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Dennis Overbye: Reporting the Universe

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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The Bowling Ball Depresses the Rubber Sheet

i would ask scientists on several continents, can you help me picture the curvature of space time? What i can't picture it? And i know that einstein had a favorite analogy. The bowling ball depresses the sheet because of what we call gravityas a little ar it isent ic. We did a show on scientific american frontiers about the dark matter and other astrophysic questions.

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