Jim Al-Khalili

Jim Al-Khalili - The Story of Information 01:30 Review of Al-Khalili’s vid on the Slit Experiment 05:25 Summary: The Rope Hypothesis explains the Slit Experiment 07:08 Review of fatal problems with Mathematical ‘physics’ 12:00 Introduction to Al-Khalili’s talk on information: order, enables the mathematicians to understand the workings of the Universe. Is that so? 15:30 Harness a concept? How do you do that, Jim? 16:35 Al-Khalili: “We are surrounded by order!” 18:25 Al-Khalili is a caricature of Science: information exists, attempts to grab concepts. 24:30 Al-Khalili is definitely a caricature of Science: he moves concepts around. 29:45 Al-Khalili morphs info into a rock. 30:10 History of information. 35:00 Shaka Zulu’s version of information. 36:10 Sumerians invented writing. 36:40 Other cultures invented writing independently. Therefore, writing was ‘in the cards’. 38:20 History of human modes of production was also ‘in the cards’ and leads to extinction of Man. Information is, therefore, not eternal. 40:45 Al-Khalili takes information outside the body. 44:00 Until the 19th C, info could travel only as fast as objects. 44:50 Development of the telegraph sped things up. 47:35 Maxwell’s demon shows we can convert information into order without expending energy. 50:35 What is Maxwell’s demon? 51:15 Al-Khalili’s corollary: Demon uses nothing but info to create energy. 53:20 Two components to info: data and what to do with it. Binary system. 55:55 Al-Khalili: information is a concept. Computers DESCRIBE complexity with luxury of details. Computers can’t EXPLAIN mechanisms. 58:55 Al-Khalili: information is NOT a concept. Info can be stored and carried. 01:01:00 If you can store info, it implies that you can also handle it. Is DNA information or just a molecule? 01:04:35 Summary 01:07:25 Corollary: What is information? #bgaede #rationalscience #RopeHypothesis Free illustrated book on the Rope Model of Light and Gravity Download it at: https://www.ropehypothesis.com/book Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Bill-Gaede Academia: https://independent.academia.edu/BillGaede Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RationalSci

Jim Al-Khalili explains the Slit Experiment 00:08 Underlying problems with Jim Al-Khalili’s ‘explanation’ of Thomas Young’s Double-Slit Experiment 00:50 Mathematical ‘physicists’ dismiss physical interpretations as petty philosophy. So why did they attempt to provide a physical interpretation in the first place? 03:35 Mathematical ‘physicists’ simulate invisible phenomena with particles, but particles cannot explain a single one. Popperian falsifiability demands a rejection of the Particle Hypothesis of Quantum Mechanics. 07:10 A theory is not a description. A theory is an explanation. Mathematical ‘physics’ has no explanations whatsoever for invisible phenomena. Math can only describe. 10:20 The general public is wholly unaware that the mathemagicians are entirely ignorant of the invisible mechanisms Mother Nature uses to do her daily work. 12:25 Technology is not proof of a theory (explanation of a mechanism). 15:55 Al-Khalili quotes Feynman: impossible to explain the Slit Experiment under Quantum Mechanics. 20:20 Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle (which Feynman and Al-Khalili claim underlies the foundations of Quantum Mechanics) is total poppycock! 22:55 Feynman asks (rhetorically): How does the Slit Experiment work? He replies that mathematicians have no clue whatsoever. You must simply work outside logic and rationality. 24:15 Description of the Double-Slit Experiment. 2 Simulating the Slit Experiment with particles. 25:20 Why particles fail to simulate the Slit Experiment: the idiotic debate between Einstein and Bohr at the 1927 Solvay Conference. 26:45 We replace the double slits with a needle: Newton’s Hair Experiment (2nd experiment carried out by Thomas Young in 1801). Particles are debunked. 28:05 Bill Gaede’s Needle Experiment: particles have no chance to explain fringes. 30:20 Mathematicians such as Al-Khalili never learned that there is a third type of wave. 31:30 Difference between Quantum Mechanics and the Rope Hypothesis Is light mediated by one-way particles / waves or by a two-way rope? 33:10 Explaining the Slit Experiment 34:50 Constructive & Destructive Interference 37:10 Dynamic version of constructive and destructive interference 40:40 Entanglement explained in 5 seconds. Did Akira Tonomura and Alain Aspect et al. handle one electron/photon at a time? 45:05 Arthur Eddington’s inference in 1919 that light curves around the Sun is bunk! 5 47:10 Summary and closing arguments #bgaede #rationalscience #RopeHypothesis Free illustrated book on the Rope Model of Light and Gravity Download it at: https://www.ropehypothesis.com/book Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Bill-Gaede Academia: https://independent.academia.edu/BillGaede Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RationalSci

Jim Al-Khalili stands on the shoulders of midgets #bgaede #rationalscience #ropehypothesis Free illustrated book on the Rope Model of Light and Gravity Download it at: https://www.ropehypothesis.com/book Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Bill-Gaede Academia: https://independent.academia.edu/BillGaede Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RationalSci

