1 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff 2 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. 3 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 1: My name to Robert Lamb, and I'm Julie Uglars. Julie. 4 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:19,080 Speaker 1: Has the end of the world occurred yet? The apocalypse? 5 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 1: The Twilight of the Gods? Let me get my calendar out. 6 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: Hold on, Oh, here's my Mayan calendar and it says 7 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 1: that it will actually occur on December. Okay, so we 8 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:35,559 Speaker 1: have a little more time to freak out about it 9 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: and for people to publish books about it, and and hey, 10 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: do podcast about it? Right exactly, all right? So here's 11 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: the thing people have always been doing this is we've 12 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:46,200 Speaker 1: discussed We did a whole episode on on why we're 13 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 1: in love with the idea of the end of the 14 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,279 Speaker 1: world and how how we just can't get enough of it. 15 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 1: We love an apocalypse so so for ages we've had 16 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: quacks stepping out and saying I looked at a text, 17 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 1: or I I stared at the sun, or I or 18 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: I I ate some sort of plant I shouldn't have, 19 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:06,679 Speaker 1: and now I have inside information on what is going 20 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:09,959 Speaker 1: to happen to our planet in the next year, And 21 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:14,200 Speaker 1: would you consider buying this pamphlet right exactly, or in 22 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: the case that we have coming up with a mind 23 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,920 Speaker 1: calendar running out, do you want to book a package 24 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: to say bellies for the end of the world. I'm 25 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: not getting there are end of the world packages U 26 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 1: in Central America. There are. But but here's the thing. 27 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 1: This is nothing new. It's been going on for ages, 28 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: and it was definitely going on during the lifetime of 29 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: one Sir Isaac Newton, the father of modern science, the 30 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:41,040 Speaker 1: Englishman who lived from sixteen forty three to seventy seven, 31 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 1: whose tomb actually makes a statement in Latin, of course, 32 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 1: about how he was basically the best man that ever lived. Yeah, 33 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: please read that statement because I love it. Yeah, Yeah, 34 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 1: here's the here's the right up translated mortals rejoice that 35 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 1: there has existed such and so great an ornament of 36 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 1: the human race, which which that you gotta admit, even 37 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 1: for someone like Sir Isaac Newton, who is pretty big 38 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 1: medicine when it comes to science, that's kind of absurd, 39 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,679 Speaker 1: like like who who is who is deserving of that? 40 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 1: Maybe Sir Isaac Newton. That's the thing, because because it's 41 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:18,239 Speaker 1: easy to dismiss him as the gravity and apples guy, 42 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 1: but when you really start looking at his life, a 43 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: he he accomplished so much, and he was so focused 44 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: and in a little crazy one more than a little crazy. 45 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,359 Speaker 1: I mean, just the mind of this guy is pretty amazing. 46 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 1: And so so he's living, you know, he's doing his thing. 47 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 1: He's uh, he's just throwing his his considerable intellected at 48 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: various problems that come along as well as the end 49 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: of the world, right right, right, yeah, because he's he's 50 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:44,800 Speaker 1: going out in the street and this is a dude 51 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 1: that is uh, you know, he's laying out the laws 52 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 1: of motion, he's figuring out universal gravity. He's he's laying 53 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: down some of the physical laws that that in our understanding, 54 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:54,519 Speaker 1: of these physical laws that will allow us to go 55 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: to the moon. Uh, I mean, we're He spoke of 56 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 1: standing on the shoulders of giants, but he's one of 57 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:02,920 Speaker 1: the giants that the modern stock could stand upon. And 58 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,800 Speaker 1: so he hears these these louts talking about the end 59 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,079 Speaker 1: of the world and they're talking about how they read 60 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:10,360 Speaker 1: it in the Bible, and he's like, WHOA hold on 61 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:12,800 Speaker 1: a second, I know a thing or two about theology. 62 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:15,920 Speaker 1: I've read the Bible. I've I've i've looked through and 63 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:18,920 Speaker 1: glimpse the the hidden truths in it. Let me take 64 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: a look at this and I'll get back to you. 65 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:23,520 Speaker 1: So he goes home, he analyzes the Book of Daniel. 66 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:26,959 Speaker 1: Daniel Old Testament had these visions of four beasts and 67 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 1: all and it's and it's great, uh, you know, apocalyptic 68 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:32,519 Speaker 1: gravy for for people who are into into that sort 69 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: of thing. Yeahah. And so so he looks at it 70 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: and he's like, all right, Uh, I looked at it. 71 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 1: I looked at the data. I I sort of weaved 72 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: around in the Bible codes. And you don't have anything 73 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 1: to worry about. The end of the world is not 74 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: happening until at least twenty six maybe after, but not until. 