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4 episodes with Steven Weinberg
2 episodes with Steven Weinberg
2 episodes with Steven Weinberg
2 episodes with Steven Weinberg
Unsere beiden Himmelspaziergänger Susanne und Paul sind zurück – und wie! In der neuen Staffel nehmen sie euch erneut mit auf eine Reise zu den größten Rätseln und faszinierendsten Geschichten der Astronomie. Neu dabei: die Kategorie „Sternenstaub oder Schall und Rauch?“. Hier fühlen Susanne und Paul reißerischen Astro-Headlines aus den Medien auf den Zahn, räumen mit übertriebenen Sensationen auf und bringen humorvoll sowie wissenschaftlich fundiert Licht ins Dunkel.Passend zum Neustart dreht sich die erste Folge der Staffel um den Anfang von allem: die ersten drei Minuten nach dem Urknall. Was geschah in diesen unglaublichen Momenten, als ein winziger Teil des Universums, kleiner als ein Atomkern, in kürzester Zeit auf die Größe eines Sonnensystems anwuchs?Susanne und Paul erklären anschaulich die Phasen des jungen Universums – von der geheimnisvollen Planck-Ära bis zur Bildung der ersten Elementarteilchen. Schon damals wurde die chemische Zusammensetzung festgelegt, die später Galaxien, Sterne, Planeten und sogar uns möglich machte. Freut euch auf spannende Fakten und faszinierende Einblicke in den Moment, als unser Universum geboren wurde – spannender und spektakulärer als jeder Science-Fiction-Roman und vor allem: alles wirklich wahr!
Hear about four new books for youth recommended by Carol Roberts, head of Young People's Services at Troy Public Library. "Bite by Bite: American History Through Feasts, Foods, and Side Dishes" (Marc Aronson & Paul Freedman, 2024) tracks the background of various foods. "Four Eyes" (Rex Ogle, ill. Dave Valeza, 2023), a graphic novel that shows the challenges of a student transitioning into middle school, which might help parents talk with a child facing similar transitions and isolation. "Hungry Bones" (Louise Hung, 2024) is the story of a young Asian girl who meets the ghost of an Asian girl who died over a century ago. "What Is Color? The Global and Sometimes Gross Story of Pigments, Paints, and the Wondrous World of Art" (Steven Weinberg, 2024) explains all about color, including how pigments are created by various elements form around the world. For more details, visit www.thetroylibrary.org. Produced by Brea Barthel for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.
Join Tara as she talks to artist and author Steven Weinberg about his captivating book, "What is Color?" In this insightful conversation, we delve into the inspiration behind the story, the creative process that went into its creation, and why art should be celebrated. From the importance of color and art in our lives to the unique childhood experiences of Steven's children, this episode offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of storytelling and the power of color. Steven shares his early experiences with art, encourages kids to keep drawing, and discusses the role of bright colors in professional settings. Discover how Steven Weinberg's book "What is Color?" combines history, art, and science to create an engaging and enjoyable experience for young readers, including Tara's son. Learn about the techniques he uses to bring his illustrations to life and the importance of collaboration in storytelling. Whether you're a parent, educator, or simply curious about the world of art and literature, this episode is sure to inspire and entertain. Link: stevenweinbergstudio.com -- https://www.instagram.com/steven_draws/
Join Scott "Shalom" Klein on his weekly radio show, Get Down To Business with guests: Dr. Yaniv Zaid Suzanne Sarsfield Scarano David Fradin Steven Weinberg
The Reverend Michael Bray is a leading advocate of murdering abortion doctors. He also takes biblical literalism to the extreme of advocating the death penalty for adultery and homosexuality. His friend and coconspirator, the Reverend Paul Hill, was executed for murdering an abortion doctor and his bodyguard. Bray strongly defends Hill's action and thinks he's now being rewarded in heaven. Bray himself served 46 months of a 10-year jail sentence for conspiracy and possession of illicit explosives. What follows is an audio recording of a long conversation I had with him in a public park in Colorado. He struck me as a deeply confused individual but at the same time sincere, a mind addled and perverted by religious faith, walking evidence of Steven Weinberg's well-known aphorism, which I quote at the end of this recording: for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.
In his 1943 book The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis wrote: “The serious magical endeavor and the serious scientific endeavor are twins: One was sickly and died, the other strong and throve. But they were twins. They were born of the same impulse.” In this Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson, mathematician and philosopher David Berlinski, intelligent design advocate Stephen Meyer, and Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Cambridge University, James Orr explore the parallels between scientific and magical endeavors, referencing C. S. Lewis's notion that both were born from the same impulse, with one thriving and the other fading. They also explore the historical relationship between science and religion, noting how early scientists such as Newton and Galileo saw their work as uncovering divine order, in contrast with the more secular views of modern scientists such as Steven Weinberg and Stephen Hawking. The discussion also reveals deep philosophical and historical insights into the evolution of scientific thought and its complex relationship with materialism and religion.
Christopher Hitchens famously claimed that “religion poisons everything,” and Steven Weinberg argued that “with or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil – that takes religion.” Here are six reasons those are silly arguments. Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. So about 20 years ago, we saw the rise of what’s sometimes called New Atheism, although it’s not that new anymore. It was kind of the convalescence of a number of authors and thinkers, people like Richard Dawkins, Christopher H…
Nearly 30 years ago, physicist Steven Weinberg wrote that “[t]he more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.” But is our universe really just a meaningless accident? Or can we detect true genius by studying its workings? On this ID The Future, we are pleased to share the first half of an interview with Dr. Jonathan Witt about the central questions of his 2006 book A Meaningful World, co-written with Benjamin Wiker. Witt explains that the more we learn about the universe, the more it seems laden with meaning. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Source
Nearly 30 years ago, physicist Steven Weinberg wrote that “[t]he more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.” But is our universe really just a meaningless accident? Or can we detect true genius by studying its workings? On this ID The Future, we are pleased to share the first half of an interview with Dr. Jonathan Witt about the central questions of his 2006 book A Meaningful World, co-written with Benjamin Wiker. Witt explains that the more we learn about the universe, the more it seems laden with meaning. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Source
¿Por qué escuchar esta entrevista? Anamaría es física, profesora universitaria, e investigadora académica. Es considerada una experta en técnicas de compactación de dimensiones extra en teoría de cuerdas, y fue quién introdujo la dualidad-S en teoría de supercuerdas. Fue alumna destacada del profesor y premio Nobel de Física, Steven Weinberg. No podemos olvidar mencionar sus relevantes publicaciones, que han sido ampliamente citadas y han contribuido al avance del conocimiento en su campo. Entre ellas se encuentran trabajos como "Dualidad de acoplamiento fuerte-débil y efectos no perturbativos en la teoría de cuerdas", y "Simetría especular para modelos de dos parámetros", entre otras. Anamaría ha recibido numerosos reconocimientos a lo largo de su carrera. Entre ellos se encuentra el Premio L'Oréal-UNESCO para las Mujeres en la Ciencia, junio de 2023; Miembro Electo de la Academia de Ciencias de América Latina (ACAL), abril de 2016; Beca de la Sociedad Max Planck, enero-julio de 2015; Miembro Electo de la Academia Mundial de Ciencias, octubre de 2013; Asociada Senior en el Centro Internacional de Física Teórica-Trieste, enero de 2012-diciembre de 2017; Premio ICTP en Física de Alta Energía [compartido con el Dr. F. Quevedo], julio de 1998. Explora lo que tenemos para ti en nuestra página web: https://tramauniversity.org/ Síguenos en Instagram para estar al día con todas nuestras actividades: https://www.instagram.com/tramauniversity/
Giuseppe Bruzzaniti"Di cose visibili e invisibili"Dall'atomo al quark, viaggiando nelle immagini della materiaCodice Edizioniwww.codiceedizioni.itNella sua incessante indagine sulle unità fondamentali che formano il mondo attorno a noi, la fisica si è spinta in regioni sempre più piccole della materia, e a partire dalla fine dell'Ottocento la matematica ha assunto un ruolo sempre più importante, offrendo la possibilità di costruire modelli della realtà attraverso oggetti rappresentabili soltanto matematicamente. Dagli atomi alle particelle elementari, giù fino agli ineffabili quark, ci siamo sganciati dai riferimenti sicuri dell'intuizione immediata e abbiamo abbandonato il sostegno di consolidate categorie filosofiche. Il visibile, scomposto nei suoi costituenti elementari, è diventato invisibile e per questo, paradossalmente, comprensibile. La rivoluzione della fisica del Novecento è quindi stata soprattutto una rivoluzione filosofica, sostiene Giuseppe Bruzzaniti, che in questo libro ci accompagna in un viaggio singolare nella storia della scienza, in cui incontreremo le stupefacenti proprietà degli atomi e dei quark, del vuoto quantistico ribollente di particelle virtuali, del bosone di Higgs e la sorprendente idea, usando le parole di Steven Weinberg, «che il nostro mondo solido di alberi e pietre possa essere fatto di campi quantistici e nient'altro».Giuseppe BruzzanitiFisico, specializzato in storia e filosofia della scienza alla Domus Galileiana di Pisa, ha svolto la sua attività di ricerca presso il gruppo di storia della fisica dell'Università di Genova diretto da Enrico Bellone. Oltre a numerosi articoli su riviste internazionali ha già pubblicato con Loescher (La radioattività), Bollati Boringhieri (Dal segno al nucleo) ed Einaudi (Enrico Fermi, tradotto da Springer), ed è autore della voce quadro Nucleo per l'Enciclopedia delle Scienze Fisiche Treccani.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itQuesto show fa parte del network Spreaker Prime. Se sei interessato a fare pubblicità in questo podcast, contattaci su https://www.spreaker.com/show/1487855/advertisement
Katherine Freese first presented the concept of dark stars at a conference in 2007. It was not well received at the time, as there was no evidence for it, and finding it seemed impossible. That is until recently… Katherine Freese is a renowned theoretical physicist, professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin, and a member of the Simons Observatory. She works on a wide range of topics in theoretical cosmology and astroparticle physics, including her quest to identify the dark matter and dark energy that permeate the universe. She wrote The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter, published in June 2014 by Princeton University Press. She is one of the most renowned scientists that exists today, and I'm excited to have her back on the show to discuss Hubble tension, natural inflation, dark energy, and, of course, the star of the show (pun intended), dark stars! Tune in. Key Takeaways: Intro (00:00) In honor of Steven Weinberg (01:09) Katie's take on Hubble tension (03:28) Natural inflation and the particle responsible for it (08:43) Katie's take on dark energy (16:25) Philosophical and theological implications of Katie's research (21:11) Katie's philosophy as an educator (22:58) Katie presents her proof of dark stars (29:29) Pedagogical expectations (43:10) Outro (48:04) — Additional resources:
To read this essay and my other essays, articles and interviews, please subscribe at https://khmezek.substack.com/ AN IRANIAN STUDENT'S HARROWING ADVENTURES IN MIDDLE AMERICA DURING THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION AND WHAT IT MEANS TODAY "With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil—that takes religion" —Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate in Physics I wrote this piece after hours of interviews with Alec Moghadam. We had a great time together. He made amazing Persian dinners and we drank martinis while he told his story. Thanks, Alec, for sharing your adventures with me. Your experiences resonate powerfully with what is happening today. Thousands of young, idealistic revolutionaries are taking to the streets of America, demanding the complete dismantling of the corrupt government institutions that have oppressed them for so long. They would do well to look at history to see how others just like them have been used as pawns, over and over, by leaders whose corrupt agendas are no different than those they depose, only sold in new packaging. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kh-mezek/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kh-mezek/support
Are humans progressing morally as well as materially? What does it mean to be human in the cosmos? On this ID The Future, we bring you the second half of a stimulating conversation between Dr. David Berlinski and host Eric Metaxas on the subject of Berlinski's recent book Human Nature. In Human Nature, Berlinski argues that the utopian view that humans are progressing toward evolutionary and technological perfection is wishful thinking. Men are not about to become like gods. "I'm a strong believer in original sin," quips Berlinski in his discussion with Metaxas. In other words, he believes not only that humans are fundamentally distinct from the rest of the biological world, but also that humans are prone to ignorance and depravity as well as wisdom and nobility. During the second half of their discussion, Berlinski and Metaxas compare and contrast the ideas of thinkers like psychologist Steven Pinker, author Christopher Hitchens, and physicist Steven Weinberg. The pair also spar gracefully over the implications of human uniqueness. Berlinski, though candid and self-critical, is unwilling to be pigeonholed. Metaxas, drawing his own conclusions about the role of mind in the universe, challenges Berlinski into moments of clarity with his usual charm. The result is an honest, probing, and wide-ranging conversation about the nature of science and the human condition. This is Part 2 of a two-part interview. Source
If people knew one thing about Steven Weinberg, it'd be a quote from one of his books: “The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.” In this episode, I want to speculate about what he might have meant. Is the universe pointless?
