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For our latest video on Geodesics, we built a fun Blender tool for transforming a circle sector into a cone -- it's free and available to anyone on our Patreon page!  https://www.patreon.com/dialect_philosophy  

The tool lets you customize numerous aspects of the cone, including size, height, and degree of extrinsic curvature introduced. You can also continuously transform between Cartesian/Polar coordinates on the surface of the cone, or, if you know your way around Blender a little, you can use your own custom material/image, to see how the introduction of a little extrinsic curvature alters it.

We also built a tool for graphing geodesic paths on any given 2D curved, which we might make more user-friendly and put out if there's any interest. Lastly, if you haven't seen the video on Geodesics yet, make sure to check it out!  https://youtu.be/m6WY6VtPYrk 

Announcing the 2025 Conference for Physical and Mathematical Ontology, being hosted in conjunction with  ‪@IndependentPhysics‬  from June 21st - June 22nd, in Munich, Germany!

With mainstream physics academia languishing in stagnation & crisis, it's time to turn to the underrated brilliance of independent free-thinkers, such as Chantal Roth  ‪@redpill6313‬  , James Ellias  ‪@Inductica‬  , Henry Lindner, Donald C. Chang, and others, to start getting some real answers. Interested in participating or knowing more information? Contact us at dialectinformation@gmail.com, or independentphysicsresearch@gmail.com. Thank you! 

Who was the first individual to explicitly write down E = mc^2 in its modern form, consequently implying mass-energy equivalency? 

Pop Quiz on Rotational Motion! 

Relative to a coordinate frame in which an object A is at rest, object B is perceived to be moving in a circle with constant angular velocity around object A. If no other context is given to this situation, then the force responsible for object B's motion is:

(If you found this question difficult, consider checking out our video on Rotating Coordinate Systems!  https://youtu.be/pD9NxA1aV7E ) 

Seems only a short while ago we were a small channel with just a few hundred subscribers making low-budget, off-kilter and poorly-received videos about the twin paradox in our spare time. Well we don't know how it happened, but somewhere between then and now y'all found us and made this channel into something greater, more profound and more rewarding. 

Indeed it's been the continual support, encouragement, feedback and gratitude from you, our viewers, that has shaped, and will continue to shape, the evolution and destiny of this channel. While our mission remains, as it always has, to get to the bottom and truth of things, we appreciate all your patience, suggestions, compliments, critiques and criticism (and the criticisms most especially! For they are the perennial whetstone against which all arguments are sharpened and refined) that have gone into the mutual participatory effort that is this YouTube endeavor.

Indeed, half our ideas and arguments are shamelessly borrowed from viewers who generously leave their thoughts in the comment section beneath our videos, so in a literal sense it is really you who continues to drive this channel. And we hope you will continue to do so in the future! 

So thank you all. Now get us to a million subs and maybe there'll be an admin reveal in it for you  👨‍🎓 👀 

I believe the ultimate nature of Time is... 

What do you believe to be the ultimate nature of length contraction? 

The time has come. Length Contraction -- thy nature shall be known.

Ten months ago, after presenting our "sound-clock" model of time dilation on YouTube, we shortly thereafter became convinced of the necessity of the physical reality of length contraction. Indeed, just as time dilation had a compelling, simple, wave-dynamic interpretation, we reasoned, might not length contraction also have one?

Seven months ago, after presenting "The Loophole" video and demonstrating that the relativity of simultaneity was merely a result of clock synchronization convention, we realized that the contraction of space itself was also descriptive convention -- leaving only the contraction of physical objects themselves to be accounted for.

Four months ago, in presenting "Matrix Theory" we determined that, although one could never be certain how much of the observed contraction of a physical object was real and how much was coordinative, it was unquestionably motion with respect to the medium of propagation of light -- the "luminiferous ether" -- that caused length contraction, just as it caused time dilation. But while the physical cause of time dilation could be understood as a consequence of the source-independent velocity of light, how could length contraction be understood? What could possibly cause all objects, regardless of their physical constitution and make-up, to contract in the same way and same manner when subject to motion with respect to the medium of light propagation?

Then something happened which, to us, seems to be becoming a more and more regular occurrence as we progress through higher-level physics: we stumbled across some highly abstract, highly esoteric mathematics lacking in any solid physical interpretation. But these mathematics were different -- these mathematics did not invoke relative space or time in any fashion whatsoever and, when one used them, out popped something that looked extraordinarily like length contraction. Immediately we recognized the task ahead of us, and set about trying to understand and interpret the math in the most logical, concrete, and straightforward physical manner possible. And when we did this, the beginnings of something even more extraordinary than just the explanation for length contraction began to emerge.

Next Saturday, we are very excited to present and share this journey of discovery with you. The future is beginning to seem full of promise.

XOXO Dialect 

At the behest of various subscribers, we have opened a Dialect discord! Not being terribly knowledgeable about discord, our server is rather minimalistic at the moment, but for those of you who are interested in having more involved discussions about the various philosophical and physics-related topics on this channel, or who are simply interested in meeting like-minded individuals, feel free to hop on and start stirring up some trouble! And please feel free to provide feedback as to what you'd like to see on there. The link is below:

 https://discord.gg/dMkUc4R2 

Also, new video drops tomorrow! 

In case you missed it,  ‪@lukasrafajpps‬  put out another really great video dissecting and discussing our sound-clock analogy! His video includes some very valid objections to our model, such as addressing the differences which arise from having a longitudinal orientation of the sound-clock, as well as discussing the impact of time dilation upon elementary and atomic particles. An absolute must-watch!

Also, tomorrow we drop our next video! At almost 26 minutes in length, it's our biggest, boldest, most cinematic, most dogma-defying video yet! So get ready to follow the white rabbit...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q81_5...