75 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 1: So everyone shut up, right, just keep keep walking. Nothing 76 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 1: nothing to see here. And that is something we thought 77 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 1: so amazing. Think about this guy is not just the 78 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 1: common things that we know about him, that he has 79 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 1: um contributed to society and to mathematics and physics and 80 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 1: so I want and so forth, but um that this 81 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: guy was obsessive on on all points and he could 82 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 1: sort of bend the time space continuum seemingly to his will. Uh. 83 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 1: You know whether or not he was, you know, meditating 84 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 1: on gravity or perhaps even creating cat flap doors. Yeah, 85 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 1: that one's we're not sure on that one, but there's 86 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:31,440 Speaker 1: there is there. There is the theory that he invented 87 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: the cat flap because he didn't want his cats constantly 88 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: asking to be let into because you know how it is, 89 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 1: you're in your lab figuring out how the universe works, 90 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: and the cat wants the scratching on the door. You 91 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 1: let the cat in, and you're like all right, yeah, 92 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:44,280 Speaker 1: and you're like, all right, you're in. Let me get 93 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 1: back to work. Then the cat wants out. This is 94 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 1: important when you're thinking about gravity, right, can not be interrupted? Um? 95 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: And so yeah, he's he's he's working on that, and 96 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:56,279 Speaker 1: he is making the public feel safer and and re 97 00:04:56,480 --> 00:05:01,839 Speaker 1: forecasting the apocalypse for right. So yeah, here here we 98 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,479 Speaker 1: have the Chuck Norris of science. Yeah. Yeah, it's like 99 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 1: the Chuck Norris thing because it's like when I was 100 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:10,600 Speaker 1: reading about it and I was researching it for work, 101 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 1: you know, his various accomplishments. I kept finding these amazing 102 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:16,919 Speaker 1: things because I mean, my understanding Newton was a little 103 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 1: deeper than than the gravity and Apple's guy. But but 104 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 1: I didn't know about some of these details of the 105 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 1: man's life, or just or I didn't have a good 106 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:27,160 Speaker 1: grasp for how his brain worked. But when you when 107 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:28,720 Speaker 1: you really look at what he did, he does come 108 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:31,280 Speaker 1: off like this Chuck Norris character, you know, and you're 109 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:33,799 Speaker 1: reminded of these lists the you know, the the Internet 110 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:35,839 Speaker 1: lists of the things Chuck Norris has done, like the 111 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:38,840 Speaker 1: idea that Chuck Norris has counted to infinity twice, or 112 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 1: that the Chuck Norris's tears cure cancer, but since he's 113 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 1: never cried, um that you know, we're not able to 114 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:48,160 Speaker 1: cure cancer, that kind of thing. Um. And you look 115 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 1: at Newton's life and some of this stuff is is 116 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:52,599 Speaker 1: that outlandish? It is, in fact, before we get to 117 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:56,159 Speaker 1: some of the other um, maybe not as widely known 118 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 1: information and more Chuck Norris information lists talk really quickly 119 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 1: about what we what we think of when we think 120 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: of Newton. Okay, um, Well, for starters, there is the 121 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 1: law of universal gravitation. This like basically strikes at the 122 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:12,480 Speaker 1: heart of how gravity works and how the universe is 123 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 1: held together by gravity. Now, one thing we we often 124 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,160 Speaker 1: don't remember is that one of the ways that Newton 125 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: expressed this uh in his in his writings, was to 126 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 1: create a thought experiment in which you had a mountain 127 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: that was higher than the clouds, higher than the atmosphere, 128 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:31,280 Speaker 1: and had a giant cannon on top of an orbital cannon. 129 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 1: They could fire a cannonball at just the right velocity 130 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 1: that it would go into orbit around the planet. Like 131 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: that's the way that the man thought. That's what he 132 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 1: was daydreaming about, right right. Most famously, he he laid 133 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 1: down the three laws of motion, and these were this 134 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 1: was six seven and uh and and these will sound 135 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 1: familiar to everybody. And object will remain at rest or 136 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,160 Speaker 1: or moving in a straight line unless acted upon by 137 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: an external force. When forces applied to an object, it 138 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,720 Speaker 1: will accelerate. So we get force equals mass times acceleration. 