frenk, professor of Computational Cosmology at Durham University, one of the most beautiful equations is the one that is at the heart of Einstein's theory of general relativity. A century ago, Einstein wrote down his now famous field equations that linked the shape of the universe to the matter in it. Jim and Graham Farmelo, the author of a biography of Paul Dirac called The Strangest Man, discuss why the Dirac equation is not as well known as Einstein's but, in their opinion, should be. Dr Patricia Fara of Cambridge University, and Vice-President of the British Society for the History of Science, explains that although mathematics goes back centuries it was only in the 17th Century that it was applied to the real world. Jeff Forshaw, Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Manchester, talks about when he first realised the power of equations and about why, surprisngly, maths is so effective at describing the real world. Science writer Philip Ball questions whether the beauty that scientists see in equations is really the same as we see in art. And physics A Level students in Dr White's class at Hammersmith Academy in London reveal that they already appreciate equations. (Photo: Jim al-Khalili)
Part Two of the scientific biography of Paul Dirac. This includes a discussion of the development of the Dirac Equation, work in quantum field theory, a theory of magnetic monopoles and the first ideas of string theory.
In this episode we take a look at the early life and education of engineer, mathematician and physicist Paul Dirac.
A discussion of the work of Paul Dirac to produce the relativistic wave equationand the discovery of anti-matter as he theorized by Carl David Anderson.
Episódio 15 (2014). Neste programa, Marco Aurélio Idiart (IF-UFRGS, via skype), Jorge Quillfeldt (Biofísica-UFRGS), Jeferson J. Arenzon (IF-UFRGS) continuam a conversa, via skype, com Fernanda Steffens (Desy-Berlin) sobre a vida e obra do físico e esquisitão inglês Paul Dirac.
Episódio 12 (2013). Neste programa, Marco Aurélio Idiart (IF-UFRGS, via skype), Jorge Quillfeldt (Biofísica-UFRGS), Jeferson J. Arenzon (IF-UFRGS) conversam, via skype, com Fernanda Steffens sobre a obra do físico e esquisitão inglês Paul Dirac. No final, e intercalado durante o programa, a música "Dirac's Equation" de Jonah.
Magnetic monopoles are one of those things that really should be real. There’s practically an empty space in physics waiting to be filled by them. But nobody’s found one yet. In some ways, Paul Dirac was as elusive a figure … Continue reading →
Adjunct Professor of Physics at Northeastern University in Boston, Graham Farmelo, on Paul Dirac and the Religion of Mathematical Beauty. Apart from Einstein, Paul Dirac was probably the greatest theoretical physicist of the 20th century. Dirac, co-inventor of quantum mechanics, is now best known for conceiving of anti-matter and also for his deeply eccentric behavior. For him, the most important attribute of a fundamental theory was its mathematical beauty, an idea that he said was "almost a religion" to him.
Adjunct Professor of Physics at Northeastern University in Boston, Graham Farmelo, on Paul Dirac and the Religion of Mathematical Beauty. Apart from Einstein, Paul Dirac was probably the greatest theoretical physicist of the 20th century. Dirac, co-inventor of quantum mechanics, is now best known for conceiving of anti-matter and also for his deeply eccentric behavior. For him, the most important attribute of a fundamental theory was its mathematical beauty, an idea that he said was "almost a religion" to him.
Adjunct Professor of Physics at Northeastern University in Boston, Graham Farmelo, on Paul Dirac and the Religion of Mathematical Beauty. Apart from Einstein, Paul Dirac was probably the greatest theoretical physicist of the 20th century. Dirac, co-inventor of quantum mechanics, is now best known for conceiving of anti-matter and also for his deeply eccentric behavior. For him, the most important attribute of a fundamental theory was its mathematical beauty, an idea that he said was "almost a religion" to him.
By the end of the first quarter of the 20th century, physicists increasingly realized that quantum mechanics provided a powerful means of describing the behaviour of subatomic particles. But until that point it only described slow moving particles. When Paul Dirac combined special relativity with quantum mechanics, he found something even stranger, antimatter!
Graham Farmelo is Senior Research Fellow at the Science Museum, London, and Adjunct Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. He edited the best-selling It Must be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science in 2002. His biography of Paul Dirac, The Strangest Man, won the 2009 Costa Biography Prize and the 2010 Los Angeles Times Science Book Prize. You can listen to my interview with Graham about The Strangest Man by clicking here. And here are Graham’s summer reading choices: Summer reading seems to be synonymous with light reading. Not for me. These relatively quiet months often present the best opportunities to read challenging, off-piste books that I tend to put on the shelf invisibly marked “when I have time”.David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas has been there for too long. It took an appreciative review of his latest, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by the notoriously sniffy James Wood to nudge me into taking the plunge. I’m glad I did – though Cloud Atlas is not always easy to read, Mitchell’s virtuosity makes …
Award-winning writer and physicist Graham Farmelo talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky about The Strangest Man, Farmelo's biography of Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Paul Dirac. Part 2 of 2. Web sites related to this episode include www.thestrangestman.com and http://bit.ly/dirac1963
Award-winning writer and physicist Graham Farmelo talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky about The Strangest Man, Farmelo's biography of Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Paul Dirac. Part 1 of 2. Web sites related to this episode include www.thestrangestman.com and http://bit.ly/dirac1963
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Antimatter, a type of particle predicted by the British physicist, Paul Dirac. Dirac once declared that “The laws of nature should be expressed in beautiful equations”. True to his word, he is responsible for one of the most beautiful. Formulated in 1928, it describes the behaviour of electrons and is called the Dirac equation. But the Dirac equation is strange. For every question it gives two answers – one positive and one negative. From this its author concluded that for every electron there is an equal and opposite twin. He called this twin the anti-electron and so the concept of antimatter was born.Despite its popularity with Science Fiction writers, antimatter is relatively mundane in physics – we have created antimatter in the laboratory and we even use it in our hospitals. But one fundamental question remains – why isn't there more antimatter in the universe. Answering that question will involve developing new physics and may take us closer to understanding events at the origin of the universe. With Val Gibson, Reader in High Energy Physics at the University of Cambridge; Frank Close, Professor of Physics at Exeter College, University of Oxford; Ruth Gregory, Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Durham
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Antimatter, a type of particle predicted by the British physicist, Paul Dirac. Dirac once declared that “The laws of nature should be expressed in beautiful equations”. True to his word, he is responsible for one of the most beautiful. Formulated in 1928, it describes the behaviour of electrons and is called the Dirac equation. But the Dirac equation is strange. For every question it gives two answers – one positive and one negative. From this its author concluded that for every electron there is an equal and opposite twin. He called this twin the anti-electron and so the concept of antimatter was born.Despite its popularity with Science Fiction writers, antimatter is relatively mundane in physics – we have created antimatter in the laboratory and we even use it in our hospitals. But one fundamental question remains – why isn’t there more antimatter in the universe. Answering that question will involve developing new physics and may take us closer to understanding events at the origin of the universe. With Val Gibson, Reader in High Energy Physics at the University of Cambridge; Frank Close, Professor of Physics at Exeter College, University of Oxford; Ruth Gregory, Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Durham
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