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🗓️ 2 August 2016
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Part 2 of What is the cosmic microwave background? What causes those bumps and wiggles? What does it tell us about the early universe, and the universe we have today? What does the universe have to do with a tuba? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!
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0:00.0 | You know what time it is. It's time for Ask a Spaceman. I'm your host, Paul Sutter. You've got questions and I've got answers. You know how the show works, but let's start from the beginning. You go online to Twitter, |
0:21.5 | Facebook, use the hashtag, Ask a Spaceman, all one word. Otherwise, the hashtag doesn't work. I will dig up |
0:27.9 | those questions, find them out in the social media wilderness, and corral them and domesticate them |
0:34.8 | and train them to become answers. That's right. You can also follow me |
0:41.1 | directly on Twitter and Facebook. My name is Paul, Matt Sutter. You can also go to askaspaceman.com. |
0:47.1 | You can also email Ask a Spaceman at gmail.com. You can also put questions on YouTube comments. |
0:54.0 | You can also put questions on show comments. You can also put questions on show comments. You can also comment on show comments and YouTube comments. It's really, there are just so many roads to getting what this goal of the show is, which is complete knowledge of time and space. It's a very simple goal, very straightforward. |
1:12.5 | All roads lead to complete knowledge of time and space. And today's show is a continuation |
1:21.5 | of the extravaganza that we're having, the party, really the celebration uh that we're all having about the |
1:29.6 | cosmic microwave background that's right this is part two if you haven't listened to part one |
1:35.3 | and you're not a fan of mysteries i mean you're in control of your own life you do whatever you |
1:41.2 | want so if you just want to jump into part two and like halfway through figure out, try to figure out what in the world I'm talking about, you do that. |
1:50.6 | More power to you. |
1:51.4 | But if you haven't listened to part one and you'd like a little bit more background about the cosmic microwave background, background about the background, then you should go listen to |
2:02.7 | part one because that's the episode where I kind of set it up or I talk about the discovery, |
2:07.8 | the initial detections, and now I'm digging into the meat. Or if you're a vegetarian, I'm digging |
2:14.2 | into the potatoes, the tofu. I don't know. Whatever we're eating on this |
2:20.1 | dish, we're digging into it. We've got our utensils and we're going to feast. Just as a review, |
2:28.3 | I'd like to bring up the questions again, specifically that I got that kind of led to this extravaganza two-parter |
2:36.3 | possibly multi-parter i haven't decided yet we've got arlington terry by email wanting to know |
2:41.8 | all about the c mb why is it look so uniform shouldn't be stretched out would it erase any |
2:47.6 | differences over time we got jeffle jeffrey bar on Facebook. Why does the sun spin on the same |
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