Sheldon Lee Glashow (born December 5, 1932) is a Nobel Prize-winning American theoretical physicist. He is the Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Boston University and Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, emeritus, at Harvard University, and is a member of the board of sponsors for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In 1961, Glashow extended electroweak unification models due to Schwinger by including a short range neutral current, the Z0. The resulting symmetry structure that Glashow proposed, SU(2) × U(1), forms the basis of the accepted theory of the electroweak interactions. For this discovery, Glashow along with Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam, was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics. In collaboration with James Bjorken, Glashow was the first to predict a fourth quark, the charm quark, in 1964. This was at a time when 4 leptons had been discovered but only 3 quarks proposed. The development of their work in 1970, the GIM mechanism showed that the two quark pairs: (d.s), (u,c), would largely cancel out flavor changing neutral currents, which had been observed experimentally at far lower levels than theoretically predicted on the basis of 3 quarks only. The prediction of the charm quark also removed a technical disaster for any quantum field theory with unequal numbers of quarks and leptons — an anomaly — where classical field theory symmetries fail to carry over into the quantum theory. In 1973, Glashow and Howard Georgi proposed the first grand unified theory. They discovered how to fit the gauge forces in the standard model into an SU(5) group, and the quarks and leptons into two simple representations. Their theory qualitatively predicted the general pattern of coupling constant running, with plausible assumptions, it gave rough mass ratio values between third generation leptons and quarks, and it was the first indication that the law of Baryon number is inexact, that the proton is unstable. This work was the foundation for all future unifying work. Glashow shared the 1977 J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize with Feza Gürsey. Original video here Full Wikipedia entry here Sheldon Glashow's books here --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theunadulteratedintellect/support
Das Universum ist eines der Dinge, die von Zeit zu Zeit einfach passieren. Und das ist nicht einfach nur Gerede, sondern echte Wissenschaft! Mehr zur Entstehung des Universums aus dem Nichts erfahrt ihr in der neuen Folge der Sternengeschichten. Wer den Podcast finanziell unterstützen möchte, kann das hier tun: Mit PayPal (https://www.paypal.me/florianfreistetter), Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/sternengeschichten) oder Steady (https://steadyhq.com/sternengeschichten)
The universe is an infinite scientific wonder created by Allah, Who has superior might and infinite wisdom. Studies of the atom, the basis of all animate and inanimate things, reveal perfect order, unerring balance, and conscious design. Through research and questioning, we can uncover the reasons behind this miraculous design, leading us to the truth of Allah's infinite power and wisdom. The Universe is an infinite scientific mystery that has been contemplated for centuries. Ancient Greeks believed in an infinite universe without a beginning, which was revived during the Renaissance and embraced by materialistic philosophies. The Miracle in the Atom Audiobook: https://on.soundcloud.com/HfYXb In the 20th century, the Big Bang theory proved this wrong, and showed that the universe was created from nothing. This finding of Creation was seen by Sir Fred Hoyle and others as a challenge to their "steady-state" theory, which proposed an infinite universe without beginning or end. The Big Bang has since been accepted as the standard model for the universe, and is widely accepted by the scientific community. Edwin Hubble's discovery of red shifted light from stars in the California Mount Wilson Observatory showed that stars and galaxies were moving away from each other, proving that the universe is expanding. This further pointed to the Big Bang Theory, where the universe was created from nothing in a single point-mass with zero volume due to immense gravitational force. This was confirmed by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson's discovery of cosmic background radiation. The atoms that make up the entire universe formed after the Big Bang, and the formation and combination of these atoms have enabled an incredibly complex universe to come into being. The Big Bang created particles, such as electrons, protons, and neutrons, which formed the atom, the building block of the universe. In order for the material universe to form, more electrons than positrons had to be present. This perfect balance of particles allowed the universe to form, and the atoms that make up the universe are a result of this balance along with Allah's will. Notes: 1. David Filkin, Stephen Hawking's Universe:The Cosmos Explained, Basic Books, October 1998, pp. 85-86 2. Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time A Reader's Companion (Edited by Stephen Hawking; prepared by Gene Stone), New York, Bantam Books, 1982, p. 62-63 3. Henry Margenau, Roy Abraham Vargesse, Cosmos, Bios, Theos, La Salla IL: Open Court Publishing, 1992, p. 241 4. H. P. Lipson, "A Physicist Looks at Evolution", Physics Bulletin, vol. 138, 1980, p. 138 5. Taşkın Tuna, Uzayın Sırları (The Secrets of Space), Boğaziçi Yayınları, p.185 6. Colin A. Ronan, The Universe Explained, The Earth-Dwellers's Guide to the Mysteries of Space, Henry Holt and Company, pp. 178-179 7. Taşkın Tuna, Uzayın Sırları (The Secrets of Space), Boğaziçi Yayınları, p.186 8. Steven Weinberg, The First Three Minutes, A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe, Basic Books, June 1993, p. 87 9. Stephen W. Hawking, A Brief History of Time, Bantam Books, April 1988, p. 121 10. Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos, How Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God, Colorado: NavPress, Revised Edition, 1995, p. 76 11. Michael Denton, Nature's Destiny: How The Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe, The New York: The Free Press, 1998, pp. 12-13 12. Paul Davies, The Accidental Universe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982, Foreword
Support me by becoming wiser and more knowledgeable – check out books written by or about Edward Witten, Abdus Salam, Dennis Sciama, and Paolo Budinich for sale on Amazon here-https://amzn.to/3TxGCLH, here-https://amzn.to/4ad6RxR, here-https://amzn.to/3PEdFwm, and here-https://amzn.to/4arhGwJ respectively. If you purchase a book through any of these links, I will earn a 4.5% commission and be extremely delighted. But if you just want to read and aren't ready to add a new book to your collection yet, I'd recommend checking out the Internet Archive, the largest free digital library in the world. If you're really benevolent you can buy me a coffee or donate over at https://ko-fi.com/theunadulteratedintellect. I would seriously appreciate it! __________________________________________________ Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American mathematical and theoretical physicist. He is a professor emeritus in the school of natural sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Witten is a researcher in string theory, quantum gravity, supersymmetric quantum field theories, and other areas of mathematical physics. Witten's work has also significantly impacted pure mathematics. In 1990, he became the first physicist to be awarded a Fields Medal by the International Mathematical Union, for his mathematical insights in physics, such as his 1981 proof of the positive energy theorem in general relativity, and his interpretation of the Jones invariants of knots as Feynman integrals. He is considered the practical founder of M-theory. Mohammad Abdus Salam (29 January 1926 – 21 November 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory. He was the first Pakistani and the first Muslim from an Islamic country to receive a Nobel Prize in science and the second from an Islamic country to receive any Nobel Prize, after Anwar Sadat of Egypt. Dennis William Siahou Sciama, (18 November 1926 – 18 December 1999) was an English physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He was the PhD supervisor to many famous physicists and astrophysicists, including John D. Barrow, David Deutsch, George F. R. Ellis, Stephen Hawking, Adrian Melott and Martin Rees, among others; he is considered one of the fathers of modern cosmology. Paolo Budinich (28 August 1916 – 14 November 2013) was an Italian theoretical physicist. Born in Lussingrande to a family of sailors, he grew up and studied in Trieste, where the family resided and his father Antonio Budini[1] taught in the local high school, which Paolo attended until 1934. He later began his studies at Università Degli Studi di Pisa graduating from the Scuola Normale Superiore in 1938, with a thesis written under the direction of Leonida Tonelli. Audio Source: here --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theunadulteratedintellect/support
Steve Weinberg has spent his life selling and helping others sell better, more, and faster. He recently led the Accuity sales team to new sales accomplishments for twelve years. Accuity is a British-Dutch technology company that is now part of Lexis Nexis Risk Systems and is a RELX subsidiary. It provides anti-money laundering and electronic payment solutions to financial institutions and corporations. While at Accuity as a salesperson and simultaneously as a manager of a team of salespeople, Steve closed the largest sale in the company's history.
¿Cuáles son los libros de astronomía que muchos recordamos? ¿cómo han cambiados los libros de astronomía en las últimas décadas? ¿cuáles son los tipos de libros de astronomía que podemos encontrar y leer en bibliotecas y librerías? ¿cuáles son los mejores libros de astronomía para iniciarse en el tema? ¿se justifica todavía leer libros de astronomía en físico o las aplicaciones y las publicaciones electrónicas los han desplazado completamente? Realizado por: Jorge Zuluaga (Ph.D. en física, Profesor titular de Astronomía y Física de la Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia), Antonio Bernal (autor, divulgador de astronomía del Observatorio Fabra de Barcelona) Producido por: Jhossua Giraldo, Pregrado de Astronomía (U. de A.) Libros recomendados en el episodio: Para una lista completa vayan a este enlace https://bit.ly/3thUmx6. Guías del cielo: Observar el Cielo I y II, Robert Burnham y otros (1998). https://bit.ly/3EbKprx. Observar el Cielo, Adriana Rigutti, Editorial Tikal (2010). https://bit.ly/3EeBWE1. Libros de ensayo: El Universo en tu mano, Christophe Galfard (2015). https://bit.ly/3hqpNTx. Cosmos, Carl Sagan (1981). https://bit.ly/3fOg210. El universo inteligente, Fred Hoyle (1984). https://bit.ly/3TotsOS. Los tres primeros minutos del universo, Steven Weinberg (1980). https://amzn.to/3NPyl2m. Historia: Galileo, Kepler y Descartes: creadores del pensamiento moderno. Blanca Inés Marquez. http://bit.ly/3DPHaVh. Galileo, watcher of the skies, David Wotton (2013). https://amzn.to/3WHNyXk. Los sonámbulos, Arthur Koestler (1959). https://bit.ly/3FV7hgc. La hija de Galileo. Dava Sobel (2012). Un cielo pluscuamperfecto. Dava Sobel (2012). https://amzn.to/3WL0MCr. El universo de cristal. Dava Sobel (2017). https://bit.ly/3TlXPFH. Maestros del Universo. Helge Kragh (2014). https://bit.ly/3TkN8mS. El instante luminoso. Alonso Sepúlveda (2012). https://bit.ly/3FVTVAn. Textos académicos: De la Tierra al Universo. David Galadi-Enriquez, Jordi Gutiérrez Cabello (2021). https://bit.ly/3WIVgjS. Libros clásicos: Guía del cielo para la observación de estrellas y planetas, Enrique y Pedro Velasco (2022). https://bit.ly/3UF6nZq. Astronomía Popular. Simon Newcomb (1947). https://bit.ly/3zZaZS5. Breve Historia del Tiempo, Stephen Hawking (1988). https://bit.ly/3UnvTCO. Secretos del Cosmos, Colin A. Ronan (1969). https://bit.ly/3hqCnBX. Estrellas y planetas, Colin A. Ronan (1969). https://bit.ly/3WHil6D.
विश्वाची निर्हेतुकता सांगणाऱ्या आणि भौतिकशास्त्राला नवी दिशा देणाऱ्या स्टीव्हन वाईनबर्ग यांच्या विषयी आपल्याशी बोलत आहेत डॉक्टर राजीव आणि माणिक:Dr. Rajeev and Manik Deshmukh in Marathi Khidkitun talk to us about Steven Weinberg, who explains the futility of the universe and gives a new direction to physics.You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: IVM Podcasts - Apps on Google Play or iOS: IVM Podcasts, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at https://shows.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In addition to original interviews, today's episode features excerpts from three interviews:On the Shoulders of Giants: Steven Weinberg and the Quest to Explain the World (2021), World Science FestivalPhysicist Steven Weinberg on His Search for a "Final Theory" (1993), Fresh AirThe Bill Moyers Interview: Steven Weinberg (1990), Bill MoyersOur theme music was composed by Charlie HarperOther music for today's show was produced by: Podington BearOn Monday, March 21, UT Austin is hosting a memorial lecture in honor of Steven Weinberg, featuring his fellow Nobel Laureate, MIT's Frank Wilczek. This event is free and open to the public, both in-person and virtually via Zoom. Find out more and register here.Donate to the Physics Theory Group, in memory of Steven WeinbergAbout Point of DiscoveryPoint of Discovery is a production of the University of Texas at Austin's College of Natural Sciences and is a part of the Texas Podcast Network. The opinions expressed in this podcast represent the views of the hosts, and not of The University of Texas at Austin. You can listen via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RSS, Stitcher, Amazon Podcasts, or Google Podcasts. Questions or comments about this episode or our series in general? Email Marc Airhart.
On Monday, March 21, UT Austin is hosting a memorial lecture in honor of Steven Weinberg, featuring his fellow Nobel Laureate, MIT's Frank Wilczek. This event is free and open to the public, both in-person and virtually via Zoom. Find out more and register here.Donate to the Physics Theory Group, in memory of Steven WeinbergIn addition to original interviews, today's episode features excerpts from two videos:On the Shoulders of Giants: Steven Weinberg and the Quest to Explain the World (2021), World Science FestivalInterview with Professor Steven Weinberg (2001), Nobel Prize CommitteeOur theme music was composed by Charlie HarperOther music for today's show was produced by: Podington BearAbout Point of DiscoveryPoint of Discovery is a production of the University of Texas at Austin's College of Natural Sciences and is a part of the Texas Podcast Network. The opinions expressed in this podcast represent the views of the hosts, and not of The University of Texas at Austin. You can listen via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RSS, Stitcher, Amazon Podcasts, or Google Podcasts. Questions or comments about this episode or our series in general? Email Marc Airhart.
Kesällä 2021 menehtynyt yhdysvaltalainen Steven Weinberg lasketaan viime vuosikymmenien merkittävimpien fyysikoiden joukkoon. Hän oli hiukkasteoreetikko, joka palkittiin vuonna 1979 fysiikan Nobelilla yhdessä Sheldon Glashow´n ja Abdus Salamin kanssa sähköheikon teorian kehittämisestä. Sähköheikko teoria on tärkeä palanen hiukkasfysiikan standardimallia, jossa kuvataan maailmankaikkeuden hiukkasia ja voimia. Weinbergin osalta Nobeliin johti hänen noin 3-sivuinen artikkelinsa A Model of Leptons vuodelta 1967. Monipuolisesti fysiikasta kiinnostuneena Weinberg perehtyi varhain myös kosmologiaan. Hän oli terävä ajattelija ja tieteen puolestapuhuja, joka otti kantaa tiedepoliittiseen keskusteluun Yhdysvalloissa. Steven Weinbergin kerrotaan olleen varsin ahkera, mikä näkyy myös hänen kirjallisessa tuotannossaan. Hän kirjoitti lukuisia paksuhkoja fysiikan teoriakirjoja mutta myös populäärejä tiedekirjoja. Niistä suomeksi ovat ilmestyneet Kolme ensimmäistä minuuttia vuonna 1978 ja Unelmia viimeisestä teoriasta vuonna 1999. Kirjat paljastavat, että hän oli erinomainen tieteen popularisoija. Weinbergista ovat haastateltavana fysiikan emeritusprofessori Jukka Maalampi Jyväskylän yliopistosta ja kosmologi Kari Enqvist, joka on Helsingin yliopiston emeritusprofessori. Toimittajana on Sisko Loikkanen.
This episode is sort of "fan fiction" conversation with a dead man who will cast a shadow over physics, philosophy, and theology for decades to come: Steven Weinberg, co-recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize. Long before audiobooks and podcasts were a thing, in 1992 I took a night train from Cleveland to Buffalo to Binghamton to meet my girlfriend. To while away the hours, I brought with me Weingberg's epochal popular science book, "The First Three Minutes". A few months later, as a graduation present, I received from Lawrence Krauss, CWRU's incoming physics department chairman, "Dreams of a Final Theory". “Weinberg” is the most mentioned name in my The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast notebook where I keep thoughts on possible/upcoming guests. I never got to host him on my show. I did try, most recently in February 2021. For a long time, I held off, insecure in my ability to bring anything new to the table. Weinberg was a brilliant scientist but as I show, had overly simplistic thoughts on religion and practitioners. Often he claimed science, at its best, SHOULD make religion less plausible. Using quotes drawn from his many interviews and lectures, including one in his own voice, I bring you this slightly combative interview with a very complex individual. For the record, Stephen Weinberg, Sheldon Glashow, and Abdus Salam shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for his work on Electroweak Symmetry Breaking or the, so-called, ‘Standard Model for particle physics'. He also made many contributions to both particle physics and cosmology. With respect to the latter, the question addressed is whether or why our universe is fine-tuned for our existence. Past guest, Lenny Susskind explained that Weinberg calculated that if the cosmological constant was just a little different, our universe would cease to exist. This paper is behind a paywall, but see a public lecture (with advanced math): https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Weinberg/Weinberg3.html. Weinberg believed the Anthropic Principle may be appropriated by cosmologists committed to nontheism, and refers to that Principle as a "turning point" in modern science because applying it to the string landscape "may explain how the constants of nature that we observe can take values suitable for life without being fine-tuned by a benevolent creator". I cover some of Steven's ‘greatest hits' including: "I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas, will come to an end. I hope this is something to which science can contribute … it may be the most important contribution that we can make." "With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." "In our universe we are tuned into the frequency that corresponds to physical reality. But there are an infinite number of parallel realities coexisting with us in the same room, although we cannot tune into them." And my personal ‘favorite':"It seems a bit unfair to my relatives to be murdered in order to provide an opportunity for free will for Germans, but even putting that aside, how does free will account for cancer? Is it an opportunity of free will for tumors?" So, let me know what you think of this episode. Should I do more solo episodes like this, or make this my one and only
This episode is sort of "fan fiction" conversation with a dead man who will cast a shadow over physics, philosophy, and theology for decades to come: Steven Weinberg, co-recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize. Long before audiobooks and podcasts were a thing, in 1992 I took a night train from Cleveland to Buffalo to Binghamton to meet my girlfriend. To while away the hours, I brought with me Weingberg's epochal popular science book, "The First Three Minutes". A few months later, as a graduation present, I received from Lawrence Krauss, CWRU's incoming physics department chairman, "Dreams of a Final Theory". “Weinberg” is the most mentioned name in my The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast notebook where I keep thoughts on possible/upcoming guests. I never got to host him on my show. I did try, most recently in February 2021. For a long time, I held off, insecure in my ability to bring anything new to the table. Weinberg was a brilliant scientist but as I show, had overly simplistic thoughts on religion and practitioners. Often he claimed science, at its best, SHOULD make religion less plausible. Using quotes drawn from his many interviews and lectures, including one in his own voice, I bring you this slightly combative interview with a very complex individual. For the record, Stephen Weinberg, Sheldon Glashow, and Abdus Salam shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for his work on Electroweak Symmetry Breaking or the, so-called, ‘Standard Model for particle physics'. He also made many contributions to both particle physics and cosmology. With respect to the latter, the question addressed is whether or why our universe is fine-tuned for our existence. Past guest, Lenny Susskind explained that Weinberg calculated that if the cosmological constant was just a little different, our universe would cease to exist. This paper is behind a paywall, but see a public lecture (with advanced math): https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Weinberg/Weinberg3.html. Weinberg believed the Anthropic Principle may be appropriated by cosmologists committed to nontheism, and refers to that Principle as a "turning point" in modern science because applying it to the string landscape "may explain how the constants of nature that we observe can take values suitable for life without being fine-tuned by a benevolent creator". I cover some of Steven's ‘greatest hits' including: "I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas, will come to an end. I hope this is something to which science can contribute … it may be the most important contribution that we can make." "With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." "In our universe we are tuned into the frequency that corresponds to physical reality. But there are an infinite number of parallel realities coexisting with us in the same room, although we cannot tune into them." And my personal ‘favorite':"It seems a bit unfair to my relatives to be murdered in order to provide an opportunity for free will for Germans, but even putting that aside, how does free will account for cancer? Is it an opportunity of free will for tumors?" So, let me know what you think of this episode. Should I do more solo episodes like this, or make this my one and only
L'un des plus grands physiciens de notre temps vient de s'éteindre : Steven Weinberg. Avec deux autres chercheurs il parvint à unifier deux des quatre forces de la physique. Au fait, c'est quoi unifier deux forces ?
