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Jimmy’s Notes on Episode 46: Daniel DiManna vs. ‘Gamera Super Monster’

Looks like Episode 46 should’ve been called, “Jimmy From NASA: Silent but Deadly.” Except the “deadly” part was before the broadcast and the “silent” part was during it.

I spent many hours filling out paperwork with Raymund Martin at the office of the Monster Island Legal Action Team because of this. Thankfully, with the help of Mr. Martin’s paralegal, Gary Steward, I’m happy to say that a court case won’t happen. Danny was too happy with his new toy to press charges or file lawsuits, anyway.

So…Gamera: Super Monster. I think Nate needed my banter to keep him from losing more of his mind, but Danny deprived him (and you, listeners) of it. That was easily the most unhinged he’s ever gotten on the air. I should’ve brought him some Jack Daniels.

Now for the part you came to read: my notes on the episode. I had plenty of time to jot them down since I was under Danny’s vow of silence.

  • In my defense, I figured Danny would love riding the pteronadon-bot again, and he’s surprisingly resilient given he survived the fall into the ocean. Maybe Nate was unintentionally right about him being Superman with a Beta Capsule?
  • Should my job feel threatened that Nate handled himself remarkably well without my help? No, because he needs someone to push his figurative and literal buttons. Plus, our viewership would drop because sometimes I get more love than him. 😛
  • I can’t find what karate level Mach Fumiake achieved (story has it she got a blackbelt, but that was after she made this movie), but she did become a champion pro-wrestler in AJW. I even found one of her matches on YouTube!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp59WwS1IbA
  • That RX7 was beautiful. Mazdas are gorgeous. I had a 1980 Mazda RX7 back in the day. That’s why I was pissed when Zanon destroyed the one in the movie.
  • What can I say? I’m a sucker for women who know martial arts and can kick my @$$.
  • If you were any other man, Danny, I would’ve killed you for mocking Nick Adams! My laser pistol is kept in a secret drawer in my producer booth.
  • Exploiting my past trauma…how very Sun Tzu of you, Marchand.
  • It’s “Gamera: Super Monster,” Marchand, not “Super Monster Gamera.” (But I doubt anyone cares).
  • I let Danny win. I knew he was faking. I just enjoyed taking a mini-vacation. 😉 Besides, like I said, I have giant robots I built myself in my garage.

Here are Nate’s leftover notes:

The Movie

  • Nine planets: eight now, apparently. (There are NINE planets. You can’t convince me otherwise. –Jimmy)
  • “Resistance is futile.” Good grief, I hope TNG didn’t get that from this! (At least the Borg did it better than Zanon. Small comfort? –Jimmy)
  • I thought about splicing in clips of all the previous episodes I’d done for the Year of Gamera, but I decided not to because it was easier—maybe?—to just broadcast about it. (I could’ve done it if I wasn’t so busy in my garage off the clock. –Jimmy)
  • Oh my gosh, Kenny! You play better than you sing!
  • How is it that only one guy saw the Spacewoman transform and teleport? (I got nothing. –Jimmy)
  • This “Gamera March” gets old quick. (That’s because it’s not from my movie. 😛 –Jimmy)
  • The time of day transforms with the Spacewomen. (Beautiful women can do that, especially when they’re henshin heroines. –Jimmy)
  • Don’t you hate it when your henshin attack gets interrupted by villains too smart to let you do it? (All the time. 😛 –Jimmy)
  • I don’t feel any stakes in this stock footage. I barely feel any stakes in the new footage!
  • When your ringtone sounds like an oily spring. (It might’ve been recorded in my garage…. –Jimmy)
  • Keiichi is stupidly trusting of strangers.
  • Giruge, high heels on a beach doesn’t sound like a good idea. (For once, I have to agree with you, Nate. –Jimmy)
  • If this is actually in the same universe as the previous movies, Gamera is having a lot of déjà vu. “History repeating.” And Zanon can resurrect and control kaiju. How is he having this much trouble conquering Earth?! (You’re complaining, why? –Jimmy)
  • Kilara conveniently opens a portal to Keiichi.
  • “One more chance” is never “one more chance” with Zanon—because he doesn’t understand the concept of numbers. (He went to the “gooder” schools. –Jimmy)
  • This movie is basically several episodes of a henshin hero show spliced together with spit and glue into a compilation movie with Gamera stock footage. (You might want to have it on Henshin Men, Nate. 😛 –Jimmy)
  • This movie just does whatever it wants without explanation. (Like me. 😛 –Jimmy)
  • So. Much. Padding!
  • Gamera jazz hands.

