Barbara Ryden: A Teacher's Teacher (#206)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
Brian Keating
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I like playing chicken with each other. I do big bang nucleosynthesis. I talk about what the universe was like when it was only three minutes old. |
| 0:14.0 | I talk about bariogenesis. |
| 0:16.0 | I know what the universe is like when it was one second old. |
| 0:19.0 | And so everybody says, oh, I can go back further in time than you. |
| 0:24.6 | Observational astronomy at millimeter wavelengths. |
| 0:28.9 | They do tend to obsess about what we can see, |
| 0:31.5 | what we can measure, and from measurements and observations what can we deduce about what the early universe is like and I think the section in my textbook about inflation |
| 0:42.1 | sort of takes that viewpoint. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello and welcome to another thrilling episode of the Into the Impossible |
| 0:49.7 | Podcast featuring a renowned astronomer, Barbara Reiden, who is a teacher, an educator, a scientist, an astrophysicist, and a professor at the Ohio State University. |
| 1:03.0 | Her research considers the formation, shape, and structure of galaxies, |
| 1:08.0 | and she's written numerous books, |
| 1:10.0 | but the reason that I wanted to interview her is that I've been teaching a cosmology course for advanced |
| 1:16.8 | undergraduates at UC San Diego since 2006. I can't believe it. |
| 1:21.1 | We my 16th year teaching this class and by far the only book I've ever used |
| 1:26.7 | despite all the other options is Barbara's textbook and she's a little bit unusual in that there |
| 1:31.7 | aren't so many textbooks written by women in astronomy or in physics. |
| 1:37.0 | And so I think, and I claim, and I don't think I was refuted by Barbara, even that this was, is perhaps the most widely read book written by a female |
| 1:46.0 | physicist astrophysicist in her case that we use as a textbook and I think that's quite |
| 1:51.7 | an accomplishment. |
| 1:53.6 | It's not only, you know, because she's a woman, but because she's such a phenomenal writer. |
| 1:58.5 | She's hilarious. |
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