139 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:03,040 Speaker 1: And here's a big one. For every action there is 140 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 1: an equal and opposite reaction and uh. Which seems all 141 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:09,720 Speaker 1: very obvious now, but obviously back in the day this 142 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: was scholars used to wrestle with this um. For instance, 143 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 1: the Greek philosopher Aristotle thought that smoke moved upwards because 144 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 1: the smoke was mostly air, and therefore was consciously deciding 145 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 1: to go into the sky to hang out with the 146 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: rest of its air bodies. Um, you know which I 147 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 1: kind of love. Yeah. Yeah. And then he had other 148 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: people in reneed de carts who still identified God as 149 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: the prime mover behind everything. Newton came down and you know, 150 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 1: he laid he laid down the loss and these are 151 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: these are the fundamental laws that we we we based 152 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 1: on modern understanding on. Uh. In addition to that, he 153 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 1: looked at rainbows and figured out how rainbows worked. Um 154 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: that that the prism or the rain drop was not 155 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 1: changing or color. It wasn't coloring, but at the time 156 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 1: they thought that it was like the sun's rays were 157 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: dying the light, right. And from there actually leads to 158 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: his development of the reflecting telescope. Before that, everyone used 159 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: the refracting telescope, which wasn't as powerful it it could. 160 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 1: It could add various tints of color that weren't weren't 161 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 1: disruptive to when you're trying to look at um and uh, 162 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 1: and they were, they were larger. So he comes along, 163 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: he in it. He invents the reflecting telescope because his 164 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: mirrors and uh, and this becomes the standard. Yeah, this 165 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 1: is really cool. This was in your article. Um, your 166 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 1: article's name again. Uh ten Top ten Isaac Newton inventions. 167 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 1: A large mirror would capture the image than a small mirror, 168 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 1: a smaller mirror would bounce it into the viewer's eyes, 169 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:33,559 Speaker 1: which I think it's really cool. Uh. Not only does 170 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: this method produce a clear image, it also allows for 171 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:38,199 Speaker 1: a much smaller telescope. So I just think it's cool 172 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:40,839 Speaker 1: that he had that perspective back then to say, how 173 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: can I improve upon this? You know, let's not refract, 174 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 1: let's reflect. And he actually grinded the mirrors himself and 175 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 1: assembled a prototype and then presented it to the Royal 176 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 1: Society in sixteen seventy. So let's talk about some of 177 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:57,440 Speaker 1: the the other stuff that is just so amazing that 178 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 1: this guy is sitting around and accomplishing so much um 179 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 1: in such a small amount time. Really, all right, well 180 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:05,599 Speaker 1: here's one, all right. So, and again you've got to 181 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 1: think about Newton's mind. Is it just this obsessive thing, 182 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:12,560 Speaker 1: this engine that in any kind of data comes its 183 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 1: way and he has to solve it. He's going to 184 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 1: figure it out. And he's a bit of a madman too. 185 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 1: And we'll talk a little bit about this how how 186 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 1: it might have affected his perspective. Yeah, he never married. 187 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 1: He he didn't have much in the way of friends. 188 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 1: Like this was a man who would have lat himself 189 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 1: onto a riddle or a puzzle. Like I keep coming 190 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 1: back that I've mentioned this before, the old idea that 191 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 1: the vampire you leave a knot out for a really 192 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 1: complex knot, and it would set there trying to untie 193 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 1: it until the sun came up. Like that's that's Newton's brain, um, 194 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 1: and and so like for instance, sixteen sixty five, plague 195 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 1: has has hit Debonnet plague has hit England, and it's 196 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 1: a it's a huge problem. And so Newton uh sees it. 197 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 1: He's o Rick Cambridge and he decides to figure this 198 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:56,720 Speaker 1: out because it's actually shut down the university, right, and 199 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 1: that's where he needs to be to think such shut 200 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 1: down the university for eighteen months, so he's he's got 201 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 1: some time on his hands, right right, right, So he's like, 202 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna fix this. Here's the thing. 203 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 1: Math wasn't sufficient at that time for him to study this. 204 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 1: He needed a school of of mathematics that would allow 205 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 1: him to calculate problems that involve changing variables, so he 206 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 1: invented one. He invented calculus. Like, okay, he needed calculus. 207 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 1: It didn't exist. He made it. Math was insufficient for 208 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 1: his needs, so he just created his own, his new 209 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: school of it. So normous, right, Um, again, we're talking 210 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:30,200 Speaker 1: about calculations concerning the angle of cannonballs and a ship's 211 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: rate of acceleration. And that's just so that it could 212 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 1: fuel his daydreaming, right right, right, yeah, and and and 213 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 1: allow him to understand what was happening in the world. 