meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

Can we see what's inside the electron?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

iHeartPodcasts

Astronomy, Physics, Science, Natural Sciences

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Daniel and Kelly explore the nature of of matter and whether we can crack it open without spending billions on bigger colliders

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

You're listening to an I-Heart podcast.

0:05.4

Hello, I'm John Lithgow.

0:07.2

We choose to go to the moon.

0:08.7

I want to tell you about my new fiction podcast.

0:11.8

That's one small step for man.

0:13.8

About Buzz Aldrey, one of the true pioneers of space.

0:17.8

You're a great pilot, Buzz.

0:19.7

That's the story you think you know.

0:21.8

This is the story you don't.

0:25.4

Buds, starring me, John Lithgow.

0:28.6

On the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:33.9

Music What's the point of building bigger and bigger colliders?

0:45.4

Other than the obvious fun and awesomeness of it all, it's a machine that opens up the subatomic world.

0:51.7

It's not just because we like to see things go boom, though of course we do,

0:56.4

but because we want to know what happens when you pull things apart. What's inside me? What's

1:01.7

inside you? What's inside everything? At the root of it all is a desire to dig as deep as we can

1:08.5

to the very nature of matter, to hope to reveal its inner workings

1:12.1

and understand how it all comes together to make our amazing, crazy, and delicious world.

1:18.2

Is the universe made of quarks and leptons and dark matter?

1:21.9

Or is it made of strings, or shmings, or badabings?

1:25.5

Right now we don't know, we might never know. Or one day we might build

1:29.9

a collider powerful enough to show us the universe's fundamental Lego bricks. Then we can turn

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.