This week we chat with author Jim Elvidge about our assumptions of reality. Jim is the author of the excellent ‘The Universe Solved’. In this weeks episode, we discuss alternate realities, living in a programmed reality, Quantum and String theories, existence, and over-clocking time and space.
Claire remains absent for now, however, DaddyTank fires a barrage of musical excellence from his secret bunker. This week’s heavy artillery is:
DJ Lobsterdust – It’s Fun To Smoke Dust www.myspace.com/djlobsterdust
Xicana Machete – A Sordid Flavour www.myspace.com/xicanamachete
Under Embellished – Pill Farm www.myspace.com/filmtape
Ars Dada – Butcher www.myspace.com/arsdada
We return next Friday with ‘Behind Closed Doors – Broadcast #002’ and Saturday with Episode 26 of SittingNow!
Enjoy
Jim Elvidge bio from his excellent http://theuniversesolved.com
Jim Elvidge holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. He has applied his training in the high-tech world as a leader in technology and enterprise management, including many years in executive roles for various companies and entrepreneurial ventures. He also holds 4 patents in digital signal processing and has written articles for publications as diverse as Monitoring Times and the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. Beyond the high-tech realm, however, Elvidge has years of experience as a musician, writer, and truth seeker. He merged his technology skills with his love of music, developed one of the first PC-based digital music samplers, and co-founded RadioAMP, the first private-label online streaming-radio company. For many years, Elvidge has kept pace with the latest research, theories, and discoveries in the varied fields of subatomic physics, cosmology, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and the paranormal. This unique knowledge base has provided the foundation for his first full-length book, “The Universe-Solved!”
Quantum mechanics makes my mind hurt but this was one of the least painful attempts to discuss it I have heard. It is also the first time I’ve heard Planck’s constant described as the basic unit of time in the universe.All interesting stuff.I think the problem people have is that we need to fill in the gaps and see order brought to chaos. It is difficult for us to conceive of atoms being in a superposition (two places simultaneously … i think) so it feels like a very unsatisfying answer, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong. I think we have to accept that the euniverse is bigger than us and we will never know everything about it… imagine if we did ?
I’m quite happy to live in a simulation. At least we got a good one… How would the simulation theory answer for all the poor bastards that got to be simulated Christians being crucified and Jews being Holocausted ? Great episode. Maybe we should have more philosophesque episodes ?
I wouldn’t mind seeing a more in-depth a discussion of the links with magick here. There must be loads of stuff around which relates magick to programming/ hacking.
I remember the Out There Radio episode on Kabbalah was called (quick check) ‘Open Source Programming for the Human Soul’. That kind of implies that you’re hacking the soul rather than reality but I’m sure you could make a good case for arguing the latter.
The bit about astral projection made me think of the spectator-cam mode you get before joining a match in FPSs.
I agree to some extent about linking in the subject with magick, but I’m finding myself beginning to actually hate that term for all its bullshit pomposity. I’m not sure if Jim is into that kind of angle anyhow. So that aside, I find what he says fascinating and the evidence equally interesting; but more importantly I like the way it is all presented rationally.
I like speaking to people with brains, even if I’m too dumb to understand what they’re talking about half the time. The great think about Elvidge, however, is you always know exactly what he’s talkng about.