UNEXPEDICTED DARK MATTER DONUT HOLE IN THE MILKY WAY. 1/4: Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate, by Paul Halpern
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🗓️ 4 February 2024
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A respected physics professor and author breaks down the great debate over the Big Bang and the continuing quest to understand the fate of the universe. Today, the Big Bang is so entrenched in our understanding of the cosmos that to doubt it would seem crazy. But as Paul Halpern shows in Flashes of Creation, just decades ago its mere mention caused sparks to fly. At the center of the debate were the Russian-American physicist George Gamow and the British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle. Gamow insisted that a fiery explosion explained how the elements of the universe were created. Attacking the idea as half-baked, Hoyle countered that the universe was engaged in a never-ending process of creation. The battle was fierce. In the end, Gamow turned out to be right—mostly—and Hoyle, along with his many achievements, is remembered for giving the theory the silliest possible name: "the Big Bang." Halpern captures the brilliance of both thinkers and reminds us that even those proven wrong have much to teach us about boldness, imagination, and the universe, itself.
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is a |
| 0:28.1 | is CBS eye on the world. Here's John Bachelor |
| 0:34.8 | And I welcome Professor Paul Halpert at the University of the Sciences, the author of a new book, Flashes of Creation, George Kamof, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang |
| 0:40.5 | debate of the 20th century. |
| 0:43.0 | Professor, a very good evening to you, thank you for this. |
| 0:46.0 | Let's get our two protagonists born. |
| 0:48.0 | Giorgi Antonovich Gamoff, born Odessa, March of 1904. |
| 0:54.0 | I find most ironic, his father was a teacher. |
| 0:57.6 | This was the time that there was much excitement in Russia |
| 1:01.3 | because of the revolution, |
| 1:04.2 | 1905 and then the 1917-18 revolution. |
| 1:08.3 | But his father, who was one of his father's students? |
| 1:11.1 | And what did our hero hero Giorgi Antonovich Gamoff make of that fact. |
| 1:16.5 | Good evening to you Paul. |
| 1:18.4 | Good evening. |
| 1:19.4 | Thank you for having me on the show. |
| 1:21.4 | Joe is pronounced, it spelled Geo, and pronounced Joe Gamoff, that he always went by the American |
| 1:28.7 | nickname Joe, interestingly enough. |
| 1:31.0 | Or he could say George. His father was Anton Gamoff, who was a very bright |
| 1:36.9 | school teacher and his student was Leib Bronstein better known as Leon Trotsky, |
| 1:42.1 | the Russian revolutionary, the future Russian revolutionary. |
| 1:45.0 | And interestingly, the young Trotsky tried to institute a kind of coup in Anton's classroom. |
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