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Episode 27 told you WHY to question consensus physics. Episode 28 actually starts doing it. Jonathan Drake and Polymath, a formally trained engineer who had his physics worldview shattered on 9/11, dive into the oldest unresolved debate in science: is reality made of particles or a medium? They break down atomism versus ether theory in terms any curious person can follow, and introduce a deceptively simple test for evaluating any scientific framework: can it explain, or can it only predict? From quantum mechanics' ever-expanding cast of fictional particles to magnets doing things no particle theory can account for, to lightning, river watersheds, and Lichtenberg burns all drawing the same picture, this episode lays the actual groundwork for a series that promises to go deep. Spoiler: if your best defense of your theory is that nobody can understand it, that is not a defense.