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This Week: Interview W/Ethan Siegel, Clipper Sets Sail, Galactic Billiards, Hidden Tomb, Dental Reality Check, Jedi Rats, Lion Diet, Elephant Wrinkles, And A Whole Universe of More Science!
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When Einstein formulated the field equations describing properties of spacetime… no one could have predicted how much we would learn from it.
Equations on paper, illustrate that matter tells spacetime how to curve, and curved spacetime tells matter how to move gravitation arising not as a propagating force but rather as a feature of spacetime itself.
The weight of objects on earth, your own weight
Due to your body traveling through warped spacetime
The predictions that fell like loose crumbs from these equations,
Gravitational lensing, Gravitational Redshift, Gravitational Waves,
Black Holes,
Time dilation,
Frame-Dragging,
A dynamic spacetime, either expanding or contracting the equivalence Principle.
Even the Cosmic Microwave Background distribution.
Were predicted as consequences of Einstein’s work and all have been confirmed.
At a time when the known universe was just the Milky Way galaxy,
A universe trillions of times larger was fundamentally figured out.
And while we don’t have all the answers yet, we do have a great place to start asking questions,
Right here on
This Week in Science!
Some quick science news!
Clipper Sets Sail
What is the Europa Clipper mission & why is Dr. Kiki excited about it?
Galactic Billiards
Most meteorites are younger than the dinosaurs
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The Interview!
We want to welcome our guest, Ethan Siegel, to TWIS. You can find him at the Starts with a Bang website.
Ethan is a theoretical physicist and science communicator, writer. He is also the author of a new book on the inside story behind the James Webb Space Telescope with National Geographic called ‘Infinite Cosmos‘.
Through stories told in a variety of formats — articles, books, podcasts, videos, interactive discussions, as well as in-person talks — he’s committed to ensuring that the best scientific knowledge we have about the Universe is available to all. You’re invited to join us on the journey.
Dr. Kiki, Justin, and Ethan explore the farthest reaches of the Universe in this fun interview you’ll want to listen to again and again!
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What Science News Does Justin Have?
Hidden Discovery
A tomb beneath Petra has been discovered
Reality Check
For the dental industry
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Some Science stories with Kiki!
Jedi Rats
Why do rats make ultrasonic vocalizations? To create a FORCE.
Lion Diet
What’s on the menu? It’s people!
Elephant Wrinkles
Why do elephants have such wrinkly trunks?
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Take a blast into the past…
What were we discussing at this time last year? This time last year We discussed Mapping The Universe, Snoozers aren’t losers, Bacteria Plus CAR-T, French painting, Theory Of Everything, Long arm of the lawn, Antacids and dementia, Brain Cell Atlas, Healin Strokes, And Much More!
This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed Stem Cell Discovery, Nerve Proteins Get New Use, Stem Cell Solidarity, Pro-Anti-Biotic-Turkey-Pox, Estro-powers, Fecal Transplant Pills, Cooperative Crocs, Collapsible Birds, Gecko Glue, D-listing Da Drought, Oil Rigs Beat Reefs, Kanga-Shoes, Kanga-Shoes, Walk With Feeling, Holding It, Ebola Update, And Much More! Take a blast into the past with TWIS!
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