The best thing about this conversation is I'm having it with a cosmologist and like an astrophysicist. But I could also be having the same conversation with any of my college roommates who had like a seven foot bong in the garage. The ideas themselves, if they're not backed up by the data or by a very rigorous model are really not that important. Once you do have the sort of mathematical tools and stuff and you can speak that language, then you can get really creative and then you can just do really fun things.
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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