Hawking's speech is very slow. He uses a machine thing that tracks his eye movements. So he kind of winks and that selects words on this like list. It takes a couple of minutes per word sometimes. And every time I'd look at him and be like, you know, but he would just kind of look blankly at me. The person who was like taking care of him was a lunch seminar. They say, hey, can you give a talk? She's like, yeah, I'll give a talk for the Thursday lunch seminar.
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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