Matter Over Mind

Aimed at enthusiastic, but sometimes baffled, listeners to science podcasts, Matter Over Mind (we like to call it MOM) is the essential guide to the secrets of the Universe, as revealed through physics and psychology. So if you've been listening to a 'science communicator' talking about the AdS CFT Correspondence, but it still sounds like a News Agency to you, or you think the Legrangian is a character from The Matrix, but you really want to understand it, MOM's the word. Confusion is not limited to physics though, so if you're conscious that you don't know about the unconscious, or you don't know what to think about claims about archetypes and essentialism, or if you want to understand what the experts are saying about proposed links between quantum physics and consciousness, then again it's MOM you need.

Hosts are Thomas Vincent, an experimental physicist at the University of Oxford with a Masters degree in Theoretical physics, and currently working towards a PhD in Atomic and laser physics and Stephen Mather, Business Psychologist, with a Bachelors in Psychology and a Masters in Organizational Psychology from the University of London. In each episode Stephen and Thomas take turns to ask the questions about the chatter in the science podcast and YouTube ecosystem, and try their best to make sense of it all. Oh and to spice things up a bit more, Stephen is Thomas' soon-to-be father-in-law!

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Episoder(24)

Is the Universe a Donut? And Other Existential Questions

A listener request today. What shape is the Universe? Come and join our Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/537847055973659Music: www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

8 Mar 202552min

OCEAN's Five: An explanation of self?

In their continuing mission to understand the self Thomas asks Stephen to explain how trait based theories work and the use of psychometrics.Come and join our Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/gr...

22 Feb 20251h 5min

Fusion Confusion

Dad asks Thomas: exactly what is nuclear fusion? And is it still 20 years away? Come and join our Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/537847055973659Music: www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Ac...

22 Feb 20251h 2min

What is Consciousness?

Thomas asks Stephen to explain the 'small matter' of consciousness. Stephen focuses upon the element of consciousness sometimes called a subjective experience. There is a lot of talk about this questi...

8 Feb 20251h 6min

What is the Lagrangian? Also a bit of Higgs Field talk.

Dad keeps hearing science podcasters talk about The Lagrangian, but it sounds like a character from the Matrix to him. Thomas takes his future father-in-law on a journey, with stops along the way at ...

8 Feb 202546min

Me, Myself and Us: Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

What is an archetype? What did Jung mean when he talked about them? How did Jung draw on, and then adapt Freud's ideas about the unconscious? What is the collective unconscious? This time of Matter Ov...

25 Jan 202556min

The Fast and the Massless: The Science Behind the Speed of Light

After watching a Sabine Hossenfelder video on YouTube claiming it might be possible to exceed the speed of light, Stephen asks Thomas whether this could be true, and just why it seems to be impossible...

25 Jan 202549min

Introducing Matter Over Mind

Welcome to Matter Over Mind, your essential guide to help you make sense of the science chatter. This is a short introduction.Music: www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo...

5 Jan 20253min