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Tag: einstein

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3085: Einstein and the Quantum

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on October 29, 2020 · Episode: 3085 Einstein’s Bigger Deal. Today Einstein's bigger deal.

Tags duality einstein light newton opticks quantum theory Thomas Young

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1939: Complex Simplicity

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 4, 2020 · Episode: 1939 Simplicity on the other side of complexity: The standard deviation. Today, complex simplicity.

Tags complexity data einstein relativity theory simplicity standard deviation statistical analysis statistics

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3070: Leon Theramin

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on September 29, 2020 · Episode: 3070 Leon Theremin’s Remarkable Music Machine. Today, an aural oddity.

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3059: Vera Rubin and Dark Matter

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on August 13, 2020 · Episode: 3059 Vera Rubin and Dark Matter. Today, that which can't be seen.

Tags astronomy astrophysics cosmology dark energy dark matter einstein gravity Kent Ford newton women

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1899: Kurt Gödel

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on June 28, 2020 · Episode: 1899 Kurt Gödel: A mathematician brings us down to earth. Today, a mathematician brings us down to earth.

Tags completeness and constistency einstein Goedel Kurt Godel mathematical logic mathematics mental illness philosophy psychology psychosis

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1893: Satyendranath Rose

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on June 21, 2020 · Episode: 1893 Satyendranath Bose, quantum physics pioneer and Indian hero. Today, Satyendranath Bose.

Tags boson einstein indistinguishable particles quantum mechanics Satyendranath Bose SN Bose statistical mechanics

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1879: Right Now

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 24, 2020 · Episode: 1879 Living in the present: an impossible goal. Today, we look for Right Now.

Tags Duchamp einstein Issac Watts Joyce present moment Proust psychology quantum mechanics relativity simultaneity time

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3021: Was Einstein’s Work His Own

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on February 11, 2020 · Episode: 3021 Einstein’s Authenticity. Today, was Einstein's work his own?

Tags einstein electromagnetic waves light lorentz maxwell Maxwell’s equations Poincaré relativity special relativity

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1765: The Speed of Gravity

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 25, 2019 · Episode: 1765 In which it takes time for gravity to reach us. Today, the speed of gravity.

Tags astronomy einstein gravity Io Isaac Newton jupiter Ole Roemer principia universal law of gravitation

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1719: Poe’s Cosmology

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 17, 2019 · Episode: 1719 Edgar Allen Poe’s amazing cosmology. Today, gothic cosmology.

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1681: Science in 1904

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 8, 2019 · Episode: 1681 The Literary Digest tells us about science in 1904. Today, a bright new century.

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1657: Of Nature and Multiplication

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 27, 2019 · Episode: 1657 In which nature multiplies outcomes. Today, nature and multiplication.

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1646: Who Did What By When?

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 6, 2019 · Episode: 1646 Thinking about who had done what by what age. Today, who did what by when?  

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1547: Ripe For Revolution

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 1, 2018 · Episode: 1547 Mystery at the threshhold of the Twentieth Century. Today, let’s reclaim mystery.  

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1546: Max Jakob

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 30, 2018 · Episode: 1546 Max Jakob: a breath of fresh air in a new land. Today, a great engineer escapes the Holocaust.

Tags einstein germany heat transfer Holocaust Judaism Planck science war

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