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John Michael Godier's Event Horizon

John Michael Godier

Author and futurist John Michael Godier explores the universe with video essays and as host of John Michael Godier's Event Horizon. Event Horizon is a Science and space focused narrative driven show featuring special guests covering science, astronomy, space science, futurism, technology, astrophysics, history, news and more. Become a Paid Subscriber: https://anchor.fm/john-michael-godier/subscribe
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  • Yesterday · 35 min

    Is the Warp Drive Possible? With Alexey Bobrick and Gianni Martire

    Alexey Bobrick and Gianni Martire of Applied Physics join John Michael Godier to discuss their new paper, Introducing Physical Warp Drives. Can a Warp Drive Go Faster Than Light? What is a warp drive?Alexey Bobrick is a theoretical astrophysicist at Lund University, where he works on questions related mergers of stars, the supernova explosions they produce and their populations in the Galaxy and clusters. He is completing his PhD thesis in Lund this spring. Gianni Martire is an Italian-American Internet entrepreneur, a self-taught physicist, a Y Combinator alum, and a successful angel investor. In his free time, he passionately works on open-source patents to address problems such as infant mortality, industrial pollution, and DIY power solutions for developing nations.Introducing Physical Warp Driveshttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.06824.pdfhttps://appliedphysics.org/

  • Thursday · 46 min

    What Do We Do if They Are Here? with Avi Loeb

    If UFO and UAP are of Alien origin, what do we do about it? Do we try to communicate? Or passively observe? Avi Loeb details the Galileo Projects plans.Avi Loeb linkshttps://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/homehttps://avi-loeb.medium.com/

  • Wednesday · 50 min

    Is the Universe a Code? with Nick Bostrom

    Nick Bostromhttps://nickbostrom.com/Nick Bostrom is a Swedish-born philosopher with a background in theoretical physics, computational neuroscience, logic, and artificial intelligence, as well as philosophy. He is the most-cited professional philosopher in the world under the age of 50.He is a Professor at Oxford University, where he heads the Future of Humanity Institute as its founding director. He is the author of some 200 publications, including Anthropic Bias (2002), Global Catastrophic Risks (2008), Human Enhancement (2009), and Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014), a New York Times bestseller which helped spark a global conversation about the future of AI. He has also published a series of influential papers, including ones that introduced the simulation argument (2003) and the concept of existential risk (2002).

  • Monday · 30 min

    Surprising New Discoveries Made by James Webb with Dr. Allison Kirkpatrick

    Unexpected James Webb Discoveries including Multiple Oldest Galaxy Candidates and galaxies that do not fit predicted models and may contradict when our universe began.Scientists with the CEERS Collaboration have identified an object—dubbed Maisie’s galaxy in honor of project head Steven Finkelstein’s daughter—that may be one of the earliest galaxies ever observed. If its estimated redshift of 14 is confirmed with future observations, that would mean we’re seeing it as it was just 290 million years after the Big Bang.https://cns.utexas.edu/news/race-to-find-earliest-galaxy-heats-up

  • Sunday · 11 min

    The First Potential Detection of a Dark Matter Particle

    An exploration of the recent announcement of the first potential detection of a dark matter particle. My Patreon Page:https://www.patreon.com/johnmichaelgodierMy Event Horizon Channel:https://www.youtube.com/eventhorizonshow Papers:"Search for dark matter particle interactions in an extended nuclear recoil energy window with the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment", Akerib et al. 2026https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02823Music:Cylinder Five by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Source: https://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/Cylinder Eight by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Source: https://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/

  • September 3 · 1 hr 27 min

    A.I. Wars, The Fermi Paradox and Great Filters with David Brin

    Why we need AI to compete against each other. Does a Great Filter Stop all Alien Civilizations at some point? Are we Doomed if We Find Life in Our Solar System?David Brin is a scientist, speaker, technical consultant and world-known author. His novels have been New York Times Bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo, Nebula and other awards. A 1998 movie, directed by Kevin Costner, was loosely based on his book The Postman.His Ph.D in Physics from UCSD — followed a masters in optics and an undergraduate degree in astrophysics from Caltech. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the California Space Institute and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Brin serves on advisory committees dealing with subjects as diverse as national defense and homeland security, astronomy and space exploration, SETI and nanotechnology, future/prediction and philanthropy. He has served since 2010 on the council of external advisers for NASA's Innovative and Advanced Concepts group (NIAC), which supports the most inventive and potentially ground-breaking new endeavors.https://www.davidbrin.com/https://www.davidbrin.com/books.htmlhttps://twitter.com/DavidBrinhttps://www.newsweek.com/soon-humanity-wont-alone-universe-opinion-1717446

  • September 1 · 19 min

    Is There Oil on Mars? With Dr. John McGowan

    The curiosity rover detects methane on mars.Is methane on mars a sign of life?Mars is giving off a large amount of methane gas. Recently detected by the mars curiosity rover. This news gives new thoughts to old ideas about life on mars. Dr. John McGowan wrote a paper while at NASA ames research center, discussing methane and mars oil. John Michael Godier spoke to Dr. McGowan about that paper and what the implications are for finding life on mars, how having oil on mars could effect spacex mars mission.Dr. McGowan's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRaCbyW2dbhD4zJW_h_qyUAWeb Site: http://mathematical-software.com/"Oil and Natural Gas on Mars", McGowan, 2000http://jmcgowan.com/oil_spie.pdfA Startling Spike on Mars:https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/methane-mars-mystery-curiosity-rover/593149/Website:https://www.eventhorizonshow.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EventHorizonShowTwitter:https://twitter.com/jmgeventhorizonInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/jmgeventhorizon/

  • August 31 · 1 hr 3 min

    New Origin of Life Research Shows Alien Life may be Common with Dr. Steven Benner

    A breakthrough in RNA research has been found, life may be far easier to get started than we previously thought possible.https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2022.0027Steven Benner heads the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, which he founded after serving on faculty at Harvard, ETH Zurich, and University of Florida. His research combines two traditions in science, one from natural history, the other from the physical sciences. His laboratory has been a leader in the field of synthetic biology, where it has redesigned DNA to better understand how these molecules work, generate new classes of diagnostics tools, and to open new avenues to disease therapy. Separately, he also created the field of paleogenetics, his work also guides NASA missions to search for alien life and how life originated. His most recent book is: "Life, the Universe, and the Scientific Method."

