315: Particle Accelerators

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2013

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Who knew that destruction could be so informative? Only by smashing particles together with more and more energy, can we truly tease out the fundamental forces of nature. Join us to discover the different kinds of accelerators (both natural and artificial) and why questions they can help us answer.

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0:00.0	This episode of Astronomy Cast is brought to you by Swinburn Astronomy Online, the world's longest running online astronomy degree program.
0:08.0	Visit astronomy.swin.edu.au for more information.
0:18.0	Astronomy Cast Episode 315 Particle Accelerators
0:23.0	Welcome to Astronomy Cast, our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos will help you understand not only what we know but how we know what we know.
0:29.0	My name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of the universe today and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and the director of CosmoQuest.
0:39.0	Hey Pamela, how are you doing?
0:40.0	I'm doing well, how are you doing Fraser?
0:42.0	Good, it's been for those of you listening on the podcast feed, it's been a few months since we've been recording but now we're back to our fall schedule.
0:50.0	It hasn't been a few months, it's been a month and a half.
0:54.0	Yeah, and now we're back to our fall schedule.
0:57.0	Yes.
0:58.0	And you've been teaching people in the class and teaching people through the podcastings.
1:06.0	Something like that.
1:08.0	Something like that.
1:09.0	So good, did you have a good summer?
1:11.0	Yeah, I went all the places.
1:14.0	Yeah, I know, you were in Europe, you were in New Zealand, I feel like I didn't go...
1:19.0	Oh, I went to the pinier Kate Expo and that's it.
1:25.0	I went to Dragoncon.
1:26.0	You went to Dragoncon.
1:27.0	Did you extract any audio from Dragoncon?
1:30.0	No, it turned out that astronomy cast got left off of the feeds and off of the schedule.
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