Quantum Physics & Parallel Universes
Frontier physics episodes on quantum mechanics, cosmology, parallel universes, time, entanglement, simulated reality, and the strange edges of scientific possibility.
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Parallel Universes and Quantum Science
Jan 20, 2007 · Charles Seife · 2h 35m
Art Bell interviews science journalist and mathematician Charles Seife about the nature of information as a fundamental property of the universe. Seife explains how Claude Shannon's mid-20th century discovery of the laws of information created a third great scientific revolution, revealing that information behaves a...Cosmological Theories
Feb 5, 2005 · Charles Seife · 2h 54m
Art Bell speaks with Charles Seife, a science journalist and author who covers physics and cosmology for Science Magazine. Seife explains how the discovery of dark energy in the late 1990s upended decades of assumptions about the fate of the universe. Rather than gravity slowing the expansion of the cosmos, distant...Consciousness and Quantum Entanglement
Jul 23, 2006 · Dean Radin · 2h 40m
Art Bell broadcasts from Manila during Typhoon Glenda before welcoming Dr. Dean Radin, senior scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Radin provides an overview of the Global Consciousness Project at Princeton, where 65 shielded random number generators positioned worldwide have been running for eight years,...Science Talk
Jan 27, 2007 · Charles Seife · 2h 35m
Art Bell welcomes back science journalist Charles Seife for a wide-ranging second installment covering the origins of the universe, the nature of consciousness, and the future of genetic science. Seife discusses what scientists know about the Big Bang, explaining that while they can simulate conditions microseconds...Digital Simulated Reality
Nov 10, 2015 · Jim Elvidge · 2h 23m
Art Bell welcomes Jim Elvidge, who holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell, to explore the theory that our reality may be a digital construct. Elvidge outlines philosopher Nick Bostrom's simulation argument, positing that if civilizations eventually create simulations indistinguishable from re...Physics of the Universe
Feb 28, 2004 · Dr. Brian Greene · 2h 53m
Columbia University physicist and mathematician Dr. Brian Greene, author of The Fabric of the Cosmos, joins Art Bell to discuss physics of the universe, time, wormholes, string theory, and parallel universes. Art returns after two weeks spent constructing a massive ham radio antenna in the Nevada desert and opens wi...Cosmology and Time
Dec 3, 2006 · Sean Carroll · 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...Parallel Universes
Nov 8, 2003 · M.R. Franks · 2h 51m
Art Bell opens with remote viewer Major Ed Dames, who declares that the recent extreme solar activity represents the long-predicted shot across the bow, a precursor to escalating solar events he calls kill shots. Dames describes an 11,500-year solar cycle and warns of progressive coronal mass ejections that will des...Time Travel and Cosmology
Nov 6, 2002 · Lawrence M. Krauss · 2h 46m
Art Bell welcomes theoretical physicist Lawrence M. Krauss, professor of physics and astronomy at Case Western Reserve University, for a wide-ranging conversation on time travel, cosmology, and the nature of the universe. The discussion begins with Einstein's special and general relativity, exploring how clocks slow...Time Travel
Oct 6, 2015 · Ronald Mallett · 2h 22m
Art Bell sits down with Professor Ronald Mallett, a research professor of physics at the University of Connecticut, to explore the science behind time travel. Professor Mallett shares the deeply personal origin of his lifelong obsession: the death of his father from a heart attack at age 33, when Ronald was just ten...Time Travel
Nov 13, 2004 · Dr. Fred Alan Wolf · 2h 53m
Art Bell opens with a disturbing report from the former head of the CIA's bin Laden unit, who reveals that Osama bin Laden has obtained religious authorization to use a nuclear weapon against Americans. Callers weigh in on the threat and what a nuclear attack on a U.S. city would mean. The conversation shifts dramat...Theoretical Physics
Sep 12, 2002 · Dr. Michio Kaku · 2h 46m
Art Bell opens with a series of striking coincidences surrounding the first anniversary of September 11th, including the New York State Lottery drawing 9-1-1 and the S&P 500 futures closing at 911.00 the day before. He presents these events as possible evidence of mass consciousness affecting random systems, connect...Theoretical Physics
