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The Scientific Odyssey

The Scientific Odyssey is a podcast exploration of scientific inquiry through it's history and philosophy.  New episodes weekly.

Oct 25, 2015

In this episode, we continue to look at the Bohr-Einstein Debate beginning with the light box thought experiment, moving to the EPR paper and then to the work of David Bohm. The episode concludes by looking at Bell's Theorem, the experiments to measure the Bell Inequality and the work of John Cramer.


Oct 15, 2015

In episode we discuss the meeting of Einstein and Bohr and the initiation of the Bohr-Einstein debate at the 1927 Third Solvay Conference. 


Oct 10, 2015

A discussion of the life and scientific work of Erwin Schrodinger.  Specific attention is paid to the "gedankenexperiment" known as "Schrodinger's Cat" and the implications for the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.


Oct 2, 2015

A discussion of the creation of the Standard Model including the work of Sheldon Glashow, Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg.