The Physics of Evidence

The Physics of Evidence

By Shannon W. Bray
Michael Caine
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Length6h 10m

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The Physics of Evidence explores a critical question for the age of AI and autonomous machines: When software causes change in the physical world, how do we prove what actually happened? Shannon W. Bray builds from physics fundamentals—measurement, uncertainty, motion, force, energy, waves, electricity, optics, and sensors—into robotics, cyber-physical systems, AI agents, and independent verification. Through practical examples, the course introduces Evidence Architecture, a framework for preserving the chain from observation and authority through action, physical consequence, custody, and verification. Physics constrains what could have happened. Measurement establishes what was observed. Evidence Architecture preserves how we know. Independent verification tests what can actually be proved. Ultimately, the audiobook asks one deceptively simple question: What actually happened, and how do we know?

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Rating★★★★ 4.3 (11)
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GenreEducation and Learning, Science and Nature
Length6 hrs 10 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 14, 2026
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1The Physics of Evidence
2Chapter 1: The Robot Says It Moved
3Chapter 2: Every Measurement Has a Boundary
4Chapter 3: The Clock and the Coordinate Frame Can Both Lie to You
5Chapter 4: A Command Is Not a Displacement
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6Chapter 5: Which Way Is Forward?
7Chapter 6: Where Software Becomes Force
8Chapter 7: Follow the Energy
9Chapter 8: The Evidence Hidden in an Impulse
10Chapter 9: Rotation Changes the Evidence Problem
11Chapter 10: When the Sensor Mount Becomes Part of the Event
12Chapter 11: Pressure Is Measured. Depth Is Inferred.
13Chapter 12: Resonance Can Tell the Truth and Still Mislead You
14Chapter 13: Listening for Distance
15Chapter 14: Heat Leaves Evidence
16Chapter 15: Voltage Is Not Motion
17Chapter 16: Did the System Actually Receive the Energy?
18Chapter 17: From Current to Torque
19Chapter 18: The Radio Message Was Authentic. Was It Current?
20Chapter 19: A Camera Does Not See Truth
21Chapter 20: How Reality Becomes a Number
22Chapter 21: When Several Wrong Sensors Agree
23Chapter 22: The AI Is an Actor, Not the Sole Historian
24Chapter 23: Intended, Requested, Attempted, Executed, Achieved
25Chapter 24: Consequence Custody
26Chapter 25: When the Logs and Reality Disagree
27Chapter 26: Design the Evidence Before the Experiment
28Chapter 27: Instrument the Entire Actuator Chain
29Chapter 28: Mobile Evidence Lives in Six Degrees of Freedom
30Chapter 29: Two Sensors Are Not Necessarily Two Witnesses
31Chapter 30: Build the Evidence Object Without Changing the Evidence
32Chapter 31: What Can the Independent Verifier Actually Say?
33Chapter 32: Prove What the Machine Did
34Chapter 33: What Actually Happened, and How Do We Know?

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