214 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 1: He was like, like, I'm having trouble understanding how this 215 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 1: is spreading, how this is working. Um, Math, you're not 216 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 1: helping me. I'm going to have to do all the 217 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 1: work for you. And so he created calculus. It's the 218 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: father of calculus. It should also be noted that German 219 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 1: mathematician got Free Leadness independently developed calculus around the same time. Yeah. 220 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 1: Actually sort of. What has compounded this this question about 221 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 1: question mark about who created calculus is the fact that 222 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 1: Newton was really private, um, and some would even say secret, 223 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:10,960 Speaker 1: and he didn't publish a lot. He might have written 224 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:14,359 Speaker 1: down quite a few things and presented them in various 225 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:18,680 Speaker 1: academic institutions, but he wasn't someone who was sort of, 226 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 1: you know, gunning to get published and get and become 227 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 1: known for something. And in fact, some of the things 228 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:26,679 Speaker 1: that he obsessed about and wrote about certainly didn't really 229 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 1: enter the public eye. Told quite a while later and 230 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:31,679 Speaker 1: we're kind of a dirty secret for for a bit, 231 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 1: Are you talking about alchemy? I am talking about alchemy. Yes, yes, alchemy, 232 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 1: as we've discussed I think we discussed this in the 233 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 1: Frankenstein podcast a bit. This is, of course the the 234 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:45,559 Speaker 1: old typically thought of as medieval bastardization of chemistry and 235 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 1: occultism and philosophy and trickery, and just you know that 236 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:52,680 Speaker 1: there is there's chemistry bound up in it, but there's 237 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: just a lot of mess I mean kind of like, 238 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 1: just to to be uh, not very kind about it, 239 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 1: it's basically taking a pile of dog crap and spinning 240 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 1: into gold, right, or turning one's urine into gold and 241 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:07,360 Speaker 1: accidentally discovering phosphorus, that kind of thing. Right. The thing is, 242 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 1: though there was a lot of real chemistry there, there 243 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 1: was some there was some real science going on in 244 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:15,000 Speaker 1: the world of alchemy. And if you were interested in 245 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 1: in the chemistry of the world, this was for the 246 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:20,839 Speaker 1: most part the only game in town. Um and as 247 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 1: far as the west goes. So, so of course he 248 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:26,200 Speaker 1: studied it. And uh. And the thing is that alchemy 249 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 1: only became this sort of dirty word later in his 250 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:32,960 Speaker 1: life and after his death. And and also he was 251 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 1: not afraid of looking into something that was kind of crazy. 252 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 1: And he I mean, he really believed that there was 253 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 1: there was hidden truth to be found in alchemy. Well 254 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:46,560 Speaker 1: and during his time to wasn't an alchemy punishable by law? Yeah, 255 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:49,079 Speaker 1: it became so, right, So it's something that he kind 256 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 1: of squirreled away because obviously he didn't want to um 257 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 1: to have any sort of negative repercussions from it. But 258 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: it wasn't until the nineteen thirties when I believe that 259 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:01,440 Speaker 1: was a auction house that's someone found a huge bomb 260 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:04,760 Speaker 1: volume of his writings and it was discovered to the 261 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 1: extent to which he had dedicated really his life to alchemy. Yeah, 262 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:11,600 Speaker 1: and that he was serious, like it wasn't just a 263 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:13,880 Speaker 1: this is all nonsense, but I'm kind of interested in 264 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 1: the chemistry. No, he was trying to create the Philosopher's Stone. 265 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 1: Yet the Philosopher's Stone, Uh, it's exact description varies from 266 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:24,680 Speaker 1: texts at texts, but it's clearly like a man made 267 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 1: stone or a man made a lixir. Uh, And it 268 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: has this power of universal transmutation, so it can turn 269 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:34,839 Speaker 1: lead into stone, it can cure illnesses that can transform 270 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 1: a headless cow into a swarm of bees, or allow 271 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 1: you to throw some wizard semen um, you know, in 272 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:42,439 Speaker 1: a jar and add a few other ingredients and make 273 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 1: a homunculous Yeah. So it's uh, it's like the the 274 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 1: ultimate power. And that's that's why he was interested in it, 275 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:54,560 Speaker 1: because ideally this would give him power over life and death. Well, 276 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:56,360 Speaker 1: and you know, it turns out that he is really 277 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 1: interested in this mystical realm, and so the idea something 278 