Project Inspire Convention 2022 A Scientist- About the Reality of Spiritual World-Andy Goldfinger

part because there's a there's a oh thank you thank you because there's a lot to talk about and um people tend to come late um i hope you all enjoyed your breakfasts and um for those of you who did have coffee i'd like to ask you if you all know what kind of coffee to drink when you're eating mun you all know that no no it's taster's choice there you go okay and also before we start there are two things i would like you all to repeat after me okay the first is the following geshmanca de parsala can you all repeat after i'm a count of three i want you all to say gespanka de parsila ready one two three spanka de parsala thank you one of my favorite talmudic expressions which we will get into okay the second thing i'd like you to repeat after me is a name of someone and it's a name that i love saying and his name is antonie van rijk all right did someone say goes on tight no anyway um so on the count of three one two three and tourney fun very good that completes the talk for today and i want to discuss with you the question of the spiritual world now my training i went to school in physics and one of the things that they teach physicists and people in many of the sciences i hope is that physics deals with the real world and it is not a speculative thing that goes on in your brain and just imagining things there was a famous physicist named eddington and he believed that and he came up with all these wonderful theories um which were brilliant but all wrong all right but um it showed you the the where a human mind can go when it is not being constrained by such things as facts in the sciences the real world is something that is observable and measurable and i'll and i'll stress that measurable all right there are people in this room right now to whom the measure of something is really important because if you administer something to a patient a small error can be very dangerous you measure it and you're constantly watching doing measurements all right they say that um certain people's lives and i'm not going to say who they are are hours of boredoms punctuated by seconds of terror and yeah yeah and that's what people go through um and yet when i you learn the gemara especially in massachusetts it talks about these things called mazikin you know which we for one of a better term we will translate as demons all right if you get into things like learning revenue bakaya and seministeros i'm not going to say people really learn mr rose but if you get into it you see that the mezikin came from other marichon certain things he did so on and so forth what does all that mean all right and the answer is i don't know but can i as a person who was trained in physics in which everything is observable and measurable can i believe that there are invisible little things that go flitten about that influence our lives can i believe that all right and the answer is going to be found in strangely in the first place where i find something like that is in physics all right um there is an area of physics called quantum theory all right very disturbing area of physics matter of fact it's been said that if you are not disturbed by quantum theory you don't understand it all right because a lot of it doesn't make sense and there's a very difficult area of quantum theory called quantum field theory let's not get into what that means in every theory of fields and so on and one of the things that we see in quantum field theory is that empty space nothingness is a very interesting place if i have complete nothingness and i look at it over a long time what do i see what do i observe nothing why because there's nothing there but if i look very quickly i see something there what do i see all sorts of particles but if i look more carefully over a period of time they go away because they don't exist just a minute now okay we have experimental evidence remember that in physics it has to be experimental it has to be measured we can measure the effect of these particles that don't exist they're called virtual particles they wink in and out of existence from non-existence all right and when two particles real particles collide you cannot understand what has happened unless you take into account the fact that they interacted with an infinite number of these virtual particles while they were together and we see that experimental effect but when we look there's nothing there because there never was now remember i started saying if you're not disturbed by quantum theory you don't understand it and you all look at me like huh and you're thinking gee if i went to graduate school any physicists here no ah what kind of physics okay okay i'll make the engineer jokes later okay yeah uh okay uh there's an expression among physicists that say if you're bothered by quantum theory blah blah blah blah the problem is that the theory works and not only does it work but what we just had happen in this room was a cell phone go off cell phones have chips in them which are quantum devices they work by the principles of quantum theory and they work very well and we can predict very exactly what will happen even though it makes no sense and the expression physicists use is shut up and start calculating don't let that worry you so to some extent the modern physicist does believe in little invisible things that are there but they're not there okay it's part of physics but it's not the kind of thing that we're talking about with maziki or the spiritual world because it is observable and measurable so let's go on in our search for things that are invisible that do affect us and here we get to we get up to oh and the reason that i mentioned gesh bank of the barcelona is that it says in mr barajos when it talks about music it gives you a procedure for seeing them which i would say any rabbi worth his salt would not recommend you try especially nowadays because mazikian are not what they used to be my rebbe the boston arreby said when it comes to all of this stuff if you leave it alone it will leave you alone but it's real and one of the things you do to see mozikin the whole procedure you end up with