Why Liquid Plasmas Will Change Cosmology Forever - Dr. Patrick Vanraes, DSPod 190

Dr. Patrick Vanraes is a researcher at PLASMANT, University of Antwerp. He focuses on the fundamental features of in-liquid plasma and plasma-liquid interaction, as well as the physics of liquid matter. His work involves experiments, simulations and extensive review of historic work. Our conversation starts with Dr. Vanraes' important finding that plasmas can be generated in liquids without a gas intermediate. Then we explore the implications of a liquid plasma sun for all of cosmology. After all, if gases truly cannot produce blackbody spectra - as has never been shown in a laboratory - then the cosmic microwave background radiation is overdue for a new explanation. Tell us your thoughts in the comments! (00:00:00) Go! (00:00:19) Getting into plasma physics (00:05:49) Lightning in liquids (00:11:11) Applied physics (00:15:20) What is a plasma? liquid v. gas (00:17:23) Patreon Ask (00:28:12) Invitation to answer an open question (00:35:21) The search problem in physics (00:40:33) The marketplace of scientific ideas (00:54:38) The arc of doing academic science (01:03:42) Garage plasma research (01:14:30) Paying for monastic science (01:26:10) Some problems can't be solved in advance (01:30:21) Narrative is king (01:32:05) The liquid sun & Dr. Robitaille (01:45:50) Metastable balance (01:56:04) Scientific dieties (02:14:41) Cosmology and liquid sun are incompatible (02:20:46) Kirchoff's law (02:28:54) Nothing mechanical in statistical mechanics (02:35:12) Metastable undertainty (02:42:00) Criteria for competing theories (02:50:00) Science as dictatorship ruled by Nature (02:58:59) Critical rate of change in understanding Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub #cosmology #astronomy #astrophysics #philosophyofscience #philosophy #plasma #plasmaphysics #heliophysics #physics #science Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671