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
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