# Arthur Stanley Eddington

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Fusion: the perfect energy source

Fusion power is one of a very few sustainable options to replace fossil fuels as the world's primary energy source. Although the conditions for fusion have been reached, much remains to be done to turn scientific success into commercial electrical power. Fusion has progressed from the insight of Si…

Episode 3.49.1: Supplemental-Arthur Stanley Eddington, Science and Faith

In this episode we consider the question of whether a person can be both religious and a scientist by looking at the early life of the British Astrophysicist and lifelong Quaker, Arthur Stanley Eddington.

Episode 3.42: Relativity

On November 25th of 1915, Albert Einstein presented a paper on his General Theory of Relativity that by its end had conclusively shown that the Vulcan hypothesis was not necessary to explain the precession of the perihelion of the orbit of Mercury. It also completely reimagined the structure of spa…

Episode 8: On Graham Harman's "The Third Table"

JF and Phil discuss Graham Harman's "The Third Table," a short and accessible introduction to "object-oriented ontology." Phil takes us on a tour of his closet, we discover that JF's kids are better at this weird studies stuff than their old man, and the conversation veers through Harman's Lovecraf…

Astronomy, The Hubble Telescope, and Albert Einstein

In Episode 17 we revisit topics from previous episodes, namely deflation in the NFL and childhood immunizations. Afterwards we discuss Astronomy and, more specially, discoveries brought to us via the Hubble and Kepler Telescopes.  We talk about some of Albert Einstein’s theories and how well they’v…

Global Suicide - Part IV: Disorder & Dead Presidents

Entropy is a two-edged sword. It is our life-force; but if it accelerates and begins to runaway with our energy, it can become a death sentence. Our society has within itself a variety of entropy amplifiers that increase our system's entropy by orders of magnitude - warming the planet and wasting o…

The Relative Universe: A Relaxing Read of the Theory of Relativity and Its Influence by Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, read by Nancy

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882 to 1944) was a prominent British astrophysicist and mathematician. He is best known for his groundbreaking work on the theory of relativity, which he helped to popularize and develop through his research and writing. Eddington was born in Kendal, England, and atte…

Was Einstein a Mystic?

Hello! In our episode this week, we examine the question: As scientists, particularly those at the forefront of theoretical physics, mathematics, and astrophysics, get deeper and deeper into the nature of reality, do they become more reflective, more spiritual, more.... religious? In short, was Al…