Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast. In this podcast, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont and Professor Richard

Luduke explore the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the

life and teachings of Prophet Joseph Smith. They examine the original historical sources and

provide context for events of the past. They approach the

history of the church with faith, expertise, and humor.

Hi, welcome to another episode of the Standard of Truth podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont, and I'm joined by my friend,

getting near to be a doctor, but not quite yet a doctor.

A.B.D. Richard Leduc.

Hello, Garrett. It's so nice of you to say. As the dissertation

proceeds, I seem to be further and further away. Yeah. In fact, most dissertations, they kind of work

on like the expansion version of the universe where, you know, like the universal... It's accelerating

further away from me.

The universal constant is the speed of light.

And one of the great mysteries of the universe is that the universe expanded faster than the speed of light.

So nothing can go faster than the speed of light except somehow the universe's expansion.

Dissertations, similar, somehow you work on it, the more work you put into it, the further away

you are from actually completing it.

It's like dark matter, a dissertation is.

That's very good.

I didn't think it would be so Carl Saganie, but this is...

Millions and billions of stars.

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