Recent content by Particle Physicist

From the start of the show: Unusual Skills - Strangest Diet

Fortunately, I'm a theoretical physicist, experiments I leave to my esteemed colleges who follow that path. As we are talking "beyond the standard model", experimental proof will be some time off. By negating mass I am saying that an object could reduce its mass to zero, not have a negative...

Nice episode. One thing I would just like to say; David soundly dismisses the Billy Meier case based on his expertise of image analysis and no doubt a great deal of common sense as well. Of course, many thinking people just know it is a fraud based on the convoluted story, however David's...

Please don't throw the baby out with the bath water with the subject of crop circles, yes, those guests had some strong cognitive bias and made some strong claims that were not backed up. I just feel these people have been in this research for too long without coming up for air, in their world a...

Just a simple comment: The Electromagnetic Spectrum does not contain sound as sound has no electromagnetic properties. Back to the show, only 1 hour in.

That is a very difficult set of questions to answer. I'm now at a dilemma as to what to do, I held off joining this forum for a long time as I just didn't want to get involved in the paranormal, I'm sorry but it can be really damaging to your reputation. Now, to answer your questions honestly I...

Firstly, I have to say I consider that more than a little unfair, this is a very complex field and to condense it down to simple analogy is very hard and it is not something I am skilled at doing. You need to be careful of just reading things that reinforce a point of view rather than...

Sorry, I forgot to say what I actually wanted to. Despite David's feelings I actually enjoyed the show, initially I found the choice of guess odd and an ill fit with the Paracast, however that was before listening to the show. Gene and David did a fantastic job I feel and it was a very enjoyable...

I have a Phd, how do you think I feel. I'm not sure how widely the term is known but "Quantum Mysticism" is sometimes used to refer to this misuse of Quantum Theory. Personally, I feel it is actually damaging the serious work in the field and creating links with Woo Woo helps to generate taboo...

How would you get the results of an unobserved experiment? EDIT: I hope that doesn't sound factious. There is a lot to this but I am unsure on how far to go without getting technical. What I described above is basically the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. There are also other parts of...

Every time I hear the word Quantum in relation to the Paranormal, I get a bout of depression. Specifically, I find the statement along the lines of "we create the world by our observation, ergo anything I imagine can be real". In very simple terms I'll explain where this comes from. I want to...

Oh no. Paola Harris? What were you thinking? Although I am far from knowledgeable about this field I have come across Ms Harris before and thought she was a parody created by a skeptic group. Specific concerns are the fact she is a cheer leader for "Dr." Michael Wolfe & a big Uri Geller fan, I...

Michael, defiantly finish your degree. It's such a fun field with a lot happening. Drew, Michael is spot on with sound, you can't compare it to light in such a manner as it needs a medium of transference; sound is really vibrations of that medium that travels as a wave. We can pass the speed...

I hope this doesn't get too long and I will try my best at explaining it, however, it is not intuitive and that is the hardest part. The reason it is not intuitive is that we don't spend our days traveling close to the speed of light. Special relativity basically says, the laws of physics are...

I've listen to the show a great deal and enjoy it greatly however, I have to take exception to the comment in the last show that people behind M-Theory and [Super]String theory "are not considered to be the main stream of the physics world". This is not the case. Further, it was stated that...