Josh Clark

How did they possibly get there?

So we know how to absorb it and it makes us tan and that's cool, right?

Yeah, spontaneous generation.

Amazing.

Or people who believe in ghosts or people who counter empiricism in a lot of ways, right?

That's the obvious explanation.

And we'll get to synthetics a bit more in a minute, but jumping back to the mid-1800s, the story of the rubber band is pretty interesting.

to Empedocles' idea with the elements, thumbs down to Democritus.

Yeah.

But with these ionized atoms, these positively charged atoms going around in your body, it can cause a lot of problems, like mutations, like cancer, right?

And if you think about it, they're working from Occam's Razor.

But in a way that also allows it to expand.

And Occam's Razor says the simplest explanation is usually the right one.

Yeah.

Because if you think about it, the more plasma there is, the more hydrogen atoms there are, the more hydrogen atoms, more isotopes there are, the more nuclear fusion reactions or events you can have, the more energy you can yield, right?

Yeah.

So Democritus' incredibly accurate prediction would have to wait about 2,000 years before people finally came around and were like, oh, Democritus was super right.

But on the other hand, you can find atheists who use Occam's razor to show that God does not exist.

Which is a good thing.

These two chaps, Stephen Perry and Thomas Barnabas Daft, great name, TBD, actually.