From the archives comes this absolute BANGER of an episode from Dr Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, cosmologist and campaigner. Ahead of our new season in November we're bringing you some of our full-length back episodes that are usually reserved for our patrons. Like what you hear? Back us on Patreon to help keep us on the air! And our new backers, All Good Bookshop will ship you a copy of The Disordered Cosmos - and any other book! - if you DM them your order. Tell 'em we sent you! Dr Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a theoretical cosmologist and a campaigner for inclusion in physics. She is an assistant professor at the University of New Hampshire and is working on the NASA Strobe-x mission. Dr Prescod Weinstein recently received the 2021 Edward A. Bouchet Award from the American Physical Society, in recognition "For contributions to theoretical cosmology and particle physics. The Disordered Cosmos, A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred is available now. You can find Chanda at http://www.cprescodweinstein.com and on TwitterPeople, Articles, and Organisations Mentioned:NASA STROBE-X MissionEdward A. Bouchet AwardDr Prescod-Weinstein's column in New ScientistPillars of Creation, Eagle NebulaWindrush deportation scandalJoey NeilsenBenjamin Banneker OnesimusArticle on the Mauna Kea observatories expansion in NatureHaleakalā observatory‘The James Webb Space Telescope Needs to Be Renamed', article by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Sarah Tuttle, Lucianne Walkowicz, and Brian Nord‘What I wanted when I called for a Strike for Black Lives', article by Dr Chanda Prescod-WeinsteinArticle by Selma James on founding the Wages for Housework CampaignMargaret Prescod and Wilmette Brown, ‘Birth Announcement' flyer for Black Women for Wages for HouseworkS. Zainab Williams, Managing Editor at Book RiotBooks Mentioned:Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsEmma Byrne, How To Build a Human: The Art of Parenting Like a ScientistStephen Hawking, A Brief History of TimeKurt Kohlstedt & Roman Mars, The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday DesignBrian Keating, Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest HonorSteven Weinberg, The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the UniverseEpisode transcript available here (Google doc)Find Us Online- Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/thenonficpod- Bookshop.org: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/nonficpod (purchases here support us and independent booksellers in the UK)- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thenonficpod- Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/nonficpodCredits- Guest: Dr Chanda Prescod-Weinstein- Episode Producer: Emma Byrne- Series Exec Producers: Emma Byrne and Georgie Codd- Series Senior Producer: Beatrice Bazell - Composer and consulting engineer: Mike WyerAbout UsBrought to you by author and publishing rockstar Georgie Codd and author and broadcaster Emma Byrne, NonFicPod is your home for the latest nonfiction must reads. Our premium podcast, Sh*t I Wish I'd Known teaches you the lessons that we (and our guests) have learned about writing - and about life. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
On today's ID the Future, Casey Luskin, associate director of Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, discusses his Evolution News article about the recently deceased Steven Weinberg. On Weinberg's view, one of science's social functions is to undermine religion, which he sees as superstition. Luskin takes the opposite view and points to skilled and successful scientists he got to know in Africa. He says these scientists are convinced that the supernatural is real and would find Weinberg's secular Western rejection of the supernatural as blinkered. Luskin and host Robert Crowther also discuss a hopeful trend among some atheists toward a more civil and respectful way of engaging intelligent design, even to the point of acknowledging that design theorists are Read More › Source
On today's ID the Future, Casey Luskin, associate director of Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, discusses his Evolution News article about the recently deceased Steven Weinberg. On Weinberg's view, one of science's social functions is to undermine religion, which he sees as superstition. Luskin takes the opposite view and points to skilled and […]
This week Chris remembers the life and work of American theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg who passed away recently. Famous among physicists but little known among the general public, he was widely regarded as the one of the greatest physicists of his time. Claire looks into another little known area of science, that of indigenous weeds. In a country the size of Australia, it's not unusual to find plants which are native to the continent, but causing havoc where they are not wanted.
Join Brad as he discusses updates to the show in addition to a tribute to Dr. Steven Weinberg.
Solar geoengineering has the potential to help counteract global warming, so why are scientists so cautious about it? Host Kenneth Cukier also explores a new, green idea that could revolutionise air conditioning. And our obituaries editor remembers Steven Weinberg, a Nobel laureate in physics who united two of the known forces in the universe.For full access to The Economist's print, digital and audio editions subscribe at economist.com/podcastoffer and sign up for our new weekly science newsletter at economist.com/simplyscience. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Solar geoengineering has the potential to help counteract global warming, so why are scientists so cautious about it? Host Kenneth Cukier also explores a new, green idea that could revolutionise air conditioning. And our obituaries editor remembers Steven Weinberg, a Nobel laureate in physics who united two of the known forces in the universe.For full access to The Economist's print, digital and audio editions subscribe at economist.com/podcastoffer and sign up for our new weekly science newsletter at economist.com/simplyscience. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING PART 1 (0:0 - 9:53): ────────────────── Paganism Is The Most LGBTQ+ Religious Identity in US: Why That Should Not Be a Surprise RELIGION NEWS SERVICE (HEATHER GREENE) Paganism, Gods and Goddesses Aside, is the Most LGBTQ-Affirming Faith in the US MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW Ordination of the Cherry Trees PART 2 (9:54 - 16:17): ────────────────── How Did Evangelicals Become More Pro-Life? The Bible Can Answer for That PHYSICIANS WEEKLY (SARAH VARNEY) Why is the South the Epicenter of Anti-Abortion Fervor? PART 3 (16:18 - 25:20): ────────────────── “We Materialists Cannot Allow A Divine Foot in the Door”: The Obituaries of Two Scientists Make Clear that Theology Matters — Even Among Unbelievers THE NEW YORK TIMES (NATALIE ANGIER) Richard C. Lewontin, Eminent Geneticist With a Sharp Pen, Dies at 92 THE NEW YORK TIMES (DYLAN LOEB MCCLAIN) Steven Weinberg, Groundbreaking Nobelist in Physics, Dies at 88
Podcast: The Science Hour (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The earliest traces of animal life on earthPub date: 2021-07-31Do rocks found in Canada show animal life 350 million years older than any found before? And, delving to the core of Mars, the guts of cats, and into the life of Steven Weinberg. Prof Elizabeth Turner of Canada's Laurentian University reports in the journal Nature structures in some of the oldest sedimentary rocks that resemble the residue left by sponges such as the sort you might find in a bath. 350 million years older than the oldest such fossils yet identified, if they are left by such animals, they represent a complex life that existed some 90 million years before - it has been supposed - there was even enough oxygen to support such development. As she tells us, rather like previous geologists investigating the deep history of life, Elizabeth has been sitting on this idea since she was a young researcher. Since 2019 NASA's InSight probe has been on the surface of Mars listening for seismic waves from below to try to form a picture of the planet's internal structure. Last week in the journal Science, three papers presented data and analysis and some surprises for planetary scientists trying to work out how a planet that began almost, but not quite, so similar to earth could have turned out so different today. Cambridge University's Dr Sanna Cottaar gives us her take on the exciting findings. Most of our understanding of genetics – diseases and heritability – is derived from decades of deep studies into just a few model species besides humans. But Prof Lesley Lyons runs a lab at the University of Missouri focusing almost entirely on cats. She describes to Roland a proclamation she makes this week to her fellow scientists to do more work into cat genetics and how, because of the similarities between cats and human genomes, that will bring all sorts of benefits to human (and cat) health. Earlier this week we heard of the death of physicist Steven Weinberg - one of the giants of 20th century particle physics and cosmology. Roland presents recordings and reminiscences of a remarkable scientist who provided so much insight into the first 3 minutes of our universe's existence... Also, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. It's a well-known phrase that we all try and follow in our day to day lives. But are our current recycling habits the best they can be? It's a hot topic at Crowdscience - multiple listeners have contacted Crowdscience with questions about the ins and outs of recycling. We follow one listener's food waste to a processing plant to investigate whether or not it could be processed in our own homes. But aside from the food waste, what about the containers it comes in? We investigate if food containers really need to be cleaned before we put them in recycling bins, or if that just wastes water. Recycling processes differ all over the world, so we hear from reporter Chhavi Sachdev in Mumbai, India, who follows her plastic waste to find out how plastic sorting and recycling is a whole economy of its own. But new technologies have meant that biodegradable and bioderived plastics are starting to appear in our packaging, and one Crowdscience listener wants to know which is better for the environment – traditional plastic that has been recycled, or bioplastic and compostable alternatives? And looking to the future, could we ever recycle our plastic waste at home and use 3D printers to make useful things out of our own waste? Marnie Chesterton delves into these questions with Circular Economy Project Manager Dr Rhiannon Hunt of Manchester Metropolitan University, to discover the details of recycling and unearth how we can make our own recycling as efficient as possible. With Dave Atkins, reporter Chhavi Sachdev and Dr Rhiannon Hunt. Image: Field locations in Northwest Territories, Canada Credit: Elizabeth Turner, Laurentian UniversityThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC World Service, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
Do rocks found in Canada show animal life 350 million years older than any found before? And, delving to the core of Mars, the guts of cats, and into the life of Steven Weinberg. Prof Elizabeth Turner of Canada's Laurentian University reports in the journal Nature structures in some of the oldest sedimentary rocks that resemble the residue left by sponges such as the sort you might find in a bath. 350 million years older than the oldest such fossils yet identified, if they are left by such animals, they represent a complex life that existed some 90 million years before - it has been supposed - there was even enough oxygen to support such development. As she tells us, rather like previous geologists investigating the deep history of life, Elizabeth has been sitting on this idea since she was a young researcher. Since 2019 NASA's InSight probe has been on the surface of Mars listening for seismic waves from below to try to form a picture of the planet's internal structure. Last week in the journal Science, three papers presented data and analysis and some surprises for planetary scientists trying to work out how a planet that began almost, but not quite, so similar to earth could have turned out so different today. Cambridge University's Dr Sanna Cottaar gives us her take on the exciting findings. Most of our understanding of genetics – diseases and heritability – is derived from decades of deep studies into just a few model species besides humans. But Prof Lesley Lyons runs a lab at the University of Missouri focusing almost entirely on cats. She describes to Roland a proclamation she makes this week to her fellow scientists to do more work into cat genetics and how, because of the similarities between cats and human genomes, that will bring all sorts of benefits to human (and cat) health. Earlier this week we heard of the death of physicist Steven Weinberg - one of the giants of 20th century particle physics and cosmology. Roland presents recordings and reminiscences of a remarkable scientist who provided so much insight into the first 3 minutes of our universe's existence... Also, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. It's a well-known phrase that we all try and follow in our day to day lives. But are our current recycling habits the best they can be? It's a hot topic at Crowdscience - multiple listeners have contacted Crowdscience with questions about the ins and outs of recycling. We follow one listener's food waste to a processing plant to investigate whether or not it could be processed in our own homes. But aside from the food waste, what about the containers it comes in? We investigate if food containers really need to be cleaned before we put them in recycling bins, or if that just wastes water. Recycling processes differ all over the world, so we hear from reporter Chhavi Sachdev in Mumbai, India, who follows her plastic waste to find out how plastic sorting and recycling is a whole economy of its own. But new technologies have meant that biodegradable and bioderived plastics are starting to appear in our packaging, and one Crowdscience listener wants to know which is better for the environment – traditional plastic that has been recycled, or bioplastic and compostable alternatives? And looking to the future, could we ever recycle our plastic waste at home and use 3D printers to make useful things out of our own waste? Marnie Chesterton delves into these questions with Circular Economy Project Manager Dr Rhiannon Hunt of Manchester Metropolitan University, to discover the details of recycling and unearth how we can make our own recycling as efficient as possible. With Dave Atkins, reporter Chhavi Sachdev and Dr Rhiannon Hunt. Image: Field locations in Northwest Territories, Canada Credit: Elizabeth Turner, Laurentian University
La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos las últimas noticias de la actualidad científica. En el episodio de hoy: Adiós a Steven Weinberg. Repasamos sus contribuciones a la física de partículas (min 13); Se publica Alphafold2, la revolucionaria IA de Deepmind y su competidora RosettaFold (52:00); Entrevista: Carlos Outeiral (55:00); Lo que podemos aprender del oído interno de los dinosaurios (2:08:00); Proyecto GALILEO: Loeb investiga OVNIs (2:29:00); Señales de los oyentes (2:27:00). Contertulios: Alberto Aparici, Francis Villatoro, Héctor Socas. Todos los comentarios vertidos durante la tertulia representan únicamente la opinión de quien los hace... y a veces ni eso. CB:SyR es una actividad del Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos de Tenerife.
In the UK we have seen a recent fall in Covid 19 cases. Good news, but we don't know yet if this will be sustained. The virus is now thought to be spreading predominantly amongst the under 30s, most of whom remain unvaccinated. Young adults are the demographic most likely to be vaccine hesitant or vaccine averse. Kavita Vedhara from Nottingham University discusses the delicate balancing act of managing personal choice and collective responsibility needed to persuade people to get vaccinated to help stop the spread of the virus. Forget lab rats, how about lab cats? Leslie Lyons from the University of Missouri says we've long neglected the genetic similarities between cats and humans. And that understanding how the diseases we share in common affect our feline friends will help with treatments for ourselves. If you take lots of medicines wouldn't it be great to have them all in one pill? That's the aim of Ricky Wildman's project at Nottingham University – a personalised pill that can be 3D printed to order, And we look at the life of Nobel prize winning physicist Steven Weinberg, famed for his beautifully simple explanations of complex science and also his love of a good argument.