some ashes from the cats everything like that and you seal them in a little in a little vessel with a gesh banker de parsila which means an iron stopper and i just love that word i love saying geshman the parsley all right so let's get on to my favorite my second word which is antoni van luengerk anthony van gerk was a dutch scientist and he was the first he didn't invent the microscope to my knowledge but he was the first one to use it to look at really really small things and when he did he saw that there was a microscopic world of living things uh i don't know what he called them he had he had a word for them organelles all gabi something like that it was well it was in dutch you have to excuse me um but he saw that there was microscopic life microbial life and we're not surprised by this nowadays all right we know that on each square inch of your skin there's there are myriads of of living things all right you know i went for some some knee surgery and one of the things they had me do was take this this stuff that's that's you know sterilizing and not only clean my knee with it but the whole rest of my body alright my feet what's it got to do at my knee well the stuff is on there it gets around i don't know how it gets around all right but it does and does do these little microscopic things are they visible do we see them no do they affect our lives well they certainly do a matter of fact you go to a store and buy them it's called yogurt all right which is used as what they call a probiotic right and probiotics are are microorganisms that are good for you they're so good for you that um it's estimated that when a person goes to the bathroom and and they defecate that 50 percent of the dry weight of what's coming out is actually bacteria which live in our guts and help us to digest things and so on and without this bacteria we don't do so well it's a reason why when sometimes people take antibiotics and they get you know intestinal problems afterwards because they've killed off their buggies and we have to wait until they get recollinated recolonated is that the term and with with little babies how long does it take for a baby to get pollinated a week or so that newborn babies and will you see a difference in their in their um excretions when they're collinating so that's i didn't know that i mean we did that to you anyway but you know [Laughter] um these are are are good buggies the technical term is buggies right they teach us these these are good buggies and and and and they're absolutely necessary to our life now at various times um especially when when this began to be um began to be uh discovered people were speculating that maybe the bacteria and the microbial life maybe that's what mazikin are because we're told for example that you know why why do tamir come in why do their clothes wear out it's because of the mazikin all right well you know that there's things like mildew and mold and everything like that which my my daughter here finds a lot of in my refrigerator when she comes to visit me and we won't talk about that much further uh but maybe that is what's meant by maziki because it's invisible things that are surrounding us all the time they're in the air that we breathe which is why i i being paranoid bring a mask to a group like this and maybe that's what mazikian are well they don't really fit the description of mazikin seem to be sentient beings in some way i don't know i think it's a bit of a stretch to call these maziki all right but i will point out that um we say to hillam and in the tahillian we praise hashem for amazing things the mountains the mountains hashem can make the mountains melt like wax the sky the rain the great things that we see and these are things that we really praise hashem for when eliahu was taking refuge from the jewish people out in the desert after what happened on har carmel and hashem brought a whirlwind an earthquake and storms and everything eliah didn't pay much attention to this but when the still small voice came the called ahmadaka that he paid attention to that was hashem in our world we're used to mountains by the way rav shemshan hirsch apparently did not like to travel and when he was elderly i mean probably almost like my age he he announced that he was going to travel to see the alps why he said what am i going to say when i come before hashem and he says to me new shimshon what did you think of my alps what will i be able to say unless i've seen them all right we have all these great things but in our age right here now today hashem has created something so small that even a most powerful light microscope can't see it it takes an electron microscope it's called the coronavirus it has brought the world to its knees this little invisible bupkus thing has completely changed what's going on the world and i asked a friend of mine who is not a religious person he's not jewish he's um uh you know they have the expression a wasp a white anglo-saxon protestant he drives describes himself as a wassen a white anglo-saxon nothing and i said to him what do you think is the business with covid and everything and i'm going to paraphrase him and clean up what he said for this audience but he said i think that god is telling us we need to get our act together all right that he sees oh thank you that would be wonderful you get a big mitzvah mm-hmm call me a video nice and cold and um that is the truth this little thing which another another quantum mechanical thing happening here this little thing that that we can't even see um is this what mozikin are doesn't quite fit the picture does it so maybe we should go on a little bit um are there any other things that surround us that we can't see that may or may not have effect on us that are with us constantly and i call them our constant companions all right my favorite physicist was richard feynman and he was asked once who he thought was the greatest physicist of all time and most people would say isaac newton who by the way towards the end of his life um quit physics and went into theology uh christian theology but it's still a step forward feynman said no he thought the greatest physicist of all times was james clerk maxwell