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,240 Speaker 1: people have said. Some historians have looked back at the 279 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:04,719 Speaker 1: way his mind works and said, you know, he may 280 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:07,840 Speaker 1: not have been able to discuss um the laws of 281 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:12,120 Speaker 1: motion or discover them, name them um if he didn't 282 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 1: have this particular mystical bent, because he's thinking about the 283 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 1: forces of the universe, right and trying to harness them. 284 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 1: So I think that's really interesting and thinking about that 285 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 1: when you think about Newton, he wrote more than one 286 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 1: million words on the subject of alchemy, which is amazing 287 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 1: much more than he ever dedicated to um, you know, 288 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 1: his stalwart uh science. Of course, you could look at 289 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 1: it in this sense that science for Newton was a 290 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 1: problem that he was not that he was eventually able 291 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 1: to untie in many cases. Alchemy ultimately proves that not 292 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 1: that never completely untied for him. So it was probably 293 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 1: the kind of thing where you just keep writing and 294 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 1: writing about it because you're never going to reach that 295 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 1: point with alchemy that you're like, all right, philosopher's stone 296 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 1: case closed, now, let me move on to something else, right, Yeah, Yeah, 297 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 1: And the same thing as we discussed in this doom 298 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 1: Stay stuff. He was interested in theology. He was interested 299 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 1: in discovering the coded secrets of the Bible, the wisdom 300 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: of the ancients. And you can set there all day 301 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 1: looking for these secret codes, and you're just gonna end 302 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 1: up writing more and more words about it because you're 303 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 1: not gonna find you're not gonna uncover this this hidden 304 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:21,640 Speaker 1: equation in the in biblical text, and you're not going 305 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 1: to find it in alchemy either. But don't tell that 306 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:26,720 Speaker 1: to Dan Brown. Well, no, he did find the hidden 307 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:30,240 Speaker 1: the hidden equations. But that's right. It had to do 308 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 1: with the publishing dollars. Um. Yeah, that's his own kind 309 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 1: of alchemy. But you know, and we will talk a 310 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:41,000 Speaker 1: bit more about his sort of obsessive quest for religion, 311 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 1: thinking about religion and uh in the Bible. But before 312 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 1: we do that, I really want to talk about how 313 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: he was fighting crime in Melton money, all right, sir 314 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:53,600 Speaker 1: Isaac Newton crime finder. And this was an area that 315 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:56,200 Speaker 1: I before I was researching in this for work, I 316 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:59,040 Speaker 1: I really didn't know anything about this this corner of 317 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 1: his life. Well, he was a bit of a politician, 318 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 1: although kind of a backseat politician. I guess you could say, yeah, 319 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 1: so you have to you have to go back to 320 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 1: England's financial system is in full blown crisis mode. Okay Um, 321 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 1: the currencyat consisting entirely of silver coins, and the silver 322 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:18,840 Speaker 1: was often worth more than the value stamped on it 323 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 1: due to the economic situation. So people start We're often 324 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 1: melting the chok coins down or chipping the silver from 325 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:29,120 Speaker 1: the edges and selling them to France. So pretty soon 326 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 1: the coinage just looks like crap. It's mangled. People have 327 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 1: been melting this stuff down, They've been chipping off the corners. 328 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:40,720 Speaker 1: So you can imagine at the counter someone goes into 329 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:43,360 Speaker 1: a store to buy something around this time and they're 330 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 1: just dumping just a handful of mangled bits of silver 331 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 1: and counterfeit mangled bits of silver, because how difficult is 332 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 1: it to counterfeit a mangled lump of of shiny metal? 333 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 1: Right when I was just thinking, like, think of the 334 00:16:57,240 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: US dollar and just maybe the only thing that's left 335 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 1: is the eye and the pyramid and presenting that. I mean, 336 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 1: obviously it's going to be a lot easier to to say, 337 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 1: you know, to sort of put together something that looks 338 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:11,679 Speaker 1: like money. Right, So the powers that be they know 339 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 1: Newton is a is a smart cookie. Uh. They have 340 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: an idea that he's the kind of guy that likes 341 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:18,640 Speaker 1: to throw himself at a at a problem. Probably looks 342 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:20,960 Speaker 1: good to throw Newton at a at a problem. I'd 343 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:22,800 Speaker 1: like to think of them all sitting around a table, 344 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 1: all all wearing black and and saying we need to 345 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:28,760 Speaker 1: bring Newton in, yeah, or or they have the Newton 346 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:33,159 