  • August 28 · 55 min

    Is Artificial Sentience Here? with Blake Lemoine

    Blake Lemoine a computer scientist and machine learning bias researcher for Google released an interview with Google's LaMDA a conversation technology and AI. Blake proposes, based on his time testing LaMDA, that it is a super intelligence and sentient. Blake details just what made him come to this conclusion and why he believes we have passed the singularity, last year.Blake's links:https://twitter.com/cajundiscordianhttps://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917News links:https://www.vox.com/23167703/google-artificial-intelligence-lamda-blake-lemoine-language-model-sentienthttps://blog.google/technology/ai/lamda/

  • August 27 · 1 hr 5 min

    The WORST Nuclear Accidents Ever with Kyle Hill

    The Worst Nuclear accidents explained. Kyle Hill joins John Michael Godier to explain the worst nuclear accidents and why nuclear energy is far safer than you think.Watch Kyle Hill's videos here: https://www.youtube.com/c/KyleHillScienceBecome a member!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EventHorizonShow

  • August 26 · 52 min

    Why Homo Floresiensis May Still Be Around with Dr. Gregory Forth

    Why the Flores Hobbit May Still Be Alive...In 2003 on the island of Flores in Indonesia something was discovered that was both surprising and mysterious. A previously undiscovered hominoid related closely to modern humans. Termed at the time a hobbit, this species lived on Flores Island until modern humans arrived sometime around 50,000 years ago. The problem with the find is that skeletons of Homo Floresiensis are very sparse, with only nine individuals known, and most evidence coming from a single find site located in a single cave. It’s since been determined that Homo Floresiensis was an early species of Homo, but a sister species of homo habilis, as opposed to being examples of unusual modern humans. Just how long after the arrival of modern humans homo floresiensis survived is hotly debated, but it has been advanced that they may have still been around as recently as 12,000 years ago. That’s getting really recent for another hominoid other than homo sapiens. But that’s all based on limited paleontological evidence, what of evidence from anthropology? The discovery of Homo floresiensis: Tales of the hobbithttps://www.nature.com/articles/514422a

  • August 25 · 53 min

    Are Axions Dark Matter? w/ Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek

    Frank Wilczek is a theoretical physicist, author, and intellectual adventurer. He has received many prizes for his work, including a Nobel Prize in Physics and most recently, in 2022 the Templeton prize. Wilczek has made seminal contributions to fundamental particle physics, cosmology and the physics of materials. His current research focus includes Axions, Anyons, and Time Crystals. These are concepts in physics which he named and pioneered. Each has become a major focus of world-wide research. In recent years Frank has become fascinated with prospects for expanding perception through technology. He is developing hardware and software tools for this.

  • August 24 · 42 min

    U.S. Congress investigates UFOs | Here's Why with Rep. Tim Burchett

    The recent Congress UAP report has lead to them calling witnesses from the Pentagon for the first Congress UFO panel in 50 years. Congress is having a hearing on UAP, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (Open and Closed) hearings on Tuesday, May 17th.For the first time since 1970 and the closure of Project Bluebook, the US air force’s probe into the UFO/UAP phenomenon, the US congress has taken on a new probe of just what’s going on with that phenomenon. Now this is a topic I normally would not cover, as a skeptic, but with an open mind. But I’d be remiss if I didn’t cover it, given that we have former president Barack Obama stating publicly that the phenomenon is real, the late Harry Reid, former Senate Majority leader stating that Lockheed Martin has in its possession alien technology, and two government reports stating that at least the US Navy regularly has encounters with the phenomenon along with the militaries of China, the UK, France, etc. The phenomenon cannot be ignored any longer, and taboos must be dropped regarding talking about it.

  • August 23 · 33 min

    Are There Alien Artifacts Orbiting Earth? w/ Beatriz Villarroel

    Are these Lurkers? Researcher Beatriz Villarroel found bright, shiny, possibly flat or complex shaped objects that were in geo-synchronous orbit with Earth in the early 50's. Well before Sputnik or any other attempted satellites. Also, three of the objects travel in a straight line.We live in a world where we are constantly observing ourselves from orbit. We don’t even think twice about the satellite surveillance of our world because it’s us doing it. But imagine if we were being watched by someone else, far before the dawn of the space age by some unknown agent. More, think of a scenario where it was watching us, and we were inadvertently with our astronomical photographic plates watching it as well. In 1957 the Soviet Union launched humanity’s first orbital satellite, Sputnik 1 ushering in the age of telecommunications and satellites of all flavors from weather to espionage. But our ability to monitor the skies photographically stretches decades before the advent of human space travel, leaving us with an enormous collection of astronomical survey plates to study. Within these plates, previous to 1957, you shouldn’t expect to find anything transient presenting itself as a satellite since we didn’t have them yet.

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