Commentary by Richard Pusateri

  • Says he likes Gamera more because of studying this movie?! (Some universities offer degrees in it. –Jimmy)
  • Likens tokusatsu to bonsai gardening: they know it isn’t real but appreciate the artistry of it and don’t see it as deceptive or trickery.
  • Argues that a movie doesn’t have to be good as long as it’s entertaining. (paraphrase)
  • “Space Macarana.” 😛
  • Toho = MGM, Toei = Warner Bros. Daiei = Universal
  • Could see this as a coda in a symphony or as a greatest hits album.
  • The wormhole recalls Godzilla’s Revenge.
  • The music in the “Dodzilla” scene might be emulating the theme from Son of Godzilla.
  • Jokes that Jackie Chan was Giruge’s stunt double.
  • Gamera vs. Barugon to the Shaft theme.
  • Jokes that Keiichi begging Gamera not to go to Shane.

Intro by August Ragone

  • “Previously on Gamera…”
  • A musical?

Galbraith

  • Claims the Dozilla clip was cut from the US version.

LeMay

  • Yuasa went on to direct episodes of Ultraman 80 after this.
  • This was sort of the inspiration for the 1995 Playdia video game Gamera: The Time Adventure.

Toku Topic: The Rise and Fall of Daiei Film (aka the Japanese Film Crash of 1970)

  • The Japanese Film Crash of 1970:
    • Films had to be leaner and more commercial, appealing to broader audiences. Genres like yakuza and “youth pictures” died. By 1970-1971, franchises like The Crazy Cats, Young Guy, Station Front, and the Boss were gone.
    • Genre films were being screened more at drive-ins and lowbrow theaters. Toho went from dealing with studios like Columbia and AIP to struggling “fly-by-night” companies.
    • There were several other trends that contributed to this:
      • People moved from the cities to the suburbs. This brought theater attendance down. Industrialization. Many theaters were closed because of this.
      • Foreign films started eating up ticket sales, and by 1975, they outsold domestic releases. It was hard to compete with big-budget Hollywood productions.

We did it! It’s uphill from here!

Since Nate survived (barely), Godzilla Redux continues next week with 1956’s Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, We’ll be joined by “the littlest gatekeeper,” Elijah Thomas of the Kaiju Conversation podcast. He’ll tell you who the “tru phans” are. Then, much to Nate’s excitement, he’s having the original Tourists return to start their journey through the Heisei Gamera trilogy with 1995’s Gamera: Guardian of the Universe.

Huzzah!

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Episode 46: Daniel DiManna vs. ‘Gamera: Super Monster’

Hello…kaiju…lovers…. The only reason this episode is long as it is because Nate’s guest, Daniel DiManna (creator/author of the Godzilla Novelization Project) is the most talkative introvert ever of all time. But even if “Danny Boy” was Superman with a Beta Capsule, he couldn’t save this week’s Year of Gamera movie, the infamous Gamera: Super Monster. This 1980 cash-grab from a barely-alive Daiei Film is easily the Guardian of the Universe’s lowest point. On paper, Nate should love this movie because it has three of his favorite things—spaceships, superheroes, and kaiju—but he doesn’t. From public access channel special effects to a nonsensical plot with everything but the kitchen sink to the truckloads of stock footage—this must’ve been a plot by the Board of Directors to break Nate. Meanwhile, Danny keeps MIFV’s intrepid producer, Jimmy From NASA, quiet by getting him to bet his Pteranodon-bot that he can’t interrupt them during the broadcast. The Toku Topic, fittingly, is the rise and fall of Daiei Film, the studio that introduced the world to Akira Kurosawa and Gamera but dug itself into a financial hole it couldn’t escape. It’s a crazy story, to say the least.

Before the broadcast, Nate and Jimmy are visited by the Board’s executive assistant, Ms. Perkins. She tells Nate that she made arrangements for him to interview Spacewoman Kilara from Gamera: Super Monster on MIFV, much to his chagrin, and then fangirls over her. But the more Nate asks Ms. Perkins questions about her past, the stranger she acts.

Listen to Nate and Travis’s spinoff podcast, The Henshin Men Podcast, on Redcircle.

