The Titanium Physicists Podcast
Episode 54: The Way the Dog Ran Away

Erin McGathy (from the "This Feels Terrible" and "Harmontown" podcasts and the USB theater in LA) joins us! Dr. Rupinder Brar and  Dr. Amanda Bauer have both returned after WAY TOO LONG!

 

We talk about the milky way! dust and pancakes. dusty pancakes. that'd be a great name! Oh man what a great show! this episode is GREAT!

Listen past the end music for some addition great conversing.

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Direct download: Ep_54_The_Way_the_Dog_Ran_Away.mp3
Category:physics -- posted at: 11:03pm PDT

Dr. Katie Mack and I talk about big bang stuff. 

 

the question is from bob:

"Hello again Ben. I've found and listened to the QB episodes. Thanks for the help with locating them.

Since you seem to have ready access to a cosmologist, I'd like to offer for QB a trio of related cosmological questions that have bugged me for some time.

1. How do we know that all the matter in the universe came from the big bang?

2. How do we know that the big bang did not expand into an existing precursor universe? (It seems plausible to me that this may be the case but we have no way to know because the hyperinflation immediately after the big bang and accelerating expansion due to dark energy will permanently keep us outside of the light cone of any event in this hypothetical precursor universe. I'm not fond of unfalsifiable theories...)"

Direct download: qb6.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:03am PDT

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