Jim Al-Khalili: Science and Islam 00:15 A caricature of science 02:10 Islam created /resuscitated science in the 8th to 12th Centuries. 06:40 Born-again Christian? 07:45 HOW the Universe works: description or explanation? 09:55 Much of ‘scientific’ language includes Arabic terms: algebra, algorithm, alkali. 14:20 Islamic scholars developed Math and technology. Standardized the language across the empire. 16:00 Science is obvious after it has been discovered. Was Al-Khalili referring to the Rope Hypothesis? An idea comes around that changes everything. 16:40 The 8th Century Arabs discovered the mathematical method: experiment and observation. 21:45 Example of why ‘observing’ that which is invisible leads to misconceptions 26:20 The Arabs translated Greek books and developed: Math, technology, medicine, chemistry, but not UNDERSTANDING! The Islamic ‘mathematical’ method inherited by the West failed and still fails to EXPLAIN MECHANISMS. 29:05 Al-Khalili: Math enables us to understand the Universe. NOT 31:20 Islamic scholars developed the two ingredients of ‘science’: Math and experiment… whose only purpose is to confirm foregone conclusions. 32:50 Al-Khalili: Arabs developed Chemistry by doing experiments and observations. (Yes, Jim, but their explanations were almost as irrational as those of Quantum Mechanics! So… no cigar!) 34:20 Aristotle died in the Islamic world of the 8th C when they began to test theories experimentally. Al-Khalili confuses explanation with description. 35:45 Al-Khalili’s hero Alhazen discovers how light travels. 37:35 Alhazen sought a ‘mathematical explanation’ for how light travels. Mathematical explanation is an oxymoron! Math can only describe. Alhazen signals the birth of Mathematical ‘physics’. 39:45 Al-Khalili’s glorification of Alhazen shows that he is patently ignorant of the differences between a description and an explanation. 41:40 Arabs did not discover the mechanism of how light works. 43:00 Summary 46:30 Homework: Food for thought #bgaede #rationalscience #RopeHypothesis Free illustrated book on the Rope Model of Light and Gravity Download it at: https://www.ropehypothesis.com/book Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Bill-Gaede Academia: https://independent.academia.edu/BillGaede Spanish channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/BillGaedeChe Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RationalSci

Jim Al-Khalili on time 00:30 Al-Khalili asks “What is time?” 01:50 Al-Khalili provides no definition of time. Other sources don’t have one either. 04:10 Rational Science definition of ‘time’. 07:40 Pictorial version of the scientific definitions of ‘motion’ and ‘time’. 09:05 Einstein’s version of time displaced the Newtonian version. 14:25 Stephen Hawking and other ‘experts’ never defined time either. 18:40 Einstein said you can speed up time and slow it down and that this is not an optical illusion. 21:45 Al-Khalili how can I get you to believe me? Trust me. 23:35 Twin Paradox: Al Einstein vs. Frankeinstein 27:40 Traveling through the one-dimensional Time Tunnel 30:20 The Twin Paradox resolved scientifically 33:15 Math phyz introduces the observer into time dilation: subjectivity 39:20 Proofs and confirmations of Special Relativity are bunk. Ives- Stilwell Experiment. 47:20 Muon time/distance dilation is bunk. 57:20 Gravitational time dilation is bunk: A pair of hourglasses contradict the notion that clocks run slower closer to the center of gravity. 01:03:00 Al-Khalili: gravity slows time down… a concept slows down another concept. 01:04:45 Al-Khalili: raise your arms if you want your wristwatch to run slower. He provides no physical mechanism for why this is so. 01:07:15 Al-Khalili claims we can travel ‘through’ time to the future and maybe to the past. The ‘laws’ of mathematical ‘physics’ allow it. 01:09:00 What’s irrational about time dilation? 01:12:50 Summary/Conclusions #bgaede #rationalscience #RopeHypothesis Free illustrated book on the Rope Model of Light and Gravity Download it at: https://www.ropehypothesis.com/book Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Bill-Gaede Academia: https://independent.academia.edu/BillGaede The Rope Hypothesis: https://www.facebook.com/RopeHypothesis Extinction: https://www.facebook.com/ExtinctionOfMan Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RationalSci Spanish channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/BillGaedeChe The Imminent extinction of Man: We are the last generation of humans on earth: https://www.academia.edu/28866480/We_are_the_last_generation_of_humans_on_Earth_Proc._Int._Oxford_Apocalypse_Conf._Prague_2016_ Unsustainability: https://www.academia.edu/29310494/Unsustainability_Proceedings_ICBEC_Hong_Kong_2010_ Natural Economy: http://youstupidrelativist.com/08Ext/12NaturalEconomics.html Rational Scientific Method: https://www.facebook.com/groups/398337614158191/ Rational Scientific Method: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RationalScientificMethod/