Episode 17 - Alex Natale

Struggle to Understand

In this episode, I speak with Dr. Alex Natale, who is a professor of physics. We talk about fundamental elements in physics, including dark matter, dark energy, and neutrinos, and the role they play in giving an account of nature, the relationship between physics and political philosophy, and the nature of the university and how we educate students. I decided not to break this conversation into multiple episodes because so much of the conversation is self-referential and integrated that there did not seem to be a natural break in the conversation. Having conversations like this one, where people who have interests in different facets of human knowledge discuss their experiences with trying to understand but such conversations push against the trend in the university. We need to invest in more conversations like this one.

Introductory music was written by Alex Yoder. Find him here

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