Do rocks found in Canada show animal life 350 million years older than any found before? And, delving to the core of Mars, the guts of cats, and into the life of Steven Weinberg. Prof Elizabeth Turner of Canada's Laurentian University reports in the journal Nature structures in some of the oldest sedimentary rocks that resemble the residue left by sponges such as the sort you might find in a bath. 350 million years older than the oldest such fossils yet identified, if they are left by such animals, they represent a complex life that existed some 90 million years before - it has been supposed - there was even enough oxygen to support such development. As she tells us, rather like previous geologists investigating the deep history of life, Elizabeth has been sitting on this idea since she was a young researcher. Since 2019 NASA's InSight probe has been on the surface of Mars listening for seismic waves from below to try to form a picture of the planet's internal structure. Last week in the journal Science, three papers presented data and analysis and some surprises for planetary scientists trying to work out how a planet that began almost, but not quite, so similar to earth could have turned out so different today. Cambridge University's Dr Sanna Cottaar gives us her take on the exciting findings. Most of our understanding of genetics – diseases and heritability – is derived from decades of deep studies into just a few model species besides humans. But Prof Lesley Lyons runs a lab at the University of Missouri focusing almost entirely on cats. She describes to Roland a proclamation she makes this week to her fellow scientists to do more work into cat genetics and how, because of the similarities between cats and human genomes, that will bring all sorts of benefits to human (and cat) health. Earlier this week we heard of the death of physicist Steven Weinberg - one of the giants of 20th century particle physics and cosmology. Roland presents recordings and reminiscences of a remarkable scientist who provided so much insight into the first 3 minutes of our universe's existence... Image: Field locations in Northwest Territories, Canada Credit: Elizabeth Turner, Laurentian University Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Alex Mansfield
My University 科學新知 210728 ep261 主持 陳志宏博士 梁錦祥 MyRadio Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/myradiohk MyRadio月費計劃詳情及常見問題 http://myradio.hk/podcast/?page_id=8990 p2 of 3 物理學巨人 Steven Weinberg 逝世 YouTube: https://youtu.be/L29WxiIsCS8 MP3: http://www.archive.org/download/210728unzass/mus210728b.mp3
Per questa puntata 366 ai microfoni troviamo Giuliano e Andrea (e d'ora in poi li nomineremo sempre in questo ordine), che iniziano a parlare di squali, in seguito all'avvistamento di un mako nel Mar Ligure, inizialmente identificato dai giornali come squalo bianco. Non è altrettanto pericoloso, ma anche lui... no, in realtà gli squali hanno una fama molto peggiore di quella che meritano!Anna intervista la dottoressa Sabina Gola, professoressa di italiano all'Université Libre de Bruxelles che ci parlerà di Multigram, la piattaforma online sviluppata da lei e dal suo gruppo di ricerca per imparare le lingue seguendo l'approccio del plurilinguismo.Andrea infine ricorda Steven Weinberg, scomparso pochi giorni fa: tra i suoi contributi fondamentali per la fisica teorica del XX secolo c'è il modello elettrodebole, con Sheldon Glashow e Abdus Salam, che valse ai tre il premio Nobel nel 1979.
Il fisico e premio Nobel Steven Weinberg è morto
Join Brad with special guest, Dr. Steven Weinberg as they discuss all things Covid.
Today we're going to talk about science and religion. Big, big topics that have influenced our faiths for our whole lives. Studies show that Christians everywhere experience the tension between the two things. But is there really a conflict? Do we have to make a choice? Or can there be a harmony when these two ways of looking at the world align? The Next Book Club - 0:00 * Episode 15, June 2: "Why We Can't Wait" by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - (buy it here (https://amzn.to/2Pd83NA)) * FTF Book Club page (https://www.followingthefire.com/bookclub) Intro - 0:23 * Nathan's watch has lost its watchiness * Steve & Nathan both frown on re-used sermon outlines Favorite Science - 4:50 * What is your favorite kind of science? * Nathan: Loves wastewater treatment * Steve: Loves immunology (right now) * What's with this (apparent) conflict between God & Science? * The conflict is actually tribal/identity based * Aristotle's modes of persuasion - ethos, logos, pathos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modes_of_persuasion) * Answers in Genesis (https://answersingenesis.org) Different Continuums - 21:45 * Addressing things with from logos doesn't really work * Pathos is hugely important - it's about identity * Film: Nacho Libre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacho_Libre) * Science has been put on the same spectrum as religion * “Christians should take a stand on six literal days, a young earth, and global flood even if it causes division.” - Ken Ham, Did Eve really have an Extra Rib?: And other tough questions about the Bible (https://amzn.to/2RIsLGb) * “We can't always trust what we see in museums, but we can certainly ALWAYS trust what we read in the Bible.” - Ken Ham, Did Eve really have an Extra Rib?: And other tough questions about the Bible (https://amzn.to/2RIsLGb) * Scripture: “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”Hebrews 11:1 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+11%3A1&version=NIV) * “I think the world needs to wake up from its long nightmare of religious belief; and anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion should be done, and may in fact be our greatest contribution to civilization.” - Steven Weinberg, “Beyond Belief : Science, Religion, Reason and Survival” * Science is consensus-based. It's not a monolith. Materialism vs. Theism - 36:25 * Misunderstanding of the nature of God and the nature of science * Materialism: Stuff and things are all that exists * Theism: There's something spiritual out there * Scientism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism) * Theism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theism) * Article: ‘Stephen Hawking: 'Heaven is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark' (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1387478/Stephen-Hawking-Heaven-fairy-story-people-afraid-dark.html) * Science and religion address two different things * The God of the Gaps (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps) * “The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein * Book: God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? (https://amzn.to/3bjHLAW) * Article: “How Eric Metaxas went from Trump despiser to true believer” (https://religionnews.com/2020/12/03/metaxas-jesus-trump-stolen-election-christian-nationalism-rod-dreher-sidney-powell/) * Video: John Lennox: The Question of Science and God - Part 1 (https://youtu.be/gDjNv-ea56E) * Video: John Lennox: The Question of Science and God - Part 2 (https://youtu.be/Tr3ghb6JG6A) * Book: “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy” by Eric Metaxas (https://amzn.to/33B5tVm) * Teleology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleology) * Article: “The Relativity of Wrong” - Isaac Asimov (https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html) * Book: “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” by Thomas Kuhn (https://amzn.to/3tDhPXz) * Short Story: “The Man” in the book “The Illustrated Man” by Ray Bradbury (https://amzn.to/3hkTKCq) * Book: “Perelandra” by C.S. Lewis (https://amzn.to/3f6i5Jk) * Book: “The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge” by Jean-Francois Lyotard (https://amzn.to/3ofrTF1) * Book: “The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity” (https://amzn.to/3uIR0m3) * Georges Lemaître (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lemaître) * BioLogos (https://biologos.org) * Book: “The Language of God” by Francis Collins (https://amzn.to/2ROFOFK) * Romans 1:20 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%201%3A20&version=NIV) * Scot McKnight quote from this book: “How I Changed My Mind About Evolution: Evangelicals Reflect on Faith and Science” (https://amzn.to/2Q84AAk) Word & World - 1:03:28 * John 1 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+1&version=NIV) * Acts 17:28 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+17%3A28&version=NIV) * God gave us his Word and his World, and they do not disagree * We need Christians to be involved in science * Moses had horns? (https://christandpopculture.com/bizarre-reason-michelangelos-moses-horns/) * Video: “God's Word, God's World” by BioLogos (https://youtu.be/ib9R5YuY3qg) Join our Patreon (http://patreon.com/followingthefire) - we'd love your support and we have some fantastic patron perks!
In deze aflevering ontvangt Wim Jordaan Michiel van Driel, Aaldrik Hermans en op afstand Steven Weinberg, coauteurs van het nieuwe boek “De Badkuip” wat handelt oa over de oorlogsjaren van het huis op de Drift in Laren. Het boek komt deze maand uit en is te verkrijgen bij de Larense Boekhandel.
Dr Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a theoretical cosmologist and a campaigner for inclusion in physics. She is an assistant professor at the University of New Hampshire and is working on the NASA Strobe-x mission. Dr Prescod Weinstein recently received the 2021 Edward A. Bouchet Award from the American Physical Society, in recognition "For contributions to theoretical cosmology and particle physics. The Disordered Cosmos, A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred is available now. You can find Chanda at http://www.cprescodweinstein.com and on TwitterPeople, Articles, and Organisations Mentioned:NASA STROBE-X MissionEdward A. Bouchet AwardDr Prescod-Weinstein's column in New ScientistPillars of Creation, Eagle NebulaWindrush deportation scandalJoey NeilsenBenjamin Banneker OnesimusArticle on the Mauna Kea observatories expansion in NatureHaleakalā observatory‘The James Webb Space Telescope Needs to Be Renamed', article by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Sarah Tuttle, Lucianne Walkowicz, and Brian Nord‘What I wanted when I called for a Strike for Black Lives', article by Dr Chanda Prescod-WeinsteinArticle by Selma James on founding the Wages for Housework CampaignMargaret Prescod and Wilmette Brown, ‘Birth Announcement' flyer for Black Women for Wages for Housework S. Zainab Williams, Managing Editor at Book RiotBooks Mentioned:Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsEmma Byrne, How To Build a Human: The Art of Parenting Like a ScientistStephen Hawking, A Brief History of TimeKurt Kohlstedt & Roman Mars, The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday DesignBrian Keating, Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest HonorSteven Weinberg, The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the UniverseEpisode transcript available here (Google doc)Find Us Online- Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/thenonficpod- Bookshop.org: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/nonficpod (purchases here support us and independent booksellers in the UK)- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thenonficpod- Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/nonficpodCredits- Guest: Dr Chanda Prescod-Weinstein- Episode Producer: Emma Byrne- Series Exec Producers: Emma Byrne and Georgie Codd- Series Senior Producer: Beatrice Bazell - Composer and consulting engineer: Mike WyerAbout UsBrought to you by author and publishing rockstar Georgie Codd and author and broadcaster Emma Byrne, NonFicPod is your home for the latest nonfiction must reads. Our premium podcast, Sh*t I Wish I'd Known teaches you the lessons that we (and our guests) have learned about writing - and about life. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fala Galera beleza? troquei uma ideia muito fera com o Eduardo Sato, membro do MAIOR PODCAST DE FÍSICA DO BRASIL, o Físicast. Conversamos sobre o Físicast, sobre divulgação científica, o doutorado dele, e outras coisas. Fica até o final que esse episódio ta muito bom! E Claro, como de costume, o Eduardo fez as suas dicas de livros e séries. Os livros, foram dois, foram os seguintes livros. Os três primeiros minutos, do Steven Weinberg. E o segundo livro, é um clássico, é o livro Alice no País do Quantum, do Robert Gilmore. E ele indicou uma série também, a série Superstore. Para você ter um contato um pouco mais direto com o Edu, segue ele aí nas redes sociais dele Twitter (https://twitter.com/ea_sato), no Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/ea.sato/). Não poderia deixar de colocar as redes do FÍSICAST (https://twitter.com/fisicast) (https://www.instagram.com/fisicast_oficial/) E como falei, o episódio dessa semana do Físicast (https://open.spotify.com/episode/6UgBhJdexdJgg6NADiAHgs?si=3mGciyGCTYOAIiKwxUp7IQ). E não podemos ficar sem colocar as redes do Instituto Princípia (https://www.instagram.com/institutoprincipia/) (https://twitter.com/Inst_principia) Estuca aee jove, ficou muito bom esse episódio! - E se você não é inscrito no meu canal ainda, se inscreve aí (https://www.youtube.com/c/F%C3%ADsicaLogia/featured?view_as=subscriber) E para ter um contato direto comigo mais, me siga no twitter (https://twitter.com/fisi_cadu) e no instagram (https://www.instagram.com/fisi_cadu/) E você pode ser um apoiador do meu podcast: Via PicPay: (https://app.picpay.com/user/fisicalogia) No Apoia.se: (https://apoia.se/fisica-logia) No Catarse: (https://www.catarse.me/Fisica-Logia) e agora pelo PIX (fisicoturistauem@gmail.com) E você pode apoiar esse podcast direto do Anchor, o link está logo abaixo !! : D Bom, é isso, muito obrigado e até a próxima! Vlw flw é noix e tchaaau --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fisicalogia/support
در این قسمت با بابک که دستی بر آتش علم دارد درباره روش علم به عنوان ابزاری برای درک جهان پیرامونی و اثر تخصصگرایی، فرهنگ و سرگرمی بر این فهم حرف زدیم. منابع معرفی شده در این قسمت: کانال یوتیوب خانم سابینه هوسنفلدر The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg موسیقی پایانی: قطعه ضربی … Continue reading قسمت هفدهم: روش علم در درک دنیا →
COSMOS - How can so many numbers of nature, the constants and relationships of physics, be so spot-on perfect for humans to exist? Beware: there is more than one answer lurking here. Featuring John Leslie, Steven Weinberg, David Gross, John Polkinghorne, Robin Collins, and Paul Davies.
Join Brad with special guest, Dr. Steven Weinberg as they discuss the coming COVID vaccines.
Sheldon Glashow is a theoretical physicist and emeritus professor at Harvard, where he also earned his Ph.D. He was the first to propose a grand unified theory and also worked as a visiting scientist at CERN. Glashow shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg. He is a member of the Board of Sponsors for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. It was an honor to have Sheldon Glashow on the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE podcast. He joins our Nobel Minds playlist, having won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics, for his “contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current.” Shelly recounts a remarkable life as the son of a plumber who went to the acclaimed Bronx Science high school and then worked his way through some of the most notable laboratories in the world, meeting colleagues and forming collaborations along the way. Having won science’s top prize over 40 years ago didn’t slow him down, as he only recently retired from research and teaching. Shelly’s 1988 book, “Interactions: A Journey Through the Mind of a Particle Physicist and the Matter of this World,” holds up decades later as one that asks important questions about physics and guides future generations of scientists. I recommend that everyone curious about the field read it. His writing style is enviously humorous and accessible. I was interested to hear about how his love of science fiction encouraged his career as a physicist. Considering many of the topics we cover would have been considered science fiction even in the time that Shelly has been alive, he is properly impressed and optimistic about the benefits technology can have on scientific discovery. It was also encouraging to see how interested and engaged he still is in the pursuit of knowledge. Though he does express some pessimism about the future of humanity. Perhaps it’s hard not to during the pandemic, combined with the grim news about climate change and other threats. Hopefully, the fields he and I know and love – “useless fields” as he calls them – can continue that Nobel legacy of bettering humankind. You will enjoy this Full course: Quantum Field Theory by Sidney Coleman (1975) [Havard Physics 253 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhsb6tmzSpiwrZuDMyweABm7FShZu3YUv Brian Keating’s most popular Youtube Videos: Eric Weinstein: https://youtu.be/YjsPb3kBGnk?sub_confirmation=1 Jim Simons: https://youtu.be/6fr8XOtbPqM?sub_confirmation=1 Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_confirmation=1 Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/V6dMM2-X6nk?sub_confirmation=1 Sarah Scoles: https://youtu.be/apVKobWigMw Stephen Wolfram: https://youtu.be/nSAemRxzmXM Host Brian Keating: ♂️ Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating Instagram at https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating Buy my book LOSING THE N Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
COSMOS - Forget science. Forget God. This is the ultimate question: What if Everything had Forever been Nothing? Not just emptiness, not just blankness, but not even the existence of emptiness, not even the meaning of blankness, and no Forever. If you don't get dizzy, you really don't get it. Featuring John Leslie, Peter van Inwagen, Bede Rundle, Quentin Smith, Richard Swinburne and Steven Weinberg.
