#ICYMI - Cosmic Queries: Sports Physics Trivia, with Charles Liu

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🗓️ 27 September 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In case you missed this episode on the Playing with Science channel… Football on Mars, tricky cricket physics, curving curling rocks, and more – Hosts Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice sit down with astrophysicist Charles Liu to answer fan-submitted Cosmic Queries that span across the sporting world. Photo Credit: Xiaphias [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.

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0:00.0	I'm Gary O'Reilly.
0:10.6	And I'm Chuck Nice.
0:11.6	And this is playing with science.
0:15.4	Today, you listeners will be the stars of the show.
0:19.6	Yes, we've opened up the cosmos for your particular queries.
0:24.4	Call it office hours if you wish, but this is going to be our show.
0:28.8	Of course, it's going to be ladled with science and have a bit of a sprinkling of sport.
0:34.0	That's right.
0:34.5	She's joining us, too.
0:36.2	Of course, when you say science, you can't say science without the one, the only,
0:41.2	the astrophysicist who knows the most about sports of any scientist I've ever met,
0:47.4	the one, the only professor, Dr. Charles Lou.
0:52.0	Hey, Charles.
0:53.2	Hey, hi, Scott.
0:54.2	Hi, Gary.
0:55.0	You are too kind in your introduction.
0:56.8	There are many, many people who know much more about sports than I.
0:59.8	Yeah, but I'm very happy to be here, but not on the level that you know sports and not the way
1:05.7	you're able to relate sports to science, my friend.
1:09.0	I'm sorry.
1:10.0	I mean, not even our, not even our fearless leader, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, I would say has the
1:16.6	breadth of knowledge of all sports that you do, you know?
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