Physics on the Joe Rogan Experience

8 fact-checked claims across 3 episodes · Jun 2019 to May 2024 · updated Jul 16, 2026

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  1. one g it would be way too slow to make an interesting scene so i I gave it to him. I said, I'll give you three Gs.

    Tyson claims he personally calculated the rotation rate for the space station in 2001: A Space Odyssey and told Stanley Kubrick to use three times Earth gravity for dramatic effect.

  2. It's 0.6 inches a year... in all of the planets in every solar system is drifting away from their primary at this same exact rate, like 1.5 cm. So this is a un…

    Howard claims Earth and all planets in all solar systems are drifting away from their stars at a fixed universal rate of about 0.6 inches (1.5 cm) per year, part of his 'Terryology' theory of universal expansion.

  3. 2004, Dermstadt, Germany, I think is where they first fabricated four atoms. It lasted 220 milliseconds. The atoms, it's nothing, right?

    Lazar claims element 115 (moscovium) was first artificially fabricated in 2004 in Darmstadt, Germany, producing four atoms that lasted 220 milliseconds.

  4. They noticed it on radar 60 seconds after it left Commander Fravor, but it was at his cap point, which is the next point he was destined to go to, 60 miles a…

    Corbell claims radar showed the 2004 Nimitz Tic Tac object traveling 60 miles to Commander Fravor's next patrol waypoint within 60 seconds, implying a speed of roughly one mile per second.

  5. They've been going in the wrong direction. 96% of physics is unknown matter that they've had to make up to account for it.

    Howard claims 96% of physics consists of made-up 'unknown matter' invented to patch over gaps in the standard model.

  6. But it never got, no matter what the load was on the reactor, it never got above the ambient temperature, which is impossible. I mean, you're pulling out huge …

    Lazar claims the alien reactor he studied at S4 produced huge amounts of power without ever generating waste heat above ambient temperature, in apparent violation of the laws of thermodynamics.

  7. So there was, there were radar that was picking this, these things coming down from 80,000 feet dropping to 50 feet in less than a second.

    Corbell claims radar tracked the 2004 Nimitz Tic Tac objects descending from 80,000 feet to 50 feet in less than one second.

  8. Element 115, the fuel they had, was stable. In other words, it didn't decay, it wasn't emitting radioactivity

    Lazar claims the element 115 he worked with at S4 was a stable, non-radioactive isotope used as an anti-gravity fuel source.