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🗓️ 15 May 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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What is the so-called “OMG Particle”? Where could it possibly come from, and how are magnetic fields involved? How can we detect these cosmic rays? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!
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0:00.0 | So first off, thank you to everyone for sticking through that multi-part epic saga of general relativity. |
0:14.9 | It was like for me, for me, I know it's not the longest podcast in the world, but for me that was like the |
0:19.8 | Iliad of podcast. It was just this |
0:22.0 | giant poem of, of this crazy battle of grappling with gravity and Einstein's struggle. It was, |
0:29.2 | it was great. And I could have gone on longer. There were like entire sections of my notes that |
0:34.7 | I got to. And I said, as I was reading it, as I was, I would get to |
0:38.6 | section of my notes and say, I'll just skip it. I'll just skip it because I know this is running |
0:42.2 | long. So I'd love your feedback because that was an experiment for me on longer multi-part episodes. |
0:46.4 | I know I've done two-parters before. That was the first time I've done a three-parter. It could have easily been a four-parter. I had way more material, so I'll just have to save that for a new episode. |
0:55.5 | It was an awesome journey for me. |
0:56.9 | I hope it was an awesome journey for you, too. |
0:59.0 | I would love your feedback. |
1:00.1 | If you'd like to see more of those multi-part episodes |
1:02.9 | or you like the single ones like today's, just let me know. |
1:06.6 | I'd love to hear what you thought of an episode series like that. But on today's topic, |
1:13.3 | because after a heavy meal, like, I don't know, all of general relativity, I need, I'm still |
1:20.9 | a little bit hungry, even though I have a giant greasy gut-busting meal, you know, |
1:25.3 | you have just, you want something sweet. You want just a little bit of |
1:28.6 | dessert to just top it off and to call it a night. And that dessert for us today, after the three-part |
1:35.5 | general relativity series, is a mystery, a high energy who'd done it. And the mystery begins on the night of October 15, 1991. It was a cool, |
1:49.3 | dry, dark in the desert, western Utah desert. And there, the University of Utah's fly's eye |
1:56.4 | cosmic ray detector saw a brief scintillating flash of light. |
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