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Preview: Professor Jamie Bock of Cal Tech and JPL describes the data expected from the new NASA probe SPHEREx over possibly 25 years. More later in Hotel Mars.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Preview: Professor Jamie Bock of Cal Tech and JPL describes the data expected from the new NASA probe SPHEREx over possibly 25 years. More later in Hotel Mars.
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0:00.0

The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be

0:06.8

wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain

0:13.0

that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching

0:18.7

their peak in the afternoon.

0:23.0

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0:25.6

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0:28.7

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0:42.9

This is John Batchel, a conversation with the Professor Jamie Bach of the California Institute of Technology and of JPL, the principal scientist on a new NASA success,

0:51.2

SphereX, now in orbit, and collecting data on the cosmos, the beginning, the beginning of everything.

0:54.5

Well, time is inappropriate to go from what was before to what is now.

0:57.7

For example, water, the makeup of water.

1:00.4

Where did it come from?

1:01.4

The origins of water.

1:03.3

For example, the inflation of the universe, the growth of it,

1:08.8

thinking that the universe is on the surface of a balloon and it's, you're blowing

1:13.2

the balloon up.

1:14.7

What explains that?

1:16.2

Do we need a new physics?

1:17.8

The professor handles all of that with the data coming in from SphereX.

1:22.5

And Sphere X has a lifetime, and it's a big lifetime.

1:26.6

And here the professor comments on a fire hose of data.

1:31.5

Wonderful.

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