Phreaky Physics (rebroadcast)

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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It was a radical idea a century ago, when Einstein said space and time can be bent, and gravity was really geometry. We hear how his theories inspire young minds even today. At small scales, different rules apply: quantum mechanics and the Standard Model for particles. New experiments suggest that muons – cousins of the electron – may be telling us that the Standard Model is wrong. Also, where the physics of both the large and small apply, and why black holes have no hair. Guests: Hakeem Oluseyi – Astrophysicist, affiliated professor at George Mason University, and author of “A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars” Janna Levin – Professor of physics and astronomy, Barnard College at Columbia University Mark Lancaster – Professor of particle physics, University of Manchester Originally aired August 16, 2021 Featuring music by Dewey Dellay and Jun Miyake Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact [email protected] to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. You can get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.7	That's What's New with Wired, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.4	The world is filled with many questions,
0:32.2	such as, did giants exist.
0:34.0	What is junk DNA? Does it mean that you're trash?
0:37.0	Do you ever wonder if aliens have underwater bases in our oceans and that's why there are so many
0:42.3	UFO sightings off the coast of
0:44.0	violence all over the world. How serious even is climate change and when should we
0:49.2	start building our rafts? Hello everyone you may recognize me as Gabby from the History of Everything
0:54.1	podcast and my name is Brenna and you don't recognize me from anything yet.
0:58.8	Together we're two scientists who explore the answers to these questions and many, many more in our new
1:03.7	podcast, Mystery of Everything, available everywhere you get your podcasts. You may feel like time is warped these days, but black holes literally warped time and space. these
1:24.3	but black holes literally warp time and space. These mass cobbling monsters at the centers of galaxies
1:27.6	also bend light, which is what scientists measured recently
1:31.6	around a black hole.
1:33.2	Now, while that discovery was exciting, a century-old theory had predicted it.
1:38.3	Yep, as if from beyond the grave, Einstein continues to be the maestro of physics on the large scale.
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