Jul 15, 1999 · Dr. Michio Kaku · 1h 50m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Michio Kaku, co-founder of String Field Theory and professor of theoretical physics at City University of New York, for a wide-ranging exploration of the frontiers of modern physics. They discuss the quest for a unified field theory, the possibility of parallel universes existing like bubbles i...Cydonia Update - Linda Moulton Howe & Dr. Mark Carlotto | Taking the Quantum Leap - Dr. Fred Alan Wolf
Apr 17, 1998 · 2h 49m
Theoretical physicist Dr. Fred Alan Wolf joins Art Bell to discuss Taking the Quantum Leap, quantum physics, consciousness, parallel universes, and time travel after Linda Moulton Howe's Cydonia update. Howe interviews Dr. Mark Carlotto about the new Mars Global Surveyor photograph of the Cydonia face, and Carlotto...Theoretical Physics
Aug 22, 1997 · Dr. Michio Kaku · 2h 35m
Art Bell welcomes theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku for a wide-ranging conversation about ten-dimensional hyperspace, time travel, and the classification of civilizations in the universe. Dr. Kaku explains that humanity is a Type 0 civilization, still dependent on dead plants for energy, and describes how Type 1...Physics and Cosmology
Apr 21, 2007 · Janna Levin · 2h 36m
Art Bell welcomes physicist Janna Levin, professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University, for a wide-ranging exploration of whether the universe is finite or infinite. The evening begins with open lines as callers weigh in on the Virginia Tech tragedy, top conspiracies, and whether alien...Towards a Time Machine
Nov 12, 2006 · Ronald Mallett · 2h 39m
Art Bell welcomes Professor Ronald Mallett, a theoretical physicist at the University of Connecticut, who presents his research on building a time machine grounded in Einstein's general theory of relativity. Mallett explains that his quest began at age ten when his father died suddenly, and reading H.G. Wells inspir...Topics in Physics
May 28, 2005 · Dr. Brian Greene · 2h 54m
Art Bell welcomes physicist Brian Greene, a Harvard-educated, Oxford-trained Rhodes Scholar and Columbia University professor, for a wide-ranging conversation about the frontiers of modern physics. Greene explains Einstein's 1905 discoveries, including special relativity and E=MC squared, and discusses why the quest...Theoretical Physics
Mar 14, 2002 · Dr. Michio Kaku · 1h 43m
Art Bell welcomes theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku for a sweeping conversation that moves from tabletop nuclear experiments to the far future of human civilization. Kaku explains sonoluminescence, a phenomenon first observed by Nazi scientists during World War II, where collapsing bubbles in liquid can reach te...Time Travel
May 19, 1999 · Dr. Bruce Goldberg · 2h 2m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Bruce Goldberg, a hypnotherapist and author who has regressed over 11,000 patients into past and future lives, to discuss one of Art's favorite subjects: time travel. Dr. Goldberg outlines four methods of traveling through time, from physical time machines based on exotic matter and warp drive...Cosmology - Linda Moulton Howe | Nostradamus - Dolores Cannon
Dec 21, 1997 · 1h 49m
Linda Moulton Howe joins Art Bell for a Dreamland cosmology report on matter, light, and 1997 science stories, followed by Dolores Cannon on Nostradamus and her Conversations with Nostradamus trilogy. Howe opens with a year-end review of 1997, covering accelerating environmental deterioration, the Mars Pathfinder mi...Theoretical Physics
Oct 19, 2003 · Dr. Michio Kaku · 2h 51m
Art Bell opens with psychic Sean David Morton, who shares predictions about Osama bin Laden's alleged death, potential threats to the president, a biological attack on U.S. soil, the eruption of Mount Rainier by 2005, and economic forecasts drawn from both his intuitive work and Bible Code research. Morton also disc...Cosmology & Consciousness
May 29, 2003 · Adair Butchins · 2h 46m
Art Bell opens with personal updates on his recovery from back problems and his massive dual-loop ham radio antenna project in Pahrump, Nevada. The antenna produces an unexplained 400 volts of mixed AC and DC current and delivers signal gains of 20 to 25 decibels that defy conventional physics. Art also discusses th...Time Travel
Oct 17, 2001 · J. Richard Gott · 2h 39m
Art Bell opens with updates on the anthrax attacks spreading across the country and growing tensions between India and Pakistan before welcoming Princeton astrophysics professor J. Richard Gott for an in-depth discussion on the physics of time travel. Professor Gott explains how Einstein's special relativity makes t...Cosmology and EMP Weapons
Apr 8, 1999 · Dr. Brian Greene · 2h 46m