This episode’s epilogue, “Interviewing a Superheroine,” was written by Nathan Marchand. 

Guest stars:

Additional music:

Sound effects, including some by InspectorJ and klankbeeld, sourced from Freesound.org.

We’d like to give a shout-out to our MIFV MAX patrons Travis Alexander and Michael Hamilton (co-hosts of Kaiju Weekly); Danny DiManna (author/creator of the Godzilla Novelization Project); Eli Harris (elizilla13); Chris Cooke (host of One Cross Radio); Bex from Redeemed Otaku; Damon Noyes, The Cel Cast, and TofuFury! Thanks for your support!

You, too, can join MIFV MAX on Patreon to get this and other perks starting at only $3 a month!

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This episode is approved by the Monster Island Board of Directors.

Timestamps:

  • Prologue: 0:00-7:47
  • Intro: 7:47-19:26
  • Entertaining Info Dump: 19:26-26:43
  • Toku Talk: 26:43-1:37:52
  • Henshin Men Promo: 1:37:52-1:41:08
  • Toku Topic: 1:41:08-2:13:12
  • Listener Feedback, Housekeeping & Outro: 2:13:12-end

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Jimmy’s Notes on Episode 45 | ‘Godzilla: The Series’ – ‘New Family’ and ‘DeadLoch’ (feat. Eli Harris)

I can neither confirm nor deny that I spent a sizable portion of my latest paycheck on aloe vera cream after getting burned in episode 45 by Eli Harris. He’s lucky he’s a paying Patron, or I would’ve tongue-lashed him right back. (Nate’s editorial: Whatever helps you sleep at night, Jimmy).

Now for what you actually came here to read: my notes on the episode. In between enduring some zingers, I managed to take a few. They were mostly responses to what Nate and Eli said as opposed to corrections. Kudos there, guys. But you won’t always be able to escape that. So, here’s what I jotted down:

  • That’s your best recommendation for a drink, Marchand? These are better: The Happy Moment, the Megalon Bomb, and the Plasma Spark. Although, my personal favorite is the Nick Adams Apple Cider.
  • Digimon is clearly superior to Pokémon—yes, because technology. I might even still have one (or three) of those virtual pet toys in my quarters. (Don’t judge me!)
  • I want an ejection button and seat for the guests’ chairs. I might even install one in the host chair, Marchand. I know George 3 has suggested I do that. After the episode 45 broadcast, it got more tempting. 😛
  • Don’t make me pull that EES lever, Marchand! I’ll shoot you into space myself! 😛
  • Or the show inspired the unmade Godzilla (1998) sequel? I’m sure they were in development relatively close together. This video from the Kaiju Masterclass online convention sheds some great light on it. It’s an interview with screenwriter Tab Murphy.
  • I could take Monique. Can she claim to have survived the (in)famous War in Space? I don’t think so! Next time I see her at the gym, I’ll challenge her to a sparring match. I’ll let you know how it goes. (Nate’s editorial: Badly).
  • I offered to have the H.E.A.T.-Seeker treated for rust, but Tatapoulos won’t do it. He says the boat would lose its charm if it was treated. Maybe this is my inner “car guy” talking here, but I have to disagree. Especially since you don’t want rust weakening your hull when you’re being attacked by a kaiju.
  • Randy Hernandez isn’t ready for my quips. You know firsthand, Nate.
  • Nate, that was the Titan Truth Podcast logo! How did you miss that?!

As required by my contact, here are Nate’s leftover notes from the episode:

“New Family, Part 1”

  • The Twin Towers are in the theme and some establishing shots. Awkward? (No. –Jimmy)
  • Pays very close attention continuity despite minor changes. Jamaica being Zilla’s first stop.
  • Nick’s attitude shifts even in this episode: from killing Zilla Jr. to studying it. More Toho-esque.
  • Zilla Jr. holds Nick like Kong does Anne. Almost eats him. Not because of fish smell? Acts like a dog—scratches door and walks in circle before lying down.
  • Animal didn’t know Nick was Audrey’s boyfriend?! (Can you blame him for forgetting? Remember the movie, man! –Jimmy)

 “New Family, Part 2”

  • There are some scaling issues. Sometimes Zilla Jr. is HUGE. (They went for drama and not realism, obviously. –Jimmy)
  • Zilla Jr. throws rocks like Showa Godzilla. He’s also clever and strategic. Thankfully, Zilla Jr. breathes atomic fire and is more durable. Survives landslide.
  • Establishes tension between HEAT and military.

