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“String Theory Lied to Us; and now Science Communication (on the Internet) is hard…”
DO NOT TAKE THIS AT FACE VALUE.
…but do hear out this argument. Especially if you hate string theory, or if you hate the standard model of physics, or if you hate “scientism”, or if you hate the anti-science crowd, or if you hate obnoxious reply guys, or if you just hate the contemporary crisis-of-trust post-structuralist post-truth world we live in.
And so on and so forth.
Listen with healthy skepticism and an openness toward being proven (at least partially) wrong.
Also this video is like 100-minutes long, prepare yourself before watching. Fair warning.
Namaste. 🕉☮🎐
objective reality on shaky footing: debate on reality travels from the realm of philosophy into the realm of natural physics…
The Rise and Fall of Pripyat, Chernobyl’s Dead City
Kyle Hill’s Chernobyl visit documentary series, episode 2 out of a planned 3.
This episode: youtu.be/qSS93Obd7Vk
Previous episode (Episode 1), on YouTube: youtu.be/3qEC-qDG0Bo
“The quest for Nikola Tesla’s wireless power technology” - Verge Science on YouTube
Gates is modest enough to say: “I don’t have a solution to the politics of climate change,” but he too knows that the solution he seeks is inextricably tied up in political decisions. Seemingly unanswerable scientific evidence can be torpedoed by powerful vested interests, or sidelined by bureaucratic indifference, or undermined by weak and incompetent political leaderships that make commitments they do not honour. Or they can be sabotaged by geopolitical rivalries or simply by nations clinging to old-fashioned and absolutist views of national sovereignty. As a result, the multilateral cooperation necessary to deal with a global problem does not emerge, and the very real tensions between economic and environmental priorities, and between the developed and developing world, go unresolved.
Spaceman (2024, March; Netflix)
Why does Hanuš the space-spider never call Janus the Czech cosmonaut, Janus? And Hanuš instead keeps calling Janus “skinny man”? I don’t protest this about the movie. No, I think I love it.
Also I love how all the dialogue feels translated. As if it’s not natively written in English. The post-neo-Soviet vibe, it fits the narrative so well.
In fact I think I’d love watching the movie with Czech audio and English subtitles. I wonder if that’s possible… I suppose it’s subtle but it would require me hunting for the Czech audio, which I’m 99% sure exists.
I also love the movie’s subtext-dialogue about the notions of love, relationship, loneliness, attachment, self-centeredness, touch, beginning & end, cosmology, and so on and so forth.
So much to think about. It’s like, I myself had to watch this in a couple of sittings, and I just had to watch it like two, three times to catch what I want to catch out of it…