Ep. 117 - Demystifying Physics, Part 2

This is episode 117 of Patterson in Pursuit.

It's part two of my conversation with Shiloh and Anastasia of the Demystify Psy podcast.

We're continuing our discussion about their new book, Paradox Lost, Material Principles of Natural Philosophy.

And we really dive into some nitty gritty here.

We're talking about fundamental questions like why does matter stick together at all? And do our abstractions do anything in the world or are they merely descriptions of the world? We're looking at basic concepts of motion.

Does philosophy have anything to say about how motion works? Do we all share the same intuition about how motion works? Really heavy and important and incredibly fun things to be discussing.

If you guys enjoy this conversation, we just recorded an interview for their show on the DemystifySop podcast where I talk with them for another like four hours.

And we discuss some of the similar concepts and also we go into more detail about the the role of mathematics in our intellectual landscape of the past century in particular.

We talked about one of my favorite subjects, which is infinity and its role in modern mathematics and how it found its way into the foundations of modern mathematics.

So look for that interview coming out, and I hope you guys really enjoy part two of our conversation.