Speaker 1: signal on the on the roof, um and uh. And 347 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 1: it's also worth noting that, you know, we're talking about 348 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 1: counterfeiting a little here, and alchemy has in uh in 349 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 1: many places been tied to to counterfeiting because alchemy often 350 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:45,639 Speaker 1: involved the creation of dies and uh, and since it 351 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:49,480 Speaker 1: couldn't actually change something one medal into another, you could, 352 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 1: it did involve sometimes the technique of creating like fool's 353 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 1: gold or disguising one medal as another. Um. But but 354 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:58,679 Speaker 1: that's that's kind of incidental. They so they bring Newton 355 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 1: in and and and it's largely ceremonial. Nobody really expects 356 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 1: Newton to solve the problems, and they gave him a 357 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:13,159 Speaker 1: real title, right, Like, yeah, and so what does Newton do? 358 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 1: He throws on a diskise, Yeah, heads out into the 359 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 1: mean streets of London, like down into like just the 360 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:22,920 Speaker 1: poverty and crime ridden alleys, and he starts hanging out 361 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 1: with the counterfeiters. And then of course he has them 362 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 1: arrested and subsequently executed, because it was a major offense 363 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 1: in those days to counterfeit currency. But yeah, like how 364 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 1: amazing is that? I mean, he's essentially the Batman of 365 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:39,159 Speaker 1: the seventeen hundreds, right in the sixteen seventeen hundreds, He's 366 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 1: he's wearing the skies, going out there fighting crime, then 367 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:47,400 Speaker 1: coming back to his scientific layer and developing um, uh, 368 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 1: milled edges for coins. And these are if you if 369 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,240 Speaker 1: you get a quarter out you find or any coin 370 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 1: where you look at the edges and if you see 371 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:58,080 Speaker 1: little lines, those are milled edges. And the idea here 372 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 1: is you're gonna if you're gonna clip the lane and 373 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 1: try and sell the silver to France. Um, it's going 374 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:05,439 Speaker 1: to be very noticeable and then you'll be arrested and 375 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:08,040 Speaker 1: possibly executed. Of course. The the other part of that 376 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 1: is that it took him a year to create that 377 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:15,520 Speaker 1: particular currency, right, and um, I mean the conies on 378 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:17,920 Speaker 1: this guy he gathered up well not just he but 379 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:21,080 Speaker 1: uh you know, I'm sure he advocated this and they 380 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 1: adopted it, but they gathered up all of the currency 381 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 1: and melted it down. So then he could then spend 382 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:29,919 Speaker 1: like eighteen hours a day, you know, working on this 383 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 1: problem and creating a new currency. Yeah, he was like 384 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:34,920 Speaker 1: money is canceled for the next year or so and 385 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:37,040 Speaker 1: and then we're gonna have new money. I hope everybody's 386 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:39,160 Speaker 1: cool with that, which sounds like it probably wasn't as 387 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:40,879 Speaker 1: big of a problem as it would seem like today, 388 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:43,320 Speaker 1: because um, you know it was the economy was a 389 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,879 Speaker 1: mess anyway, and there was a lot of rioting before 390 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 1: this even happens, So I mean, wow, yeah, he but 391 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 1: he he reorganized the the mint, uh, their system of 392 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:56,680 Speaker 1: creating the coins. Like he went in there and he 393 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 1: just kicked button the factories and the next thing, you know, 394 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:00,879 Speaker 1: you have this new model and standard of what a 395 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:04,480 Speaker 1: coin is, you know, all in the day's work, right. Yeah, 396 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 1: And I like to I just made this part out, 397 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:08,080 Speaker 1: But I like to joke too that he put his 398 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:11,640 Speaker 1: own scowling face on each coin to h to convince 399 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:15,640 Speaker 1: people that counterfeit. Counterfeiting was a bad idea. He probably 400 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 1: did put some sort of code in there, for sure. 401 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 1: And let's talk about that, um, And specifically, let's talk 402 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 1: about whether or not he may have been suffering from 403 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:28,120 Speaker 1: mercury poisoning. Yes, so, so how would he have been 404 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:32,919 Speaker 1: pro poisoned by mercury? Are we suspecting that someone? No? Actually, 405 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 1: because he was using mercury quite a bit, um. And 406 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:39,760 Speaker 1: we know that he had a couple of very serious 407 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 1: mental breakdowns in the sixteen nineties, um, and you know, 408 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 1: sort of had fevered writings from him, would send letters 409 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:51,000 Speaker 1: to his friends. Didn't make any sense. We already know 410 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:53,560 Speaker 1: that he was an obsessive guy UM and that he 411 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:56,399 Speaker 1: was trying to find hidden meeting in the Bible. He 412 00:20:56,560 --> 00:21:00,160 Speaker 1: learned Hebrews spent half of his life really devoting himself 413 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 