MEANING - The world certainly appears to be designed. Are appearances deceiving? Discover new twists to this old argument. Featuring Richard Swinburne, Bede Rundle, Steven Weinberg, William Dembski, Francisco Ayala, Michael Shermer, and Freeman Dyson.
MEANING - You've heard the raucous noise about God; now listen to the cogent arguments, con and pro. Not that determining the existence of God is up for vote; when searching for Truth, majority opinion counts for nothing. Featuring Keith Ward, Owen Gingerich, William Craig, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Alvin Plantinga, and Steven Weinberg.
Join Brad and Fox News correspondent Dr. Steven Weinberg as they discuss all things from COVID to the election.
Nos pusimos a platicar sobre cómo fue nuestra salida del closet y sobre los cuestionamientos que escuchamos con frecuencia. - https://www.patreon.com/herejeselpodcast -Ale Durán - https://twitter.com/FunkBob -- https://www.instagram.com/ale_duran_erana/ - Lola Montalvo- https://twitter.com/lola_montalvo - Bobby López- https://twitter.com/BobbyEsqvlz -- https://www.instagram.com/bobbyesqvlz/ - Entrevista con Penn Jillette que menciona Bobby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwebT... la frase de la que platicamos: “Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.” Steven Weinberg
On today's episode, Adam interviews Jon Scieszka and Steven-Weinberg about their new children's book series ASTRONUTS! They chat about creating this unique and incredible story together while Adam asks about working with family (Jon is Steven's father-in-law). Adam then has to ask about The Stinky Cheese Man and The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Steven Weinberg is perhaps the most accomplished living theoretical physicist. Now based at the University of Texas at Austin, he has made substantial contributions to our understanding of all the fundamental forces of Nature. In this podcast, he reflects on his career in physics, the 'golden years' in which he and others put the finishing touches to the Standard Model of particle physics, and his views about the future of theoretical physics.This is one of a series of interviews given by world-class experts to Graham on the themes he explores in his new book The Universe Speaks in Numbers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In this episode of the Frontproof Nation podcast, special guest and Frontproof Media photographer and writer Steven Weinberg joins the crew to discuss Canelo Alvarez’s upcoming bout with Sergey Kovalev. We also discuss last weekend’s World Boxing Super Series tournament finals bout between Regis Prograis and Josh Taylor and Shakur Stevenson’s title-winning effort over Joet Gonzalez. Intro music : https://youtu.be/svmuVjULNEw --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/frontproofnation/message
Steven Weinberg est spécialiste en biologie marine, écrivain et photographe, spécialiste du monde sous-marin et du voyage, auteur de plus de 30 livres, dont de nombreux guides sur les espèces sous-marines et de plus de 500 articles de revue. A 73 ans, il est un observateur privilégié du monde sous-marin depuis 58 ans. Il nous […]
Sharifah and Jenn discuss the Hugo Award Winners, casting news around adaptations, and the Blade movie trilogy. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Circe by Madeline Miller, and Astronuts by Jon Scieszka and Steven Weinberg. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! NEWS 2019 Hugo Award Winners announced! Practical Magic Prequel! Wheel of Time Casting! BLADE Wesley Snipes is on board with new casting. Talon of God by Wesley Snipes (here’s a review) Blade, directed by Stephen Norrington (1998) Blade II, directed by Guillermo del Toro (2002) Blade: Trinity, directed by David S. Goyer (2004) Patton Oswalt interview, including Blade: Trinity
Karina and Matthew talk about back-to-school anticipation, exceptional ways to get to school, and the resilience and determination each student possesses. Joining are special guests Miranda Paul and Baptiste Paul, authors of Adventures to School: Real-Life Journeys of Students from Around the World, illustrated by Isabel Muñoz. This episode is sponsored by AstroNuts Mission One: The Plant Planet by Jon Scieszka and illustrated by Steven Weinberg (published by Chronicle Books) and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more kidlit news and recommendations, sign up for our The Kids Are All Right newsletter! RELEVANT LINKS: Miranda Paul (website) Baptiste Paul (website) Hooray for Teachers (Kidlit These Days Ep. 4) Save School Libraries! (Kidlit These Days Ep. 6) The Dot Song Motions Guide - Emily Arrow & Peter H. Reynolds (YouTube) BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: Mentioned in the Interview: Adventures to School: Real-Life Journeys of Students from Around the World by Miranda Paul and Baptiste Paul, illustrated by Isabel Muñoz I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon by Miranda Paul and Baptiste Paul, illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon The Field by Baptiste Paul, illustrated by Jacqueline Alcántara Thanku: Poems of Gratitude edited by Miranda Paul, illustrated by Marlena Myles Little Libraries, Big Heroes by Miranda Paul, illustrated by John Parra Picture Books: School’s First Day of School by Adam Rex, illustrated by Christian Robinson The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds Goodbye, Friend! Hello, Friend! By Cori Doerrfeld School People (poems selected by) By Lee Bennett Hopkins, illustrated Ellen Shi Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal Nimoshom and His Bus by Penny M. Thomas, illustrated by Karen Hibbard The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Rafael Lopez The King of Kindergarten by Derrick Barnes, illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton Middle Grade: Beatrice Zinker: Upside Down Thinker by Shelley Johannes For Black Girls Like Me by Mariama J. Lockington The Next Great Paulie Fink by Ali Benjamin Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish by Pablo Cartaya The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Perez Let us know what books or topics you've been sharing this week, or if you have a suggestion or book recommendation for an upcoming episode. Find us on email (kidlitthesedays@bookriot.com), Twitter (@KarinaYanGlaser and @MatthewWinner), or Instagram (@KarinaIsReadingAndWriting and @MatthewCWinner).
El profesor Steven Weinberg, premio nobel de física en el año 1979 apoya la idea del Multiverso. …” De dos teorías en competencia sobre cierta entidad, se prefiere la teoría más simple que explica el fenómeno en un determinado momento en el tiempo”… Este es nuestro relato…
Steven Weinberg diece que hay un número Infinito de realidades paralelas que conviven con nosotros en una misma habitación. Tegmark agrupa las teorías científicas de los universos paralelos en una jerarquía de cuatro niveles. Conforme aumenta el nivel, los distintos universos difieren más del nuestro. Este es nuestro relato…
Steven Weinberg describes his experiences writing about science for a general audience.
Speaker – Dean Robert King This occasion celebrates the end of the five-year process, sponsored by Randy Diehl and the College of Liberal Arts, that resulted in 150 Highly Recommended Books. The other committee members for the project were Robert Abzug (Rapoport Chair of Jewish Studies), Roger Louis (Kerr Professor of English History and Culture), […]
El Multiverso fue definido por Steven Weinberg en su teoría de la Realidad Cuántica. Un ejemplo de esta hipótesis se podría asimilar a la siguiente historia. A fines octubre de 1981 el piloto civil Peter Jacoby salió en Guatemala, y su último mensaje fue: “Bajo hacia el lago....”. Se lo buscó con ahínco pero… ¡El resultado fue negativo! Peter Jacoby desapareció para siempre y jamás se ha conocido su paradero.
This far reaching discussion features famous criminal defense attorney Steve Weinberg. Steve discusses how he started his practice, what his clients are like, how he works with them, and more.
This far reaching discussion features famous criminal defense attorney Steve Weinberg. Steve discusses how he started his practice, what his clients are like, how he works with them, and more.
This far reaching discussion features famous criminal defense attorney Steve Weinberg. Steve discusses how he started his practice, what his clients are like, how he works with them, and more.
Welcome everyone to episode 215 of the Everyone’s Agnostic podcast. I’m Cass Midgley. Today, my guest is James Exline. We interview people you don’t know, about a subject no one wants to talk about. We hope to encourage people in the process of deconstructing their faith and help curb the loneliness that accompanies it. We think the world is a better place when more people live by sight, not by faith. Please subscribe to our podcast, and leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts. Also, we offer these podcasts freely. And your support truly makes a difference. You can support us monetarily in two easy ways: you can pledge a monthly donation through Patreon. that’s www.patreon.com/eapodcast, or leave a lump-sum donation through PayPal at our website, www.everyonesagnostic.com. James is a coffee zealot and self-proclaimed coffee snob who is a former jesus follower who became a pastor who was not only derailed by his own cognitive dissonance and loss of faith but his abusive childhood and his mother's solution of feeding him into obesity by age 3, James retained, at no easy feat, to keep his integrity, agency and self-respect to go on to serve at a drug and alcohol treatment center. Today he's an atheist and humanist. Overcoming decades of self-hatred and endless bullying, he is in recovery himself from alcohol, opioid and food addictions, he is passionate about helping fellow addicts and alcoholics obtain better lives through sobriety—this time sans god. James has written memoirs chronicling his journey from faith to atheism; those memoirs and more can be read on his blog https://jamesexlineatheist.blogspot.com/ He is also a contributing author at https://www.fullydeconverted.com/ and currently works as a barista at Starbucks while he works on certifications to return to work in the addiction treatment industry. We taped this conversation on July 21st, 2018. The intro music is by Dave Weckl called "Just Groove Me" Thanks for listening, and be a yes-sayer to what is. https://worldbeyondwar.org/good-people-doing-bad-things/ https://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/nov/12/improbable-research-seeing-upside-down Cog Dis : the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change. you either give in to it and let it keep your world upside down, or you listen to it and reject the nonsense. Upside down. I'm not trying to boast here, but all my life I've been a softie. As a young boy I once shot a Robin out of a tree with a BB gun. I went to his broken body on the ground, picked him/her up, petted her, wept and buried her. I've only ever wanted people to just get along. I hate estrangement of any kind, let alone war and hatred. I hate separation of any kind, especially the kind that gives a person licence to benefit at another's expense. It was the Love I was presented in Jesus in God that I bought into. It was the peace-maker Jesus. We know now that if you have a good heart, that the good-hearted Christianity will appeal to you and make you an even better person, because a good person is always looking, whether they know it or not, for those things that will augment the good in their own hearts and in the world. If you're a person with deep-seeded pain that you've not dealt with, talked through, worked through, then bitterness, resentment, fear, self-pity, victimhood and self-dislike or distrust is going to draw you to the mean-spirited Christianity. We humans don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. If toxicity is running through our hearts and minds, then our insecurity will drive us to find things that confirm the skewed lens through which we interpret the world, not confront it. But Nobel Prize winning physicist Steven Weinberg said, "With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil — that takes religion." Weinberg points to a phenomenon that truly turns things upside down. An otherwise good-hearted person can find themselves thinking, saying, and doing things so inconsistent with their original goodness by giving their freedom and agency to dogmas that flip their morals upside down. Devotion to the wrong things produces devotion to wrong things and it breeds in on itself. We become what we admire. And like all successful scams, they pull your naive, gullible good self in with goodness and then slowly turn things upside down the moment they recognize that you've lost your bearings. And before you know it, you become what you used to hate. Stockholm syndrome. One thing I say when people ask why I left Christianity, its because I somehow mustered enough conscience and agency to spot it. To spot what I was becoming. For me, it was 9-11. For some more recently, it's been the evangelical support of Trump. It's noticing cog dis when you see it. Christians that hate Sharia Law wanting our schools, cop cars, and money to say, "In Allah we trust," and to impose Biblical law on non-bible adhering fellow citizens. It's Christian racists. Christian anti-education. Christian misogyny. Until some of us began to wonder, "are these betrayals of Christianity or loyalties to Christianity? Some years ago, the psychologist Albert Bandura listed eight mental tricks people play to disengage their consciences so they can perform the acts of violence they would normally abhor. I present them now with some commentary from Kent Shifferd, a Ph.D. History Professor with over 30 years experience studying Peace: Moral Justification: one is persuaded, for example, that killing the enemy serves a higher moral purpose such as protecting one’s country or serving God’s plan, etc. Euphemistic Labeling: people mask the true nature of behavior they know is unethical, such as labeling “enhanced interrogation” for torture, “servicing the target” for shooting the enemy, and “disinformation” for lying. Advantageous Comparison: as in “What I am doing is not as bad as what they are doing.” Displacement of Responsibility: Uncritically following orders, as in the Nazi concentration camp workers or SS execution squads. Diffusion of Responsibility: when a whole group decides on the unethical action or when the action is divided into many subparts, for example, the building of nuclear weapons. (“All I do is assemble this little electronic part.” Or, “I’m just driving a truck bring supplies—I don’t shoot anybody.”) Disregard or Distortion of Consequences: for example, when harm is inflicted at a distance (as in officers in Montana who guide drones that make “bug splats” in Afghanistan) or dropping bombs from a plane on “targets” even though women and children and old men are being killed below. Dehumanization: labeling the victims of one’s violence as non- or subhuman, as in calling Vietnamese people “slants” and “gooks” during that war, or Germans “Huns” in WWI, or Arabs “towel heads” and “sand niggers” in the First Gulf War. Attribution of Blame: or blaming the victim who is seen as deserving the mistreatment or seen as having brought it on themselves. For example, “These German civilians we are killing below should not have voted for Hitler; therefore they are to blame for our bombings. One of the great dangers of letting one's morality get turned upside down, is our brains can trick us into thinking everything's fine, everything is right side up. Not only ideologically, but literally. In the middle of the 20th century, an Austrian professor turned a man's eyesight exactly upside-down, but after a short time, the man adjusted and could function as normal. Professor Theodor Erismann, of the University of Innsbruck, devised the experiment, performing it upon his assistant and student, Ivo Kohler. The professor had Kohler wear a pair of hand-engineered goggles. Inside those goggles, specially arranged mirrors flipped the images that would reach Kohler's eyes, top becoming bottom, and bottom top.At first, Kohler stumbled wildly when trying to grasp an object held out to him, navigate around a chair, or walk down stairs. In a simple fencing game with sticks, Kohler would rise his stick high when attacked low, and low in response to a high stab. Holding a teacup out to be filled, he would turn the cup upside down the instant he saw the water apparently pouring upward. The sight of smoke rising from a match, or a helium balloon bobbing on a string, could trigger an instant change in his sense of which direction was up, and which down.But over the next week, Kohler found himself adapting, in fits and starts, then more consistently, to such sights. After 10 days, he had grown so accustomed to the invariably upside-down world that, paradoxically and happily, everything seemed to him normal, rightside-up. Kohler could do everyday activities in public perfectly well: walk along a crowded sidewalk, even ride a bicycle. Erismann and Kohler did further experiments. So did other scientists. Their impression is that many, perhaps most, maybe just about all, people are able to make these kinds of adjustment. Images reach the eye in some peculiar fashion, and if that peculiar fashion is consistent, a person's visual system eventually, somehow, adjusts to interpret it — to perceive it, to see it — as being normal. Kohler writes that, "after several weeks of wearing goggles that transposed right and left, one person "became so at home in his reversed world that he was able to drive a motorcycle through Innsbruck while wearing the goggles". This automatic, almost-effortless adaptation to visual weirdness is one of many bizarre things that brains do that scientists simply do not understand. Like many of us ex-Christians, my guest today, James Exline, started listening to and giving credence to, his own head-scratching cognitive dissonances. We took off our metaphorical goggles that had flipped everything and we realized we'd been dooped. However, since we'd been wearing the goggles for so long, our brains had to correct the adaptation they'd adopted. By taking the goggles off, we were seeing reality--things as they really are--but now normal seemed upside down. It was probably due to this alarming revelation that some of us quickly put the goggles back on, saying, "I don't care if my world is not real, I'm not ready to have my world turned upside down." For those of us on whom the goggles where placed at an early age, we'd never really seen the world as it is. And it's scary. Probably the very reason that the goggles were invented at all. I want to trust the convictions of the boy in me who regretted killing that Robin. I want to believe myself when I tilted my head at the Noah's ark story, or Jesus saying he came not to bring peace but a sword. I want to be wary of my own propensity to justify violence when I'm coming from a place of fear or victimhood. One thing I love about James' story and so many of these deconversion stories, is that we all know tons of people who will go to their grave believing in the inverted world of Christianity, and some of us feel grateful that if not for the grace of honesty, there go I. There is a resilient human spirit that will not be snuffed out by the Bible. James, like many of us, found that his devotion to Christian doctrine brought out the lower angels of his nature, which ironically only intensified the self-hatred willed to him by his father. His fight out of the dumps to eventually develop an endearing fishing partnership with his aging father is a product of James trusting his own heart--his good heart--that was good all along, despite what the Bible told him so.
