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QUO Fast Radio Bursts Queen's Observatory
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It is our mission to bring exciting space news hot off the telescope into your ears. In one way or another, the Queen’s Observatory has continued its practice of sharing the wonders of the universe since 1857, thank you for joining us in this long running tradition. Here at Fast Radio Bursts we will answer your questions, interview astronomers, and dive deep into breaking research. From low Earth orbit to the clouds of Venus, from Betelgeuse to colliding black holes It’s a big universe to talk about, so let’s get started.
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Abyssinia Observatory
As our last podcast episode, Connor and Nik interview each other. We summarize the highlight of the observatory program and our scientific works.
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A Universal Chronicle E2: The Dark Ages
Why the Dark Age?There is certainly plenty of light to go around but there is no new light being made. We won't see any new light until the stars start to form. Hence the dark ages.Where we left off, about 300,000 years after the big bang the universe is a balmy 3,500 degrees celsius. More or less the entire universe looks like the area just above the surface of the sun. At this point something subtle begins to happen. During the early stages of the universe (inflation) tiny quantum fluc...
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A Universal Chronical E1: In the Beginning
The Beginning of the Universe:Age of the Universe: 13.8 billion yearIt is just as easy to say “the universe was 1 second old” as it is to say “the universe was 10 billion degrees celsius”It’s called the “Big Bang” for a reason, this would have been the most cataclysmic explosion ever.The earliest moment: A Planck EpochAt about a billion billion billion billionth of a second in, the three primary forces (electromagnetic, strong and weak nuclear force) of the standard model would be about to se...
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Living Universe E3: Finding Life
Looking for Extraterrestrial life:The Arecebo message:The numbers one to ten The atomic numbers of the elements hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus, which make up deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) The formulas for the chemical compounds that make up the nucleotides of DNA The estimated number of DNA nucleotides in the human genome, and a graphic of the double helix structure of DNA The dimension (physical height) of an average man, a graphic figure of a human bein...
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Machine Learning ft. Mike Smith
We interview Mike Smith, a PhD student, at University of Hertfordshire, in the United Kingdom.Hertfordshire in the UKHe has also spent time in Kingston at Queen’s University, working with our group.He is also associated with the Alan Turing Institute in the UK as well.Links to Science Outreach Material:McDonald InstituteRoyal Astronomical SocietyAstronomy on TapSpecial thanks to Colin Vendromin for the music, also thanks to Zac Kenny for the logo!
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Living Universe E2: The Great Filters
Introduction:Plan today is to try and solve the paradox from Living Universe E1. If life should be everywhere and we don’t see it, then what happened?The Fermi paradox: Why don't we see life everywhere?Simple Solutions:The “Rare Earth” solution just means that in some way, Earth-like planets are very rare. Maybe there is some mechanism that stops rocky planets from forming in the habitable zone.The “Rare Chemistry” solution means that maybe Earth got lucky in having just the right mix of chem...