1: to trying to figure this out. So there's this idea 414 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 1: that his sleeplessness, his digestive upset, his loss of memory, 415 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 1: his paranoid delusions could have been mercury poisoning. Because we know, 416 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:14,960 Speaker 1: and this is from the chemistry chronicles Newton's Hair by 417 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:19,439 Speaker 1: Mark f Lesnie Uh. They know that that from a 418 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:22,280 Speaker 1: hair sample that he had a high amount of mercury 419 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:25,879 Speaker 1: in his system, and that he attempted to extract mercury 420 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:30,240 Speaker 1: from various medals during his alchemy UM. And and again 421 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:32,800 Speaker 1: we know that he spent a good deal of time 422 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:37,160 Speaker 1: trying to work his magic on this in dealing with 423 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:40,919 Speaker 1: with with mercury. So it's very possible that Um, at 424 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:44,399 Speaker 1: least some of his obsessive nature, not so much as 425 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 1: obsessive nature, but some of him sort of going off kilter, 426 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 1: could have been delusions that were inspired by mercury poisoning. 427 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:57,879 Speaker 1: Now here's another possibility. He actually succeeded in creating the 428 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 1: Philosopher's Stone became an immortal, used homunculous technology to clone himself, 429 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:08,920 Speaker 1: which involved mercury, and that is what is actually buried 430 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 1: at Westminster and that is what they got the hair 431 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:13,720 Speaker 1: sample for. And he's been he's been locked up in 432 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 1: his lab ever since, his secret lab, of course, working 433 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:20,399 Speaker 1: on how to prevent apocalypse. Okay, so if he's a 434 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 1: homunculous now no, no, no, he created the homunculous and 435 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 1: that's what was buried. Oh right right, I mean undoubtedly 436 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,600 Speaker 1: he would have Homunculi working for him now as his age, 437 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:33,639 Speaker 1: an army of yeah manculi of course. Um, this sounds 438 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 1: like a pretty uh pat answer to the mysteries of Newton. Yes, 439 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:40,640 Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to see if they'll let me add 440 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 1: that page to the article that they will They probably will. Yeah, 441 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 1: I think I make a pretty strong case. Um. You know. 442 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:49,520 Speaker 1: It turns out though again his his his devotion to 443 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 1: religion in the Bible could have had something to do 444 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 1: with his own, um personal biography which he viewed himself. Again, 445 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 1: this is from that paper Chemistry chronicles quote a Christian 446 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:05,000 Speaker 1: opposit it and adhere to the then prescribed Aryan heresy 447 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:08,080 Speaker 1: that Christ was not divine. Newton still took very seriously 448 00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 1: his own birth on Christmas Day. He felt that it 449 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 1: gave him a level of prophetic reasonable responsibility, that, if 450 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,119 Speaker 1: not equal to Christ, was certainly cut from the same cloth, 451 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 1: and that it was his own particular role from the 452 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 1: start to reveal God's universal laws to all humankind or 453 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 1: to justify God's waste a man. Right, yeah, yeah, there 454 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 1: you go. Wow. So and and you know, actually that's interesting, 455 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:32,960 Speaker 1: Like maybe we should get be more into the idea 456 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:36,560 Speaker 1: of celebrating Sir Isaac Newton like Christmas, like you just 457 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,879 Speaker 1: completely like retool the holiday, you know, where the tree 458 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,800 Speaker 1: is all Newton based instead of like a major scene. Well, 459 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,600 Speaker 1: you know, we've talked about this poopoo platter of religions before, 460 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:47,719 Speaker 1: in which we I think we were going to call 461 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:51,199 Speaker 1: it saganism after Carl second, right, and everybody wears turtlenecks. 462 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:56,399 Speaker 1: Why not, why not to celebrate Sir Isaac Newton on 463 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:03,439 Speaker 1: Christmas Day? Yeah, just a celebration of physics, alchemy, crime fighting, um, 464 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,399 Speaker 1: and possibly cat doors depending on where you fall on 465 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,920 Speaker 1: that particular controversy. Right, And I can see it now, 466 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,879 Speaker 1: like the rainbow is a is a sort of logo 467 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,560 Speaker 1: for this holiday. Uh, everybody constructs these sort of paper 468 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:18,920 Speaker 1: mache rainbows in their houses instead of Christmas trees. I'm 469 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:20,960 Speaker 1: up for it. Yeah. Well, hey, if you want to 470 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,680 Speaker 1: know more about Sir Isasing Newton in his life, you 471 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,480 Speaker 1: can check out that article that I wrote on the 472 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,639 Speaker 1: ten inventions of Sir Isaza Newton. Just searched for that 473 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,879 Speaker 1: on the House Stuff Works homepage. Also how Isaac Newton worked. 