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Particle physics and ML (http://sites.uci.edu/daniel). Co-creator @DandKUniverse podcast and @ElinorWonders TV. Patreon: https://patreon.com/DanielWhiteson.
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Making America Less Great
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This nails it, thank you.
It explains why so many "popular science" books are best sellers despite being impossibly dense.
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Oy!
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There are definitely denser patches of gas and dust, and if you are in one it's not totally opaque, but some frequencies of light are definitely suppressed but not completely blocked.
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Would love to have you on the show!
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Loved your paper: arxiv.org/abs/2306.04053
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Daniel and Kelly answer questions about fundamental particles, radiation-gobbling fungi, and the physics of pinball.
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You mentioned galaxies of antimatter earlier - there was this amazing comic called 2001 Nights where Paradise Lost was woven into this story about Planet X being made of antimatter, the last remnant of an antimatter accretion disk next to our proto solar system. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Ni...
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Full episode: www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
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Daniel and Kelly answer questions about chain reactions in space, the chemistry of life, and how a theory is accepted.
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Thank you! Please don't be shy to submit a question: [email protected]
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Always ready to serve! :)
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Essentially it's a guess that gravity can't be quantized, whereas string theory and loop quantum gravity are trying to make a quantum version of gravity.
Here's a nice article: www.quantamagazine.org/the-physicis...
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Daniel and Kelly break down what it means for particles to have charge, and how that translates to charges for the weak force
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Daniel and Kelly dive into the left-right asymmetry of hands, life, particles and the Universe itself
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And our galaxies likely look to them as theirs do to us: small, old and red!
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Hi Michael! We think the Universe is ~the same everywhere. So when you look at distant galaxies, you see them as they were a long time ago. Now, they are probably similar to galaxies nearby us: large assemblies of small galaxies that have gathered together.
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We'll do an episode on it, but here's a good writeup from Ethan Siegal: bigthink.com/starts-with-...