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Doctor Jack’s Soapbox Seminars

18 Episodes

26 minutes | 12 years ago
Seminar 18 -- The Vurdalak Conjecture
The Tunguska Mystery -- it's a wrap!
16 minutes | 12 years ago
Seminar 17 -- What're the Odds of That?!?
The Tunguska impactor as magnetically-charged primordial black hole -- million-to-one longshot, or ... even money?
16 minutes | 12 years ago
Seminar 16 -- Black Monopoles?!?
Magnetically-charged black holes as the final missing piece of the Tunguska mystery?
18 minutes | 12 years ago
Seminar 15 -- Hot Enough for You?
Black holes exploding with the force of a thousand all-out nuclear wars??? Jack’s kidding, right?
14 minutes | 12 years ago
Seminar 14 -- From Russia With Love
How a Mission to Moscow and a tip from Kip (Thorne, that is) finally turned Stephen Hawking's head around as regards black hole thermodynamics.
18 minutes | 12 years ago
Seminar 13 -- Hot Potato
What Stephen Hawking didn't want you to know about black-hole entropy. (With special thanks to Jacob Bekenstein, for sharing his reminiscences.)
17 minutes | 12 years ago
Seminar 12 -- Can't Win, Can't Break Even ...
Can't Get Out of the Game. Black holes meet the Heat Death of the Universe!
18 minutes | 12 years ago
Seminar 11 -- Where Do Baby Black Holes Come From?
Not from under a cabbage leaf, that's for sure!
17 minutes | 12 years ago
Seminar 10 -- Before the Beginning
What does it really take to make a universe, anyway?
17 minutes | 12 years ago
Seminar 09 -- Just Say "No" to Naked Singularities
Why one Global Causality Violation can ruin your whole day.
15 minutes | 12 years ago
Seminar 08 -- Beyond the Black Horizon
What’s really inside a black hole? Take the Cook's Tour with Doctor Jack.
16 minutes | 12 years ago
Seminar 07 -- A Black Hole Primer
A star dies; a black hole is born.
18 minutes | 13 years ago
Seminar 06 -- Jackson and Ryan Bite the Dust
In which the Jackson-Ryan hypothesis crashes, burns, gets shoveled over with dirt -- all for want of an "exit event."
17 minutes | 13 years ago
Seminar 05 -- Two Good Ol' Boys name of Jackson and Ryan
The inside story of how the the Jackson-Ryan black-hole collision theory of the Tunguska Event came to be. Special thanks to Albert A. Jackson, IV and Michael P. Ryan, Jr. for sharing their reminiscences of the Vurdalak Conjectures genesis -- in person!
37 minutes | 13 years ago
Seminar 04 -- The Lake Cheko "Crater" -- Hoax or Fraud?
Swim along with Doctor Jack as he plumbs the murky depths of the latest "solution" to the Tunguska mystery.
20 minutes | 13 years ago
Seminar 03 -- Ockham's Razor vs. the Great Faerie Conspiracy
A listener's casual remark shunts Doctor Jack onto a major meditation about the meaning of "not multiplying causes beyond necessity." (Want to derail Jack's carefully laid-out curriculum even more? Submit your own question to: doctorjacksoapboxseminars.com.)
18 minutes | 13 years ago
Seminar 02 -- Star Wars
Was it a comet, or a meteorite ... or something else entirely? A hundred years' worth of Tunguska speculation, and Tunguska controversy, at a glance.
20 minutes | 13 years ago
Seminar 01 -- Honey, I Lost the Crater!
The mystery of the 1908 Tunguska Event -- a hundred years old today, and still no solution in sight?
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