#2318 - Harold "Sonny" White

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6 • 228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 154 minutes

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Dr. Harold “Sonny” White is a physicist and aerospace engineer specializing in advanced propulsion, particularly warp drive physics. Formerly leading NASA’s Advanced Propulsion Team at Johnson Space Center, he is now the founder and CEO of Casimir, a deep-tech startup focused on developing breakthrough power-generating nanotechnology. Casimir’s innovations have the potential to transform sustainable energy on Earth and may lay the groundwork for future advancements in interstellar propulsion systems.www.casimirspace.com Get a free welcome kit with your first subscription of AG1 at drinkag1.com/joerogan This episode is brought to you by Visible. Join now at visible.com/rogan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Joe Rogan podcast, checking out.
0:04.0	The Joe Rogan Experience.
0:06.1	Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night all day.
0:12.4	What's that?
0:13.2	How's going, Joe?
0:14.4	Pleasure to meet you.
0:15.3	Yeah, thank you for having me here today.
0:17.1	I appreciate it.
0:18.0	My pleasure.
0:18.6	Well, as soon as I saw the subject, I was like, oh, yeah.
0:21.8	Like, what are you doing?
0:28.4	Right, right, right. Advanced power and propulsion. Kind of been a passion of mine for the last 20-some-odd years. I suppose if I kind of look back through the annals of my life, right, I've been thinking
0:34.4	about advanced power and propulsion ever since I was a teenager.
0:38.1	What do you think inspired that? Was it space missions? Did you look at it and go, I think we can do better? Like, what was it?
0:46.2	Well, you know, I grew up in Washington, D.C., and so I got a chance to spend a lot of time in the air and space Smithsonian.
0:54.9	I don't know if you've ever had a chance to go to that.
0:57.9	But growing up in D.C., getting a chance to go to the Air and Space Smithsonian,
1:03.0	I got to see all these awesome examples of people working together to try and accomplish amazing things, right?
1:13.3	You know, you might walk into the air in Space Smithsonian and you just think about, wow,
1:16.0	this is full of a bunch of stuff, but it's not just about the stuff, right?
1:21.0	It's about the people that worked together to do all these amazing things, right?
1:25.1	Like the Bell X-1 rocket.
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