From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Nothing's changed.

There's all sorts of wild alien theories out there, Martians among them.

And so, you know, you think, oh, with all our sophistication, all our various outlets, this could never happen again.

Well, guess what? It really could.

This is your host, Scott Burjram.

Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network.

That was William Elliott Hazelgrove, author of the new book, Dead Air, the night that Orson Wells

Terrified America. We'll talk in depth with William about that book coming up later on in

today's program. First, we're joined by Dr. Paul Hosmer. He is chairman and associate professor

of physics here at Hillsdale College. Dr. Hosmer, thanks for joining us.

Thanks for having me. Talking about the year in physics in 2024. And one of the reasons that I think

this is useful and interesting is because it gives listeners a sense of the scope of physics and how it

touches so many places in our lives.

Yes.

I mean, I like to call physics the fundamental universal science.

So that's one of the exciting things about physics is that it's so general.

We get to talk about things from, you know, the smallest things that you can think of in the cosmos to the largest and everything in between.

So it's a really exciting science, and so there's a lot of stuff that's happened in 2024.

Not quite a top 10 list, but close to that in terms of topics we'll get to today.

I wanted to begin with something that was very obvious for people, especially in the northern part of the country.

And if you looked on Facebook or Twitter, you saw pictures almost throughout the year of these

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