Gravitational Wave LIGO Spectacular!

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2016

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

One of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of our time calls for an emergency special episode featuring returning guests Dr. Jamie Rollins and Dr. Larry Price, both of whom worked on LIGO, the device that for the first time in history confirmed the existence of gravitational waves, along with theoretical astrophysicist and black hole expert Dr. Janna Levin. Topics discussed include Matt's surprising illness, science fluff, Marco Drago's discovery?, How LIGO works, 30 solar mass black holes, test signals, the actual paper explaining the recent gravitational wave findings, Janna's new book, Relativity 101, BICEP's failure, new black holes, Scorpion!, our T-shirts, Apple vs. the FBI and what the point of all this is.

Visit LIGO.org or LIGO.caltech.edu for all your gravitational wave needs!

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0:00.0	Should we start off with explaining what this episode is and how we're having one next week?
0:03.7	Yeah.
0:04.3	And how do you...
0:04.9	Do we even need to explain because it's such fucking big news?
0:08.7	Like, everybody knows, right?
0:10.1	They're going to turn in and be like, this show's obviously going to be about gravitational waves.
0:14.1	I'm including this.
0:15.0	Welcome to Property Science.
0:16.3	It's the gravitational wave LIGO special.
0:18.8	No, we're not going to tell you what it's about because it's too fucking obvious.
0:22.5	Probably science.
0:32.9	There's no other science news right now.
0:36.0	All other science has ceased. We've got some Jesse case news,
0:39.3	though. Jesse just tweeted for people of following Jesse's health news. He had his operation
0:44.0	today, and he just tweeted a minute or two before we started recording, post-op alive.
0:49.5	Amazing. Amazing. Amazing. Yeah. And he said that that was, that's, that's it.
0:54.5	Like that's, you know, aside from the possibility of something down the road, like he's, he's beaten it.
0:59.2	Right?
0:59.6	Like it's...
0:59.8	Well, I mean, like, with, with the possibility, many possibilities of it.
1:04.5	Of recurrence.
1:05.2	Recurring and that kind of thing.
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