Slippery Science: The Physics of Ice

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🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

What makes ice slippery? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly uncover the complex physics of ice and cool facts we’re still learning about it with physicist and author, Laurie Winkless.

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0:00.0	This is StarTalk's what's addition yield the grass Tyson your personal astrophysicist and host today
0:09.3	We're discussing the topic of ice ice
0:14.8	Every which way you would see it think about it and find it on earth and in the heavens
0:21.4	We're gonna talk about why ice is slippery
0:23.7	But you never really thought about that one. Huh. Well, there's interesting surface physics related to it
0:30.1	We're gonna talk about ice in sports not all sports use ice in the same way as
0:36.5	One another so that's a whole other frontier
0:41.4	Winter sports and we're gonna talk about glaciers
0:45.9	How what are they how they move and why and what they do to earth surface all on this episode of StarTalk
0:53.2	Sports edition
0:56.7	Welcome to StarTalk
0:59.2	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide
1:05.1	StarTalk begins right now
1:09.4	Jack hey Neil I also got Gary Riley Gary. Hey Neil how you doing man? I'm good. I'm good
1:15.3	So Gary what what show have you and your producers assemble today all right, so
1:20.6	It's been coming and going for ages ice and right now. I guess everyone knows it's packed expats and it's heading for the ocean
1:28.6	And we'll get to that. I'm sure later human kind has learnt to live with it
1:32.8	Use it try to understand it and even try and have fun with it and I can't think of anyone better to ride a zamboni with than our guest
1:42.2	Laurie Winklaus if you don't remember I'll explain if you do then you'll know you're in for a treat
1:47.4	Laurie is a physicist an astrophysicist on author a science communicator and story teller
1:53.8	She's a science journalist and lecturer and her books include
1:57.4	Science in the city and sticky the secret science of surfaces. So Neil
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