Imagine if you had to come up with a concept that explains what everything in the universe is made of. Could there be a more complicated assignment? To describe the stuff that comprises everything we know -- every galaxy and star and planet and person and protoplasm and dust mite? To boil all those complex, myriad things down into a basic set of ingredients and rules, that apply across the board? If someone asked you to do that, you’d say it was impossible, right? So it might surprise you to know that scientists have already done it. They’ve come up with an answer to the question of what fundamental particles and forces underpin almost everything in the universe (gravity is the only exception), and what governs the behavior of those ingredients. And it might surprise you even more to know that that answer has been around now for 50 years. It’s a pretty good answer too – so good, in fact, that this answer, this theory, has survived every attempt by scientists to challenge it and prove that it isn’t correct. This theory was so ahead of its time that, only now, in the 21stcentury, are we able to design and build machines that can test the theory’s most extreme predictions. And those predictions are holding up. The tests show that every one of the theory’s predictions about the universe’s ingredients and forces are accurate. The theory has a 50-year-long winning streak. We’re going to explore this remarkable theory, known as the Standard Model, in today’s episode. Our guest is one of the best people in the world to help us understand what the Standard Model is, how it came to be, why it’s important, and where we’re headed next. Dr. Glenn Starkman is an internationally known theoretical physicist. His research interests include searching for habitable planets, probing the shape of the universe, looking for miniature black holes, and extending and testing Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. He also serves as the Distinguished University Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Case Western Reserve University. And he directs the university’s Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics, and the Institute for the Science of Origins. And by the way, he thinks the name “Standard Model” is pretty boring. He suggests replacing it with “The Absolutely Amazing Theory of Almost Everything.” To celebrate the accomplishments of the Standard Model on its 50thanniversary, Dr. Starkman has organized a four-day symposium here in Cleveland, from June 1-4, 2018, called “The Standard Model at 50 Years.” Its all-star lineup of scientific speakers includes eight Nobel laureates in physics, including Dr. Steven Weinberg, whose landmark 1967 research forms the cornerstone of the Standard Model. To register to attend the symposium's free public lecture, by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dr. David Gross, or to live-stream the entire symposium, go to artsci.case.edu/smat50/
32 authors and illustrators come back on the show to answer the question ... Why picture books are important? Juniper Bates, Amy June Bates, Josh Funk, Catia Chien, Alice Kuipers, Rowboat Watkins, Elise Parsley, Jon Burgerman, Ruth Spiro, Dan Santat, Aaron Zenz, Patrick Wensink, David Ezra Stein, Laura Gehl, Sherri Duskey Rinker, Jake Parker, Anne Marie Pace, Matthew Winner, Mike Sundy, Jonathan Sundy, Mel Schuit, Claire Lordon, Will Terry, L.J.R. Kelly, Gilbert Ford, Julia Donaldson, Aaron Reynolds, Steven Weinberg, Christopher Weyant, Bruce Handy & Katherine Roy. Subscribe to Picturebooking via email, Apple Podcast, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Spotify or any number of podcast apps. Check out the archive at picturebooking.com where you can stream or download every episode ever made. Picturebooking can be found on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram. This episode was made possible by you and your fellow listeners through Picturebooking’s Patreon page. Please check out these links and thank those you have made this show possible: Alison B. Watson Dani Duck Donna Marie Heather Kinser Jim Petipas LJ Michaels Sandra Salsbury This episode was recorded inside the Mulva Library Studio on the campus of St. Norbert College. Picturebooking is produced by Nick Patton Studio, LLC. Thanks for listening.
Betsy and Kate would like to offer a word of warning to their mother with this one. Somehow, this ended up being their longest episode. If she listens to this on the treadmill, she might do herself a serious injury. It's a whopping 48:17 (and that's edited down!). I guess it's not surprising when you do a book as long as SCM. And boy howdy do they come up with all kinds of stuff to discuss here. A smattering includes . . . Source Notes: - Here's the Children's Book-a-Day Almanac link from Anita Silvey that discusses The Stinky Cheese Man: http://childrensbookalmanac.com/2011/10/the-stinky-cheese-man-and-other-fairly-stupid-tales/ - This is the ridiculous Stinky Cheese Man stuffed toy. Betsy loves him so much! He is, as she suggested, from YottoY: https://www.yottoy.com/collections/the-stinky-cheese-man - And here's a video of someone making it run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV_7KfCt5AE - Here he is at #91 on the second Top 100 Picture Books poll: http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2012/05/16/top-100-picture-books-91-the-stinky-cheese-man-and-other-fairy-stupid-tales-by-jon-scieszka-illustrated-by-lane-smith/ - A House That Once Was is a true Caldecott contender. Find it!! http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2018/04/13/review-of-the-day-a-house-that-once-was-by-julie-fogliano-ill-lane-smith/ - And here's a link to the mentioned Astronuts from Jon and Steven Weinberg: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/76310-rights-report-week-of-march-12-2018.html - Did you miss Battle Bunny? Don't! Read this review and enjoy!: http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2013/07/10/review-of-the-day-battle-bunny-by-jon-scieszka-and-mac-barnett/ -And here's the book that came out last year that makes fun of Lane Smith's name. SO GOOD! http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2017/11/10/review-of-the-day-im-just-no-good-at-rhyming-by-chris-harris-ill-lane-smith/ -Yep. The Berenstain Bears podcast Deep In Bear Country is really remarkable stuff. Highly recommended. Though, and we say this with deep and abiding regret, we cannot find them doing Berenstain Bears and the Bully. https://berenstainbearcast.wordpress.com/ -The Florida bookseller who gets tattoos from artists is Becky Quiroga. Publishers Weekly did a piece on her years ago. That said, her Lane Smith isn't Stinky Cheese Man after all. It's the ape from It's a Book. Here is the PW story on her: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/48874-characters-ink-a-children-s-bookseller-s-tattoos.html For the full Source Notes, please go here: http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2018/05/21/fuse-8-n-kate-the-stinky-cheese-man-by-jon-scieszka-and-lane-smith/
This first full-length episode of Letzcast features teacher and photographer Steven Weinberg, who while born in the Netherlands has lived in Luxembourg for over 30 years. We talk about his many adventures with "the little one" (his car), how he became a teacher, the virtues of learning Luxembourgish, and much more. Remember to subscribe to Letzcast on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.
Author, illustrator and new dad Steven Weinberg stops by the pod to talk about his new picture book FRED & THE LUMBERJACK. We chat about children, chainsaws, lonely dream dens and living in the Catskills. All the Wonders Show Notes
Steven Weinberg describes his experiences writing about science for a general audience.
A discussion of the creation of the Standard Model including the work of Sheldon Glashow, Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg.
In this episode of Views & Brews, KUT’s Rebecca McInroy talks with Nobel Laureate Dr. Steven Weinberg about his new book, To Explain The World: The Discovery of Modern Science. In a packed house at the Cactus Cafe, McInroy asked Weinberg about everything from the what ideas remain from the cult of the Pythagoreans, to...
In this episode of Views & Brews, KUT’s Rebecca McInroy talks with Nobel Laureate Dr. Steven Weinberg about his new book, To Explain The World: The Discovery of Modern Science. In a packed house at the Cactus Cafe, McInroy asked Weinberg about everything from the what ideas remain from the cult of the Pythagoreans, to […]
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Steven Weinberg discusses his new book that charts thousands of years of scientific discovery. Meanwhile, actor and TV presenter David Suchet speaks to us about his upcoming BBC documentary series on the first Bishop of Rome. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Steven Weinberg is Nobel laureate in Physics and theoretical physicist who is an outspoken thinker on topics ranging from nuclear weapons to atheism. Join KUT’s Rebecca McInroy as she sits down with Weinberg to talk about the extraordinary life and career of one of the greatest minds of the 20th century.
Steven Weinberg is Nobel laureate in Physics and theoretical physicist who is an outspoken thinker on topics ranging from nuclear weapons to atheism. Join KUT’s Rebecca McInroy as she sits down with Weinberg to talk about the extraordinary life and career of one of the greatest minds of the 20th century.
An expository sermon on Isaiah 28:23-29 explores how God taught science to mankind as a means to worship and how they suppressed the truth and turned against their Creator. - SERMON TRANSCRIPT - Right out in front of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in England, there is a statue of Sir Isaac Newton seated, chin in hand, pondering an apple at his feet. And it's obviously a statue of a famous moment in history of modern science, in which Isaac Newton saw an apple fall, some say it hit him in the head. I don't know, I wasn't there. But in 1666, he considered the journey of this apple, then he began to ask a question, the question was this: "If the force of gravity reaches to the top of the highest tree, why couldn't it reach the moon?"| And so, it was a flash of insight as you watched this apple fall. Throughout the history of science, there have been flashes of insight that have come to scientists that have guided science along throughout human history. Thomas Edison, the famous inventor, said that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. I'm here to say today to God be the glory for both. God gives the inspiration and he gives the perspiration that his guided genius has guided science throughout history, and I wanna take back and give to God the glory for these things that modern atheistic scientists seek to take away and give to man alone. In Isaiah 28, it teaches that God instructs and teaches man the right way concerning science. Flashes of insight and long careful development, both come from God. So, a summary of my message today is that scripture reveals God as the teacher of humanity. He is the teacher of the lessons of his glorious creation, whether they recognize him or not. That God has guided the development of human science in all areas and to God be the glory for that development. For every truth that science has ever taught comes from God. "God has guided the development of human science in all areas and to God be the glory for that development. For every truth that science has ever taught comes from God." However, in the 21st century, especially in the western world, science is seen to be a rival to faith. It's grown to be a rival to God. Even a system by which some people think they can prove that God doesn't exist at all. How ironic. God gives us the wisdom, the weapons of wisdom and technology, and we then turn them on him as if we can destroy him with them. Puritan pastor Cotton Mather, speaking of material prosperity, not of science, but a material prosperity, looking at the Puritan movement, especially the New England Puritans, he said this: "Piety, godliness, gave birth to prosperity and the daughter devoured the mother." So, in other words, as the New England Puritans got wealthy through their godliness, they lost their godliness through their wealth. Well, the same thing has happened, it seems with science. The godliness gave birth to science and science now sees to devour what gave it birth. The 1978 astrophysicist and hobby historian Michael H. Hart, wrote a provocative book called, ‘The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History’. Very provocative, very controversial. His number one most influential person of history was Muhammad. His number two was Isaac Newton, number three was Jesus Christ. Now, I don't know if Isaac Newton had genuine faith in the Triune God and the deity of Christ. Now, there's questions about that. But let's hope for his sake, that he did. Imagine him up in heaven realizing he is in second place and Jesus in third, and how amazing and ironic that would be. It shows how we in the west value science above even Christian faith. But God gives the flashes of insight, and he does it all to bless humanity, and he does it through people, and often, often cases through people who don't even acknowledge him as he's doing it. Science is a good gift from God. Should never be feared. It is a platform for a deeper worship of God. Think of Psalm 8, what David wrote in verse 3 and 4: "When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have made. What is man that you are mindful of him? The son of man, that you care for him?" Careful cosmological observation by David, that science led him to worship, and to be humble. And so it should be. Science is a good gift from God by studying the physical universe, we can use many useful things, helpful for life, things that can enrich our lives: electronics, medicine, aviation. Good science can also point, if you know what to look for, to the existence of God. But science also has its limitations, science can make us proud, science can make us independent of God. God has willed that is impossible for any of us to find him through science directly. Through man's wisdom alone, no one will be saved. God has willed this. We'll talk about this in 1 Corinthians chapter 1. And it is not by science that our souls will be saved. Faith operates in a higher realm than science. Not contradicting it, not opposing it, just above it. Science cannot falsify faith claims, therefore, it cannot make any statements about the truth of those claims. You can't devise an experiment by which we can prove that God doesn't exist, or that he does. "Science cannot falsify faith claims, therefore, it cannot make any statements about the truth of those claims." God creates the laws of science for his own glory, and he is not subject to them, but rules over them for his own glory. That is my purpose today to give God glory for this, for science. So this is a bit different sermon than I usually preach. My purposes today are not apologetic, I'm not here to defend the faith to skeptics and unbelievers. So if this thing gets out on the internet and Richard Dawkins listens to it, he's not going to be persuaded by what I'm saying. I'm not talking to him, I'm talking in-house to believers. I'm talking to brothers and sisters in Christ, and saying that from this text and expanding out from the Scripture to God be the glory for everything that science has ever devised. It's a time of worship for us. So, let's try to be somewhat expositional this morning, amen? Just for a while, anyway, 15 minutes of exposition and then the rest will be topical. Okay, is that alright? Understanding the Passage in Context So this morning, we're going to start with just the passage in context and try to understand it, and then I'm gonna go off and discuss science based on it. So let's look at the context of Isaiah 28, I already preached through three-quarters of this chapter in the last sermon I was preaching a few weeks ago. We see in Isaiah 28, a judgment of God on the northern kingdom of Ephraim of Israel for their wickedness and for their sins. Sins of drunkenness and idolatry, of irreligion. And we saw in verses 9 and 10 of this chapter, that Israel's leaders were mocking Isaiah's prophecies in reference to Judah, the southern kingdom, and they were saying, "Do and do, do and do, rule and rule," etcetera. Which in the Hebrew is, “Sav lasav sav lasav, kav lakav, kav lakav”. Just yada, yada, yada, that kind of thing. And they were mocking God's word, and so God said, very ominously, "Very well then, since you won't listen to the clear prophetic word, I'll speak to you through a foreign language, I'll speak to you through men of another tongue, and they'll come to your hometown and they'll speak that language, right in your streets. And you'll understand what I'm saying to you then, the judgment of God has come at last because of your sins." Ultimately though in this chapter, they reject the rock, the foundation rock, the cornerstone, who is Jesus Christ. In verse 16, it says, this is what the Sovereign Lord says, "Behold, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious corner stone for a sure foundation, and the one who trusts in him will never be dismayed." That stone is Jesus Christ. The New Testament makes it plain, Jesus is the foundation stone for the temple, the spiritual building of God. Jesus is the cornerstone and we can trust in him, the son of God who came, who came to Earth, who was incarnate by the power of the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, who lived a sinless life, who did miracles, who taught mighty words, and who proclaimed the gospel of the coming kingdom of God. And who especially shed his blood on the cross, who died in our place, and who was raised from the dead on the third day. This is the Gospel of Jesus Christ and if you believe in the Gospel, you will be saved. And friend, you may be on the outside looking in, on the outside of Christian faith looking in. You may be interested, your interest may be piqued about the whole science thing. That's not gonna save your soul. This message will. So if you hear nothing else I say, hear this, the Gospel of Jesus Christ alone saves sinners and all you need to do is trust in Jesus. Don't trust in your own works, don't trust in your own righteousness, but trust in Christ and he will give you the gift of righteousness and the gift of eternal life. The gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit, the gift of adoption as sons and daughters of the living God, he will give you heaven as a gift. All of these things freely as a gift. And then he'll give you a new life. When by the power of the Holy Spirit, you can work out your salvation with fear and trembling, you can put sin to death. You can do good works, as we're talking about, as Adam said that we are prepared to do good works, by involvement in a good church. We can do those good works but none of them make us any more righteous, none of them make us any more acceptable to God, none of them make us any more adopted or any more indwelt by the Holy Spirit or any more certain of going to heaven. Those things are just gifts of God. So believe the Gospel, it's a center piece of every text and of every sermon. Now, these Jewish people in those days thought, people in the southern kingdom of Judah, that they