now you know the name maxwell as in maxwell's blank maxwell's what equations maxwell's equations maxwell before the time of maxwell we knew there was a magnetic force and we knew there was an electrical force like when you rub the balloon on your head and sticks to the wall that was electricity static electricity and magnetism there are two different things maxwell through maxwell's equations which every physics student and every engineer knows unified them into something called the electromagnetic force or the electromagnetic interaction and showed that they are both different manifestations of the same underlying thing all right and now we talk about electromagnetism and feynman said that maxwell was one of the first unifiers in physics to take different things and show they're the same when i went to college uh you know and was you know isaac newton was my classmate we learned that there were four forces in nature the electromagnetic force the gravitational force and two others called the strong force and the weak force which have very short range so in everyday life most people don't run into these the strong force for example holds the atomic nucleus together the weak force has to do with radioactivity and things like that it has become the um dare i say at a project inspire convention the holy grail of physics to take those four forces and unite them in the same way that maxwell united electricity and magnetism and show them the same thing the first step happened in the 1960s people named glacial weinberg and salaam two jews and a muslim united the weak force with the electromagnetic force and showed their really different manifestations of the same thing which is now called the electroweak force so physics is down to three forces the electroweak force the strong force and gravity there are speculational theories is that a word speculation speculative speculative theories to unite the strong force with the electro weak force they're called grand unified theories and um they're not you know they're all speculative right now people talk about the holy grail being to unite gravitation with the other forces and show they're all the same and that would produce what they call the t-o-e which is the theory of everything hasn't been done but along the way and by the way it's just an article of faith among physicists that this will happen that it all comes from one thing to the people in this room that would not be surprising okay but why do physicists believe that they just they do maxwell in unifying electricity and magnetism and showing they're the same used his maxwell's equations and they predicted that these electromagnetic fields could form waves in space and he um there was a man named heinrich hertz who actually detected these waves electromagnetic waves and it was real curiosity and the two of them were convinced that it was a curiosity in physics it would never have any use or be of any interest to anyone okay when he calculated the speed of these waves it came out to be the speed of light and then it was realized that light is an electromagnetic wave radio waves are also electromagnetic waves people in the in the physics or engineering field would use the term rf right rf radio frequency radiation all right we live nowadays bathed in rf okay this room is filled with electromagnetic radiation radio waves if you don't believe me bring in a radio turn it on and you'll get something all right we know that there are there is rf there are radio electromagnetic waves that come from the sun we know that they come from outer space which is why people built radio telescopes huge telescopes to pick up the radio waves from outer space and what's going on in outer space is so fascinating that i can't understand how anyone can learn about that and not wonder at the beauty of the creation and the complexity with your stem has made i mean you know things like black holes which you know nothing comes out of them they're holes in space a black hole is a hole in space that's why it's called black hole how can space have a whole this is einstein stuff all right we don't have to get into that the world is so different than what we just perceive with tables and chairs and everything in our everyday life so with electromagnetic waves we see that there are things that we can't see that are with us constantly electromagnetic waves are going through our brains right now now internet information is spread through electromagnetic waves and radio frequency radiation in your head right now there is internet information passing some of it is inappropriate all right i will tell you that the boston arabi my rebbe his father was blind and what they did in boston i never knew his father but he told me the story what they did in boston is they had an old church that they converted into a shul and it had stained glass windows with christian scenes in them and they took all of those out and they took his father to the shul the new shul and he had a cane because he was blind and he was going up a stairway and there was a window that came down you know here's the stairway and the window came down here but it went below the stairway you know in that crack there was some of the window left and as he was going up the stairs he took his cane and stuck it in that crack and he said what's down here and they looked and some of the stained glass window with the christian scenes was still had not been taken away from under that stairwell how did his father know this i have no idea no idea people talk about things like esp blah blah blah it's not these things are not esp to my feeling based upon a gut feeling from my microbiome you know um there are people who perceive the world on a deeper level than a whole lot of us do and they just perceive that when my rebbe the boston rebbe would tell me things like about what i'd been thinking how did he know that he read my mind no he the boston arabia actually wrote an article for a magazine about being a rebbe and he said how am i able to say all of these things that help people so much and he said i don't know but what i do is i ask hashem to teach me what to say and when i would go to the rebbe sometimes he had this