Dream Engineering, the Proton Radius Puzzle, and an ALS Breakthrough (EP. 27)

From First Principles · Feb 26, 2026 · 2h 12m · transcript

Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode has three main stories: interactive dream engineering (yes, two-way “communication” during lucid dreaming), the proton radius puzzle finally getting resolved by a precision lab measurement, and a sobering but hopeful look at ALS—including a breakthrough “ALS-in-a-dish” model that could finally make drug screening translate to humans.

Summary

Dream engineering — targeted cues + induced lucidity → dream-content biasing and measurable next-day performance gains.

Proton radius puzzle — precision hydrogen spectroscopy resolves the…