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🗓️ 1 March 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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How did Einstein develop General Relativity? What does it mean for space to be curved anyway? And just how do these gravitational waves work, anyhow? I answer these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!
Follow all the show updates at askaspaceman.com, and help support the show at patreon.com/pmsutter!
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.
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0:00.0 | You know what time it is. It's time for. Ask a space man. I'm your host, Paul Sutter. You've got questions. And I've got the answers. You know how this show works, but let's run through it one more time for |
0:21.8 | the good old days. All right, you go online to Twitter or Facebook. Use the hashtag Ask a Spaceman, |
0:27.9 | all one word otherwise like the hashtag thing doesn't work. You send some questions my way. I'll |
0:32.8 | look for them. I'll pick them out. I'll answer them on the show. If you're not the Twitter or |
0:37.1 | Facebook kind of person, that's cool. You can go to the website, ask a spaceman.com. There, |
0:42.5 | you'll find some juicy show notes too. You can also email Ask a Spaceman at gmail.com, |
0:47.7 | or you can also find the show on YouTube. YouTube.com slash C slash ask a space man. |
0:54.2 | That's the thing. |
0:55.2 | Or just type in Ask a Space man and look for my face. |
0:58.3 | My face looks like this. |
0:59.3 | And if you don't know what my face looks like, well, then you're out of luck. |
1:03.2 | But you can go to P.M.Sutter.com. |
1:05.6 | That's my own personal website. |
1:06.8 | It has all my outreach stuff, all my shows, all the good stuff that you want. And we, uh, |
1:13.1 | we have a very simple goal with this show. I mean, it's so easy, a baby could say it, if babies |
1:19.5 | could talk. They would say we want complete knowledge of time and space. It's going to take a while, |
1:27.1 | but this is only episode 27. so, you know, we're, |
1:30.3 | we're making our way there. You know, maybe by episode like 5,000, we might get a little bit closer. |
1:37.1 | So we got a while to go. So on the way to complete knowledge of time and space, we have so many questions. Oh my gosh. So last week, |
1:48.1 | I'm recording this, by the way, on February 14th, 2016. I don't usually give the date when I record, |
1:54.6 | but this time it's important so you understand why I'm picking this topic. Just last week, |
2:00.4 | a scientific collaboration called LIGO announced that |
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