Show Notes
I employed two hosts to take a deep dive on my meta cognitive research. There are some cool things I've learned in here. Let me know if this is interesting. I have a lot more.
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In this episode I'm working on a new format. Instead of focusing on Science Facts, and concepts, I'm expanding it out to science fiction as well, as I'm taking an interest in writing more.
Lightening, ... Thunder, Lightening, ... Thunder. August in Ontario is awesome for natural displays of destruction and beauty. Everyone knows that light and sound travel at very different speeds, so when you see a flash of lightening, you can count until you hear the thunder to see how far away the lightening occurred. Roughly 3 seconds for every KM. But how does a flash of light create a deafening boom? It all has to do with plasma. Plasma occurs when you have a high energy reaction that strips electrons off the raw nuclei of their atoms. This results in a state of matter so unstable it creates ionizing radiation, like ultra violet, x-rays and gamma radiation, it's highly susceptible to the effects of electromagnetic fields, and get's extremely hot, very fast.
In this episode, I'm reminded of the first attempts mankind made at a viable space vehicle. Laika was sent into space on a one way mission, her vitals were monitored to see if there were any adverse affects for mammals while experiencing micro-gravity. This was a one way mission. Sad song, but oddly comforting. Singing in my engine room, on my way to our nearest neighbour, Proxima Centauri.
Tonight, I'm going to tell you about the Thesis by Louis De Broglie. He was a duke, Duke De Broglie. In 1924 he submitted his thesis to a panel in Paris and they couldn't make sense of it. As a result, he almost failed his exam. But, they decided, upon reflection, that they ought to send the thesis to Einstein to have a look at it, because it was in his wheelhouse. Einstein wrote back and said that it was the first glimmer of light in the darkest times of quantum physics. De Broglie ought to get the the doctorate. Five years later he got the Nobel Prize for the material in his thesis because it opened up a new field of physics completely. In many ways he was a strikingly original thinker and yet nobody's heard of him except a small group of physicists.