Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago
Talk given at the conference "Physical and Mathematical Ontology" 2025 in Munich:
youtube.com/watch?v=OibA-8TCp2o
00:00 Introduction
02:00 Dark matter, MOND and the age of the universe
04:15 Lambda CDM problems with high redshift
05:50 Recent CMB problems
07:20 Anomalies piling up - New epicycles?
08:45 A philosophical point of view - Heisenberg vs Dirac
10:45 Occam's Razor, simplicity and explanatory power
12:15 Fundamental constants - the Royal Road to Physics
13:25 The principle of scientific revolutions
15:00 Electrodynamics, gravity atomic physics, nuclear physics
21:00 Gravity and inertia - Dennis Sciama
22:30 Newton's Bucket and Mach's principle, and Foucault's pendulum
26:00 More on Sciama, Reissner
28:55 Newton's constant G needs to be explained
32:40 Equivalence principle and... variable speed of light (VSL)
33:10 ... variable speed of light (VSL) - Einstein's first idea
36:40 Robert Dicke corrects Einstein's mistake
39:45 Dicke's radical explanation of the cosmological redshift
41:35 Connection to Dirac's large Numbers
45:10 Rewriting Dirac's first coincidence
51:10 Redshift: no material expansion!
54:30 Cosmology with variable scales
55:30 "Big Flash" cosmology
57:50 Problems of VSL cosmology
59:20 Putting the genius ideas together
1:00:40 Begin discussion
My books: amazon.com/Alexander-Unzicker/e/B00DQCRYYY
Follow me on patreon.com/c/Unzicker
Mind also my backup channel:
odysee.com/@TheMachian:c
My books: amazon.com/Alexander-Unzicker/e/B00DQCRYYY
Talk given at the conference "Physical and Mathematical Ontology" 2025 in Munich:
youtube.com/watch?v=OibA-8TCp2o
00:00 Introduction
02:00 Dark matter, MOND and the age of the universe
04:15 Lambda CDM problems with high redshift
05:50 Recent CMB problems
07:20 Anomalies piling up - New epicycles?
08:45 A philosophical point of view - Heisenberg vs Dirac
10:45 Occam's Razor, simplicity and explanatory power
12:15 Fundamental constants - the Royal Road to Physics
13:25 The principle of scientific revolutions
15:00 Electrodynamics, gravity atomic physics, nuclear physics
21:00 Gravity and inertia - Dennis Sciama
22:30 Newton's Bucket and Mach's principle, and Foucault's pendulum
26:00 More on Sciama, Reissner
28:55 Newton's constant G needs to be explained
32:40 Equivalence principle and... variable speed of light (VSL)
33:10 ... variable speed of light (VSL) - Einstein's first idea
36:40 Robert Dicke corrects Einstein's mistake
39:45 Dicke's radical explanation of the cosmological redshift
41:35 Connection to Dirac's large Numbers
45:10 Rewriting Dirac's first coincidence
51:10 Redshift: no material expansion!
54:30 Cosmology with variable scales
55:30 "Big Flash" cosmology
57:50 Problems of VSL cosmology
59:20 Putting the genius ideas together
1:00:40 Begin discussion
My books: amazon.com/Alexander-Unzicker/e/B00DQCRYYY
Follow me on patreon.com/c/Unzicker
Mind also my backup channel:
odysee.com/@TheMachian:c
My books: amazon.com/Alexander-Unzicker/e/B00DQCRYYY
