Skeptics Guide #199 - May 13 2009

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

Skepticism, Psuedoscience, Skeptic, Science, Fringe-science, Paranormal

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🗓️ 16 May 2009

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Interview with Rusty Schweickart; News Items: Simon Singh's Lawsuit, Ultradense Deuterium, Acupuncture Science, Last Fix for Hubble; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:07.3	Your escape to reality.
0:11.9	Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:14.6	Today is Wednesday, May 13, 2009.
0:18.2	And this is your host, Steven Novella.
0:20.7	Joining me this evening are Bob Novella.
0:23.0	Hey everybody, Rebecca Watson.
0:25.2	Hello everyone.
0:26.6	Hey, this is Jenovella and Evan Bernstein.
0:30.6	Hey everyone, it was May 15th when Johannes Kepler in 1816 confirmed his discovery of the
0:35.7	Third Law of Planetary Motion.
0:37.2	Which was?
0:38.2	Which was that?
0:39.9	The planets move.
0:41.0	Yes, the planets do.
0:42.5	Don't put them on the spot like that.
0:44.0	Come on, you can't mention the Third Law of Planetary Motion without telling people what
0:47.2	it is.
0:48.2	The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances.
0:52.9	And the first one is planets travel and ellipses around the Sun with the Sun at one focus.
0:59.1	The second one is what you said, Bob, that planets will sweep out equal areas in equal
1:03.5	time.
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