Study of the Heavens: a History of Chinese Astronomy

Transcript of a lecture given by Cynthia Chung at ‘The Universe, Creativity and You‘ Symposium. We live in a strange time. Many have forgotten the power of imagination and are instead bogged down with the reality of ‘practicality’. The reality of ‘the budget’, and the reality of ‘what is deemed useful and what is deemed…

Humane Development: Towards a Science of Progress

Too few among today’s citizens understand the elementary connection between energy and population potential, and fewer still realize that there is such a thing as a scientific approach to economics which both respects the creative freedom of the individual while also obeying fundamental laws of nature. In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Sam Labrier introduces…

Islamic Roots and al-Khwarizmi’s Algebra

On Sunday June 25, 2023 The Rising Tide Foundation hosted a lecture on universal history and science titled ‘Islamic Roots and al-Khwarizi’s Algebra’. In this lecture, professors Pascal Chevrier and Kevin Champagne introduced the contours of history that shaped the islamic renaissance and which was in turn shaped by this renaissance movement. Special focus was…

What does LIGHT tell us about the INTENTION of the Universe?

Is light a particle or a wave? Is it both, or is it something more? In this presentation, Rising Tide Foundation director Matthew Ehret revives the fight between the two opposing schools of science featuring the Cartesian ideologues and materialists on the one side and the creative minds of Kepler, Fermat, Huygens and Leibniz on…

Reviving the Lost Art of Pythagorean Thinking [RTF Lecture]

In this final presentation of the Rising Tide Foundation symposium ‘The Earth’s Next 100 Years’, Matthew Ehret introduces a potent method of thinking embodied in the figures of Plato, Pythagoras and Timaeus of Locri in Ancient Greece. We trace the work of Pythagorean thinking from the famous Timaeus dialogue, which introduced a rigorous hypothesis of…

Kepler’s Platonic Revolution – A new workshop series begins

On May 3, 2023 The Rising Tide Foundation weekly study group began to work through the metaphysics of the astronomer Johannes Kepler by beginning book 4 of his Harmonies of the World (downloadable here) which saw Kepler introduce his devotion to the Platonic method that lay at the heart of his revolutionary discoveries. As we learned…

Uncovering the Secret History of the Metric System with Fehmi Krasniqi

In this second part of a series of Rising Tide Foundation interviews with researcher Fehmi Krasniqi, we explore the forgotten ancient origins of the metric system, which involves a multifaceted debunking of the fiction that this scientific method of measurement emerged out of the French Revolution and instead review the evidence pointing to the physical…