Kevin Knuth, a former NASA scientist and physics professor, joins Curt to explore the most compelling UFO cases—including the Nimitz and Tic‑Tac encounters—and to introduce his Influence Theory, a novel approach to a Theory of Everything. The conversation also tackles why mainstream physics shies away from UFO research and what the implications could be for future science.

- 00:00:00 - Introduction
- 00:04:07 - The Bethune Encounter (1951)
- 00:07:14 - The lights of the UFO's are possibly due to plasma
- 00:08:53 - Why study UFO's? (and cattle mutilations)
- 00:21:09 - Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 (1986)
- 00:24:32 - 300 ft UFO follows one of our planes for 40 minutes
- 00:24:12 - Why is investigating aliens considered academically uncouth?
- 00:28:13 - The Nimitz Encounters (2004)
- 00:34:41 - The Tic Tac video is likely the least interesting video the gov't has
- 00:36:57 - UFO's are not simply drones or advanced gov't technology
- 00:39:47 - Why UFO's aren't studied by physicists, and who else (as a Professor) is studying?
- 00:42:05 - Is alien technology "progressing"? Why / why not?
- 00:44:03 - Why are they shutting down our nuclear missiles?
- 00:48:14 - Why don't people supposedly from the gov't who announce UFO's are real, get killed?
- 00:50:27 - UFO's should be far more technologically advanced than they are
- 00:53:50 - Theory of Kevin's that explains where UFO's go
- 00:58:36 - Why do aliens look so human (or why do we look like aliens)?
- 01:03:08 - Curt and Kevin speculate about alien intentions and relation to us
- 01:04:33 - Alien abductions
- 01:05:47 - Is Bob Lazar telling the truth?
- 01:08:20 - Skinwalker ranch
- 01:11:06 - New physics in UFO's, because they violate conservation laws
- 01:13:49 - Are aliens living on Earth? Underwater?
- 01:20:20 - Stuart Koffman and Autocatalytic sets
- 01:21:32 - Why mutilate cattle? (theory of "euphoria")
- 01:29:46 - Emergent consciousness and aliens
- 01:31:02 - Machine learning and fundamental physics
- 01:33:06 - Spectral Inference from a Multiplexing Fourier Transform Spectrometer
- 01:36:28 - Perception of sound (early research of Kevin Knuth's) and Penrose's Orch OR
- 01:40:40 - Kevin Knuth's work at NASA and questions about the spacetime manifold
- 01:47:47 - Parsimony in science leads to idealism?
- 01:51:33 - Why does 2+1=3? Building a Theory of Everything from quantification
- 01:52:49 - Effectiveness of Mathematics is no surprise
- 01:54:28 - Building "Robot Scientists" that you can ask questions to
- 02:00:55 - Influence Theory: A different kind of Theory of Everything (in 6 papers)

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RESOURCES:

- YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atntnU_baHc
- Kevin Knuth's card game website: https://nobilisscientia.com
- Kevin Knuth's website: http://knuthlab.org/
- Steve Scully's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM8_4BUpeNfEWJ-wwdIDJxQ

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