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🗓️ 2 February 2017
⏱️ 96 minutes
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00:00:00 - Usually whenever you want to make up nonsense that sounds plausible, you throw in the word 'quantum'. We're all guilty of it from time to time. Fortunately, we have Ben Tippett here to explain the actual quantum happenings behind our first observation of quantum distortion in empty space. You can read the paper on the arXiv here.
00:27:19 - Extra long drinks segment because there's just so much to talk about! Ben's perfect memory of every previous episode fails him just this once when he has the Swedish holiday soda Dryck Julmust, just like Ryan already had on episode 234. Silly, Ben. Ryan is feeling ambitious, so he drinks an entire Galaxy from Funkwerks. Jacob, an adult with stuff to get done mixes a meal with his caffeine by giving Coffiest from (probably not using people as an ingredient but still suspicious) Soylent a try.
00:45:45 - When you think of radar, you probably think of green blips signaling enemy aircraft, but Google's ATAP group has just announced Project Soli, which aims to put a microchip with radar sensors in your phone so you can make things happen just by moving your hands around. Jacob thinks it's a big deal, and he's usually right about these sorts of things so listen up.
01:08:36 - ben has donation from Peter P. (@vituanpeterphan), who also supports The Titanium Physicists because he's a doubly awesome dude. Thanks, Peter! Jacob is up next with a story from Joe S. about a thruster that seems to violate the laws of physics. DOES IT?! You'll have to listen to find out. Ryan winds things down with a quick correction regarding chlorophyll from episode 254 sent it by Paul K.
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Music for this week's show:
Collapsing Stars - The Mountain Goats
Enter Galactic (Love Connection Part I) - Kid Cudi
The Hardest Button To Button - The White Stripes
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0:00.0 | I like that Ben's nightmares are I might be slightly late for a podcast recording. |
0:05.6 | Like it's not, you know, in school in my underwear. |
0:08.8 | From science sort of.com, you're listening to science sort of. |
0:26.2 | You're listening to episode 257. |
0:29.1 | I'm your host, Ryan, and joining me to talk about things that are science, things that are sort of science, and things that wish they were science. |
0:34.2 | Centered around the theme of small moves is my co-host Jacob. |
0:39.6 | What's up, PaleoPunks? |
0:41.7 | And my other co-host, Ben. |
0:43.3 | Good evening, everybody. |
0:44.9 | This week, we are starting off talking about what happens when you're stuck in the |
0:50.4 | magnetic field of a neutron star, which I think is something we can all relate to. |
0:54.2 | It's like we've all been there and experienced the quantum weirdness that occurs therein. |
0:59.0 | But a new discovery was made about just such a situation, and Ben is going to tell us more about it. |
1:04.7 | All right. |
1:05.3 | Okay. |
1:06.3 | Does music start before the thing? |
1:09.4 | Do we have to break for a second? |
1:11.2 | No, do you want? |
1:12.0 | I mean, do you want music in the background of you talking just so it sounds more like. |
1:15.0 | Oh, yeah. No, I do. |
1:15.9 | I do. |
1:16.2 | I do, yeah. |
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