474 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 1: We have a great article about that. And uh and 475 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:37,159 Speaker 1: if you really want to know more about the the 476 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,200 Speaker 1: alchemy to uh do uh, just do a quick search 477 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 1: for Newton alchemy and Nova because pbs is nova has 478 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:47,640 Speaker 1: a rich website with a lot of resources about what 479 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:51,440 Speaker 1: we know about his alchemyical side. Indeed, does that mean 480 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 1: that we should roll out robot get some mail? Yeah, 481 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,879 Speaker 1: let's get the robot out here, share some mail with us. 482 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:01,760 Speaker 1: All right, here's one for Crystal. Crystal rites then, and 483 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 1: Crystal actually wrote in with with a number of thoughts 484 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 1: on some past episodes. I'm going to read what she said, 485 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,720 Speaker 1: um about our our episode that we did about a 486 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:15,000 Speaker 1: world without Men, about the men going extinct, and she says, uh, 487 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,639 Speaker 1: for the past six years I've been self employed in 488 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,640 Speaker 1: such ways that I work infinitely with families. I've seen 489 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:22,679 Speaker 1: many different kinds of families and lifestyle, and I have 490 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 1: come to the following conclusion about men and women. Okay, 491 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:29,439 Speaker 1: she says, this is this is their opinion. Without women, 492 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 1: men are somehow quite not quite fully developed adults, although 493 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:35,960 Speaker 1: they are perfectly happy in their lives at that point, 494 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,200 Speaker 1: men need women to take that last step into adulthood. 495 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 1: And then she says, without men, women are fully functional adults, 496 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:47,400 Speaker 1: but don't pursue happiness, letting responsibilities overshadow it. Women need 497 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 1: men to be reminded to value happiness for its own 498 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,639 Speaker 1: sake and hence to be happy. Obviously, this only applies 499 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 1: to heterosexual relationships. I haven't had a large enough sample 500 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:59,160 Speaker 1: size of homosexual marriages to make any hypothesis. Yet I 501 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 1: think any humans somehow evolved past men women would keep 502 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 1: them around to remind us happiness should be sought after. 503 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:09,360 Speaker 1: I love the podcast, Thanks Robert, Julie and everyone else 504 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 1: who makes it happen. Well. I think it's that's interesting. 505 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,160 Speaker 1: In the podcast, we talked about whether or not men 506 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,320 Speaker 1: might go extinct and whether the world will be better 507 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: for a particular reason, you know, not just us making 508 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 1: that up, but yeah, yeah, whether and you know what, 509 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 1: it would be a unless violent world, more of a 510 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 1: light world, a prettier world. Huh. Well, and you know how, 511 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 1: you know how I always feel about it, like, I 512 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,159 Speaker 1: think that's interesting. I think that she talked about it 513 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,280 Speaker 1: being a cultural norm. So for me, uh, you know, 514 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,879 Speaker 1: when when we talk about women and we um we 515 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,640 Speaker 1: talked about them being the better angels of our nature, 516 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 1: always feel like that sort of makes women even more 517 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,359 Speaker 1: one dimensional. Yeah, I gotta say, I'm not saying that 518 00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:49,639 Speaker 1: that we're not great. I'm just saying that, you know, 519 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 1: taking that other side of it is not giving you know, 520 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:56,120 Speaker 1: full complexity to women out there. I think that's fair. 521 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,440 Speaker 1: I think it's fair. Right. So again it should be 522 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 1: noted Newton didn't have any time for him. Yeah, can't 523 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 1: time for cats, So cat flaps, Yeah, possibly possibly cats 524 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,720 Speaker 1: and dogs. Though Tho's is weird because there people are 525 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 1: divided on the whole pet issue. There are some people 526 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,000 Speaker 1: who say, yeah, he definitely kept a cat, he kept 527 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,000 Speaker 1: a dog. Some there are some stories that say that 528 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:16,920 Speaker 1: he had a dog named diamond In. There were all 529 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 1: sorts of lacky adventures, and then other people were like, 530 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 1: Newton had no dogs or cats, so I don't know, 531 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,120 Speaker 1: you know, we just don't know for sure. Well, also, 532 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 1: pet ownership was a very different thing tacum out there, right, so, um, 533 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:30,919 Speaker 1: I can't imagine that he was going to target and 534 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,920 Speaker 1: probably getting them cute little halloween os. Yeah, Diamond wasn't 535 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,400 Speaker 1: setting in his lap wearing a little sweater mounted things. 536 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 1: So alright, So hey, if you have anything you would 537 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:43,400 Speaker 1: like to share about, well, about Sir Rising Newton, about alchemy, 538 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:45,679 Speaker 1: about the idea that he's still out there in his 539 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 1: layer and Homunculi perform as every bidding as he tries 540 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,920 Speaker 1: to prevent the end of the world. In um, let 541 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,200 Speaker 1: us know. We'd love to hear from you. You can 542 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 1: always find us on the social media platforms. 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