“Deadloch”

  • Hugh Trevor. Pisces.
  • Funny how Monique yells, “Randy!” and Elsie yells, “Nick!” when they dive in to save them. (Two words: sexual tension. –Jimmy)

Notes on the Series

  • Godzilla is animalistic but smart enough to solve problems. He’s loyal to HEAT, but he has his own agency.
  • They had access to other Toho monsters outside of the “big three,” but they kept coming up with ideas for cool new monsters, so there was no room for them.

Nate shared all his Loch Ness Monster research. Hot damn!

Sadly, I don’t know if Nate will survive the next episode, even with guest Daniel DiManna in the guest chair. He calls it “the nadir of the Year of Gamera.” That would be Gamera Super Monster. Even with a pseudo-Star Destroyer and hot women in spandex, it’s a hard sell for me. Assuming Nate survives, we get back to Godzilla Redux with 1956’s Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, which will feature “the littlest gatekeeper,” Elijah Thomas of the Kaiju Conversation podcast. That’ll be interesting.

See you next week!

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Episode 44: The MSTies vs. ‘Gamera vs. Zigra’ (feat. Travis Alexander and Neil Riebe)

Hello, kaiju lovers! After calling in a favor at the last second to get a replacement guest, Nate sits down with Kaiju Weekly’s Travis Alexander and kaiju author Neil Riebe to discuss one of Gamera’s lowest points: Gamera vs. Zigra. Yes, before Jaws, the Friend to All Children battled a giant alien shark who couldn’t decide if he wanted to enslave humanity or eat them. Ziggy also has a bad habit of recruiting beautiful ladies as hench-people (your new PC term of the day), but they forget everything they knew before being mind-controlled—like that parading around in nothing but a bikini might not be the most inconspicuous disguise unless you’re in an exploitation film for kids. Let’s just say, Nate almost loses his mind in this episode. The Toku Topic is Kamogawa Sea World, because this movie is a terrible, overgrown commercial for the resort.

Afterward, Nate has to pull some Board-mandated overtime and is contacted in secret by Gary, Raymund Martin’s paralegal. Nate thinks he’s found a new friend in Gary in his quest to out the Board.

Listen to Nate and Travis’s spinoff podcast, The Henshin Men Podcast, on Redcircle.

Check out Neil’s books, I Shall Not Mate and Vistakill.

This episode’s epilogue, “A Secret Ally,” was written by Nathan Marchand with Michael Hamilton. 

Guest stars:

  • Damon Noyes as Gary

Additional music:

Sound effects sourced from Freesound.org.

We’d like to give a shout-out to our MIFV MAX patrons Travis Alexander and Michael Hamilton (co-hosts of Kaiju Weekly); Danny DiManna (author/creator of the Godzilla Novelization Project); Eli Harris (elizilla13); Chris Cooke (host of One Cross Radio); Bex from Redeemed Otaku; Damon Noyes, and The Cel Cast! Thanks for your support!

You, too, can join MIFV MAX on Patreon to get this and other perks starting at only $3 a month!

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This episode is approved by the Monster Island Board of Directors.

Timestamps:

  • Intro: 0:00-12:40
  • Entertaining Info Dump: 12:40-19:22
  • Toku Talk: 19:22-57:45
  • Advertisement: 57:45-58:24
  • Toku Topic: 58:24-1:15:05
  • Listener Feedback, Housekeeping & Outro: 1:15:05-1:32:26
  • Epilogue: 1:32:26-end

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Bonus Episode 8 – ‘Godzilla: Singular Point’ (feat. Kaiju Weekly)

By our powers combined!

In true Amalgam Comics fashion, The Monster Island Film Vault and Kaiju Weekly have fused to form a super-show (“Kaiju Film Vault Weekly”?) to discuss 2021’s next big tent-pole kaiju release, the Netflix anime Godzilla: Singular Point. Nate, Travis, Michael, and even Jimmy From NASA get into just about everything about this 13-episode series released worldwide June 24, from the characters to the monsters to quantum physics. This series proved to be somewhat divisive in the Godzilla fanbase as it aired weekly in Japan starting in March, and your intrepid hosts were just as divided. Who liked it and who loved it? Listen to learn the answer!

