Matter Over Mind

How do Gyroscopes actually work? Physicist Thomas explains to his dad-in-law.Join the Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/537847055973659/Music by:https://www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A person freewheels down a steep hill. What effect does their weight have on their velocity? Do they go faster the heavier they are? Do they go slower? Or does it make no difference? A question close to Stephen's heart. Physicist Thomas has the answer and he has the workings to prove it.Matter Over Mind (MOM) is a much needed alternative to hate-fuelled content. MOM caters to the inquisitive viewer, seeking something to calm the mind; Plasma Physicist Thomas and Organizational Psychologist Stephen explore a new topic every two weeks. Subscribe so you don't miss it.The Feather and bowling ball experiment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frZ9dN_ATewJoin the Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/537847055973659/Music by:https://www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's worth a rewatch of Ex Machina now that we have LLMs chatting away to us. How do we think about that film now? Anyway, it's a good excuse to watch a great film again.Matter Over Mind (MOM) is a much needed alternative to hate-fuelled content. MOM caters to the inquisitive viewer, seeking something to calm the mind; Plasma Physicist Thomas and Organizational Psychologist Stephen explore a new topic every two weeks. Subscribe so you don't miss it.Join the Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/537847055973659/Music by:https://www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shortly after the Big Bang the Universe went dark. Experimental Physicist, Thomas tells his dad-in-law all about it.Matter Over Mind (MOM) is a much needed alternative to hate-fuelled content. MOM caters to the inquisitive viewer, seeking something to calm the mind; Plasma Physicist Thomas and Organizational Psychologist Stephen explore a new topic every two weeks. Subscribe so you don't miss it.Join the Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/537847055973659/Music by:https://www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Con artists and scammers use psychological tricks to manipulate us. In this episode, Stephen and Thomas explore how it works and how to avoid becoming a victim.Paper: Modic, D., & Lea, S. E. (2013). Scam compliance and the psychology of persuasion. Available at SSRN 2364464.https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=2364464Biaseshttps://thedecisionlab.com/biasesJoin the Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/537847055973659/Music by:https://www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What is the Standard Model of Particle Physics? What is a fundamental particle? What are Quarks? What is the Higgs field? And more Lagrangian talk!Dad asks physicist son-in-law the fundamental questions.Illustration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_ModelJoin the Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/537847055973659/Music by:https://www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How do we experience 'Now'? It's a psychology episode today, although Thomas throws in some physics teasers too. How do we perceive what is happening right now and how does our brain construct our reality. Also does time really exist or is it a human construct too?Organizational Psychologist Stephen and son-in-law, Plasma Physicist Thomas, get into the weeds.Join the Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/537847055973659/Music by:https://www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are the neutrinos really mutating? Physicist Thomas points to some funny mistakes in the movies. Thomas and his father-in-law, Organizational Psychologist Stephen, argue about faster than light travel and generally nerd out.Join our Facebook Group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/537847055973659Music by:https://www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How might a trip to Mars change your brain? Mars is nine months away. No escape. No return. Can your mind handle it? In this episode, we dive into the psychological toll of the journey to Mars and how isolation, confinement, and cosmic distance test the limits of human resilience. What happens to memory, time perception, and mental health in deep space?And what can we learn from astronauts, psychologists, and sci-fi? And how does what we know about isolation, teamwork, and psychometrics help us prepare for the big trip?PapersDe la Torre, G. G., Groemer, G., Diaz-Artiles, A., Pattyn, N., Van Cutsem, J., Musilova, M., ... & Antunes, I. (2024). Space Analogs and Behavioral Health Performance Research review and recommendations checklist from ESA Topical Team. npj Microgravity, 10(1), 98.Wang, Y., Jing, X., Lv, K., Wu, B., Bai, Y., Luo, Y., ... & Li, Y. (2014). During the long way to Mars: effects of 520 days of confinement (Mars500) on the assessment of affective stimuli and stage alteration in mood and plasma hormone levels. PloS one, 9(4), e87087.Musichttps://www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are these the voids you're looking for?Season 2 kicks off with a bang! Thomas explains a paper he co-authored in the Journal of Cosmology and Particle Physics, exploring the question of whether chameleon screening could be part of the answer to how modified gravity might work? Where would you look to find out if high density regions might turn off modified gravity effects? Cosmic voids of course!Could this point to a fifth force that's pushing the universe apart?On YouTube: https://youtu.be/8sRPHWIrjz4Join the Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/537847055973659PaperTamosiunas, A., Briddon, C., Burrage, C., Cutforth, A., Moss, A., & Vincent, T. (2022). Chameleon screening in cosmic voids. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2022(11), 056.Musichttps://www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Primordial Matter Over Mind. A recording with Thomas and Stephen as part of the Cult Hackers podcast. Quantum physics, separating the science from the woo.Music: www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this, the final episode of the season, Thomas, an experimental physicist and Stephen, Organizational Psychologist explore the psychology of a belief in God. Have we evolved to believe? Is god a type of psychological attachment? If so what type? And what happens when that relationship feels abusive.Come and join our Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/537847055973659Music: www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Does Math and Physics prove or even suggest a God or first cause? Experimental physicist Thomas gives his thoughts along with some of his own speculation about the beginning of the Universe.Come and join our Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/537847055973659Music: www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TV and Film introduce us to all sorts of psychological concepts and ideas. Are they true? Or is it a case of mental misinformation? Come and join our Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/537847055973659Music: www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thomas plays with plasma! Exciting stuff! He talks about his experiment for his PhD in plasma physics. Come and join our Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/537847055973659Music: www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A listener request today. What shape is the Universe? Come and join our Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/537847055973659Music: www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stephen makes a big claim this week! He thinks he knows what the 'self' actually is - it's probably not what you thought.Come and join our Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/537847055973659Music: www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dad asks Thomas: exactly what is nuclear fusion? And is it still 20 years away? Come and join our Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/537847055973659Music: www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In their continuing mission to understand the self Thomas asks Stephen to explain how trait based theories work and the use of psychometrics.Come and join our Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/537847055973659Music: www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dad keeps hearing science podcasters talk about The Lagrangian, but it sounds like a character from the Matrix to him. Thomas takes his future father-in-law on a journey, with stops along the way at Potential Energy, Kinetic Energy, System Dynamics, Energy Conservation and the Higgs Field.Come and join our Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/537847055973659Music: www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thomas asks Stephen to explain the 'small matter' of consciousness. Stephen focuses upon the element of consciousness sometimes called a subjective experience. There is a lot of talk about this question on podcasts and YouTube channels - sometimes called the "hard question of consciousness', coined by David Chalmers. Stephen introduces the work of neuroscientists and psychologists to try to understand this mystery, and also finds what he believes is the most promising theory yet to explain consciousness scientifically. This will only be the first of many discussions about consciousness and its intersection with psychology and physics.Come and join our Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/537847055973659Music: www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After watching a Sabine Hossenfelder video on YouTube claiming it might be possible to exceed the speed of light, Stephen asks Thomas whether this could be true, and just why it seems to be impossible. Also included in this episode: What is light? What is a field? What is a charge? What is the electromagnetic spectrum? How does an upside down ice-cream cone help us to understand the Universal speed limit.Inspiration for the episode, Sabine Hossenfelder. "I Think Faster Thank light Travel Is Possible. Here's Why."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-jIplX6WjwJoin the MOM Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/537847055973659Music: www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What is an archetype? What did Jung mean when he talked about them? How did Jung draw on, and then adapt Freud's ideas about the unconscious? What is the collective unconscious? This time of Matter Over Mind we focus on the inner world of the mind.Come and join our Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/537847055973659Music: www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to Matter Over Mind, your essential guide to help you make sense of the science chatter. This is a short introduction.Music: www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.