Art Bell welcomes Columbia University physicist Dr. Brian Greene for a conversation spanning the Big Bang, string theory, nuclear weapons, and the possibility of extraterrestrial contact. Greene explains how everything in the universe, including space and time themselves, emerged from a point smaller than a quark, a...Crop Circles - Linda Moulton Howe & Lucy Pringle | Science Topics - John Gribbin
Aug 22, 2001 · 2h 53m
Art Bell returns after a severe back injury to deliver two major revelations on his website: moving video of a ghost crossing a road in Nova Scotia and aerial photographs of the Milk Hill crop formation in Wiltshire, the largest ever recorded with 409 circles. Linda Moulton Howe and Lucy Pringle from Hampshire, Engl...Physics and Sci-Fi Science
Feb 10, 2007 · Jennifer Ouellette · 2h 37m
Art Bell welcomes science writer Jennifer Ouellette, author of "The Physics of the Buffyverse" and "Black Bodies and Quantum Cats," for a conversation exploring the intersection of real physics and science fiction. They discuss the newly announced 16-qubit quantum computer from a Vancouver company, and Ouellette exp...Philosophical Physics
Nov 6, 2004 · Dr. Anthony Rizzi · 2h 51m
Art Bell interviews Dr. Anthony Rizzi, a theoretical physicist who earned degrees from MIT, the University of Colorado, and Princeton, and who served as the first scientist at Caltech's LIGO gravitational wave observatory. Rizzi explains his discovery of the first definition for angular momentum in general relativit...Apollo Missions - Richard C. Hoagland & Wayne Green | Time Travel - Dr. David Anderson
Feb 15, 2001 · 2h 41m
Art Bell hosts a debate between Richard C. Hoagland and Wayne Green over a Fox television special questioning whether Apollo astronauts landed on the moon. Hoagland, who served as Walter Cronkite's science advisor during the missions, addresses claims about missing stars in photographs, inconsistent shadows, and rad...Theoretical Physics
Feb 6, 2001 · Dr. Michio Kaku · 2h 47m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Michio Kaku for a wide-ranging discussion on his second night back on the air. Dr. Kaku describes how Einstein's death when he was eight years old inspired his lifelong pursuit of the unified field theory. They examine the recent experiment where scientists stopped light in a laboratory, with D...Time Travel
Apr 5, 2000 · Dr. David Anderson · 3h 18m
Art Bell opens the program by taking calls from listeners who claim to be time travelers or visitors from other dimensions. One caller describes arriving from a dimension where the South won the Civil War, while another recounts meeting his older self as a child. The conversations set the stage for the evening's mai...Creation, Physics & God
Feb 16, 2000 · Dr. Hugh Ross · 2h 42m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Hugh Ross and Dr. Fuz Rana from Reasons to Believe, an organization dedicated to demonstrating harmony between science and the Christian faith. Dr. Ross, an astrophysicist who researched quasars at Caltech, and Dr. Rana, a biochemist and former Procter & Gamble researcher, discuss evidence for...Hyperdimensional Physics
Jul 14, 1998 · Richard C. Hoagland · 2h 11m
Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland for an expansive discussion of his newly published 50-page hyperdimensional physics paper and its implications for climate change, planetary science, and space exploration. Hoagland opens by questioning why Japan launched a Mars probe five months early into Earth parking orbit,...Theoretical Physics
Feb 24, 1998 · Dr. Michio Kaku · 1h 35m
Art Bell welcomes Professor Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist at the City University of New York and co-founder of string field theory, for a sweeping conversation that moves from the nature of gravity to the possibility of time travel and the future of human civilization.Kaku explains Einstein's revolutionary insi...Theoretical Physics
Sep 24, 1997 · Dr. Michio Kaku · 2h 46m
Art Bell hosts theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku of the City University of New York for a far-reaching conversation about the scientific breakthroughs awaiting humanity over the next century. Drawing from interviews with 150 top scientists, including six Nobel laureates, Kaku outlines coming revolutions in genet...Time Travel
Mar 11, 1997 · Fred Bell · 3h 25m
Dr. Fred Bell, a former NASA spacecraft checkout engineer and physicist, joins Art Bell to discuss time travel, the Philadelphia Experiment, and exotic propulsion technologies. Bell describes building an octahedral time machine in his Laguna Beach backyard, a 20-foot structure using Wimhurst-style electrostatic gene...
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