4/5 Thursday Hour 2 - Garage Logic with Joe Soucheray

Garage Logic

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4.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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The Mayor spent the second hour today talking to Pat Kelly University of Minnesota's assistant professor of Physics and Astronomy. This is an interview you do not want to miss as he tries to explain to Joe the difference between distance and time as it relates to light years, not to mention the discovery Kelly made of the farthest star away from Earth.

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0:00.0	We're going to be joined by Patrick Kelly
0:02.9	You have him assistant professor of physics and astronomy. Hi Patrick. Hi. Oh, are you at work now at the you?
0:10.1	Yep. Yep
0:13.2	Okay, Patrick the reason we wanted to speak with you is
0:17.3	You're part of a team that found the star that's now the farthest away known to mankind. Is that correct?
0:24.3	Yeah, that's right. Yeah
0:26.6	Actually a hundred times farther away than the next most distant star. How far away is 9.3 billion light years?
0:36.2	Well, it's a long ways
0:42.2	All right, well, I hear you might be interested in the
0:46.4	Number of light years to wall drug in South Dakota. Well, that's that came up yesterday. Yeah
0:54.0	Anyway, so I I looked that up and so that's about a thousandth of a light second. So
1:01.4	You know so 9.3 billion light years is
1:05.6	Pretty far
1:07.6	Trillions of miles well, yeah, yeah, you know trillions really, you know the numbers really too big to say easily
1:14.0	But yeah trillions of trillions of miles, so
1:17.5	It's just it's about three quarters away back to the big bang
1:23.7	What if you get all the way back? What are you gonna find?
1:26.9	Well in the first you know, it's the University of Extremely
1:30.9	Extremely hot so like a big gas of you know, there are a lot of you know extreme extremely energetic particles running around and
1:40.7	You can't actually see all the way back because light can't travel through material that's that hot
1:47.0	Why were you looking for what is the star now called Icarus this farthest one away?
1:51.9	Did you find it by accident or have you been
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