History of Science and Technology Q&A (November 16, 2022)

00:00 Start stream
2:30: SW starts talking
2:47 SW discussion on the history of defining heat and gas (Second Law of Thermodynamics)
31:02 Did Einstein ever attempt to quantize spacetime, as opposed to treating it as a continuous medium?
47:12 We are ultra-interested to hear about this future history of science!
53:08 What was the most fantastic experience you had as a physicist?
56:20 What is the history behind migrating the entropy term to information theory?
1:03:20 What is the process like making computations for the thermodynamics project?
1:04:25 What do you think about engineering efforts that help in discovering science (building tools and experiments)? I've met many scientist who dismiss engineering as "less intellectual."
1:19:15 Computational language design is basically like being a modern-day wizard.
1:22:24 Technology, science and social relations co-evolve.

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[Sam-wezj]

the wry comparison between dark matter and caloric theory is interesting

[jeff-onedayatatime.]

Around 48 minutes, he's talking about the same concept as Arthur Koestler or Ken Wilber with their "holons".

[Robinson]

What sources do you use for your history research? Never found these things online about Galileo, is it one of his books? Admit I haven't specifically searched for him though, only Newton (and Kepler)