Kevin Knuth: The Tic Tac UFO, Nimitz Evidence, and New Physics

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Curt Jaimungal

Physics, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.6 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 157 minutes

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I personally subscribe to The Economist. TOE listeners get 35% off the annual subscription. No other podcast has this! https://economist.com/TOE Kevin Knuth (former NASA scientist) on the Nimitz/Tic-Tac UFO cases and his Influence Theory: a novel approach to a Theory of Everything.0:00 Introduction4:07 The Bethune Encounter (1951)7:14 The lights of the UFO's are possibly due to plasma8:53 Why study UFO's? (and cattle mutilations)21:09 Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 (1986)24:32 300 ft UFO follows one of our planes for 40 minutes24:12 Why is investigating aliens considered academically uncouth?28:13 The Nimitz Encounters (2004)34:41 The Tic Tac video is likely the least interesting video the gov't has36:57 UFO's are not simply drones or advanced gov't technology39:47 Why UFO's aren't studied by physicists, and who else (as a Professor) is studying?42:05 Is alien technology "progressing"? Why / why not?44:03 Why are they shutting down our nuclear missiles?48:14 Why don't people supposedly from the gov't who announce UFO's are real, get killed?50:27 UFO's should be far more technologically advanced than they are53:50 Theory of Kevin's that explains where UFO's go58:36 Why do aliens look so human (or why do we look like aliens)?1:03:08 Curt and Kevin speculate about alien intentions and relation to us1:04:33 Alien abductions1:05:47 Is Bob Lazar telling the truth?1:08:20 Skinwalker ranch1:11:06 New physics in UFO's, because they violate conservation laws1:13:49 Are aliens living on Earth? Underwater?1:20:20 Stuart Koffman and Autocatalytic sets1:21:32 Why mutilate cattle? (theory of "euphoria")1:29:46 Emergent consciousness and aliens1:31:02 Machine learning and fundamental physics1:33:06 Spectral Inference from a Multiplexing Fourier Transform Spectrometer1:36:28 Perception of sound (early research of Kevin Knuth's) and Penrose's Orch OR1:40:40 Kevin Knuth's work at NASA and questions about the spacetime manifold1:47:47 Parsimony in science leads to idealism?1:51:33 Why does 2+1=3? Building a Theory of Everything from quantification1:52:49 Effectiveness of Mathematics is no surprise1:54:28 Building "Robot Scientists" that you can ask questions to2:00:55 Influence Theory: A different kind of Theory of Everything (in 6 papers)SPONSORS:- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- PayPal: https://bit.ly/2EOR0M4- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802- Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Google Podcasts: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Id3k7k7mfzahfx2fjqmw3vufb44- Discord Invite Code: dmGgQ2dRzS- Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverythingRESOURCES:- YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atntnU_baHc- Kevin Knuth's card game website: https://nobilisscientia.com- Kevin Knuth's website: http://knuthlab.org/- Steve Scully's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM8_4BUpeNfEWJ-wwdIDJxQ Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal features long-form, technically detailed interviews with leading researchers in physics, mathematics, consciousness, and philosophy, exploring topics at the level of active research. For academics, graduate students, and anyone seeking depth beyond popular science. FOLLOW: Substack | Spotify | YouTube | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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