In-Sight Publishing Born to Do Math 178 – Modern Atomism: Indivisible Cross-Sections of the Universe July 22, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, outside of photons, based on the last session, what would be some other indivisible things, as in an extension of the atomists? Rick Rosner: Neutrinos and anti-Neutrinos, electrons (kind of), …
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In-Sight Publishing July 21, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: It is 15 weeks until the election. What is the deal now? Rick Rosner: Trump has gone from 45.8% approval to 40.3%. That’s the difference between making it a close election and it being not close. So, I look at those approval numbers …
In-Sight Publishing Born to Do Math 177 – Photon Energy: No Top, Asymptote Bottom July 15, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: You just asked, “What’s the lowest possible wavelength for a photon?” I think you could probably set up some electron-scattering apparatus that would have a range of energies for emitted photons. I am …
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In-Sight Publishing The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 56 – Signs of Hope July 10, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: The United States, there’s a lot of misery. What are the signs of hope? Rick Rosner: Well, Trump’s approval is the most stable of any president since polling began. Him losing …
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In-Sight Publishing July 8, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: We’ve had some pretty ongoing severe cases in the United States. It is not doing well alongside Brazil, India Russia. Rick Rosner: There’s that Anna Karenina, where it starts with every happy family is happy in the same way and every miserable family …
In-Sight Publishing Born to Do Math 176 – Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, Sometimes I Dread, Not the Same for You July 8, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: We were talking about the sameness for everyone. Rick Rosner: So, yesterday, when we talked, we talked about the philosophical question as to …
In-Sight Publishing July 2, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: In terms of reform in the United States, what governance needs restructuring? Rick Rosner: Right now, in America, the focus is on fixing the police Although, the latest thing is on Trump. But what I think needs to be reformed is the news, …
In-Sight Publishing July 2, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How bad is Trump? Rick Rosner: The people on Twitter have been asking each other a lot, “Would Trump be this bad?” Some were saying, “Yes, he would get us into nuclear war.” Others said, “Yes, we didn’t know the form.” I am …
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In-Sight Publishing Born to Do Math 175 – Open Nodes, Self-Consistent Maps, and Sequences of Fuzzy Moments July 1, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: It’s like the top of the x-axis as the future, as they run through the sequence of time. The universe kind of evolves in its relations from point …
In-Sight Publishing The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 55 – Gauging Your Smartness Properly June 30, 2020 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Do you think you’re smarter than Newton? Do you think the waste is that level of waste? Rick Rosner: Ballpark, yeah. Let’s assume for the sake of this discussion, IC …
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