Moving Right Along

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2016

⏱️ 54 minutes

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You think your life is fast-paced, but have you ever seen a bacterium swim across your countertop? You’d be surprised how fast they can move. Find out why modeling the swirl of hurricanes takes a roomful of mathematicians and supercomputers, and how galaxies can move away from us faster than the speed of light. Also, what happens when we try to stop the dance of atoms, cooling things down to the rock bottom temperature known as absolute zero. And why your watch doesn’t keep the same time when you’re in a jet as when you’re at the airport. It’s all due to the fact that motion is relative, says Al Einstein. Guests: William Phillips – Nobel Prize-winning physicist at Joint Quantum Institute, a partnership between the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland. Bob Berman – Astronomy writer and author of Zoom: How Everything Moves: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees Michael Smith – Meteorologist, senior vice president of AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions, and author of Warnings: The True Story of How Science Tamed the Weather First released August 18, 2014. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.6	You're super busy always zipping, but it won't help to stop the Earth and get off.
1:06.7	The whole universe is in motion down to its last atom.
1:10.1	Stick around and find out why you can never be at rest, even sitting still.
1:14.4	And what this means for the passage of time and the fate of the Cosmos.
1:18.0	It's moving right along on Big Picture Science. science. Hi, I'm Seth Shostak, and I'm walking along the sidewalk to the parking lot about three or four miles an hour, which is a pretty decent clip,
1:41.0	he's for me. And this is Molly Bentley on my bicycle. I'm traveling at about 10 miles
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