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Episodes from The DemystifySci Podcast
The End of Dark Matter? – Dr. Jenny Wagner, DemystifySci +431
Physicist Jenny Wagner joins us, asking not whether dark matter is possible but whether it is necessary, whether the missing mass was ever missing or only misplaced inside the models we carried in before we looked up. She works the inverse problem of gravitational lensing the way a person works a…
Stress Testing Physics Terminology - SOLO! (DemystifySci +430)
Somewhere between the thing you can touch and the number that only points back at it, physics keeps a question it rarely says out loud, which is what actually counts as real. We built a simple chart to drag that question into the light, a two axis map where every idea has to declare itself,…
Eight Empires Vanished in 1177 BC. Nobody Knows Why – Dr. Eric Cline, DemystifySci +429
Eight empires stretched from Greece to Mesopotamia, trading tin and copper and olive oil and letters written in a language nobody spoke at home, and then within a single human lifetime they were gone, the palaces burned, the writing systems lost, the trade routes silent. Eric Cline, archaeologist…
60 Seconds to Prove Your Theory of Everything. Paradigm Drift 10 (DemystifySci +428)
There is a microphone, a clock, and sixty seconds. What you do with them is entirely up to you. Ten episodes in, Paradigm Drift has become something nobody planned: a living laboratory where the wild, the rigorous, and the genuinely unclassifiable share the same stage. This time the theories range…
Atomic Axioms: How Physics Starts Making Sense Again - SOLO! (DemystifySci +427)
Every physical theory rests on a floor nobody built on purpose. In this livestream, we open the chapter "Atomic Axioms" from our forthcoming book Paradox Lost and lay bare the three assumptions that have always quietly governed how physics constructs its models of matter: that theories require…
How Culture Evolves (and Why Civilizations Collapse) – Dr. Liane Gabora, DemystifySci +426
This week, we head to the woods. UBC professor of psychology Liane Gabora walks us through the deep tension between creativity and conformity that runs through every institution humans have ever built. Her work on cultural evolution reveals something Darwin never touched: ideas don't survive by…
Lost Superpower: Who Really Ran the Bronze Age? - SOLO LIVE! (DemystifySci +425)
Something vast stirs beneath the Bronze Age world, a mercantile civilization moving tin and copper across impossible distances long before Greece or Rome drew their first breath. For our third livestream, we dive into Gavin Menzies' "Lost Empire of Atlantis." Bronze was the high technology of its…
Prehistoric Origin of the Zodiac? – Hugh Evans, DemystifySci +424
Hugh Evans walks us across two thousand square miles of North Wales where the zodiac lives in the land itself, constellations pressed into mountains and rivers and place names older than Babylon ever dreamed of writing down. Before Ptolemy standardized the sky for empire, before Mesopotamia carved…
Is Proof In Physics Even Possible? - James Ellias, DemystifySci +423
We sit down with James Ellias of Inductica to ask whether physics can ever truly prove anything. James pulls the inductive method out of the margins and holds it up against a century of guess-and-check, and together we trace the line from Newton's bucket to the cosmic microwave background so that…
Does Flowing Space Reform Relativity? - Dr. Henry Lindner, DemystifySci +422
Henry Lindner walks into the cathedral of general relativity and asks why no one can hear the pipes, flowing space as reformation of Einstein's gravity, where the medium returns and the math bows down to something almost physical, almost true. We trace the long exile of substance from physics, from…
The End of the Quantum Age: Another Look at Paradox Lost (DemystifySci +421)
We're back for a second livestream! Again, we'll be reading from Paradox Lost: The Material Principles of Natural Philosophy. This time, though, we're going through the very end of the book, and laying out what we think our materials science approach to fundamental physics can let us accomplish. It…
Post-Truth is Rooted in Bad Physics - James Ellias (Inductica), DemystifySci +420
Something broke in the foundations of how we think, and the cracks have been spreading ever since through Western culture, politics, creating a fraying sense of what is real. In this live conversation recorded in Austin, Texas, we sit down with James Ellias of @Inductica to trace the damage back to…