Author Paul Schatzkin joins the podcast to discuss his book The Man Who Mastered Gravity, exploring the life of Thomas Townsend Brown, classified military tech, gravity control, time travel, and the mysterious intersections of science and metaphysics.

Guest Bio: 

Paul Schatzkin is a writer and historian known for chronicling the lives of underappreciated 20th-century scientists. His books include The Boy Who Invented Television about Philo T. Farnsworth, and The Man Who Mastered Gravity, a 20-year research project on gravity researcher and intelligence figure Thomas Townsend Brown.

Topics Discussed:

• The classified life and scientific discoveries of Thomas Townsend Brown
• Gravity manipulation, time travel, and the Biefeld-Brown effect
• Cold War-era black projects and the Caroline Group
• The fusion-powered "flux capacitor" and Back to the Future parallels
• Why advanced technology may be kept secret—or revealed selectively
• Congressional UFO hearings and the limits of official disclosure
• AI, metaphysics, and whether humanity is “ready” for radical truths

Top 3 Quotes (with punch):

“If time travel exists in the future, it exists—period. Because it would exist across all time.”

“The universe is filled with magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”

“Maybe the intelligence behind the universe isn’t withholding technology—maybe it's waiting for us to grow up.”

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