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  • Premiered: Apr 2009
  • Episodes: 454
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Season 2023
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My First Paper (Meghan Gray)
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Jan 13, 2023
Professor Meghan Gray discusses her first academic paper - pointing a telescope at Abel 2219.
2023x2
ChatGPT does Physics
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Jan 23, 2023
We put chatbot ChatGPT to the test with some physics questions.
2023x3
Black Holes and Dimensional Analysis
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Mar 31, 2023
Featuring Professor Ed Copeland with a look at dimensional analysis and how it can be used on black holes, among other things...
2023x4
Is there a Black Hole in our Solar System?
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May 09, 2023
We discuss the idea with one of the paper's co-authors, Dr James Unwin... plus black hole enthusiast Dr Becky Smethurst.
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A Curious Problem with Red Galaxies
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Jun 01, 2023
Professor Mike Merrifield on a new paper about Red Galaxies - and why that may cause a rethink about galaxy formation.
2023x6
Shut Up & Calculate (Quantum Metal song)
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Jun 06, 2023
Physics Professor Phil Moriarty joins some friends to produce a "Quantum Metal" song
2023x7
Bad Science and Room Temperature Superconductors
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Aug 15, 2023
Professor Philip Moriarty takes issue with a paper by scientists claiming to achieve room temperature superconductivity.
2023x8
The Interesting Physics of Robert Oppenheimer (not the bomb)
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Aug 22, 2023
Robert Oppenheimer did a lot of interesting physics before the Manhattan Project and atomic bombs.
2023x9
Attosecond Lasers (2023 Nobel Prize in Physics)
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Oct 09, 2023
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 goes to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter".
2023x10
Is 'Boffin' a Dirty Word?
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Oct 22, 2023
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2023x11
The Gravitational Wave Background
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Nov 28, 2023
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