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#191 Special episode: the most mind-bending concepts in science

The world, the universe and us

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Virtual Particles: A New Way to Think About Calories

Cooking is basically an extension of the digestive process. You're sort of pre-digesting your food and then it's just making more of it available to you. Two people can eat a certain number of calories a day. And it can have a massively different effect on how much weight they put on. Virtual particles are like a mathematical tool that we can use to describe reality.

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