experience he would say something he looked like you know and then he asked how did it come out you know and so on he was listening to the world the spiritual world what is it i don't know i don't know all these terms we throw about but there's a sensitivity to things that i don't have what about the inappropriate internet material which is going through all of our heads right now is it affecting us i don't know are there really sensitive people in the world who are affected by it perhaps can they do anything about it can you buy an intimate filter for you you can put aluminum foil around your head okay you know [Laughter] i don't know these questions i don't know but there is something invisible that we can't see or perceive going on around us in this room right now okay and it's there it's real but it is measurable so it doesn't in my opinion fit the definition of the spiritual world which is not measurable observable so and so forth so we have not found spiritual beings flitting about yet let's go on in our search okay [Applause] i have here a little piece of uranium ore okay and i have here a small geiger counter where is it geiger counters are devices that help us to measure radiation all right radiation consists of little microscopic particles that we can't see i'm not going to get into the fact that it's also waves because in quantum theory everything is both a particle and a wave even though they contradict each other all right and people say how can an electron be both a particle in a wave they're inconsistent and i sometimes fall out that we say a louva elo divre elokim crying that we are used to in torah things that don't seem to fit together we don't like no physicist likes the fact that an electron is both a particle and a wave because you can't have both at the same time but that's the way it happens to be we don't get to choose reality hashem gives it to us we have to work with it so this little geiger counter will detect little particles when they come in so if i take my little piece of uranium ore here and i put it next to my geiger counter where is it i'm getting all of those things are radioactive particles that are coming out of the uranium atoms i can't see them if i put my finger in the middle it shields them a little bit but those particles go right through my finger i can't feel anything right let me take something else which is slightly radioactive and show you that you know it can also have an effect all right what i have here is a it's much more mildly radioactive so i'm not sure how much of a reading i'll get here there's a few particles all right this is one of the most common radioactive things that we all experience in life oh come on get the right angle there we go okay here we're getting some and what this is of course is bananas the most radioactive food that we eat because of the potassium in it potassium has an isotope which is radioactive and and it's also delicious all right brazil nuts have a high degree react now the radiation level in here is low enough that we don't really have to worry about it too much unless you're like really really neurotic which i am but not in that way because i like bananas all right um there are these little teeny particles going around and you know it was interesting that the laboratory where i i worked did a lot of the pioneering work in the space program and back in the in the late 1950s actually 1958 they were involved in launching the first united states satellite it was called explorer one and before explorer one everyone thought that when you get up above the atmosphere it's just vacuum up there all right and i told people where i worked that my perception of space was vacuum that's it little did i know it is so much more complicated as to what's going on there okay have any of you ever been to a place where you could see the aurora the northern lights no oh pictures um one of the greatest boondoggles i ever went on in my life excuse me yeah yeah alaska you could see them or for those people who come from the southern hemisphere like this casita chefello's sitting over there um the uh the southern lights by the way the northern lights and southern lights are symmetric what one is doing the others doing in the opposite direction at all times they're caused by radiation from the sun coming in and being guided by the magnetic fields we were launching a satellite studied the northern lights and another guy and i were looking at videos of them and the um head of our branch came in while we were looking at these videos and as a joke i said to him we really need to go up to alaska and see them in person you know this is no good and he said to us he says that's a good idea because i know tom hallinan at the poker flats observatory just outside of fairbanks and i can arrange for you to go there you really should go in a couple of weeks during february when there's no moon and so on fill out the travel papers i'll sign them and we said oh thank you very much and he left the room and we looked at each other he went [Music] you never saw travel papers filled out so quickly and they were magnificent and my first night in fairbanks i went to what does a jew do when they go to a new town they go to a supermarket find food and i go there and of course you plug in i'm sorry you plug in your car because if you don't plug in your car heater the engine here the engine freeze so you plug it in and i go to i'm crossing the um the parking lot and i look up and ah the aurora and i always thought it was you know i knew i'd seen pictures of it not moving i thought it would move slowly oh it's flashing and moving and zipping and everything and i'm like and people going about their business you know not paying any attention to it because oh yes you're original um and i said they developed like we do in our life when we see a mountain we develop an immunity to awe when you see something very often and that's the way they were the wonders of this well the the oh and by the way during one of the long nights at the observatory there which by the way when it's 50 degrees below and the bathroom the observatory is not working and you have to go out and use the bushes and again when it's 50 