AaS! 47: What's the universe made of?

Ask a Spaceman!

Paul M. Sutter

Astrophysics, Science, Cosmos, Holes, Black, Astronomy, Natural Sciences, Universe, Cosmology, Space, Physics

4.8 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

What’s the universe made of? How is this connected to its age? What’s the connection between dark matter and dark energy? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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Hosted by Paul M. Sutter, astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, Chief Scientist at COSI Science Center, and the one and only Agent to the Stars (http://www.pmsutter.com).

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0:00.0	Hey, before I start today's episode, I've got a little message.
0:04.7	I want to have a conversation with my fans.
0:07.7	Well, maybe fans is too strong of a word.
0:11.2	Listeners?
0:12.4	Space cadets?
0:14.0	I really don't know what to call you.
0:15.8	How about people?
0:16.5	Just my people.
0:18.1	I want to speak to my people.
0:20.7	If you're interested in the science, just go ahead and
0:23.3	skip ahead like five minutes or whatever, or just sit around, listen, because I've got something
0:28.1	cool to tell you before the episode officially starts. It's been about two years since I first
0:35.3	started this crazy adventure that we call Ask a Space Man.
0:40.2	And recently, I was approached for the very first time by an advertiser to, they wanted
0:46.9	to sponsor the show.
0:48.2	And that was really cool.
0:49.4	That was a big deal because it means enough people, you being the people, are listening to the show that an
0:56.8	advertiser actually thought it would be worth it to pay me money for them, for me to talk
1:02.3	about how awesome their product is.
1:04.5	And it was a fair offer.
1:07.3	It was an incredibly fair offer.
1:09.5	It was a very relatively lucrative offer. And it an incredibly fair offer. It's a very, uh, relatively lucrative offer. Um,
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