It's All Relativity...

The Supermassive Podcast

Izzie Clarke

Astronomy, History, Science, Physics

4.6 • 556 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This month, Izzie Clarke and Dr Becky Smethurst explore relativity, gravitational waves and the photographs that made Albert Einstein a household name. Astronomer Robert Massey joins us to talk through SpaceX's Starlink and what we can see in the night sky. Plus we have a special gift from poet laureate Simon Armitage.

With special thanks to Professor Toby Wiseman from Imperial College London and Royal Astronomical Society librarian, Sian Prosser.

You can send your questions to the team via podcast@ras.ac.uk or tweet @RoyalAstroSoc.

The Supermassive Podcast is a Boffin Media production for the Royal Astronomical Society.

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0:00.0	Technically, right now, we are all travelling through time.
0:05.8	E equals MC squared.
0:07.9	What does that have to do with anything?
0:10.1	Come back.
0:11.2	It was like a Wilson moment from Gassaway, wasn't it?
0:13.6	Not only is it space and time bending, but it's actually also quite mind bending.
0:18.6	The man, the myth, the legend, Einstein.
0:24.5	Hello, welcome to the supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society. With me,
0:30.4	science journalist Izzy Clark and with astrophysicist Dr. Becky's-feathers. How's it going,
0:35.2	Bickey? Yeah, good. I just got back from a trip to CERN,
0:38.0	so I am both loving life and exhausted. What were you doing at CERN? I was having a fun trip there, seeing like all underground in the experiments and everything, chatting to some people, doing some interviews for some videos. Oh, that's really good fun. So no actual, you know, in the lab looking at things.
0:53.2	No, unfortunately not.
0:54.6	No, as an astrophysicist,
0:55.9	it's not really built for my science
0:57.7	because they look. actual you know in the lab looking at things no unfortunately not no as a astrophysicist
0:55.8	that's it's not really built for my science because they look at the tiny things so
0:59.6	and so have you noticed anything different about episode two so far um i don't know we're in
1:06.5	the council room still surrounded by books still um we're still going to talk about research and history and what you can see in the night sky, but,
1:16.1	oh, maybe there's something different about the name, maybe.
1:19.5	Yeah, so since the last episode, we've learned a thing or two about trademark law,
1:24.7	and we don't want to be confused with Space Rocks, a partnership with our friends at the European Space Agency.
1:29.8	So we've changed our name.
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