Michael Shermer
speaker
4,120 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Michael Shermer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The telescopes there eventually.
Oh, it's a planet.
Right.
That guy also saw perturbations in Mercury's orbit.
He's like, OK, here we go again.
There's another planet in there.
It's planet Vulcan.
And he twice found it.
He never found it.
Right.
He was mistaken.
And it was Einstein that figured out, oh, Mercury is very close to the sun.
It's not the perturbation of another planet.
It's the distortion of the spacetime around the sun causing Mercury to the relativity theory.
OK, so you're picking the winners.
Those are all true.
But don't forget, most of the ideas in the history of science are wrong.
Right.
I mean, Copernicus was right, but Brahe had an alternative theory to Ptolemy, where the sun and the moon go around, but then that whole thing goes around the sun.
So it was kind of a modify between Ptolemy and Copernicus.
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