Physics and Beyond—A Conversation with Jack Sarfatti

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In a wide-ranging two and a half hour conversation with Danny Jones, physicist Jack Sarfatti, (@jacksarfatti here) discusses the nature of consciousness, UFO propulsion, messages from artificial intelligences in the future, quantum entanglement and signalling, the origins of the Strategic Defense Initiative, San Francisco in the 1970s, Gilbert and Sullivan, Uri Geller, and encounters with physicists, moguls, spooks, and the mighty.

For background on Sarfatti’s career, see David Kaiser’s 2011 book, How the Hippies Saved Physics. For information on Sarfatti’s current thinking and more recent career, see David Gladstone’s 2023 book, The Great Race: Physics, Paranormal, Time Travel, UFOs. The WARP Reactor [PDF, 35 pages], now being studied at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the U.S., incorporates Sarfatti’s ideas of modifying gravitation via engineered metamaterials.

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There is a second episode, a bit shorter but also over 2 hours. I sucked it up and watched the entire ~5 hours. Not much physics in this interview, but a lot of apocryphal anecdotes and a glimpse into the life of an ivy league educated self-proclaimed wunderkind struggling to be taken seriously in an underworld of spooks and stupid schmucks. Jack is a sincere and fascinating guy with a lot of interesting things to say, but he’s a horrible salesman. I think I can understand his struggle to be taken seriously, and even relate to it on some level.

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