In the first half, noted producer, writer, and director Paul J. Davids discussed his 'Life After Death' project, which included paranormal investigations and a séance at the mansion of the late Forrest J. Ackerman, a pioneering science-fiction promoter, who promised to try and communicate from the beyond if he could. Indeed, strange phenomena, including apparitions, had been observed at Ackerman's former home since his death. Among those gathered for the 4-day investigation were the late Rosemary Ellen Guiley, medium Susanne Wilson, psychic Jamie Clark, and Dr. Gary Schwartz, as well as two professors in primate biology at the University of Arizona: Dieter and Netzin Steklis. During the stay, Wilson reported inexplicable intrusions into her bedroom, and Guiley suspected 'shadow' entities may have been involved.
During the séance, which began during daylight, Wilson sensed a number of deceased entities in the room, the couch that some were sitting on began to vibrate, and EMF meters were triggered, Davids recalled. Wilson was also able to retrieve fascinating information from Ackerman during the séance, including little-known details from his life. Davids shared details about a new UFO documentary he worked on, as well as the extraordinary revelations from whistleblower David Grusch. He also touched on the spiritual rejuvenation he experienced through a shaman in Sedona, Arizona.
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Writer and broadcaster Marcus Chown was a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He shared key concepts about some of our time's most important scientific ideas, including gravity, black holes, special relativity, and the Big Bang. Chown recalled how at age sixteen, Einstein mused that you could never catch up to a beam of light, and this led to the development of his theory of relativity. Regarding the Big Bang, Chown noted that over 99% of the light that exists in the universe is part of the afterglow of this primal explosion. And with the recent launch of the James Webb telescope, we can now observe time periods that are very close to the Big Bang and see how the galaxy began to congeal out of the debris, he enthused.
He pointed out that every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its core and that some of them are fifty million times the mass of the sun. Black holes are mysterious in their origin and have been detected just 500 million years after the Big Bang, he added. Chown believes that extraterrestrial life is a certainty given that there are some two trillion galaxies, each with about 100 billion stars and planets even more plentiful. He talked about how the force of electricity is billions of times stronger than the force of gravity, but electricity can only be released when you create an imbalance of electrical charge. Interestingly, the concept of an atom was first proposed by the Greek philosopher Democritus in 440 BC when he said that there must be a tiny part of matter that is indivisible.
News segment guests: Lauren Weinstein, Steve Kates