Nate was unable to share his research on quantum mechanics because this broadcast went long, so Jimmy posted it as a bonus Jimmy’s Notes on the MIFV website as a supplement to this episode. Hopefully, it enhances your appreciation of this experimental Godzilla anime.

Additional music:

We’d like to give a shout-out to our MIFV MAX patrons Travis Alexander and Michael Hamilton (co-hosts of Kaiju Weekly); Danny DiManna (author/creator of the Godzilla Novelization Project); Eli Harris (elizilla13); Chris Cooke (host of One Cross Radio); Bex from Redeemed Otaku; Damon Noyes, and The Cel Cast! Thanks for your support!

You, too, can join MIFV MAX on Patreon to get this and other perks starting at only $3 a month!

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This episode is approved by the Monster Island Board of Directors.

Timestamps:

  • Intro: 0:00-4:50
  • News: 4:50-28:16
  • Toku Talk/Main Topic: 28:16-2:16:13
  • Housekeeping & Outro: 2:16:13-end

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BONUS Jimmy’s Notes on Quantum Mechanics (for KW Episode 80/MIFV Bonus Episode 8)

The special crossover broadcast between MIFV and Kaiju Weekly on Godzilla: Singular Point went long. So long, in fact, Nate wasn’t able to share his research on quantum mechanics. Their “Amalgam Universe” fusion wasn’t quite absolute. Well, I should say he wasn’t able to share our research. I did 97% of it since, you know, I worked at NASA. But as Nate said during the broadcast, he’s “the best three-percenter” we know. (I kid, by the way. Nate spent several hours researching, and he consulted with me and the other scientists on Monster Island).

So, as a supplement to this special episode (which will be out Wednesday on both the Kaiju Weekly and Monster Island Film Vault feeds), I’m presenting that research. I think it explains quantum mechanics pretty well for a layman and sheds a little light on Singular Point. It’ll hopefully make the series a bit easier to understand and increase your appreciation for it. Toh Enjoe, the screenwriter, is a former physicist, and that background is definitely apparent in this wonderful series.

Anyway, like I said, the episode drops Wednesday. Enjoy!

NOTE: All bullets in quotes are lifted directly from the listed sources. All others are paraphrases.

NOTE 2: Read Nate’s leftover notes on the series itself in another Jimmy’s Notes.

