Science Hour

In this episode Govind, Prasad and Sarath talk about a popular WhatsApp forward message on the claim that seven days of the week were invented by ancient Indian astronomers and the rest of the world stole it from them. They debunk these claims based on Surya Siddhanta and Aryabhatiya and discuss how this came to India from Greece. They also talk about a newly created pseudo-intellectual project called 'Indic renaissance' which mixes fact with fiction and myth with history to create fake narratives of ancient India with an agenda to create propaganda, and how such content is being translated into regional languages to spread misinformation further. They also take calls from audience and talk about how one can skeptically analyze such content.

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In this episode Govind, Prasad and Sarath continue from previous episode's discussion about time travel. They unpack the possibility and plausibility of time travel from a scientific perspective, distinguishing time travel to future with time travel to past. They also discuss worm holes and if they can theoretically exist and talk about maintaining consistency of history if one travels to the past. They take some examples from films that featured time travel and illustrate how the consistent history ideas play out in them. They also take questions from callers on entropy and big bang.

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In this episode Govind, Prasad and Sarath talk about the story from Bhagavata purana which is claimed to talk about time dilation and discuss how the actual story doesn't mention any relativity of time. They also talk about time travel and whether it is possible from a scientific perspective. They also take questions and comments from callers and discuss how our senses experience time dilation

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In this episode Govind and Sarath talk about destiny and how it features in the sale pitches of astrologers, numerologists and palmists. They talk about how the fatalistic thinking of destiny in Indian society has roots in interpretation of mythological stories by religious preachers and take the story of Karna from the Mahabharata as an example. They also take comments and questions from callers and engage with one caller on genetics, heredity, reproduction, death and fate.

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In this episode Govind, Prasad and Sarath talk about the concept of luck and how the effects of luck should rather be framed as effects of uncertainty. They talk about how societies have evolved into using risk management and hedging to mitigate undesirable effects of uncertainty and how people often fall into the trap of controlling luck through magical thinking and superstitious means and fall prey to charlatans. They also take questions from callers and engage with them about how to change the behavior of others away from superstition and whether karma works.

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