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Best Art Bell Science and Physics Episodes

Science episodes gave Art Bell a disciplined way to approach impossible questions. The five broadcasts here feature scientists and researchers discussing frontier physics, cosmology, consciousness, and the borderland between accepted theory and paranormal possibility. They form a concise guide to the archive's science-facing conversations and related physics threads for listeners who want theory before folklore.

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Consciousness & the AfterlifeQuantum Physics & Parallel UniversesTime TravelGhost to Ghost & HauntingsRemote Viewing

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Dr. Claude SwansonDr. David DarlingBernard HaischSean CarrollDr. Stuart Hameroff
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June 12, 2005: Science and the Paranormal - Dr. Claude Swanson

Jun 12, 2005
2h 27m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Claude Swanson, a Princeton-educated physicist who has spent over 20 years researching the science behind paranormal phenomena. Broadcasting from what he describes as a ghost museum, Swanson recounts his personal experiments with remote viewing and firewalking, explaining how consciousness can...
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September 26, 2004: Aliens in the Solar System - Dr. David Darling

Sep 26, 2004
2h 51m
Art Bell reports on Hurricane Jeanne's aftermath across Florida, Mount St. Helens raising its volcanic alert to level three, the Navy's shutdown of its ELF submarine communication system in Wisconsin, oxygen generator failures threatening the International Space Station crew, and Denmark's bid to claim the North Pol...
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December 16, 2006: The God Theory - Bernard Haisch

Dec 16, 2006
2h 40m
Art Bell welcomes astrophysicist Dr. Bernard Haisch for a thought-provoking exploration of the intersection between science and spirituality. Haisch, who has over 130 scientific publications and led multiple NASA research projects, presents his theory that the universe was created by a transcendent intelligence whos...
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December 3, 2006: Cosmology and Time - Sean Carroll

Dec 3, 2006
2h 39m
Art Bell welcomes Sean Carroll, senior research associate in physics at the California Institute of Technology, for a wide-ranging discussion on the nature of time, space-time, and the possibility of time travel. Carroll explains that time has multiple definitions in physics, from the universal clock that labels eve...
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September 30, 2006: Consciousness and the Brain - Dr. Stuart Hameroff

Sep 30, 2006
2h 39m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Stuart Hameroff, an anesthesiologist and consciousness researcher at the University of Arizona, to explore the quantum nature of human awareness. Broadcasting from typhoon-ravaged Manila where power has been out for four days, Art examines how anesthetic gases selectively eliminate consciousnes...

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