This week we get the nuts and bolts of what astrophysics is. After about an hour you will walk away cocktail party literate on goddamn astrophysics. This week's cosmologist is someone I've had a fawning Twitter fascination with for a while. We sat down in my usual hour interview stretch to almost two, hence the two-parter hours before she politely reminded me that we were supposed to be meeting people for a movie or something. Part two of this next week are your questions. Next week we'll address them. Now the etymology of cosmology. Cosmo's with a K is the kinky little Greek word for world or order. The study of the
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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