below it's a serious matter but anyway we did blow soap bubbles and they freeze and you can pick them up very very cool very cool literally cool so this fellow tom hallinan calls me over to his his office in the observatory and he has a file about this stick and he wants to talk about his theory of who the parrot was at the time of your cs mitsurayam and he says a lot of people have it wrong it was really mernepta i mean i don't know from their nepta you know and he pulls out this file with all of his research over the years about the movements and why was it that at that time they they switched the capital from the goshen and therefore they switched the capital of the goshen suddenly they were afraid of the jews who were living by gosha and we had all these theories and he spent like a couple of hours with i was fascinating and finally when he closed the file and he says the greatest thing about this research is nobody could ever prove whether you're right or wrong all right it was his hobby so it was fascinating but what is the greatest practical threat facing the united states at this time all right well i i think i'm doing okay i'm wise in 1850 okay let me go back a little bit i mentioned that space is not a vacuum it has electrical fields in it the aurora is caused by radiation particles mainly electrons but also protons coming from the sun and when they hit our atmosphere they make it glow and we are protected by a lot of radiation by our atmosphere every once in a while there's what's called a magnetic storm that takes place a storm in space usually caused by an eruption of particles from what they used to call a solar flare and now they call it a coronal mass ejection coming towards us in 1851 there was a man named oh begins with the sea carruthers that's not right i forget his name and he observed a solar flood what carrington very good he observed the carrington flare which was the first that anyone really observed and it caused a magnetic storm at that time there were not a whole lot of electrical wires in the united states but there was telegraph and it created currents in the wires that were so strong that they caused fires like telegraph stations caught fire because of this there was a similar magnetics not similar a smaller magnetic storm and uh in canada early part of the 21st century i don't remember the year every year it was and it burned out a whole lot of the electrical grid in uh in one of the canadian provinces i went to a meeting on solar weather on space weather you by the way you can you can look on the web just look for this for the the website space weather and to tell you what's going on in space weather on that day and people trying to predict it it has been estimated that if a flare of the magnitude of the carrington flare occurred nowadays it would burn out huge parts of our whole power grid and at the rate of production that we have of transformers it could take a decade not a decade it could take a year two years to bring it back up and they've decided that's the biggest credible threat facing the united states not if that happens but when it happens because it's happened before we just didn't have that grid at that time now since then power companies have been trying to harden their systems against that i went to that meeting about 15 years ago i don't know how the progress has been space weather particles coming in so the explorer satellite was launched up and all of a sudden it showed there was radiation and the people at the lab say space is radioactive space is radioactive they discovered what are called the now the van allen belts that allen worked at our lab and their belts of radiation around the earth and when the astronauts went to the moon they had to go through those and it was calculated that their radiation exposure would not be enough to be dangerous because they went through them but if they were orbiting in that belt they would it would kill them um the first task i had when i went to work was that we had certain navigation satellites and on a certain day all of the navigation satellites underwent small changes in their electronics the frequencies not enough to destroy them or prevent use in navigation just small observe and so these satellites are thousands of miles apart what caused them all to undergo these small excursions on the same day and they gave me that task well it turned out to be due to a solar flare all right that caused some radiation damage in them okay if that solar flare had happened during one of the apollo missions to the moon it would have killed the astronauts all right because of the radiation so this radiation is with us in space and now i'll turn this out without anything around and occasionally we will see it blip due to some radiation which is probably a cosmic ray coming in from somewhere out in the galaxy through this room right now through your heads through your bodies this has a very small sensor you know so it's not a very sensitive geiger counter but we see them coming in we are surrounded by radiation by these little invisible particles our our constant companions that we can't see can we believe in them you know i keep on thinking suppose a physician was in a time machine and went back oh early part of the 19th century um and went to to insist a assist in surgery caused being done by the one of the greatest surgeons of the day and the first thing that he would say is where do i scrub where do you what well i've got to wash my hands and everything he says you would do it because the body is filthy you know they used to wear aprons that were covered with blood and everything why get dirty you know with all this junk he said well no no no you don't understand there's little invisible germs that you can't see that are very dangerous what would the what would the surgeon have said you idiots get out of my operating room little little things you can't see they're doing is yeah what's the matter with you right different attitude nowadays all right same thing with radiation all right um marie curie madame curie was and and her husband pierre were the first ones to isolate radium and uh it was marvelous they didn't quite know how dangerous the