The Scientific Odyssey

A continuation of the biography of Richard Feynman covering his time with the Manhattan Project.

A continuation of the biography of American physicist Richard Feynman through his years in higher education at MIT and Princeton.

The first part of a biography of American physicist, Richard Feynman.

A discussion the positivist positions of the equivalentists and the energetists as represented in the ideas and writings of Marcellin Bertholot, Ernst Mach, Wilhelm Oswald and Pierre Duhem.  From this the instrumentalism of American philosopher John Dewey is developed and contrasted with scientific realism.

A discussion of epistemology in the philosophy of science.  Topics include scientific realism, idealism, phenomenalism, representationalism and positivism.

In this episode, we continue to look at the Bohr-Einstein Debate beginning with the light box thought experiment, moving to the EPR paper and then to the work of David Bohm. The episode concludes by looking at Bell's Theorem, the experiments to measure the Bell Inequality and the work of John Cramer.

In episode we discuss the meeting of Einstein and Bohr and the initiation of the Bohr-Einstein debate at the 1927 Third Solvay Conference. 

A discussion of the life and scientific work of Erwin Schrodinger.  Specific attention is paid to the "gedankenexperiment" known as "Schrodinger's Cat" and the implications for the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.

A discussion of the creation of the Standard Model including the work of Sheldon Glashow, Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg.

A discussion of the process of beta decay, the Fermi Interaction and the work of Lee and Yang, Wu and Leon Lederman.