448 – Guest: Professor Christopher Essex – The fluid dynamics of the climate debate

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00:03 The fluid dynamics of the climate debate: Navier-Stokes equation, long-held skepticism on ‘global warming’, climate change – a difficult study, no discussion on science or technicalities, journalist pop quiz, fluid dynamics, politics vs science, lack of knowledge in the discussion, banning the climate change discussion
16:50 Sounds foolish: Big Bang Theory – the TV show, Large Hadron collider, April Fools victim, songification, noting worlds’ end, mapping sound, every day an April Fools day on climate change, an effort to understand climate change, no experts in the field of the unknown, political obstruction to the serious study of climate change
31:30 Terrestrial extra: alone in the universe, questioning the questions about extra-terrestrial life, standards of life, probabilities of life in space, light-speed game, struggling for the truth of nature, conference on star formation, a positive answer, an amazing overwhelming universe with or without ET, no probability sample space, Graham’s number is bigger than google
48:45 Ether or: gravity wave confirmation, the two flavours of relativity, electromagnetic field, gravity has no charge, space medium and ether, medium is the electromagnetic field itself, invariance of equations 59:42 END