By Matthew Ehret On February 8, 2022, Nobel Prize winning virologist Dr Luc Montagnier passed away. An this essay will discuss an important aspect of Montagnier’s contribution to human knowledge which has fallen under the radar of too many analysts and citizens, which I believe he would want to be remembered by. What is Optical…
Category: Science history
Are We Destined to Act on the Future? Optical Biophysics as a Teleological Approach to Science
In this 2013 lecture, Rising Tide Foundation director Matthew Ehret presents an introduction to the scientific discoveries that shaped our understanding of matter, electromagnetism and how the revolution in field theory gives us a better way to observe how systems of non-living, living, and cognitive matter are organised by future states of existence. By investigating…
Alexander von Humboldt’s Cosmos, New Translation into Spanish
By Dr. John Plaice Last weekend, walking in the Candelaria, the beautiful historic center of Bogotá, I entered for the first time the Librería Siglo del Hombre La Candelaria. I immediately spotted Descripción de China, Giuseppe Marino’s Spanish translation, published in May 2023, of the first volume of Matteo Ricci’s Della entrata della Compagnia di Giesù e Christianità nella…
Mathematicians, Musicians and the Music of the Spheres
By Dr. Quan Le The Chinese ‘Four Books’ are the epistemological treatises of the Confucian School. The Five Books (or ‘Five Classics’) are the cultural legacy of the Ji Royal House aka the Zhou dynasty (1046-256 BCE) Less known in the West are the Ten Classics of Mathematics. The Nine Chapters of the Mathematical Art…
Local Motion or Action-at-a-Distance: The Permanent Debate [RTF Lecture with Dr. John Plaice]
With the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century came the understanding that the same scientific laws govern events in the heavens and on Earth. With this change of outlook came a new problem: How can bodies that are very distant from each other mutually affect their respective motions? Broadly, two points of view have confronted…
The Fourth Phase of Water – Beyond the Three You Already Know (RTF Lecture with Dr. Gerald Pollack)
This Sunday Oct. 15, The Rising Tide Foundation was proud to host Dr. Gerald Pollack- who’s pioneering work on the Fourth Phase of Water is among the most important and under-appreciated fields of research in science today. The lecture, Dr. Pollach’s biography follow below followed by links to his books Speaker Bio Gerald Pollack received…
Towards a Culture of the Noösphere: Gigantic Shadows of Futurity Part II
By Aaron Halevy Life on Earth has faced many extinctions in its past. These extinctions are recognized to be on a scale of magnitude at least as big as our galaxy. What force could oppose such an immense fate? So far no life on Earth has figured out the solution to avoid such a crisis….
The Trans Geopolitical Roots of Space Exploration
By Matthew Ehret In these days of profound uncertainty, it is comforting knowing that certain fundamental truths still exist and serve as guiding lights through the dark waters. Among the highest of those fundamental truths are those enunciated in 1967 by Reverend Martin Luther King who ruminated over the dangers of imperialism and nuclear war…
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…
Towards a New Study of Planetary Science: Expansion Tectonics 101 [James Maxlow RTF Lecture]
What evidence exists to demonstrate the constant radius of the Earth and is there evidence pointing to a more dynamic model of planetary geometry? In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, delivered as part of the Science Unshackled Symposium, Professor James Maxlow, an expert in expansion plate tectonics lays out an incredible argument with empiricle evidence…