Turning Grief into Physics: Dr. Ronald Mallett’s Journey Through Time

Turning Grief into Physics: Dr. Ronald Mallett’s Journey Through Time

PODCAST TRANSCRIPTS Gabrielle Bir­chak I just fin­ished edit­ing this fan­tas­tic inter­view with Dr. Ronald Mal­lett, Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus of Physics at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut. This episode of Math Sci­ence His­to­ry is all about explor­ing one of physics most dar­ing fron­tiers, time trav­el. Dr. Mal­lett has spent a life­time inves­ti­gat­ing whether light itself can twist space time enough to form loops

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Black Holes from Theory to Reality

Black Holes from Theory to Reality

This post con­tains a spon­sored link. I have received com­pen­sa­tion for includ­ing it in this post. Imag­ine a place in the uni­verse where time stops, where space folds into itself, and where not even light can escape. A place that devours every­thing, mat­ter, radi­a­tion, even infor­ma­tion. Now imag­ine the sci­en­tists who tried to explain it… and were laughed at, ignored, or

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The Theory of Relativity in less than 10 minutes

The Theory of Relativity in less than 10 minutes

PODCAST TRANSCRIPTS It’s Flash­cards Fri­day at Math! Sci­ence! His­to­ry! and since we’re doing a short pod­cast, I couldn’t think of a bet­ter top­ic to do than a Flash­card about Albert Einstein’s The­o­ry of Rel­a­tiv­i­ty. I’m Gabrielle Bir­chak. I have a back­ground in math, sci­ence, and jour­nal­ism. By the time you’re done lis­ten­ing to this brief pod­cast, you will know more

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