radiation from it was marie curie's cookbooks are now kept in a lead container because i was reading uh the story of them and pierre her husband got a radiation burn and he was describing it he was you know it's doing this it's doing and i was reading and reading all the progress of what happens to it and then of course he got hit by a carriage and he was killed so i never found out what happened with it they didn't know how dangerous it was i don't know if anyone in this room is old enough to remember going to a shoe store and putting your feet in the x-ray machine the floor scope but i loved going to the shoe store when i was a boy because shoe stores had fluoroscopes which were x-rays and you could i could look in and wiggle my toes and see them and they would do this so the mother could see if their shoes fit nicely all right we don't do that nowadays i do wonder if anyone and i've never seen anything about this has done an epidemiological study on the owners of the shoe stores to see what happens the radiation we do know that the um radium dial watches that the young women who painted them would would use their mouths to straighten the brushes and everything and the rate of cancer in in these in these women was was extremely high right um so yeah we have radiation all around us right now it comes from our bodies too i mean if you ever ate a banana in your life some of that potassium is still in your body all right and it's still irradiating you what can you do about it nothing it is not true that if you have the banana with sour cream that it shields you from the radiation okay i just want to i just want to point that out so there again is something that we can't see that pervades space let me tell you something else which is neat we know about particles like protons and electrons and neutrons right it was 1932 i think that chadric chadwick discovered the neutron something like that really really cool stuff well enrico fermi predicted another kind of particle which has since been detected and it's called a neutrino not a neutron but a neutrino neutrinos are very very small when i was going to school it was believed they had no mass and that they traveled at the speed of light we now know that they do have mass and therefore they can't travel at the speed of light but they're almost at the speed of light they have almost no mass their mass is no bigger than one millionth of the mass of an electron but it may indeed be very very very much smaller okay neutrinos uh we now know there are three kinds of neutrinos electron neutrinos mu neutrinos and neutrinos when i was in school there was only one kind all right why do i say this because when they use the word science in the media and they use this a lot with regard to things like climate change and covet and all these things very often they'll capitalize it because science is the truth right and if you go against it you're going against the truth except that it's always changing and people who read the media the majority of the people don't know that don't know that science is tentative all right um anyone in the medical field knows that you know what what's going to what's going to be in 10 years all right and things like that when i was a kid any time i got sick with the fever the doctor came doctor used to come to the house the doctor would come give me a shot of penicillin all right whatever it was your fever you get penicillin that's it um not quite nowadays because we learn things about what antibiotics can breed you know resistant bug i mean it's you know it's it's really complex someone told me there was a simulation they used when they were in medical school about that called bugs and drugs does that thing still exist it was a learning tool for antibiotics and microbes bugs and drugs anyway um the science changes all right um when i was in school the universe was about uh 12 billion years old i think now it's 13.5 all right i don't know what's going to be next year all right and so well it'll be 13.5 plus a year you know but um it changes and a scientist is a person who is constantly evaluating and perhaps changing even dearly held theories all right i don't want to get into this but just to tell you we know there's a force of gravity unless you read einstein's 1917 paper of general relativity where he shows there is no force of gravity it's an illusion and it comes about because space and time are curved now if that boggles your mind as it does mine i've never been able to see it intuitively it just comes out of the mathematics and it's beautiful mathematics very complicated it changes our most deeply held theories change so let's go back to neutrinos and here's someone calling me yeah it's an 05 it's an o5 camry how much for the warranty okay i'll get it anyway people don't realize that the first you all know that alexander bell invented the the telephone the first thing that he said was mr watson come here i want you people don't realize that the second thing said of the telephone was would you like to borrow a warranty on your car okay so these neutrinos are with us and the electron neutrinos are produced by the sun and it loses energy by putting out these neutrinos a physicist named george gamma called this the akka process akka was a casino that he lost a lot of money in and he said what better name for a process that makes the sun lose energy than the akka process and it spews out these neutrinos now neutrinos interact very weakly with matter matter of fact they'll go right through the earth so even at night we are irradiated by solar neutrinos how many as i speak to you right now through every inch of your skin every second there are passing approximately 400 billion solar neutrinos right now your brain is experience a flux of trillions of solar neutrinos you know roughly 400 billion for every square inch of your surface right now even at night because they come right through the earth we can measure them because they occasionally interact with matter they built a solar neutrino detector they put it deep in a mine so nothing else but neutrinos could get there and i don't know it was like a swimming pool filled with sized tank filled with some sort of cleaning