The Skeptics Guide #256 - Jun 9 2010

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 12 June 2010

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Interview with Steve Matheson; News Items: Life on Titan, Vulture Threatened by Pseudoscience, WHO and H1N1; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Orbit of Phobos; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:07.3	Your escape to reality.
0:11.1	Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:13.4	Today is Wednesday, June 9, 2010, and this is your host, Steven Novella.
0:19.2	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:21.3	Hey everybody, Rebecca Watson.
0:23.3	Hello everyone.
0:24.5	Jane Novella.
0:25.5	Hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.
0:27.8	Hey folks.
0:29.6	So it was June 9, 1905.
0:32.2	Anyone want to guess this to what happened?
0:34.8	Einstein, General Relativity's 1905.
0:37.0	Yep, anytime you hear the year 1905, you have to automatically think Einstein.
0:42.7	Because that was the year that his most seminal papers were published in the Anelinde
0:49.2	Physique.
0:50.6	This particular one was titled, on a heuristic point of view, concerning the generation
0:55.6	and conversion of light.
0:57.7	In this paper, Einstein framed unambiguously the hypothesis that light in its interaction
1:03.3	with matter behaves like a particle with a discrete amount of quantum of energy proportional
1:08.4	to its frequency.
1:10.2	Over the next two decades, the hypothesis was to be verified experimentally, leading to
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