  • Sources:
  • Richard Feynmann, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics, said, “If you think you understand quantum physics, you don’t understand quantum physics.”
  • However, has helped us develop technologies like computers, digital cameras, LED screens, lasers, and nuclear power plants.
  • Basically, everything works with quantum physics.
  • “It’s right there in the name– the word “quantum” comes from the Latin for “how much” and reflects the fact that quantum models always involve something coming in discrete amounts.”
  • “Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory in physics that provides a description of the physical properties of nature at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles.[2]:1.1 It is the foundation of all quantum physics including quantum chemistry, quantum field theory, quantum technology, and quantum information science.”
  • “Classical physics, the description of physics that existed before the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, describes many aspects of nature at an ordinary (macroscopic) scale, while quantum mechanics explains the aspects of nature at small (atomic and subatomic) scales, for which classical mechanics is insufficient. Most theories in classical physics can be derived from quantum mechanics as an approximation valid at large (macroscopic) scale.[3]”
  • “In classical mechanics, objects exist in a specific place at a specific time. However, in quantum mechanics, objects instead exist in a haze of probability; they have a certain chance of being at point A, another chance of being at point B and so on.”
  • “Quantum mechanics (QM) developed over many decades, beginning as a set of controversial mathematical explanations of experiments that the math of classical mechanics could not explain. It began at the turn of the 20th century, around the same time that Albert Einstein published his theory of relativity, a separate mathematical revolution in physics that describes the motion of things at high speeds. Unlike relativity, however, the origins of QM cannot be attributed to any one scientist.”
  • The three principles of quantum mechanics, which gained acceptance between 1900 and 1930:
    • “Quantized properties: Certain properties, such as position, speed and color, can sometimes only occur in specific, set amounts, much like a dial that “clicks” from number to number. This challenged a fundamental assumption of classical mechanics, which said that such properties should exist on a smooth, continuous spectrum. To describe the idea that some properties “clicked” like a dial with specific settings, scientists coined the word ‘quantized.’”
      • “In 1900, German physicist Max Planck sought to explain the distribution of colors emitted over the spectrum in the glow of red-hot and white-hot objects, such as light-bulb filaments. When making physical sense of the equation he had derived to describe this distribution, Planck realized it implied that combinations of only certain colors (albeit a great number of them) were emitted, specifically those that were whole-number multiples of some base value. Somehow, colors were quantized! This was unexpected because light was understood to act as a wave, meaning that values of color should be a continuous spectrum. What could be forbidding atoms from producing the colors between these whole-number multiples? This seemed so strange that Planck regarded quantization as nothing more than a mathematical trick.”
      • “Planck’s equation also contained a number that would later become very important to future development of QM; today, it’s known as ‘Planck’s Constant.’”
    • “Particles of light: Light can sometimes behave as a particle. This was initially met with harsh criticism, as it ran contrary to 200 years of experiments showing that light behaved as a wave; much like ripples on the surface of a calm lake. Light behaves similarly in that it bounces off walls and bends around corners, and that the crests and troughs of the wave can add up or cancel out. Added wave crests result in brighter light, while waves that cancel out produce darkness. A light source can be thought of as a ball on a stick being rhythmically dipped in the center of a lake. The color emitted corresponds to the distance between the crests, which is determined by the speed of the ball’s rhythm.”
      • “In 1905, Einstein published a paper, “Concerning an Heuristic Point of View Toward the Emission and Transformation of Light,” in which he envisioned light traveling not as a wave, but as some manner of “energy quanta.” This packet of energy, Einstein suggested, could “be absorbed or generated only as a whole,” specifically when an atom “jumps” between quantized vibration rates. This would also apply, as would be shown a few years later, when an electron “jumps” between quantized orbits. Under this model, Einstein’s “energy quanta” contained the energy difference of the jump; when divided by Planck’s constant, that energy difference determined the color of light carried by those quanta.”
      • “Roughly two decades after Einstein’s paper, the term “photon” was popularized for describing energy quanta, thanks to the 1923 work of Arthur Compton, who showed that light scattered by an electron beam changed in color. This showed that particles of light (photons) were indeed colliding with particles of matter (electrons), thus confirming Einstein’s hypothesis. By now, it was clear that light could behave both as a wave and a particle, placing light’s “wave-particle duality” into the foundation of QM.”
    • “Waves of matter: Matter can also behave as a wave. This ran counter to the roughly 30 years of experiments showing that matter (such as electrons) exists as particles.”
    • These aren’t physical waves, though. It’s an abstract mathematical description. In other words, no one knows if it’s real because no one has seen a quantum wave. All we see is an electron particle. This barrier in knowledge between the quantum realm and our world is called a measurement barrier.
    • The Double Slit experiment: Think of firing a paintball gun at a wall with two slits. You expect to see two lines on the back wall thanks to the slits. Quantum wavelengths enter those slits and then split off into new waves, creating multiple lines.
  • “Also in 1927, Heisenberg made another major contribution to quantum physics. He reasoned that since matter acts as waves, some properties, such as an electron’s position and speed, are “complementary,” meaning there’s a limit (related to Planck’s constant) to how well the precision of each property can be known. Under what would come to be called “Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle,” it was reasoned that the more precisely an electron’s position is known, the less precisely its speed can be known, and vice versa. This uncertainty principle applies to everyday-size objects as well, but is not noticeable because the lack of precision is extraordinarily tiny. According to Dave Slaven of Morningside College (Sioux City, IA), if a baseball’s speed is known to within a precision of 0.1 mph, the maximum precision to which it is possible to know the ball’s position is 0.000000000000000000000000000008 millimeters.”
  • “In 1927, Paul Dirac applied a quantum understanding of electric and magnetic fields to give rise to the study of “quantum field theory” (QFT), which treated particles (such as photons and electrons) as excited states of an underlying physical field.”
  • “Since the breakthrough of renormalization, QFT has served as the foundation for developing quantum theories about the four fundamental forces of nature: 1) electromagnetism, 2) the weak nuclear force, 3) the strong nuclear force and 4) gravity. The first insight provided by QFT was a quantum description of electromagnetism through “quantum electrodynamics” (QED), which made strides in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Next was a quantum description of the weak nuclear force, which was unified with electromagnetism to build “electroweak theory” (EWT) throughout the 1960s. Finally came a quantum treatment of the strong nuclear force using “quantum chromodynamics” (QCD) in the 1960s and 1970s. The theories of QED, EWT and QCD together form the basis of the Standard Model of particle physics. Unfortunately, QFT has yet to produce a quantum theory of gravity. That quest continues today in the studies of string theory and loop quantum gravity.”
  • “There’s lots of places to start this sort of discussion, and this is as good as any: everything in the universe has both particle and wave nature, at the same time. There’s a line in Greg Bear’s fantasy duology (The Infinity Concerto and The Serpent Mage), where a character describing the basics of magic says “All is waves, with nothing waving, over no distance at all.”
  • “One of the most surprising and (historically, at least) controversial aspects of quantum physics is that it’s impossible to predict with certainty the outcome of a single experiment on a quantum system. When physicists predict the outcome of some experiment, the prediction always takes the form of a probability for finding each of the particular possible outcomes, and comparisons between theory and experiment always involve inferring probability distributions from many repeated experiments.”
  • “The mathematical description of a quantum system typically takes the form of a “wavefunction,” generally represented in equations by the Greek letter psi: Ψ.”
  • “In either class of foundational model, the probability of finding an outcome is not given directly by the wavefunction, but by the square of the wavefunction … This is known as the “Born Rule” after German physicist Max Born who first suggested this (in a footnote to a paper in 1926), and strikes some people as an ugly ad hoc addition.”
  • Einstein’s EPR paper and “entanglement”:
    • “The EPR paper argued that quantum physics allowed the existence of systems where measurements made at widely separated locations could be correlated in ways that suggested the outcome of one was determined by the other. They argued that this meant the measurement outcomes must be determined in advance, by some common factor, because the alternative would require transmitting the result of one measurement to the location of the other at speeds faster than the speed of light. Thus, quantum mechanics must be incomplete, a mere approximation to some deeper theory (a “local hidden variable” theory, one where the results of a particular measurement do not depend on anything farther away from the measurement location than a signal could travel at the speed of light (“local”), but are determined by some factor common to both systems in an entangled pair (the “hidden variable”)).”
  • “This was regarded as an odd footnote for about thirty years, as there seemed to be no way to test it, but in the mid-1960’s the Irish physicist John Bell worked out the consequences of the EPR paper in greater detail. Bell showed that you can find circumstances in which quantum mechanics predicts correlations between distant measurements that are stronger than any possible theory of the type preferred by E, P, and R. This was tested experimentally in the mid-1970’s by John Clauser, and a series of experiments by Alain Aspect in the early 1980’s is widely considered to have definitively shown that these entangled systems cannot possibly be explained by any local hidden variable theory.”
  • Quantum tunneling: when a wavelength passes through a barrier, is degrades. If the barrier is narrow enough, it may still exist on the other side. Protons have a chance of existing on the other side. We’re alive because of it. This is what makes the sun shine. Protons normally repel each other, but they have a small chance of tunneling, which turns hydrogen into helium and releases fusion energy.

