The Alternate Truth: Recent Episodes
Chitresh Gehloth
Have you ever come across a situation when you thought that something was true but after some investigation, you find that it cannot be true? Confused? you should be, you have just encountered a PARADOX, a self-contradictory statement. Somewhere between your investigation you fell in love with paradoxes and want to know more about them. Lucky you, you are in the right place, this show is all about Paradoxes. The host Chitresh Gehloth, a guy with a curious mind and eagerness to learn new things, takes a paradox each week and tries to explain it to the listeners.
Since the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the total number of countries having nuclear weapons has only increased. You might expect the use of these weapons to bring hell on Earth, but it hasn’t happened. Ever wonder why? In this episode, Chitresh Gehloth explains the Stability-Instability paradox.
Artificial Intelligence is slowly taking over the world and we are becoming increasingly dependent on AI. But the AI that we see in the movies is far away. In this episode, Chitresh Gehloth explains Moravec’s Paradox and also gives the answer to the question, why is AI so stupid?
TIME is an ever-flowing unstoppable force of nature. TIME is perhaps the biggest mystery of modern science. In this episode, Chitresh Gehloth explains the concept of TIME from Newton to Einstein and to ongoing efforts to explain TIME.
Have you ever gazed at the night sky and wondered who else might be out there? Out of billions and billions of planets, why does it seem like we are the only intelligent species? Where are all the aliens? Is it worth looking for life elsewhere, when we have our own problems to deal with? In this episode, we take a look at these questions and try to answer them.
In this episode, Chitresh Gehloth explains Bootstrap paradox, Wormholes and time travel, which are perhaps the most popular topics among science fiction writers. In this episode, you will get to know why time travel to the past might not be possible. Also, we take a look at Wormholes and how we can use them for time travel.