Big Picture Science - Moving Right Along
ENCORE: You think your life is fast-paced, but have you ever seen a bacterium swim across your counter top? You’d be surprised how fast they can move.
Find out why modeling the swirl of hurricanes takes a roomful of mathematicians and supercomputers, and how galaxies can move away from us faster than the speed of light.
Also, what happens when we try to stop the dance of atoms, cooling things down to the rock bottom temperature known as absolute zero.
And why your watch doesn’t keep the same time when you’re in a jet as when you’re at the airport. It’s all due to the fact that motion is relative, says Al Einstein.
Guests:
- William Phillips – Nobel Prize-winning physicist at Joint Quantum Institute, a partnership between the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland.
- Bob Berman – Astronomy
writer and author of Zoom: How Everything Moves: From Atoms and Galaxies to
Blizzards and Bees
- Michael Smith –
Meteorologist, senior vice president of AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions, and
author of Warnings: The True Story of How Science Tamed the
Weather
This encore podcast was first released on August 18 2014
Download podcast at:http://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/Moving_Right_Along
You can listen to this and other episodes at http://bigpicturescience.org/, and be sure to check out Blog Picture Science, the companion blog to the radio show.
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