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Jonathan Fay on his personal approach to fundamental physics - with some technical details only in the second half. See also his papers:
jonathanfay.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/on_sciama_1953.pdf
jonathanfay.com/articles-2
Fund Jonathan: gofundme.com/jfay-fund-my-phd
Content:
0:00 Introduction
5:10 Jonathan's way to physics
9:10 Intuition+Relevance
9:50 "Heureka" moments
11:10 There are unsolved problems in gravitational physics
13:45 Explaining vs describing
16:30 Seeing the revolutions with a historical perspective
20:00 Intuition vs calculations
21:30 How to deal with the inner critic
23:40 Is Mach's principle included in GR?
26:00 The work of Dennis Sciama
33:00 The necessary existence of gravity
37:30 Cosmological coincidences
42:00 Absolute space, Mach's principle vs Mach's hypothesis
44:30 Equivalence principle
46:00 Hans Reissner and his work
52:00 Unconventional units
55:00 Schrödinger's insight
1:00:00 Gravity from "Zitterbewegung"
1:03:00 Julian Barbour
1:05:30 Cook's 1976 paper
1:08:30 We can connect the dots today
1:09:55 AI on gravity
1:11:50 Do we need to resolve microscopic physics?
1:15:30 Dirac's large Number Hypothesis
1:17:50 Change of constants
1:20:00 Constants and free parameters - Thomas Kuhn
1:24:00 Jonathan's plans
1:27:30 Is there something we disagree on?
1:28:30 Again: Dirac's Numbers
1:31:00 Robert Dicke and his explanation of the redshift
1:34:00 The nature of space
1:36:30 Does space itself expand?
1:38:30 How to deal with modern fashions?
Mind also my backup channel:
odysee.com/@TheMachian:c
My books: amazon.com/Alexander-Unzicker/e/B00DQCRYYY
Contant:
Jonathan Fay on his personal approach to fundamental physics - with some technical details only in the second half. See also his papers:
jonathanfay.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/on_sciama_1953.pdf
jonathanfay.com/articles-2
Fund Jonathan: gofundme.com/jfay-fund-my-phd
Content:
0:00 Introduction
5:10 Jonathan's way to physics
9:10 Intuition+Relevance
9:50 "Heureka" moments
11:10 There are unsolved problems in gravitational physics
13:45 Explaining vs describing
16:30 Seeing the revolutions with a historical perspective
20:00 Intuition vs calculations
21:30 How to deal with the inner critic
23:40 Is Mach's principle included in GR?
26:00 The work of Dennis Sciama
33:00 The necessary existence of gravity
37:30 Cosmological coincidences
42:00 Absolute space, Mach's principle vs Mach's hypothesis
44:30 Equivalence principle
46:00 Hans Reissner and his work
52:00 Unconventional units
55:00 Schrödinger's insight
1:00:00 Gravity from "Zitterbewegung"
1:03:00 Julian Barbour
1:05:30 Cook's 1976 paper
1:08:30 We can connect the dots today
1:09:55 AI on gravity
1:11:50 Do we need to resolve microscopic physics?
1:15:30 Dirac's large Number Hypothesis
1:17:50 Change of constants
1:20:00 Constants and free parameters - Thomas Kuhn
1:24:00 Jonathan's plans
1:27:30 Is there something we disagree on?
1:28:30 Again: Dirac's Numbers
1:31:00 Robert Dicke and his explanation of the redshift
1:34:00 The nature of space
1:36:30 Does space itself expand?
1:38:30 How to deal with modern fashions?
Mind also my backup channel:
odysee.com/@TheMachian:c
My books: amazon.com/Alexander-Unzicker/e/B00DQCRYYY
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