John Michael Godier's Event Horizon

An exploration into ten theoretically possible ways an alien civilization could destroy earth. Dark Fog by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... ) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/

What if we find intelligent life tomorrow? What can you learn from Nobel Prize winners? John is joined by Dr. Brian Keating to discuss his new book Into the Impossible: Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner: Lessons from Laureates to Stoke Curiosity, Spur Collaboration, and Ignite Imagination in Your Life and Career. How can you unlock creativity and imagination to inspire, teach, and lead? What mental...

Satellites before Sputnik?9 grouped bright anomalies appeared then disappeared on photographic plate taken in April 1950 as part of the historic Palomar Sky Survey. This was well before the first satellites, and given that they disappeared within 30 minutes, if they weren't false positives, this makes them most likely to be within the solar system. Dr. Beatriz Villaroel joins John Michael Godi...

Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur is a YouTube channel which focuses on exploring the depths of concepts in science and futurism. Since its first episode in 2014, SFIA has considered topics ranging from the seemingly mundane, to the extremely exotic, featuring episodes on megastructure engineering, interstellar travel, the future of earth, and the Fermi paradox, among others. Yet regardless o...

Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin wrote the Planet Nine hypothesis paper in 2019. Since then, there has been a concerted effort to find the mysterious planet 9. Last month, Kevin Napier, a PHd candidate from the University of Michigan lead a team to study the apparent clustering of Extreme trans-Neptunian objects, and found that there was No Evidence for Orbital Clustering in the Extreme Trans-Nep...

In this interview with Avi Loeb, the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science and astrophysicist at Harvard University, he explains why in his new book, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth, he has put forth the theory that our first interstellar visitor to be spotted in our solar system, Oumuamua, might just be the first sign of intelligent life beyond earth. Extrate...

How was the expansion of the universe discovered? What does the Vatican observatory do? Brother Guy Consolmagno the director of the Vatican Observatory joins John Michael Godier on Event Horizon to discuss the Vatican's rare meteorite collection. As well as the type of astronomy they conduct and how the observatory was founded. From MIT to Specola Vaticana: Guy Consolmagno at TEDxViadellaConci...

Fermi Paradox solutions. Could we be surrounded by intelligent life and not know it? The Zoo Hypothesis is one possible solution to the fermi paradox where we are kept from knowing that aliens exist by alien civilizations that keep us from knowing the truth. Could intelligent life in the universe end up choosing to become machine civilizations? And if so, would they even care to communicate with u...

Where Did the Laws of Physics Come From? Why is the universe just right for life? Paul Davies joins John Michael Godier to discuss why the universe seems to be fine-tuned for life. How did the universe begin and how will it end? Paul Davies BooksAffiliate LinksThe Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life https://amzn.to/3vXPiOHThe Mind of God: The Scient...

Were We Contacted? The Wow! Signal, picked up at the Big Ear radio telescope in 1977 remains unexplained to this day, and represents the best candidate we've ever detected of a signal of intelligent alien origin. Now, Alberto Callabero of the Exoplanets channel has released a new paper, An approximation to determine the source of the WOW! Signal, which surmises possible origins of the Wow! Sig...

The mystery of planet nine deepens as a new theory from Amir Siraj and Avi Loeb of Harvard attempts to explain what exactly might be hiding in the oort cloud. A primordial black hole? Or. The suns lost twin? Was the Sun a binary twin and is that twin our planet nine? The Case for an Early Solar Binary Companionhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.10339.pdfAmir Siraj website and twitter:https://scholar.harva...

Why is Betelgeuse dimming? The supergiant is going to end its life as a supernova. Is the sudden dimming a warning sign? Betelgeuse is a variable red super giant star located in the Orion constellation. Most estimations have it going supernova within the next 100,000 years, but could it be sooner? Dr. Andrea Dupree, associate director of the Center for Astrophysics at the Harvard & Smithsonian...

From both Gregory Benford and Larry Niven comes a thrilling, hard science fiction series, Bowl of Heaven, that follows a human expedition to another star system that’s suddenly interrupted by a gigantic artifact floating in interstellar space. The bowl-shaped structure engulfs an entire star, and has a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. Gregory Benford is a physicist, educator,...

