For more than a decade I’ve been studying and learning about the nature of cosmology and of climate change. Each of these pursuits was interesting in itself, but a real breakthrough in my thinking happened when I began noticing connections between the two fields. It became clear to me that cosmology and climate change are closely connected. I shared some of these ideas with Matthew Ehret of the Rising Tide Foundation and he invited me to present my ideas on his weekly lecture series.
I was pleased to get this invitation because it forced me to get to work organizing the material into a form that could be understood by the proverbial layman. It took me more than a month to create the story line and to find images that could be used in a slide presentation. In terms of production values the result is amateurish but I think the ideas do get across. The video is of a zoom session where I give my presentation and then there is a Q&A period. The video is over an hour long because there is a lot of scientific material that needs to be covered. Please let me know what you think, if you choose to take this journey…
A new paradigm in cosmology and climate science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5V-BQMyqlM
In the Q&A Matthew asks me a question about the Voyager space craft. It turns out that I have a personal connection with that space craft. I found this out when I heard recently that NASA was searching for programmers who still knew the Fortran language, because they were needed to update the program that controls Voyager. That means that the craft has a built-in Fortran compiler that can process updated code. I then remembered that in the early 70’s, a few years before the launch of Voyager, I was part of a team working on a NASA contract. Our task was to create a Fortran compiler using a structured approach that guaranteed reliability for use in space craft. I was one of the primary programmers on the team, and so some of my code must be up there in deep space along with Voyager. A kind of cosmic immortality I suppose.
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