Ep. 164: Inside the Atom

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) We’ve talked about the biggest of the big, now let’s focus in on the smallest of the small. Let’s see what’s inside that basic building block of matter: the atom. You probably know the basics, but with ever more powerful particle...

Ep. 140: Entanglement

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) One of the most amazing aspects of quantum mechanics is quantum entanglement. This is the strange behavior where particles can become entangled, so they’re somehow connected to one another – no matter the distance between them. Interact with one...

Ep. 139: Energy Levels and Spectra

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) Last week we took a peek into the tiny world of quantum mechanics, and its unintuitive, but very accurate mathematical predictions. And although we all appreciate the physics lesson, you’re probably wondering what this all has to do with astronomy....

Ep. 138: Quantum Mechanics

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) Quantum mechanics is the study of the very tiny; the nature of reality at the smallest scale. It’s a science that defies common sense, and delivers no helpful analogies. And yet it delivers the goods, making scientific predictions with incredible...

Ep. 117: Time

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) Today, time rules our lives. We live each day with the moments broken up into hours, minutes and seconds. We never seem to have enough time. But can you imagine not being able to tell time at all, where the movements of the Sun and the stars was the only...

Questions Show – light speed, Andromeda galaxy, dark matter and black holes

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) Another week, another roundup of your questions. This week listeners asked: will reaching light speed destroy the Universe? When is Andromeda going to look really, really cool with the unaided eye? Why didn’t dark matter all turn into black holes? And...