Kathy Joseph is a historian of physics and the force behind  @KathyLovesPhysics  , an exploration of the cultural, historical, and social forces that shape physics behind the scenes. We talk to her about unconventional paths to science, the value of understanding history, the surprising ways in which science is shaped by cultural fashions, how materialism came and went, the birth of the aether, and the campaign to discredit relativity as a “Jewish science”

Check out her Youtube channel @kathylovesphysics

Her website at www.kathylovesphysics.com

Her book about the dawn of the electrical age (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/46Fp3hv

00:00:00 Go!

00:00:21 Kathy's book & books we love

00:08:50 Dunning Kruger is misunderstood

00:17:39 A community of ideas

00:27:23 Tesla as physics monk & mascot

00:36:18 Math isn't science

00:45:38 The material atomics project

00:58:40 Back to Dunning Kruger

01:15:45 Giving knowledge, hiding discoveries

01:22:23 Cleaning up Maxwell's equations

01:25:07 Death of the Aether

01:33:59 Invention of fields

01:39:09 Scientific culture that approved of disregarding mediators

01:56:50 Maxwell demands an aether

02:07:01 Aether & nazi politics

02:12:26 Sometimes simplicity rules, regardless

02:27:57 Mechanism as stories

02:33:12 Something you'll really like

02:40:29 Interest in the known vs. unknown

02:50:59 Closing thoughts, history of spin 1/2

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