#ICYMI: Cosmic Queries: The Physics of Soccer
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🗓️ 1 June 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Gary Aureli. |
| 0:11.9 | I'm Gary Aureli. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm Chuck Nice. |
| 0:13.9 | And this is playing with science. |
| 0:16.6 | Because of the constant request from so many of our listeners for a soccer-based show, |
| 0:21.6 | we decided to speak to the boss, yes, Neil to Grass Tyson, and ask him if we could give |
| 0:25.5 | it the cosmic query treatment, and let you the listeners decide which direction the |
| 0:29.8 | show should take with your questions. |
| 0:32.9 | And bringing the science in to answer those questions will be our good friend, physics |
| 0:37.1 | professor Eric Goff from Linsburg College in Virginia, author of Gold Medal Physics, |
| 0:43.2 | and all around sports guru and super soccer fan. |
| 0:48.4 | Yes. |
| 0:49.4 | So stick around because we are going to get to grips with probably the greatest free kick |
| 0:53.8 | of all time, bringing you to science and plenty more. |
| 0:57.4 | And for once, I get to play my own back out, which should be fun. |
| 1:01.4 | I know. |
| 1:02.4 | This is your show, my friend. |
| 1:03.6 | Yes. |
| 1:04.6 | And we're just going to sit back and learn something here. |
| 1:07.8 | We got Eric Goff, who will give us the physics, and then we have a professional footballer |
| 1:12.8 | here, who will give us the experience. |
| 1:14.8 | And I'm just going to go home. |
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