Black holes: to the event horizon and beyond
NOVA Presents
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What Does It Mean to Be a Scientist?
The first instrument was built in 2000 and crickets, crickets, right? 15 years later, they installed the advanced machine. So it's just something about the human ambition. Why do we go on hikes? Why do we want to look from the top of a mountain out of view? Because that's who we are as a species. We might be a complicated, failed species, but that's probably our best side. I dive into the black hole. You say, don't do it. I will never see you again. I say, but I must do this in the name of science. So what happens to me? What happens to matter to bodies?"
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