fluid that occasionally has the atoms interacting you can see flash of light or something like that and they i don't understand the whole thing so the solar neutrinos are going through your brain right now you can't stop them nothing you can do so there is something surrounding us constantly that we can't see we can't hear we can't taste but it's real are these mazikin well they're certainly not as far as we know but they begin to wear down on our prejudice against things that go flitting about that we can't see or hear or feel plastic lots of things are plastic it has been discovered recently probably within the last 10 years that at the microscopic level plastics as they weather and wear down give off produce little teeny what are called nano particles that are too small to be seen even by a light microscope the you know electron microscope you can see these little teeny mono nano particles of plastic and they fill this room right now they went up on the pyrenees nice pristine mountain air and they found you know thousands of of of particles not plastic monocle plastic nanoparticles coming down on every square meter each day they're in our food these nanoparticles we eat them and they come into our batter bodies and they pass the blood brain barrier so you have plastic nanoparticles in your brain right now very teeny ones are they dangerous we i honestly don't know i don't know what little things do what happens if it gets into a synapse or to a nerve or something i don't know i don't know nobody seems to know we've never found that there's any danger from it but it certainly would be wise to try to not make more apparently in the pacific ocean there is an area hundreds and hundreds of miles across of floating plastic waste right just from things people have thrown away we talk about the environment well yeah you know it's really uh john kerry uh reacted to the invasion of the ukraine as saying that it is tragic because it will take people's attention away from climate change and that the fighting will increase the emissions of carbon into the air okay uh we all have our thing all right um his thing is environment you know more important perhaps than people there are people who feel that way all right um the world is changing the environment is changing hashem is letting us know we are not in control i think one of the reasons people are so upset about climate change and by the way i worked one of my bosses with a climatologist and he did his phd thesis on long-range global warming and he said as far as he was concerned it was real but there's no evidence that it has a human cause it could be just one of these cycles in climate that has happened throughout history all right we don't know but little by little hashem is letting us know that we're not in control and i think one of the things behind the people who are so like john kerry so driven by climate change is they can't accept the idea of things beyond human control okay if it's there we should be able to if there's something wrong we should be able to fix it all right everyone said oh yeah we'll come up with a vaccine well hashem we did i haven't done that for hiv all right grades not every problem has a solution in human terms but we still haven't found anything which is more like the spiritual world so i only have 10 minutes left but i'd like to ask you the following question where is cyberspace what is cyberspace it's a abstract concept isn't it you can't say cyberspaces here or there or there people talk about cyberspace it's not physical right a philosophical concept perhaps is cyberspace real oh yeah that's part of it that's part of it but the internet the internet itself the web the web the web the web is part of cyberspace yeah the web is part of cyberspace okay yeah is the cyberspace real it certainly is can you see it touch it perceive it no does this real thing that that has no physical reality to it affect our lives daily all right you know used to be i got a check i would go to the bank to cash it i don't do that anymore i'm going to take my phone zip zip zip deposited the check right goes through cyberspace all right if there is a third war this is all speculation but the russians are very good at cyber attacks and biden gave putin not not just time a few some time ago before all this happened a list of 15 things in american infrastructure that he said you know please don't attack these in cyberspace because we really need them all right um in other words here's where you should attack i don't want to go through all this now i'm not a politician but um could there be a world war in cyberspace yes could it be real yeah could it be damaging hospital very very much but where is cyberspace you don't see it you don't feel it as no physical reality it's just a real thing one of the hasidah shirabayim once said why were movies invented he said movies were invented so that people should learn that things can be recorded what they do can you can make a record of what a person did and therefore you know i always say what is one of the biggest surprises that some um politically um leftist people get after 120 years when they stand before the based in shalmala and they say what there never was a right to privacy right it's all been recorded it's all there i have to tell the aclu about this all right we should learn that that's possible so it was given to us this rebbe said as a muscle that we should realize that and become sensitive to it and and the muscle that that like you sometimes is what happens after 120 years when a person goes before the base in shalmala what happens to them in the next world and the ola mishamas asi lavo those are all terms that i'm not going to distinguish between them because i don't know how to do it but one of the mashalim that is given is everyone experienced the same thing whether the person's attack rush it's the same thing they experience and what they're shown is their life like a marshal a movie of their life with everything they did and subtitles of what they were thinking and along with them being shown it it is shown to all their friends relatives and the whole rest of the world to some people that's wow look what they're