G’DAY WORLD #231 - Physics 101
Happy ANZAC Day to all you Aussies!
My guests today are Dr Pamela Gay and Fraser Cain from the very excellent Astronomy Cast! They agreed (a decision they may now regret) to try to answer some of my insanely big questions about the Universe. Questions such as:
- what is the fabric of spacetime?
- what is energy?
- why is the speed of light a constant?
- why is it that nothing can move faster than the speed of light?
- what is string theory and why can’t we talk about it?
- how is it that a Scotsman can drop a penny from the top of a building and then run down to the bottom fast enough to catch it?
All these questions and more (well not much more actually) will be answered on today’s show! … in less than an hour…
And if you’re interested in such matters, be sure to check out the Astronomy Cast!
And also check out the amazing new STEREO images of the sun brought to you by the US government. I told you the Americans were useful for something other than fast food and global warming!!
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April 25th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Uhhh… Cam… quick question; is it just me, or have you fiddled with something at TPN Central that has changed my G’Day World feed into the Digital Photography feed (in iTunes)? Even when I try to re-subscribe, I end up subscribing to the Digital Photography Show.
I am sure that the Digital Photography show is excellent and all, but…
(Pleased to hear you are feeling better! I don’t mind it when you are a bit down. I often listen to G’day World on the way home from work, and sometimes it is good to hear that other people ask themselves the same questions that I do… like What am I doing?)
April 25th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
yeah Shannon (and everyone else), we’ve got a bit of a SNAFU with the GW feed. Someone took the blue pill when they should have taken the red pill. We’re working on it.
April 25th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
There is no spoon.
April 26th, 2007 at 8:02 am
Thanks for the interview Cameron, that was fun. Just let us know when your pool of evil questions has filled up again.
Fraser Cain
April 26th, 2007 at 11:58 am
IMO, one of the best G’Day Worlds - very interesting.
April 26th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Yeah good show Cam. And well done to Pam and Fraser for putting up with with your low balls or as we call them here - googlies. I thought Frasers metaphor regarding light and how it relates to time using the example of a train summed it up well. Cooincidently I watched my tram whiz passed without stopping for me while I was waiting for it as I listened to the show. Maybe the driver was in another continuum …
April 27th, 2007 at 12:06 am
Great show Cam. I haven’t really thought about all my old physics stuff since first year but its such fascinating stuff. Pam and Fraser did a really good job of making very complicated concepts sound easy.