Unexplainable Does garlic break magnets?
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Sep 20, 2023 The podcast explores topics like the afterlife and the Battle of Actium, the forces of attraction and repulsion, wacky science and ancient philosophers' rational thinking, ancient belief systems and changing paradigms in science, Roman beliefs about garlic and magnets, and breakthroughs in understanding the universe and particle behavior.
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Battle of Actium
- At the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE, Mark Antony and Cleopatra lost to Octavian.
- Their ships inexplicably stopped for three hours, becoming easy targets.
Remora's Impact
- The leading theory for the ships' standstill involves remora fish, known for attaching to ships.
- These fish, whose name literally means "delay" in Latin, were thought to slow down vessels.
Sympathy and Antipathy
- Ancient natural philosophers believed in two universal forces: sympathy and antipathy.
- Sympathy is when things work together (like magnets and iron), while antipathy is when things oppose each other (like water and fire).