Dr Matthew Szydagis: UFOs, Dark Matter & The Science of UAP
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What is the main focus of Dr. Matthew Szydagis's research?
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is for once, just once, I would like to see the same object from at least two different angles at the same time. The vast majority are just garbage nonsense. There are ideas for exotic propulsion that are reasonable. You did have space-time engineering that might allow for time travel, but travel to the past is much trickier than the future. We know how to time travel to the future. It's easy. Go really fast, you know, and come back to Earth.
Hi everyone and welcome back to That UFO Podcast. As always my name is Andy and today I'm joined by Dr. Matthew Shadagas. He is an experimental physicist and associate professor at the University at Albany, SUNY. His work focuses on particle astrophysics, dark matter detection and rare event detector technology. He's also involved in bringing a more rigorous scientific and data-led approach to the study of UAP, including his work with UAPx and the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies. Matthew, welcome to the show. Glad to be here. Good to have you on. Finally, you're a name that I have seen pop up for many, many years whenever I'm looking at guests and events and speakers of these events. And it's through no fault of anyone's but my own that I've yet to invite you on.
So thank you for accepting at first time of asking. And I've given you an introduction there, Matthew, but I'd love you to start off with a little bit of your background because it's fascinating and what it is you actually currently do.
So as you said already, I'm an associate professor of physics at UAlbany SUNY in New York, in Albany, which is the capital of New York state in the US. And so I teach, I do research, and my day job is the experimental search for dark matter. But as you No, I've been dabbling with UAP with my colleagues, Professor Kevin Phaneuth and Cecilia Levy at University of Albany. And it's been a wild ride, to say the least, as the stigma is decreasing the topic and it's become more mainstreamed and it's become easier to talk about working on this, you know, area, which is still a so-called, you know, like fringe area.
Just a quick heads up, folks. I've got Professor Kevin Knuth coming back on the podcast. It's been a couple of years. He's joining me later on this week. And it's a fascinating time for the UFO subject. And I want to ask, can you just clear up for me, what is an experimental physicist when it comes to it?
So it means, for example, I'm not a theoretical physicist, which is a very common misconception. I'm not a straight theorist. You know, I'm not any kind of theorist. And so a lot of people, when they hear the word physicist or scientist, but more so the word physicist, they think of somebody who who only thinks ideas. But that's a separate class or subfield of physics that's equally valuable. But that's not what I do. An experimental physicist is someone who builds things. So this is not a perfect analogy. But if we want to use an analogy with careers that your audience might be more familiar with, I'm more like an engineer than a mathematician, for example. A theoretical physicist is more like a pure mathematician, but an experimental physicist is more like an engineer.
So I don't just think ideas or use computers. I do that too, of course, but I also use wrenches and screwdrivers. Does that help?
Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. And right now, again, I'm going to get you to answer this for me. I'm one of those folks who understand when I hear dark matter, I get these crazy images in my head, but I don't really know what it actually is. So for those who don't understand like myself, what exactly is dark matter and what does your current research involve?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main focus of Dr. Matthew Szydagis's research?
0:00–10:31
2
How does dark matter relate to UFOs and UAPs?
10:31–17:11
3
How does the concept of time travel relate to UAP technology?
17:11–28:17
4
How does scientific stigma affect the study of UAPs?
28:17–30:17
5
What are the implications of the recent UFO files release?
30:17–55:34
Speakers
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