going to see about my life and others just oh and the pain that they feel that this is the ownershi all right there's a marshall all right and then the other part of the marshall is that then sown shown a second movie and that is what their life could have been if they had done certain things differently and that for many is a more painful experience but again that the movie is like a muscle for i was speaking once and there was a man in the audience who just turned white as a sheet and he came up to after me and he said i saw the movie and i said what happened he was a terrible accident he was in a kona coma for a very long time he was not a religious person all right he told me that he says but what happened was that while he was in the coma he said he he saw that he was in a certain place and angels were attacking him his words i was i was fiercely attacked by angels and there was one angel that was defending me and i couldn't do anything as the attack came and came and came he says and then they showed me my whole life and it was the movie that you just described and he said and at the end of that i saw a beautiful beautiful building and there were many men with long beards very wise-looking men going into the building and i wanted to go in and they said you can't go and then after that he came out of the coma okay that's what he said to me all right you can do with it what you wish but the idea that we got movies to teach us something will we learn from them i don't know um why have we gotten covid to learn that we're not in charge it's been hard on people for lots of reasons and one of them is there's some insidious thing that we can't see that they're telling me is dangerous you know and so on and so forth and it is and people have died and they are dying still hashem it seems you know that the latest peak is waning now let's learn who's in charge and now what about cyberspace another muscle that we are given i believe for the spiritual world that there is something that you can't see you can't touch it isn't any place it's not physical but it's with us all the time it's affecting us daily it can be extremely destructive it doesn't have to shut down our power plant to be destructive i mean you can read something that's destructive is that a muscle for us about the spiritual world so to a physicist someone trained in physics is it possible that there are something like mazikin which flit about can't see them can't touch them but they have real effects in the world can a physicist believe something like that well i don't know what they are in the world of physics in the world of computer science i don't see anything that matches what they're called but to put a veto on the belief that oh no we're we're physicists we don't believe things we can't measure you know they they don't exist you're surrounded by by little 400 billion billions hundreds of billions of particles going through my brain right now oh i don't feel anything right yeah stop them it's there it's known now to be very very real cyberspace the muscle for the spiritual world is very very real yes could you say that cyberspace is just the the presentation the gui in front of whatever is residing on the computers where they do the processing of it well suppose we say that all right first of all that what i see on the computer is is a display of information which i would say is coming through cyberspace all right my perception of it but the cyber space aspect of it itself you know you get into the cloud well the cloud is a bunch of computers and everything and so forth they made this one that one the cloud is still not it's still not cyberspace it's something that you access through cyberspace cyberspace is the whole concept that i interact with this space of whatever it is daily i don't know what's ever come up with that real definition of cyberspace all right it's hard to pin down just like the olam rouhani the the spiritual world is not something we can pin down or understand i mean it's there it happens i was talking with someone about mazel not mozallos maltolos you know and so forth other things but mazel does does mazel exist do people have different muzzle as a physicist i would say that's ridiculous as a person who's lived a good number of years i would say i know people who have some people just have certain type of muscle in their life psychologists would say oh they created i don't know i don't know we would say that there's there's something that comes to us from that that higher space all right here we're talking about constellations and they've affected them that's a subject though that well that's masalos mazzolos when we say mazolos that's what we mean the masalas the constellations whole other subject whole other subject that i don't want to talk about i just want to talk about these as the model you know individual mods a person has some i know someone that everything he does something goes wrong it's always going wrong with him you know he'll buy an appliance you know and a week later it's broken and then they say oh this is the one of the things that's not covered by the warranty you know and he's just he's just used to this all right it's the way his life goes um so what about things the the spiritual world can a person who's raised to be as a as a um as a physicist really believe that there is a spiritual world that we can't measure that we can't touch and i would say absolutely nothing i said is a proof that it exists all right but neither is it a proof that it doesn't exist or neither is it to say that physics excludes this from existing all right proving it exists so on and so forth you need to go further to talk to people who are rebutting the ku volume so and so not my field okay you want to understand how a pulley with two weights on it moves when you let go of them that i can do for you you want me to explain how my life is phys is is being constantly affected as it is right now but what's by what's happening in the spiritual world i can't do that except to say to you it's real and if there's any questions or whatever i would be glad to take the reactions bob thank you very much if anyone would like to take home something that's radio