Episode 108 - Drs. Larry Price, Jamie Rollins and Janna Levin

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

Jessecase, Comedy, News, Mattkirshen, Standup, Andywood, Science & Medicine, Science, Brookswheelan

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2014

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

To help us make sense of the biggest cosmology story of recent years, we invited three of our favorite physicists back to the show. Matt and Jesse are joined by an in-studio Dr. Larry Price, and, thanks to technical wizardry, NYC-dwelling Prof. Janna Levin and a Washington State-based Dr. Jamie Rollins, as they talk us through The Big Bang, what Inflation means, what this BICEP2 experiment did, whether it's important, what the Asian guy with the champagne meant when he said “It's five sigma at point two” to the Russian man and woman in that viral video, what was going on with that colder-than-absolute-zero story we didn't understand last week, whether academic journals are glory hunters, how multiverses fit in with this Inflation thing, and what we should take away from the whole story. And Andy missed all this to make sure a TV show about skaters getting hit in the testicles got made.

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0:17.4	That was awesome.
0:18.1	Larry!
0:19.3	That was the first professional physicist to read our advert.
0:22.6	I've got a future.
0:23.6	Probably science.
0:24.6	Before we get into the main show, I'm Matt Kirshund.
0:39.3	That was Dr. Larry Price, who you're going to hear a lot more from later.
0:42.7	I'm joined by Jesse Case.
0:43.7	Hello.
0:44.1	Andy is stuck at work.
0:47.8	We have a few people to thank, right?
0:49.0	We have a few people to thank, and we didn't have time to do it in the body of the actual episode,
0:53.0	because we had, as you'll hear, we had people skyping in from around the country and it was quite tricky to
0:59.1	uh to get that all together and we didn't want to waste their time by doing that while they were
1:04.4	spending their valuable time calling from the east coast uh but uh firstly um from over a week ago, Rebecca Thornhill, who tweets and often tweets
1:16.6	as good stuff.
1:17.3	Super fan Rebecca.
1:18.7	Yes.
1:19.2	Goddamic Kitty, at Goddammock Kitty, she's a medical imaging physicist in Canada, and she's
1:24.9	donated.
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