The DemystifySci Podcast

Today's guest, Hans Schantz, is back for a second time to discuss his work on how shockingly similar the hydrogen atom is electrically to a small antenna. We discuss Q factor, linewidth, and Einstein coefficients. We also get to pick Hans' brain about important paradoxes in conduction line physics a la Oliver Heaviside. This takes us through Poynting vectors, energy flow vs. ...

Order our the book, Paradox Lost: https://a.co/d/00FLBxxVWe're back to continue reading from our new book, Paradox Lost, where we examine the loss of material mediators in fundamental physics and then apply a simple set of axioms to imagine what the future of that abandoned physics might look like. Previously we introduced a material model of extended atomic architecture and ...

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

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

Order our the book, Paradox Lost: https://a.co/d/00FLBxxVWe're back to continue reading from our new book, Paradox Lost, where we examine the loss of material mediators in fundamental physics and then apply a simple set of axioms to imagine what the future of that abandoned physics might look like. Previously we introduced a material model of extended atomic architecture and ...