Michael Stevens

But I think that it'd be cool to go.

I don't know how far, though.

I'd like to go to where we've paradigm shifted away from this.

our current thinking where someone's someone's come along and said guys all this discussion of uh quantum electrodynamics and cosmology at really big scales like all of that is actually part of something else kind of like what einstein did and copernicus did i want another level to be around when yeah when there's that new way of looking at reality where we go oh of course

Of course, Newtonian physics and Einsteinian physics are all just approximations still and there's still something else there.

And that's what's going to push us over the edge to faster than light travel, creating wormholes, stuff like that.

You need gigantic teams.

You need gigantic equipment like neutrino detectors and particle accelerators the size of a country or telescopes that take a decade to build.

Right.

Yeah, you could be a real Renaissance woman if you went back to a time when you could know a bit of everything.

I think historically, I would like to go back and hang out with Leeuwenhoek and his microscope.

When was that?

Like the 1600s?

Late 1600s?

Famously, Leeuwenhoek did not invent the microscope, but made some adjustments to make it like 300 times stronger magnification wise and like scooped out some gunk from his infected tooth and looked at it and saw microorganisms and he called them animalcules.

Yeah, like molecules, but animals.

And he was the first human to see a sperm.

And he was like convinced because there seemed to be a lot of detail in them.

He was convinced that there was an entire little baby person in it.

Yeah.