I was kind of surprised to realize how collaborative this could be. I always imagine physicists needed to be like sequestered in a well-appointed lab or a classy den to just think clearly. But no, there's like a lot of chatting happening. And then once you figure out like, what equations you need to solve and what things you need to calculate, then you go to the computer and you write code for it. Then you see if you have something interesting or not. Even all kind of clicks. Yeah.
Stars. Black holes. THE GAWDANG UNIVERSE. Astrophysicist and cosmologist Katie Mack (@astrokatie) joins to tell us her most embarrassing moments as a cosmologist, to debunk some physicist myths and give the nuts + bolts of everything form particle physics to gravitational waves and existential mysteries. Walk away with cocktail party comprehension of everything from the itty-bitty quarks that make you to the neutron stars banging together across the cosmos. More than anything, get perspective about your life on this, our little pale blue dot.
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