could make a covenant with death, they could make an arrangement, and that death would circumvent them, and I think they were reaching out to Egypt for military allies and all of this, they make a covenant with death, and they thought they could avoid the coming judgment, but that covenant with death would fail. Verse 18: "Your covenant with death will be annulled, your agreement with the grave will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by, you will be beaten down by it." And the end of the section I preached there in verse 22, he says, "The Lord Almighty has told me of the destruction decreed against this whole land." So this is really, those 22 verses are dreadful and terrifying, a word of woe right at the very beginning, verse 1: "And destruction decreed against the whole land." Verse 22 it's a word of terrible warning. God Teaches Agriculture to Farmers And at the end of this chapter comes this little parable, this agricultural parable about a farmer in his land and techniques of agriculture, which you heard Tim read. Listen again to these words: "Listen and hear my voice, pay attention and hear what I say. When a farmer plows for planting, does he plow continually? Does he keep on breaking up and harrowing the soil? When he has leveled the surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin, does he not plant wheat in its place, barley in its plot and spelt in its field? His God instructs him and teaches him the right way. Caraway is not threshed with a sledge, nor is a cartwheel rolled over cumin. Caraway is beaten out with a rod and cumin with a stick. Grain must be ground to make bread, so one does not go on threshing it forever. Though he drives the wheels of his threshing cart over it, his horses do not grind it." Verse 29: "All of this also comes from the Lord Almighty, wonderful in counsel, magnificent in wisdom." Straightforward lesson, in context. If the farmer knows when to stop plowing, how much more does God know when to stop judging his people? If the farmer knows when to stop threshing and to start making the bread, how much more does God know when enough is enough? And so it's really a word of comfort and consolation to a people about to be judged by God. God will not destroy them, he will not wipe them off the face of the earth, that's the lesson. God knows when to stop crushing his people and to start rebuilding them. So that's the point of the parable, in context. Look at the details, he begins by calling for attention, he asks for them to listen to him, in verse 23, "Listen and hear my voice, pay attention, and hear what I say." This is characteristic of wisdom literature. Where in Proverbs 1, “Wisdom”, personified wisdom, “cries aloud in the streets.” “How long will you simple ones love your foolishness. Come and listen to me and eat what is good and be wise.” It's a calling out to people to listen to wisdom. “Whoever listens to me”, Proverbs 133, "Will live in safety and be at ease without fear of harm." So it's a cry of God really to listen to his words. The lesson of the farmer's knowledge in verse 24, "When a farmer plows for planting, does he plow continually? Does he keep on plowing? Does he keep on breaking up and harrowing the soil." Obviously, a question, the implied answer is, “No”, he doesn't keep on plowing forever. He knows when the plowing's done. And when all of this plowing is done, it would be a metal pointed stick maybe tipped with bronze. Eventually, they found that bronze was too soft, so then they used iron, a little bit harder, could break up the soil. That's what was happening. And then after that came the harrowing of the soil, which would be heavy logs with spikes coming out of it, chained together, and they would drag it across the plowed earth, leveling it and flattening it and smoothing it out and making it ready for the seeds. And after all of this work was done, then it was time to plant the seed, verse 25, "When he has leveled the surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? Does he not plant wheat in its place? Barley in its plot, spelt in its field?" The idea is that each seed is dealt with a different way. The very fine black cumin seeds are scattered indiscriminately over the surface, you don't have to be careful about them, they'll do just fine. So you just scatter those fine little seeds over there and they'll be fine, but larger seeds like the wheat and the barley have to be pushed down into the surface, into the prepared soil, and that's how they're going to thrive. Each seed dealt with a little bit differently. Spelt is planted at the edges of the field, because it grows up really tall and provides a natural boundary for the field, preventing animals from coming in, and other farmers knowing that that's the edge of the field. So, all of this was worked out and God knew all of this before the farmer did. He knew it all, he knew exactly what to do with agriculture. And here's the key statement in verse 26: "His God instructs him and teaches him the right way." So again, in context, the logic of the passage that the farmer knows when to stop plowing and harrowing the soil. How much more does God know when his people have had enough? He doesn't go on plowing endlessly, he knows how to leave a remnant of the Jews who aren't destroyed and from them to build his future people. He continues in the second half: "Caraway is not threshed with a sledge nor is a cartwheel rolled over cumin. Caraway is beaten out with a rod and cumin with a stick. Grain must be ground to make bread, so one doesn't go on threshing it forever. Though he drives the wheels of his threshing cart over it, his horses do not grind it." So, we move from plowing and planting then to the threshing that happens after the harvest. The same techniques are not gonna be used on small grains that you use on larger grains. With wheat and barley, you have an animal tethered to a central post, and he's dragging a heavy threshing sled with stones or bits of metal that just break it apart and separate the kernel from the husk. But you can't do that with the smaller harvest, the smaller seeds that are harvested. There you're gonna use a flail, which would be two sticks connected with a leather strap, and they beat it out. I actually, got to do this a year ago in Nepal. I wasn't very good at it. It provided a good chance for them to laugh at me and it was an opening for the Gospel. I didn't know the technique, but watching them, they were just very good at it, and they knew how to use the flail to do the threshing. Separating out the kernel from the husk. And Isaiah's point in the second half is the same as the first, the farmer knows what to do the thresh and he knows when to stop threshing and start to make the bread. He knows when enough is enough. And he ends with the same kind of statement in verse 29: "All of this also comes from the Lord Almighty, wonderful in counsel, magnificent in wisdom." God knew the science of agriculture before the farmer did and he's the one that taught it to the farmer. So how much more does he know how to deal with his people? When his people have had enough, God will stop. And so later in Isaiah in chapter 40:1-2, he'll say, very beautifully, he'll tell his prophet to tell the people: "Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem. And proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins”. The time has come. It's done now, there's no more judgment now, it's over. The time has come to rebuild now. So I'm gonna stop right here and just give an application of this to us. Do you realize that tenderness and the gentleness and the wisdom of God in dealing with you? That God does not burden you with more trials than you can handle, he knows when enough is enough, he knows when you can't handle anymore, he knows when to stop the trials. And say that those trials have done their work on your heart, your heart has been plowed enough, the harvest has been trashed enough, he knows when to stop. God is faithful, he will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you can bear. He knows when to stop. Twice, in Peter's Epistle, 1 Peter, he teaches this same thing, he talks about the joy that believers have in coming to faith in Christ and knowing our inheritance. This great joy that we have, this joy unspeakable and full of glory. He says, "In this salvation, you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, you may have had to suffer grief and all kinds of trials." Did you hear that? Now, for a little while, you may have had to suffer grief and all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith of greater worth than gold which perishes, even though refined by fire may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. God brings the trials into your life to purify your faith so that Jesus gets glory when he returns, but notice, he does it for a little while. The trials are necessary, but not too much of them. He knows when to stop, and he teaches the same thing at the end of the book. In 1 Peter 5:8-10, he says, "Be self-controlled and alert your enemy, the devil prowls around like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of sufferings." And God, after you have suffered for a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. Isn't that marvelous? God measures out how much Satan, the roaring lion can get at you and then he moves them aside and says, "That's enough." God is so wise in dealing with us. What are you going through right now? What is bringing pain in your life? What is causing you suffering? What are you struggling with? Understand those days, indeed those hours, minutes and seconds have been measured out by God. He is wise. He doesn't go on plowing you forever, he doesn't go on thrashing you forever. And there's gonna come a day when there's no more of any of it, no more death, mourning, crying, pain and he is preparing you for that day. So give him the glory and trust him as you're going through trials. Though you are burdened, though you may be crying, though you may be weak and weary, you should cry out to God but know this, he has measured out the days of your trials and they will not be too many. He knows when to stop. III. God Teaches All Science to Humanity Thus ends the exposition. Now we go topical. I think this passage teaches a secondary lesson, now, the thing with expositional preaching, the definition of it is that the point of the text is the point of the sermon. Well, the point of the text has been the point of the sermon up until now. But I want to take a moment and just talk about science. Just because I think it's important in 21st century America, I think it's something we Christians deal with every day. And if you're in certain settings on a college campus or in a laboratory working as a scientist or whatever, you may deal with this topic every day of your life. Science has come to dominate our culture in ways scarcely imaginable 200 years ago. Science changed everything, the way people lived, all of the externals and the patterns of our lives were changed by scientific insights, people lived about the same way for millennia, you think about the agriculture, the agrarian nature of life, the way that people would be transported from one place to another. I'm not saying there weren't some technological advances along the way but progress was very slow. Look at the Native Americans who lived in North America for centuries, basically, inheriting a way of life from their forefathers and living that out and passing it on to their children, and very little changed. And the same was true for the most part of many places around the world. But science flourished where Biblical faith grew and developed, especially New Testament faith. It flourished because we saw in the regularity of the creation, a God who created all things to be regular like that. We saw in the words of scripture, for example, right after the flood, God spoke concerning the regularity of nature, said, "As long as earth endures seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease." So that regularity has come from the mind of God, from the character of God. Those things will not stop until the Earth ends. C.S. Lewis said this, "Men became scientific because they expected law in nature." And they expected law in nature because they believed in a law giver. Regions of the world dominated by animism or polytheism, or even some of the major world religions, Buddhism, Hinduism, and even Islam, did not develop in the same way that places where Christianity had taken root developed. But the west through the industrial revolution as science continued to learn and make valid insights and develop valid products and valid medicines and all that, grew to fall in love with science and forget the one who gave it. Now, what do we mean by science? Well, the scientific method is well known. You probably studied it when you were in high school, what the scientific method is: you make an observation of the surrounding world, for example, this corn is better than that corn, taller, richer, greener, just better. Then you ask a question, "Gee, I wonder why. Why is that corn better than this corn?" And you notice that some cow manure got dumped at the bottom of that corn and not at the other corn. So then you formulate a hypothesis, "Gee, I wonder if cow manure are might help the corn to grow better?" So then you craft an experiment to find out if this hypothesis could be true or not, "Tell you what I'll plant... Next year, I'll plant one tenth, 'cause I'm not sure about this idea but anyway, one tenth of my corn with cow manure in it and the rest in the regular way." And then you watch and see what happens. You analyze the data. Sure enough, the corn did grow taller and richer and better. So the next year you maybe do half of your field with cow manure and the other half not. Over a period of time, you eventually draw a tested conclusion from these experiments. You settle that conclusion, namely, cow manure helps corn grow well into a larger system of truth about agriculture, things you've already learned. And then you publish your findings to other farmers so that they can grow from it and you can grow from their observations. There my friends is science, that's what it is. That's what it does, it's been doing it for centuries now, that pattern of eight steps. But now the scientific method is coming back to devour the God who gave it to begin with, especially since Darwin published ‘The Origin of the Species’ in 1859. Scientists have become bolder in saying everything in the universe can be answered by science. Peter Atkins, Professor of Chemistry at Oxford said this, "Science emerged from religion, as science discarded the cocoon, its cocoon to become its present butterfly, it took over the whole garden. There is no reason to suppose that science cannot deal with every aspect of existence." Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg said this, "The world needs to wake up from the long nightmare of religion, anything we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion should be done. And may in fact be our greatest contribution to humankind." So in other words, we are at war, science and religion are at war, and good scientists will do everything they can to win that battle. Richard Dawkins wrote a book called ‘The God Delusion’. Any of you folks deluded today? [chuckle] Deluded that there is a God. He says there's bunch of chemical reactions in the brain, he just believes in natural selection, evolution, that whole thing, he says, "Religion itself can be explained by physics." He says, "Everything in the universe can be accounted for by the blind laws of physics, and that religion is not merely a delusion but a dangerous delusion." Dawkins says this, "I'm utterly fed up with the respect we have been brainwashed into giving to religion." So, if you didn't think we're at war, we're at war, at least in the minds of some, many and this is part of the culture we live in, part of the air that we breathe. Christians can feel backed into a corner when dealing with intelligent scientists, atheistic scientists, back on our heels. Atheistic scientists claim that people resort to gods or a God when they don't understand something. It's called the ‘God of the gaps theory’. So where there's a gap in human knowledge, we stick a god or gods in there, superstitions and myths. Basically, modern atheistic scientists are saying, "We see where science is going and things we used to say the gods did, we now know why they happen. And so we see where all is is going, there's still many unanswered questions, but some day there won't be any. Some day we'll know everything, and then there'll be no God or gods at all. So why don't we just go there now? Why don't we just say, there is no God now. We see where it's going. So enough of the God of the gaps.” Well, this is sheer arrogance. Do you not see it? This is how it works, if I study some laws of cause and effect, I can say there's no God who made either cause or effect? If some superstitious people have ascribed to thunder and lightning, the activity of Zeus, and then we learn that it's very much like static discharge done by Ben Franklin and other things, we say, "Okay, I guess the clouds are rubbing into each other and creating static electricity, and that's where the thunder and lightning comes from, therefore there's no God?" How do we figure that out? How do we go from one to the next? But that's what scientists are saying. Now, Isaiah 28, the text we're looking at this morning, suggests that all of the scientific insights have been taught directly by God. That God's the one that instructs the farmer on the science of agriculture, and I'm going beyond that to say, God has taught us everything we've ever learned, everything we know, God has taught it to us. To God be the glory for the physical universe he made and the science that has studied it, and the whispering he's done in the ears of scientists along the way, in which he has instructed and taught them the right way, and that's what the text says. Look at verse 26 again, “His God instructs him and teaches him the right way.” The Hebrew words are very potent actually. The science of agriculture is the subject, God is the teacher, the farmer is the pupil. It literally says, "for" It's omitted in the NIV, but it's, "For his God instructs him and teaches him the right way." The reason he plows this way, the reason he acts way, is that God has taught in what to do. And it says very strongly, God instructs him rightly, literally, justly. So there's a justice to the agricultural science, similar to the moral law of the universe, this is the right way to handle these things. It's a very strong statement his God teaches them the just way or the right way. And then at the end, look at verse 29, "All this also comes from the Lord Almighty, wonderful in council, magnificent in wisdom.” God teaches everything. Look what it says, "Lets start with magnificent wisdom." God just knows the right way to do things, everything, and then he's wonderful in counsel. He gives advice, "Hey, why don't you try this?" So God's magnificent in these things, he knows what to do, and he tells us what would work best. Now, when did all this start? I tell you, it started back in the garden of Eden. Started right back at the beginning when God made Adam out of the dust of the earth. And it says in Genesis chapter 2, if you look, you