Listeners' Science Questions

BBC Inside Science

BBC

Technology, Science

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Adam Rutherford and panellists Helen Czerski, Andrew Pontzen and Nick Crumpton answer listeners' science questions: What's the best way to become fossilised when you die? What are the most genetically different animals than can breed, either in the wild or in captivity? Why are there no animals with green fur? If one of the fundamental constants, like the speed of light, was 50% faster how would it affect our universe and would the universe even exist? Can we infer where the edge of our expanding universe is from its age - is that even a sensible question? Would you experience zero gravity at the centre of the Earth? At a busy airport are the chances of meeting and finding each other better if one person stays put in a space while the other person searches, or if both parties wander around searching? Find out the answers to these and more.

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0:00.0	Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:06.8	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:11.8	telly we share what we've been watching
0:14.0	Cladie Aide.
0:16.0	Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:19.0	Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less searching
0:25.7	and a lot more watching. Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:29.2	Hello you and this is a very special edition of Inside Science from the BBC, my name's
0:34.0	Adam Rutherford and this was first broadcast on the 7th of May 2015.
0:39.0	While you're all eagerly awaiting the outcome of democracy, we're running our own version of question time, where you have
0:45.5	asked the questions. We've been soliciting your scientific queries for a few weeks now,
0:49.6	things that have been bugging you, making you scratch your heads, and boy did you send them in.
0:54.7	So we've assembled our regular expert panel covering a range of scientific disciplines and
0:59.5	specialist topics. Unlike question time, these guys have seen the questions beforehand so they're not just making it up as they go along.
1:06.0	Panel, please introduce yourselves.
1:08.0	I'm Tim Cockrell, I'm a zoologist and I'm really interested in biodiversity and ecology.
1:13.0	I'm Andrew Ponson.
1:15.0	I'm an astronomer at University College London
1:18.0	and I'm particularly interested in cosmology,
1:20.0	how the universe began and what's in it.
1:23.0	I'm Helen Chersky. I'm a physicist at University College London and I study the bubbles underneath breaking waves.
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