Physics Phrontiers

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2011

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Physics means getting physical if you’re tackling the biggest, most mysterious questions in the universe. Stoic scientists endure the driest, darkest, coldest spots on the planet to find out how it all began and why there’s something rather than nothing. From the bottom of an old iron mine to the top of the Andes, we’ll hear their stories. Plus, Steven Weinberg on this weird stuff called dark energy, and Leonard Susskind sees double, no, triple, no, …infinite universes. Guests: Anil Ananthaswamy - Corresponding editor for New Scientist magazine in London and author of The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe Steven Weinberg - Nobel Prize-winning physicist at University of Texas at Austin and author of Lake Views: This World and the Universe Leonard Susskind - Professor of theoretical physics, Stanford University André de Gouvêa - Associate professor of physics, Northwestern University Descripción en español Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an airwave media podcast.
0:05.0	The world is filled with many questions such as, did giants exist?
0:09.0	What is junk DNA?
0:10.4	Does it mean that you're trash?
0:11.8	Do you ever wonder if aliens have underwater bases in our oceans and that's why there are so many
0:16.8	UFO sightings off the coast of islands all over the world?
0:20.8	How serious even is climate change and when should we start building our rafts?
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1:05.1	podcasts. That's Tech Crunch Daily Crunch, wherever you get your podcasts. to answer the great mysteries of the universe, the really big questions, scientists will
1:25.2	literally go to the ends of the Earth, which means that the journalists covering them have
1:29.6	to tag along.
1:31.1	That's how Anil Anathaswami found himself at the world's deepest lake in Siberia.
1:37.0	It is in southern Siberia and I was there to see a neutrino telescope.
1:41.0	And the telescope, which is on the lookout for these ghostly elementary particles,
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