Hello and welcome to series inquiries only this is episode 376 I'm Thomas and with me are

your several colds but that's okay because when I recorded this interview I didn't yet

have this many colds I had a friggin cough for like a month I don't know what's

going on but then before I got over that one I got like a bonus one another

virus I think I'm two at least two viruses in right now so that sucks but like I

said back when I recorded this I was only one virus and so you can't even tell

and today I've got once again Dr. Brian Gillis everyone's favorite astrophysicist

and we're gonna talk about the video game portal and what it teaches us about

the physics of our universe and I suppose possible other universes really

interesting stuff about physics that I've actually never even heard of I wanted

to say too we were considering maybe doing like a Q&A for Brian like if I put

up a thread on the patreon will people have questions for an astrophysicist I

know I would that's why I do the show with Brian but I thought that might be

kind of cool if not we've got plenty of topics all the time but in the

comments on this episode let me know if you think that would be a good idea

because we could totally do a ask an astrophysicist anything episode and that

would be tons of fun for us so let me know what you think on that patreon.com

slash series pod if you'd like to get in on that and of course the ad free

shows the monthly bonus I can't wait to the next one of those I'm again was so

much fun you really really have to hear that whole thing if you haven't all

right that said let's get on over to Dr. Brian Gillis and we're talking about

portal and what we can learn about our universe from that little universe please

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