The Edge of Space
CrowdScience
BBC
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2016
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
What do scientists think is outside our universe? Asks Rebecca Standridge from San Francisco in the US.
It’s a question which goes right to the limits of human understanding.
We look for the answer using balloons, bubbles and the world’s oldest radio telescope.
If you have a question about science that you'd like us to investigate email crowdscience@bbc.co.uk.
Photo: Lovell telescope Jodrell Bank
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Pod listeners and thank you for downloading crowd science from the BBC. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Marnie Chasterton and this is producer Julian. |
| 0:08.8 | Hello. We have been on a fun adventure trying to answer probably the biggest question that we'll ever have to tackle I think on this show which will do I tell do I tell them or is that just spoiling it? |
| 0:26.8 | Well if we have a conversation about whether we should or shouldn't tell them then |
| 0:30.7 | maybe that can act as the introduction to the to the thing. |
| 0:34.3 | It's I want to tell them. |
| 0:39.1 | I want to tell them. I want to tell them. |
| 0:40.1 | No no no you can't possibly tell them they'll just have to wait another few moments and then they'll hear it for themselves. |
| 0:44.8 | Yeah, they will have switched off by then. Anyway, his... |
| 0:47.8 | Yeah, sorry, waffle. Waffle over. Here's the show. |
| 0:51.0 | Hey there, you are listening to Crowd Science from the BBC, a show where we take your questions |
| 0:59.7 | about anything, in this case about everything, to scientists who might be able to give us all an answer. |
| 1:06.0 | Today we have a question from Rebecca, take it away. |
| 1:10.0 | Hello crowd science, I'm Rebecca Standridge, and I'm calling in from California. |
| 1:16.0 | My question for you today is, |
| 1:19.0 | what do scientists think is outside our universe? |
| 1:22.0 | Thanks, Rebecca. So today's crowd science is a mixture of physics and philosophy. |
| 1:27.0 | She's given us a question about the nature of the, and what's outside it? |
| 1:33.8 | Well, it's simple, isn't it? |
| 1:35.6 | Think of a sphere wrapped through a fourth spatial dimension, |
| 1:41.9 | which you can mathematically describe but which I can't point to and |
| 1:45.9 | indeed I have a hard time visualizing it because this would be a hypersphere |
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