don't have to turn there, but in verses 4 and 5, it says, "When the Lord God made the heavens and the earth, and no shrub of the field had yet sprung up. And no plant or herb of the field had yet sprung up, had not appeared on the Earth for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth. [Listen] And there was no man to work the ground." That's fascinating. Back in Genesis chapter 1 in the third day of creation, God made seed-bearing plants. The genetic code in the seed and they were gonna reproduce according to their kind, according to their seed. So he created these types of plants that could not grow, they could not develop without human cultivation. They're needed human beings, farmers to raise those particular types of plants up. And so agricultural science tells us what they are, for example, you never find corn growing in the wild ever. If you ever walk through the woods and come to a stand of corn, you know there are people nearby, and there are many other such crops. God linked those crops to human involvement. Well, then you think, "Okay, Adam gets born, made, crafted out of the dust of the earth, what does he know?" Friends, nothing. He doesn't know anything. "Well, how is he gonna know what to do with those herbs and plants of the field?" Well, his God will instruct him and teach them the right way. He'll teach him what to do. Just like Jesus said about his relationship with his father, he said, "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing on his own. He can only do what his father tells him to do. Because his father shows him everything he's doing." That intimate father-son relationship. And in Jesus's genealogy in Luke 3, it said that Adam was the son of God. And so the Father would teach the son, Adam, what to do with the garden. He would teach him how to make those crops flourish. And He put him in the garden to serve it and protect it, it literally says in Genesis 2:15, that was his job to make those crops come to their full fruition. But I'm gonna go beyond just agriculture, I think that's where it started. But remember in Genesis 2, there was a river that went through the garden and broke into headwaters, and then it goes out into different lands, and there's onyx out there, and there's aromatic resin, and there's gold, it's like, "What am I gonna do with onyx and aromatic resin and gold?" Well, God will instruct him and teach him the right way. He'll teach him what to do with all those things, what they're good for, what they're not good for. The science of the earth, dear friends, God was gonna teach it to them. And God's was gonna teach science to all humanity because it was gonna be part of our relationship, our love relationship with God, we were going to love the Lord, our God with all our heart, our soul and our mind. The first and greatest commandment. "The science of the earth, dear friends, God was gonna teach it to them. And God's was gonna teach science to all humanity because it was gonna be part of our relationship, our love relationship with God." Science is a Basis for Eternal Worship And God had filled the world with his glory. Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." And it says in Isaiah 6, the seraphim crying out, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord Almighty, the whole earth is full of his glory." And it was our job as human beings to learn that glory, to study that glory. Habakkuk 2:14 on this map out here, "The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea." We were the scientists, we were the ones who were gonna study and the topic would be God. The topic would be God and his glory woven into every atom, every fiber of the universe. But then sin entered the world. Genesis chapter 3, tragically, they were drawn away, enticed by a different kind of knowledge an arrogant ambition to be like God. To know good and evil to become like God, and they ate from that tree. And God had woven and clear evidence of himself and creation, Romans 1:20, "For since the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities –his eternal power and his divine nature – are clearly understood from what has been made." But men, now in sin, worshipping themselves really suppress or hold down that truth in unrighteousness, that there is a God, that he made all these things that creation testifies to the greatness and the existence of God. So they suppress it in unrighteousness. I find that interesting, holding It down. Came across a quote by Francis Crick, Watson and Crick were the ones that came up with the DNA double helix thing, they won the Nobel Prize for it. Guys, an arch-atheist biologist, and he said this, "Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved." What a fascinating quote. You have to work hard when you're in the lab or just constantly keep in mind, it was not designed, but it was evolved. It was not designed, but it was evolved, you have to constantly... You have to work hard at it. Actually Richard Dawkins said this, "Living objects look designed, they look overwhelmingly as though they were designed, but they weren't.” Does that not sound like suppressing the truth and unrighteousness to you? A design means what? A designer, dear friends. And so it got worse. Although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images. They exchange the truth of God for a lie and worshipped and served created things rather than the creator. You wanna know the number one created thing they worship and serve? Their own brains, themselves. That's what they're worshipping, that's what they're serving. And yet for all of that, God still will to teach the human race science, he still will to do it. And so people discovered scientific truths, but now corrupt, they start to use them for evil purposes. Prime example is the Tower of Babel. Remember how they said in Genesis 11, “‘Come let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.’ And they covered them with tar for mortar and they said, ‘Come, let's build us a city with a tower that reaches up to the heavens so that we can make a name for ourselves.’” Oh, they're no longer living for the glory of God's name, they're living for their own name. Interestingly, God said some amazing things at that point. He said, if as one people speaking one language that they began to do this, then nothing they proposed to do will be withheld from them. God knew what he put into the mind of man and the greatness of being in the image of God and the danger at that point, so he retarded it all, slowed it down by confusing the languages. It was God that taught them the ceramics. It was God that taught them advanced building techniques. It was God that taught them these things, but they used them for wicked purposes. Now, some godly people in the Bible are scientists. A good example of this is Solomon. Solomon begged God for wisdom and God gave it to him, and it branched out into science, it branched out into a study of different types of plants and animals. In 1 Kings 4, it says that Solomon describe plant life from the Cedar of Lebanon to the hyacinth that grows out of the walls. He was a botanist, I guess. He was a biologist, he also taught about animals and birds, and reptiles and fish, a zoologist. Men of all nations came to listen to Solomon's wisdom sent by all the kings of the world who had heard of his wisdom. Even the Queen of Sheba came to test him with difficult questions, and he passed all the tests. Oral exam, PhD, oral exam, and he passed. Amazing! A scientist. And he talks about that in Ecclesiastes, he said, "So, I turned my mind," is Ecclesiastes 7:25, "I turned my mind to understand, to investigate, to search out wisdom, the scheme of things, to understand." And then 7:27, listen to this, "Look, said the teacher, this is what I have discovered. Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things." Friends, that's science is what that is, was given as a gift of God to Solomon the king. Jesus did the same thing and his teachings. Remember in the Sermon on the Mount, in Matthew 6, he talks to anxious people who are worried about food and clothing and all that sort of stuff. He said, "Why do you worry about food? Study the birds of the air, will you? Study them, watch their habits, watch their techniques. They neither sow, or reap, or store in barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? And why do you worry about clothes? Study the lilies of the field. Look at them carefully. Pick one, go ahead, pick it and look at it. I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. Now, if that's how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you? Oh, you of little faith." So he's using science and goes from it to spiritual principles of God's care for us to destroy it in a very counseling kind of practical sense your anxiety about food and clothing. He does the same thing concerning his own advent, his coming to earth. He says, "You look at the weather, right? You say, look at the sky, it's red in the morning and today it'd be stormy, and then the night. It'd be fair weather for the sky is red. Now, you know how to interpret the appearance of the sky but you cannot interpret the signs of the times." So he's going to meteorology there. Oh, you guys are studying the weather patterns, why don't you study what's happening with me now? And he does that concerning his second coming, "As lightning that flashes in the east is visible in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man." So bottom line, God is the teacher of science, always has been, always will be, and science can be used to the glory of God. "God is the teacher of science, always has been, always will be, and science can be used to the glory of God." He also teaches science to atheists who give him no credit at all. Look in your Bible a few pages up to Isaiah 45:3-7…Wow, I have two spiders on my microphone here, that is freaky. So, I study of them? What do you think? I don't know. Look into them, into the science. I think there's only... No, there's two of them. Where did it go? That's creepy. Pray for me. Anyway, he says to Cyrus the Great, an empire builder from Persia. This is Isaiah 45:3-7, he says this to him, "I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places so that you may know that I am the Lord, the God of Israel who summons you by name. I summon you by name and I bestow on you a title of honor though you do not acknowledge me. [Do you see that?] I am the Lord and there is no other apart from me, there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not acknowledged me so that from the rising of the sun to the place of it setting, men may know there is none besides me. I am the Lord and there is no other. I form the light and create darkness; I bring prosperity and create disaster. I the Lord, do all these things." So, God will open the treasures of scientific darkness and give those riches to people who do not acknowledge him. And he does it, I think, in a common grace blessing, like causing the sun to rise on the righteous and the unrighteous, and sending rain on those who acknowledge him and those who don't. And he does this for his own purpose, even to people who suppress the truth in unrighteousness. Now, later in Isaiah 45, you still there. Look at it in verse 15, it says, "Truly, you are a God who hides himself, oh, God and Savior of Israel." God teaches science to atheists and hides himself so that they do not actually know him. Deeper, God uses science to control human history. He gives scientific insights to some peoples and not to others, and in this way causes some nations to rise up higher than others, for his own sovereign purposes. No one from the East to the West can exalt a man, only God can do that, that's Psalm 75. And the Apostle Paul in Athens on Mars Hill, said to those philosophers, those scientists of Athens, said this, "From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth. And he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live." How does God control these things? Well, without them knowing it, God directs the minds of the rulers or of the scientists, whatever way he chooses, he has that power to do it. So he'll give an insight on steel, or gunpowder, or free market economies, or other things, and causes some nations to rise up higher than others, for his own purposes, for his own glory. And as science advances, it advances by what they call eureka moments, moments flashes of insight, like Isaac Newton's apple. I don't know if it hit him on the head, but it made him think. The word ‘eureka’ is Greek for "I've found it." It comes from Archimedes who figured out how to discover if the king's crown was made of pure gold or not. When he lowered himself into a tub and the water spilled out, and he thought a specific gravity could sink the crown in there and figured out its density that way. Amazing, eureka, I've found it! Well, what he should have said, Isaiah 28, is, “He taught it to me. Thank you, God.” God showed me what to do with specific gravity, and has happened again and again, 1% inspiration, moments of inspiration, God says, "Try this, try this, try this." Whispering in the ears of the scientist, whether they acknowledge him or not. So, there was a scientist working for 3M and they had developed an adhesive that was very weak, didn't hold very well, they didn't know what to do with it. So he's in church and he's singing, and his bookmark keeps sliding out of hymnal, it just keeps sliding down the page. Eureka! Post-it note. Any of you ever used a post-it note? It was in church while the guy was singing. Or another guy goes walking with his dog through the woods and after the walk, he sees a bunch of birds hitchhikers on his sock, his woolen sock. He looks at it for a while, plucks it off, looks at it under a microscope and discovers velcro. These are true stories. Science Magazine Top 10 Eureka moments, Aha moments. Of course, number one was Alexander Flemming discovering antibiotics when a bread mold killed a bunch of bacteria. Albert Einstein himself, who went beyond Newtonian physics in about the same way that Newton discovered the first level of physics. He's in a Swiss Patent Office in 1907, and he starts thinking about people falling. And he thought, "If a man falls freely, he would not feel his own weight." And he began thinking about that and started to develop the general theory of relativity. Now took him eight years of mathematics, but God worked it through him and he gave it to him. And to God be the glory for all of us. Now, someday, friends, our minds are gonna be fixed, our hearts are gonna be fixed, we're gonna live in heaven and the world is gonna be filled with the glory of God, and Jesus will be the lamp of the glory of God, and everything we see will radiate with the glory of God, and our minds will see it, and we will study it, and we will give directly God the glory for all of it, for eternity, and the earth will be filled at last with the knowledge of the glory of God as the waters cover the earth. The Limitations of Science But there are limitations to science. Science cannot produce faith, it cannot save your soul. Luke 17:20, Jesus said, "The Kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation." So you're careful observation will not bring the kingdom of God. And even better, 1 Corinthians 1:21, "For since in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know God. God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe." Alright, just to unravel that, 1 Corinthians 1:21, it was wise for God to set up a world where science couldn't find him. It was wise for God to set up a system where you could only be saved by believing Christ and him crucified. It was wise for God to do that. So no scientists can inch their way toward God by the scientific process, but faith comes by hearing the gospel in that way alone. Conversely, however, science cannot disprove our faith. It's amazing the arrogant statements made by that. There's no experiment that they can put together to disprove the existence of God. Science is not God's master, God is science's master. God makes laws, but he can break them any time he wants. Amen, Hallelujah. And Jesus broke them a lot: they're called miracles. Alright, he walks on water. What happened to specific gravity there? What happened to gravity itself? Jesus could do anything. Then interestingly, after he walked on water, what did he do? Got in the boat. So both of them are gods, that ordinary technology of flotation and boat development and all that, God's in favor of it. That's our usual way. But he is not behold into it, he can use the boat or not as he chooses. And after his resurrection he flouted the laws of nature again and again, goes right through the walls of the tomb, didn't need the angel to come and move the stone, he was gone already by then. He goes, though the doors are locked for fear of the Jews right through the walls as he chooses. He's eating with the two disciples on the road to a Emmaus, and he break bread and their eyes are opening he disappears. Where did he go? Don't know, next place. And after 40 days of instruction, he's there on the Mount of Olives and he just floats up to heaven until a cloud hides him from their site. Applications So, he made the laws but he didn't have to follow them. And science can be a basis of worship, it cannot lead us to faith and it can make us arrogant and independent and unthankful. We know 1 Corinthians 8:1, that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up but love builds up. The man who thinks he knows something, doesn't yet know as he ought to know. Jeremiah 9, this is what the Lord says, "Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom, or the strong man boast of his strength, or the rich man boast of his wealth. But let him who boast, boast about this, that he understands and knows me." Close with me in prayer. Father, we thank you for the time we've had to study. I pray that these words, some sense they've been long and some sense too short, but that they would be used by you to give us a sense of the glory of God in creation and in science. And I pray that you'd help us to be courageous when we preach the Gospel to our generation and to give you the glory for everything that you've done, in Jesus name. Amen.
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ENCORE Physics means getting physical if you’re tackling the biggest, most mysterious questions in the universe. Stoic scientists endure the driest, darkest, coldest spots on the planet to find out how it all began and why there’s something rather than nothing. From the bottom of an old iron mine to the top of the Andes, we’ll hear their stories. Plus, Steven Weinberg on this weird stuff called dark energy, and Leonard Susskind sees double, no, triple, no, …infinite universes. Guests: Anil Ananthaswamy - Corresponding editor for New Scientist magazine in London and author of The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe Steven Weinberg - Nobel Prize-winning physicist at University of Texas at Austin and author of Lake Views: This World and the Universe Leonard Susskind - Professor of theoretical physics, Stanford University André de Gouvêa - Associate professor of physics, Northwestern University Descripción en español
Nobel physicist Steven Weinberg spoke to an audience of science journalists, and then to podcast host Steve Mirsky
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