BLC1 is a candidate SETI radio signal announced in December 2020, spatially coincident with the star Proxima Centauri. BLC1 stands for Breakthrough Listen Candidate 1, as it is the first signal to pass the breakthrough listen projects filters. Dr. Avi Loeb of Harvard’s new book ‘Extraterrestrial: The first sign of intelligent life beyond earth’ releases later this month. Extraterrestrial: The Firs...

What are Odd Radio Circles? Are Odd Radio Circles Wormholes? An Odd radio circle (ORC) is a very large unexplained astronomical object that, at radio wavelengths, is highly circular and brighter along its edges. So far there have been four odd radio circles found. Ray Norris is an astrophysicist and science communicator, based at the CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility, and Western Sydney...

An exploration of the Wow! Signal, picked up at the Big Ear radio telescope in 1977. This signal remains unexplained to this day, and represents the best candidate we've ever detected of a signal of intelligent alien origin. Dr. Robert Dixon directed the Ohio State SETI program at the Big Ear Radio Telescope from 1973 to 1997, which was the world's first full-time search for signs of extra...

What is the CMB Cold spot? A discussion of the secrets of the Cosmic Microwave Background and how it can be used to help find things like Planet 9 and other currently undiscovered objects within our solar system and the galaxy Dr. Brian KeatingSubscribe and watch Dr. Keating's new podcast channel Into the Impossible https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuwhttps://briankeating.c...

Oumuamua and Borisov were the first two interstellar objects found in our Solar system. And with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory about to become operational, it will improve our ability discover interstellar objects. Just how many interstellar objects are in our galaxy? How many interstellar objects in our solar system? Could some have landed and been preserved on the moon? Amir Siraj of Harvard joi...

A discussion of possible detections of Lorentz Invariance violations found from observations of Cosmic Birefringence which may hint at new unknown physics with Dr. Brian KeatingSubscribe and watch Dr. Keating's new podcast channel Into the Impossible https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuwhttps://briankeating.com/podcast.php Please join Brian’s free mailing list to receive wis...

Do Alien Civilizations simply exist too far away and at different periods to ever truly find each other? Would a galactic internet help us connect with other Alien Civilizations? Author and filmmaker Timothy Ferris joins John Michael Godier to discuss this and his part in the production of the Voyager Golden Record with Carl Sagan. Where is everybody? Not enough time?https://www.timothyferris.com/...

The mysterious interstellar object Oumuamua. What is Oumuamua? Darryl Seligman joins John Michael Godier on Event Horizon to discuss his new paper which theorizes that the interstellar object Oumuamua may possibly be something never before seen, a hydrogen iceberg. The hydrogen iceberg travelled through the universe and the interstellar medium to our solar system and has proved to be a hard myster...

What is the Theory of Everything? Stephen Wolfram recently announced the Wolfram Physics project, a way to find the fundamental theory of physics. Is it a theory of everything? And how does it describe General Relativity and Einstein’s work? John Michael Godlier is joined by Jonathan Gorard to discuss the Wolfram physics project, and why it may be a beautiful path towards the fundamental theory of...

A team of Astronomers from Cardiff University and MIT announced today the discovery of finding a rare molecule, phosphine, in the clouds of Venus. Here on Earth, Phosphine is usually only found to be made by microbes that live in oxygen-free environments or made industrially. There have been past hints of life in the clouds of Venus, where the temperature is much more hospitable for life than the...

Proxima Centauri is a small, low-mass star located 4.2465 light-years away from the Sun in the southern constellation of Centaurus. Last month there was the announcement of BLC1, a possible SETI candidate signal spatially coming from Proxima Centauri. But what is the Proxima Centauri system like? Could life exist on Proxima B? Would intelligent life be able to withstand the solar flares from Proxi...

Proxima Centauri is a small, low-mass star located 4.2465 light-years away from the Sun in the southern constellation of Centaurus. Last month there was the announcement of BLC1, a possible SETI candidate signal spatially coming from Proxima Centauri. But what is the Proxima Centauri system like? Could life exist on Proxima B? Would intelligent life be able to withstand the solar flares from Proxi...