Evans Imagines Negative Mass Antimatter Episode 1:  Scientific Method, Popper and Kuhn
Channel: Evans Imagines
Date: 2021-11-22

Reading for next several lectures:
Griffiths Intro to QM https://www.fisica.net/mecanica-quantica/Griffiths%20-%20Introduction%20to%20quantum%20mechanics.pdf 
Feynman Lectures https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_toc.html (also youtube versions!!)
Graviton intro https://blogs.umass.edu/grqft/files/2014/11/Feynman-gravitation.pdf 
GR intro https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:566736/FULLTEXT01.pdf (through 4.3 for attempting HW after this one)


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In this episode of Evans Imagines, we take on epistemology, or how people know anything.  First we examine the Scientific Method of Sir Francis Bacon, and particularly focus on the lesser known aspect of his work, the discussion of the idols scientists have.  Second we examine Popper, the philosopher en vogue among scientists currently in power.  Falsification above all else, the idea of the truth being pared away over time by repeated experiments.  Finally, we wind up at Kuhn, who we need to consider when we have paradigms shifting.