Dr. Robitaille (Liquid Plasma Sun) will be speaking at DEMYSTICON 2024. Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 Dr. Patrick Vanraes is a researcher at PLASMANT, University of Antwerp. He focuses on the fundamental features of in-liquid plasma and plasma-liquid interaction, as well as the physics of liquid matter. His work involves experiments, simulations and extensive review of historic work. Our conversation starts with Dr. Vanraes' important finding that plasmas can be generated in liquids without a gas intermediate. Then we explore the implications of a liquid plasma sun for all of cosmology. After all, if gases truly cannot produce blackbody spectra - as has never been shown in a laboratory - then the cosmic microwave background radiation is overdue for a new explanation. Tell us your thoughts in the comments! 00:00:00 Go! 00:00:19 Getting into plasma physics 00:05:49 Lightning in liquids 00:11:11 Applied physics 00:15:20 What is a plasma? liquid v. gas 00:28:12 Invitation to answer an open question 00:35:21 The search problem in physics 00:40:33 The marketplace of scientific ideas 00:54:38 The arc of doing academic science 01:03:42 Garage plasma research 01:14:30 Paying for monastic science 01:26:10 Some problems can't be solved in advance 01:30:21 Narrative is king 01:32:05 The liquid sun & Dr. Robitaille 01:45:50 Metastable balance 01:56:04 Scientific deities 02:14:41 Cosmology and liquid sun are incompatible 02:20:46 Kirchoff's law 02:28:54 Nothing mechanical in statistical mechanics 02:35:12 Metastable uncertainty 02:42:00 Criteria for competing theories 02:50:00 Science as dictatorship ruled by Nature 02:58:59 Critical rate of change in understanding Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub #cosmology #astronomy #astrophysics #philosophyofscience #philosophy #plasma #plasmaphysics #heliophysics #physics #science Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671