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MULTIVERSES

James Robinson

Coffee table conversations with people thinking about foundational issues.  Multiverses explores the limits of knowledge and technology.  Does quantum mechanics tell us that our world is one of many?  Will AI make us intellectually lazy, or expand our cognitive range? Is time a thing in itself or a measure of change? Join James Robinson as he tries to find out.

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  • May 11, 2023 · 1 hr 31 min

    1 | Casey Handmer — Mining the Air

    Casey Handmer is the founder of Terraform Industries (TI). TI is pioneering air-to-fuel technology to manufacture methane (natural gas) from the air. Currently, we continue to extract enormous quantities of hydrocarbons from the crust, burn them, and release carbon dioxide. Instead, TI wants to mine the air: displacing the transport of carbon from the crust to the atmosphere. Casey Handler has a PhD in theoretical astrophysics from Caltech, he’s worked at Nasa’s JPL and on Hyperloop One. His blog is at caseyhandmer.wordpress.com Twitter at @CJHandmer Terraform Industries website: terraformindustries.com For a transcription and further references see multiverses.xyz My thanks to Mark Shilton, Sam Westwood and Maciej Pomykala for help with this episode.