Until next time, remember: #WeShallOvercome

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Episode 43: ‘Godzilla’ (1954) (feat. The Tourists) | Godzilla Redux

Hello, kaiju lovers!

By popular (and Godzilla’s) demand, MIFV is starting a new series on episodes on the Godzilla franchise called “Godzilla Redux”! It starts with the one that started it all, the 1954 classic Godzilla (aka Gojira) starring Akira Takarada, Akihiko Hirata, and Takeshi Shimura, among others, and directed by Ishiro Honda. Of course, such a momentous film and occasion required all four of the original Tourists, Nick Hayden, Timothy Deal, and Joe & Joy Metter. Unfortunately for Nate, there is way, way, WAY too much scholarship on this film, so it was overwhelming to research and difficult to condense it all down. Regardless, the roundtable discusses the U.S. Occupation of Japan, the Lucky Dragon No. 5 incident, and how Dr. Serizawa should’ve been a cool anime character, among other subjects related to this film. 

Check out Nick and Tim’s podcast, Derailed Trains of Thought!

Additional music:

We’d like to give a shout-out to our MIFV MAX patrons Travis Alexander and Michael Hamilton (co-hosts of Kaiju Weekly); Danny DiManna (author/creator of the Godzilla Novelization Project); Eli Harris (elizilla13); Chris Cooke (host of One Cross Radio); Bex from Redeemed Otaku; Damon Noyes, and The Cel Cast! Thanks for your support!

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This episode is approved by the Monster Island Board of Directors.

