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Everyone talks about the Bermuda Triangle,
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but no one warns you about its colder, weirder cousin.
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In the heart of Alaska lies the Alaska Triangle, where planes disappear, hikers vanish,
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and the only thing that shows up reliably is my Wild Alaskan Company seafood box.
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I'm being serious here, guys.
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I definitely don't trust flying over portals, but I do trust this fish.
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I can't even look at it without wondering if it was farmed in a glowing vat near a nuclear power plant.
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But this fish, 100% wild caught, flash frozen off the boat,
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delivered straight to my door like it teleported through one of Eric Davis' wormholes,
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But something that transcends kind of our chemical combustion modalities that will take us interstellar.
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I think I know enough about electrostatics to say that, but we're always still learning.
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So there was an incident that trapped 11 people in a spin test facility where they accidentally set off a rocket, a solid rocket.
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So Kennedy Space Center has kind of led this effort to study this phenomena and test it.
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So what we've done is we've understood some of the needs for NASA that are in the electrostatics realm.
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For example, the dust mitigation aspect.
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So we can embed that into glass.
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It has to do with dynamics.
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Yeah, I always found it interesting that Townsend Brown, along with his thruster work, which, you know, involved, you know, what he thought would lead to interstellar travel.
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I mean, just to the moon.
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I don't know if you know this.
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Yeah, he is my mentor, so that's where I learned electrostatics.
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That's wild, but he saw your experiment, and he was like, oh my God, there's something else here.
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What'd she do there?
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She's in the launch services program.
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You encase the darn tube.
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But could, could the 10 million of thrust turn into newtons of thrust?
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And could we end up launching things into space with this, you know,
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What are the ideal materials for this sort of experiment?
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Well, we're dealing with high voltage, so we need materials with high dielectric breakdown
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I don't know what the results of those were.
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They weren't particularly interesting.
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And so it's fascinating.
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Coolant forces are the biggest killer in vacuum or in air.
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It's so interesting.
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If you look to the bottom right of the screen, you'll see the voltage that is applied.
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You can also see the current in the center, the electric field, and the runtime.
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But the ITO walls that surround the thruster pack, shown by that clear, transparent plastic, is perfectly grounded.
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So that eliminates Coulomb attraction to the wall.
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DC eliminates a lot of that.
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And then when you turn it off and it's still there, that eliminates a lot of that.
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there's a transient on 11% of those days.
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But if there's been a nuclear test the day before,
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So that 11% versus 19% is about a 68% increase in risk for a transient if you've had a nuclear test.
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This has been very helpful.
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Because people have done this.
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The examiner's office is doing a thorough peer review.
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I think it was 11 or 12.
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My dad would make haunted houses in our garage in New York.
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What does that even mean?
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Make haunted houses in your garage?
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Built a haunted house for the hotel that he worked at.
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A giant Holiday Inn, I think it was, or Hilton in Connecticut.
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And it was a massive haunted house.
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And his job was to build the whole darn thing.
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So the next year we did it at our house.
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And we charged people like 50 cents to get in and go through the haunted house.
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And it was probably, I think it was a 9 by 11 single car garage haunted house.
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That's how many people showed up.
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It was a lot of fun.
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But, you know, we had a haunted house.
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And it would go on for several weeks.
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One night, while I was there working it, a whole bunch of cars came into the driveway.
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And I recognized one of the kids getting out of the car.
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He said, Charlie, go look, look at that.
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And he shows me, you know, we look up.
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And there's these six bright white lights at the top of the trees.
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Just hanging over the trees.
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which I thought was hysterical.
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Many years later, my wife and I experienced this.
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Helicopter hangs over.
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Under the water, come back out.
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Because I didn't know what the heck that was.
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If we went faster, it went faster.
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And he said that everything that he ever learned about his work, he learned instantly.
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I would say, yeah, some of the math is just very discretized.
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Oh, we'll try this and big leap there.
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And you say you're getting an effect.
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But there are a lot of these, you know, what's a good example?
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Was this really important factor for determining the thrust in the experiment.
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An opposite of gravity force.
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That I don't want to go down.
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Well then you can make a teleportation device.
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I mean, if anybody should, you know, deserves it.
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What do you mean there's no physicists?
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Why am I the only physicist?
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Because there's a live arrest warrant out for him now.
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Theresa May, former prime minister of the UK, has finally given him kind of, you know,
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Um, it's interesting stuff.
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You'd be attracted to walls or floors or ceilings.
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You have to make sure you're not doing that.
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So that's very well explained with Coulomb's Law.
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So I did not think we needed QC, QCD, quantum chromodynamics, W particles, Z particles.
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So they're not real particles.
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I said, OK, this is a good model.
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So there's already an asymmetry sort of in the charges, even with two charges, which I
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thought was useful because I wanted to try to get that with classical dynamics.
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But that was the first thing.
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And the other thing, there were 12 terms now instead of four.
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And when the momentum changes, another momentum is created or absorbed.
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First of all, it sounds like you're saying you can get a momentum.
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So, you can't have a virtual radiation mode in QED.
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So, the basic idea is you can have polynomials, so you can have, you know, a constant term, then a linear term, and then a quadratic term.
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And the idea is, if you're doing an approximation, let's…
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So, I've seen some of your notes. Obviously, you haven't published something yet, so I haven't…
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You know, I looked through what you were able to send me, but I'm just realizing now that you
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mentioned time-independent perturbation theory, which wasn't what I was thinking. So, maybe that's
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worth disentangling. I'm not saying you necessarily have an error there, but I'm just realizing that now.
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No, I mean, I haven't done QED in 26 years.
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So, could use a refresher.
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But I was just intrigued by just doing the time-independent perturbation theory and getting
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something. I'd love your help translating some of that. The vertices that don't end. I understand
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these particles don't… they're not real, right? You can't capture them. But I pictured them more like
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electric fields where you can't pull the field from the charge, right?
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Huh? Have you now, field line.
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It doesn't work that way. And that's what these things, I think, represent. So, that's why we
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have things like renormalization, these really complicated tools to try to address these infinities.
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A lot of infinities here.
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that is a fundamental property of charge. Fields. Which QED, I think, explains quite well. So,
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but is it conserving energy? You know, that's what you have to think about. Is it conserving energy?
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him publicly. I've seen these results. I've seen him, his iteration rate, first of all, is phenomenal,
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right? He's just always testing new things, trying different stacks with different materials and
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all this ion wind stuff and that's because you're ionizing the air. So you just remove the air and
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do it in vacuum and I'm good, right? No ion wind to worry about. But what if there's ions or electrons
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