Ep. 598: How You Could Overturn Cosmology

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

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🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 598: How You Could Overturn Cosmology by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay You've probably heard of dark matter and dark energy, but maybe you don't fully understand what they are. Or maybe the idea itself just rubs you the wrong way and you'd like to know why scientists think they can just make stuff up like this. So you'd like to overturn cosmology? Here's all you need to do.

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0:00.0	A Stimicast episode 598, how you could overturn cosmology.
0:13.2	Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos, where we
0:16.9	help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.
0:20.4	I'm Fraser Kane, publisher of the universe today with me is always his Dr. Pamela Gay,
0:24.2	a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmicost.
0:28.4	Hey Pamela, how you doing?
0:29.8	I am doing well.
0:30.8	How are you doing, Fraser?
0:33.0	Did I mention that I'm over the pandemic last time?
0:38.8	I'm still over.
0:39.8	Yeah, my husband had to go get COVID tested today.
0:43.5	So good times.
0:44.8	Yeah, yeah.
0:45.8	Yeah, I discovered in my kids' school, it's rampaging on the island.
0:51.4	And yet, there's like all of this amazing vaccine news.
0:56.4	And then it's also all this sort of scary, variant news.
1:00.4	Yeah.
1:01.4	So it's, yeah, it's just like it's no longer the action adventure.
1:05.3	Now it's just reality surviving.
1:09.6	Yeah.
1:10.6	It's what it would be like to move to Mars.
1:13.8	In the beginning, you'd be like, woohoo, I'm on Mars.
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