Timestamps:
Prologue: 0:00-1:11
Intro: 1:11-3:55
Main Discussion: 3:55-1:17:36
Housekeeping & Outro: 1:17:36-end

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Kaiju Weekly 074 – Pacific Rim: The Black (with Nathan Marchand) (Re-Upload)

Hey there, kaiju lovers! Like I did with the Monster Hunter review I did on the Forever Classic Podcast, I’m re-uploading this episode of Kaiju Weekly for any of you who missed it. While I experimented with a “Special Report” episode on season one of Netflix’s Pacific Rim: The Black, I couldn’t find time in MIFV’s schedule to make to make a proper episode on it. Then I had the chance to sub for Travis Alexander, one of the co-hosts of Kaiju Weekly, on their review of it. So, with their permission, I’m re-sharing it here. I highly recommend listening to Kaiju Weekly because it’s a fun and entertaining podcast, and the one in the kaiju community with whom I have the closest ties.

The original show notes:

We continue “Mecha May” with a look at the 2021Netflix anime series, Pacific Rim: The Black featuring returning guest and friend of the podcast, Nathan Marchand of The Monster Island Film Vault.

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Episode 40: The MSTies vs. ‘Gamera vs. Guiron’ (feat. Luke Jaconetti and Greg Meyer)

Hello, kaiju lovers!

We’ve reached the point where the “Year of Gamera” gets even goofier—and where Nate begins to miss seeing the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes even more. He’s joined by returning guest, Earth Destruction Directive host Luke Jaconetti, and newcomer/MSTie Greg Meyer to discuss Gamera vs. Guiron. The “Kennys” get more precocious and useless (Tom is dead inside). The monsters get more outlandish (Guiron is Knifehead, anyone?). And the villains get … shapely jumpsuits? Listen as Nate, Luke, and Greg connect this movie to Chronicles of Narnia and Barbarella, among other things, and muse about their favorite riffs from the MST3K episode. Nate’s descent into madness continues.

The Toku Topic is the First Traffic War in Japan. It may sound like a forgotten Transformers storyline, but it’s actually a time period when car accidents increased dramatically in the Land of the Rising Sun. Hence why Akio is obsessed with making a world “without wars or traffic accidents” in this movie.

Beforehand, Nate is visited by Jessica Shaw, his pseudo-sister clone, and she tells him she’s bringing Luke and Greg with her first tour group, who will then watch their live broadcast. Then afterward, the infamous Terran spacewomen, Flobella and Barbella, come to Earth to kidnap Gamera—but not if Monster Island’s own magical girl superheroine, Crystal Lady (aka Jessica), has anything to say about it!

Luke’s links:
Earth Destruction Directive on Two True Freaks
Twitter

Greg’s links:
Into the Speed Force
Children of the Wells (book series)

Guest Stars:
-Sarah Marchand as Jessica Shaw/Crystal Lady
-Sparkles Schreck as Flobella
-Hoshiko as Barbella

Prologue and epilogue, “Shine! Crystal Lady! Parts 1-2,” written by Nathan Marchand.

Music:
“A weird thing” by Chiro
“Transformation (Sailor Moon Remix)” by Vincent Lee
-“The Aliens’ Plan” by Shunsuke Kikuchi

Sound effects sourced from Freesound.org, including some by InspectorJ, and the Toho Foley library.

Special Crystal Lady sound effects created by J.P. Gant. Contact him for commissions on Twitter: @JPGant_UWSD.

We’d like to give a shout-out to our MIFV MAX patrons Travis Alexander and Michael Hamilton (co-hosts of Kaiju Weekly); Danny DiManna (author/creator of the Godzilla Novelization Project); Eli Harris (elizilla13); Chris Cooke (host of One Cross Radio); Bex from Redeemed Otaku; and Damon Noyes! Thanks for your support!

You, too, can join MIFV MAX on Patreon to get this and other perks starting at only $3 a month!

This episode is approved by the Monster Island Board of Directors.

Timestamps:
Prologue: 0:00-2:32
Intro: 2:32-12:13
Entertaining Info Dump: 12:13-20:04
Toku Talk: 20:04-1:13:13
Advertisement: 1:13:01-1:14:51
Toku Topic: 1:14:51-1:35:14
Listener Feedback, Housekeeping, & Outro: 1:35:42-1:53:32
Epilogue: 1:53:32-end

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