Brothers of the Serpent

Saved by the swapcast! This was originally scheduled as a guest appearance on the excellent Where Did the Road Go podcast with Seriah, but our plans for our regular episode this week fell through, so Seriah kindly allowed us to use this episode as a swapcast. We discuss Charles Fort and the Book of the Damned, Feynman, cosmology, physics, electric universe, cryptids, UFOs, and the limits of human knowledge, as well as reading a few news stories and discussing those. Find Where Did the Road Go here: https://wheredidtheroadgo.com/

In this final episode of our book report on The Character of Physical Law, we go through Dr. Feynman's final lecture, Seeking New Laws, in which he describes how science works, and the methods physicists must use to attempt to discover new fundamental aspects of the natural world. See the full set of lectures here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLez3PPtnpncQLg_H7f6T9yJmJ2aCIBUHS Get the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Character-Physical-Law-MIT-Press/dp/0262533413 Get the new Fifty Dollar Dynasty album "Precession" here: https://www.fiftydollardynasty.com/ Support the band here: https://www.patreon.com/fiftydollardynasty Support the podcast here: https://www.patreon.com/brothersoftheserpent Executive Producers: Philip Baklamov Matt Shy Peter Shell Frank M. Associate Executive Producer: Daniel Gandy

Continuing our book report on The Character of Physical Law, we read through the 5th and 6th lectures, The Distinction of Past and Future and Probability and Uncertainty. These are discussions on entropy and quantum mechanics, done in Dr. Feynman's unique style. See the full set of lectures here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLez3PPtnpncQLg_H7f6T9yJmJ2aCIBUHS Get the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Character-Physical-Law-MIT-Press/dp/0262533413 Get the new Fifty Dollar Dynasty album "Precession" here: https://www.fiftydollardynasty.com/ Support the band here: https://www.patreon.com/fiftydollardynasty Support the podcast here: https://www.patreon.com/brothersoftheserpent Here's the black hole video Kyle mentions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeRgFqbBM5E

We finish the chapter on The Great Conservation Principles, and move on to Symmetry in Physical Law. We understand what it means for an object to have symmetry, but what about a mathematical expression of a physical law? This chapter is full of interesting concepts, delivered in Feynman's unique style as always. We discuss relativity, lightspeed, gravitational lensing, angular momentum, and how to tell an alien the difference between "right" and "left". Find the full playlist of the lectures on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLez3PPtnpncQLg_H7f6T9yJmJ2aCIBUHS Get the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Character-Physical-Law-MIT-Press/dp/0262533413 Support the podcast through Patreon and get extra content here: https://www.patreon.com/brothersoftheserpent Get the new Fifty Dollar Dynasty album, Precession, here: https://fiftydollardynasty.com/ Support the band through their Patreon and get extra content here: https://www.patreon.com/fiftydollardynasty

We dive back in to The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman, again using short clips pulled from the lectures themselves and reading excerpts from the book. This episode we focus mostly on the second lecture, "The Relation of Mathematics to Physics", where Feynman talks about how Nature seems to follow sets of mathematical rules, and how those mathematics might be related--at least in some cases--to large numbers of simple processes in the physical universe. Near the end of the episode we start on the third lecture, "The Great Conservation Principles", discussing the various "conservation" laws in physics such as the conservation of charge, the conservation of energy, etc. At the beginning of the episode we also take a quick look at the working relationship between Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, their backgrounds, and the standard history of their story. If you want to support the podcast and get extra content, bonus episodes, and bumper music, sign up to our Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/brothersoftheserpent If you'd like to support Kyle's band Fifty Dollar Dynasty and get extra content related to their music, sign up to their Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/fiftydollardynasty Meanwhile you can get all of the music from the new album, Precession, for free on their website: http://www.fiftydollardynasty.com

Having just returned from the Montana megafloods trip with Randall Carlson and crew, we aren't ready to continue the Character of Physical Law series yet, but we did have a backlog of emails we needed to get to, so we dedicate yet another episode to reading and responding to a series of fantastic and sometimes hilarious communications from listeners. We operate on the Value for Value model here at Brothers of the Serpent. If you get value from our podcast, you can support us in turn and also get special content through our Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/brothersoftheserpent Check out Kyle's band, Fifty Dollar Dynasty, and their new album release "Precession" at their website, the music is free! http://www.fiftydollardynasty.com Support the band and get special content through their Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/fiftydollardynasty Thanks to all of you who do support the band and the podcast! Our producers for this episode are listed below: Executive Producers: Anne who Knits Matt Shy Philip Baklamov Peter Shell Frank M. Associate Executive Producer: Daniel Gandy

For this special episode we have most of the members of Kyle's band Fifty Dollar Dynasty in studio with us for a long-form conversation about making music, writing songs, and specifically, making the new Precession album. Through clouds of smoke and many beers we joke and laugh and poke fun at each other while also giving our history of making music and this album. This episode is scheduled to drop the day of the public release of Precession, so go check it out at the FDD website: https://fiftydollardynasty.com/ Want to support the band and their continued efforts to make amazing music? Join their Patreon and get early access and special content: https://www.patreon.com/fiftydollardynasty/posts

We tackle the first in the series of seven lectures by theoretical physicist Dr. Richard Feynman titled "The Character of Physical Law", this first lecture being on the Law of Gravitation, the history of its discovery, and its wider application in the methods of science and the further discoveries of physics. Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler, Newton, and Einstein are among the giants on whose shoulders modern physics stands. Get the book from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Character-Physical-Law-MIT-Press/dp/0262533413 Get the audiobook from Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Character-of-Physical-Law-Audiobook/B00CS962AS?source_code=AUDORWS0718179KY7 Below are some of the images we were looking at of Tycho's planetary observation tools.

Brandon is a Jujitsu instructor and teaches the Wim Hof Method. He has joined us on many of our Contact at the Cabin events, running breathwork sessions and ice bath instruction for attendees. Brandon was in our area to teach some classes over the weekend so we invited him out to the Tangent Cube for some podcasting. We talk about Jujitsu, Wim Hof, shamanism, the power of the breath, and general life hacking for physical and spiritual improvement. Find Brandon on Instagram: @brandonpowell369 Brandon's website: http://onphyr.com/ YouTube: Much of the music in this episode is Brandon's work. The track in the last break can be found here: https://youtu.be/sboxgSFIfI0 If you want early access to Fifty Dollar Dynasty's new album, join their Patreon: http://patreon.com/fiftydollardynasty.com

We have a lot of your emails to catch up on, but first we give a big Rock n' Roll update - Kyle's band Fifty Dollar Dynasty is releasing their new album, "Precession", on June 21st, the summer solstice! You can check their website for the countdown, and also join their new Patreon if you want access to an early digital release. Support the band and get cool behind-the-scenes content as FDD adds them to their Patreon feed. Our SpaceWeather News section also goes a bit further this week, discussing the upcoming possible contact of earth with the fragment stream of comet Schwassmann-Wachmann at the end of this month. It might be the end of civilization as we know it, or simply a spectacular meteor shower, or maybe nothing at all. After all that, we tackle your emails, of which there are many and they are all excellent. We have the best listeners. Thank you all! https://fiftydollardynasty.com/ https://www.patreon.com/fiftydollardynasty/posts Executive Producers: Philip Baklamov Matt Shy Peter Shell Zachariah Baker Frank M. Associate Executive Producer: Daniel Gandy