Ep. 583: The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

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🗓️ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 583: The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay This year's Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three brilliant researchers who worked out some of the secrets of black holes. Today we're going to talk about the chain of discoveries that led to this award.

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0:00.0	A timing cast, episode 583, the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.
0:13.0	Welcome to the Astronomy Cast, our weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos, where we
0:16.1	help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.
0:19.4	I'm Fraser Kane, publisher of the universe today, with me as always is Dr. Pamela Gay,
0:23.4	a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmic
0:27.8	Quest.
0:28.8	I'm doing well.
0:30.6	How are you doing, Fraser?
0:32.6	I am doing great.
0:36.8	This, you know, I'm sure all of you were just like absolutely glued to the television
0:43.1	just a couple of days ago watching the Asyrus Rexland.
0:46.4	I know you did a big live stream of it.
0:48.6	Yes.
0:49.6	Absolutely amazing to see the sample collection.
0:53.8	I am eagerly awaiting the spin maneuver during which we'll use the spacecraft's moment
0:59.5	of inertia to figure out how much material they vacuumed up.
1:06.5	And then we know if they go and try to do this the second time, or if they just head on
1:11.7	home.
1:12.7	Yeah, yeah.
1:13.7	Absolutely incredible.
1:16.1	So for people who like you watched it, you watched the simulation of what it was supposed
1:21.2	to look like.
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