Ep 218: Science... sort of - Wrong in Space

Science... sort of

Brachiolope

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4.8 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2015

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 - Turns out our excitement of the detection of really old gravity waves was a bit premature, mostly because it didn't exactly happen. Ben explains. A duck appears. The next segment begins.

00:22:36 - Ryan kicks things off by going with a Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger from his local brewery Altitude (but don't expect to hear the song). Charlie complements with another bold IPA in the form of a Boot Toss from his local brewery Wander Brewing. Ben has a drink that has all the ingredients of beer, but isn't somehow.

00:28:47 - Tom from North Carolina calls in to ask how we can know that some water is older than the solar system? Because if water has memory than the homeopaths we wright and he just can't abide that. We explain the science, and assure everyone that homeopathy remains nonsense.

00:55:53 - PaleoPOWs are a lot like old water; probably fine but you can't help but feeling it's just off somehow. Ryan snuck his in the previous segment so Charlie charges ahead thanking Tom V. from the Netherlands who started a recurring donation. Thanks, Tom! And Ben fields a classic physics question from Michael about dropped objects in a vacuum.

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Music for this week's show:

The Background - Third Eye Blind

Our Work Is Never Over - Diplo

The Light And The Sea - Dar Williams

Transcript

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0:00.0	You can't put this on the podcast, you guys.
0:03.0	From science sort of.com, you're listening to Science Sort of.
0:16.1	You're listening to Science Sort of.
0:19.9	Our theme this week is wrong in space.
0:24.3	I'm your host, Ryan, and joining me to talk about things that are science, things that are
0:27.3	sort of science, and things that wish they were science, is the triumphant return of the paleo palo
0:31.8	legend, Charlie. Glad to be back on a hot seat in front of the mic. And Ben has finally had the opportunity to step out of his flesh bag and back into the computer and he is joining us. Hello, Ben. There's a lot more room now that I'm no longer in a flesh bag.
0:49.7	And Ben, you were very excited to tell us about this thing that happened in the universe.
0:55.4	Oh, yeah, that's great.
0:56.5	Okay, so March last year, it wasn't March when we received the episode, but March last year-ish, there was news from an observatory in the South Pole called Bicep 2.
1:10.6	They'd recorded data. They were looking at the polarization of the cosmic microwave process. in the South Pole called Bicep 2.
1:12.3	They recorded data.
1:15.3	They were looking at the polarization of the cosmic microwave background.
1:21.2	The polarization is so light comes in, hmm, light has a polarization to it.
1:23.0	We can talk about a little bit more about that later.
1:28.0	It comes in at a certain, well, at a certain angle, but it flies towards you, kind of like a frisbee flies towards you. It has an orientation as it moves towards you. And so, uh, so the Bicep 2
1:34.7	project was looking at this orientation and they were looking at the cosmic microwave background
1:38.3	because they were looking for evidence of an epoch of the, of the universe, the story of the universe that happened before the cosmic
1:47.5	microwave background was emitted they were looking for evidence of a time in the universe called
1:52.3	it called inflation okay so it was fantastic news they announced last march that i have a question
1:59.3	yes so we are told that the universe is
2:02.4	still expanding how is that different than inflating nothing the the the the air of inflation had a
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