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🗓️ 4 August 2015
⏱️ 41 minutes
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What is spacetime? What was the breakthrough idea that led Einstein to develop Special Relativity? Who was right: Newton or Maxwell? I discuss these questions and more in today's Ask a Spaceman!
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Keep those questions about space, science, astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology coming to #AskASpaceman on Twitter@PaulMattSutter and Facebook/PaulMattSutter for COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF TIME AND SPACE! Music by Jason Grady and Nick Bain.
Thanks to Lynn Stevenson and Gideon Koekoek for their generous contributions to support this podcast!
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0:00.0 | You know what time it is. It's time for Ask a Space Man. I'm Paul Sutter. You've got questions, |
0:16.3 | and in theory, I have the answers. You know how this show works, in theory, but I'm going to tell you anyway so you can put it |
0:26.0 | into practice. |
0:26.7 | You go online to Facebook or Twitter, use the hashtag Ask a Spaceman, and send some questions |
0:32.0 | my way, and I will pick ones to answer on this very show. |
0:36.6 | That's right. |
0:37.1 | I'll devote like a half hour |
0:38.8 | going into way more detail than you find necessary to answer your space question. You can also |
0:46.9 | ask questions by following me on Twitter or Facebook or also Instagram. My name is Paul |
0:53.1 | Matt Sutter, P-A-U-T-T-E-R-L-L-A-A-U-T-T-E-R. |
0:58.2 | Lots of T's in the name, but that's how it goes. |
1:00.3 | You can also send questions to Ask aSpaceman.com, the show website. |
1:05.3 | There you'll also find all the show notes and everything, so you can post questions underneath |
1:09.9 | the show notes, or you can shoot post questions underneath the show notes or you can |
1:11.6 | shoot an email to ask a spaceman at gmail.com we have one very simple goal in theory with this show |
1:20.0 | complete knowledge of time and space and on the road to that goal we have today's question questions really lots of |
1:33.9 | questions going on that packed into a single episode because I seem to get a lot of the |
1:37.6 | same kind of questions on this topic so I decided to jam them all in and you may |
1:43.6 | have guessed from my dropping of the word theory here and there that has to do with theory. |
1:49.2 | It has to do with scientific theory. |
1:51.3 | And the name of the show is what is space time? |
1:54.7 | You know, I advertise on the show complete knowledge of space and time. |
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