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JWST’s “Little Red Dots,” TimeVaults, and the Dawn of Math (EP. 23)

JWST’s “Little Red Dots,” TimeVaults, and the Dawn of Math (EP. 23)

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Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode runs from JWST’s “Little Red Dots” (and what they imply about early supermassive black holes), to a TimeVault method for recording gene expression over time, to 8,000-year-old Halaf pottery that may encode geometric sequences — plus a quick Cloud9 follow-up on the “starless dark-matter halo” debate.


Summary

  • JWST’s Little Red Dots — why these compact red sources don’t behave like normal galaxies or quasars, and how an ionized-gas “cocoon” model could reconcile the data.
  • TimeVaults — a genetically encoded “vault” that protects RNA long enough to capture time-series biology, not just snapshots.
  • Math before numbers — Halafian motifs that appear to follow geometric sequences (4–8–16–32–64) and what that suggests about early cognition.
  • Cloud9 update — what new data would actually settle RELHIC vs. “dark galaxy.”


Show Notes

  • JWST “Little Red Dots” (Nature)
  • TimeVaults (Science)
  • Halaf pottery + prehistoric mathematical thinking (Journal of World Prehistory)
  • Cloud9 / RELHIC follow-up (arXiv)
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