My God, it’s full of stars… Thanks Hal… How beautiful is that? Yes, this week we get sciencey and oh, how our minds are scrambled! This episode Geordie & Michelle look at quantum-y things like the multiverse, time travel and more, starting with Geordie’s revelation about a super hungry Super Massive Black Hole that’s been discovered by Australian scientists. Apparently it eats the equivalent of one Earth every second – WHAT?! – and it shines 7,000 times brighter than all the light from our own galaxy. Plus she natters about 2001: A Space Odyssey, an interstellar object floating randomly in space called Oumuamua, a fascinating Time Slip incident in Liverpool plus Michelle compares the multiverse theory to a giant eating a Malteser. Tune in to hear all this and more!
What would you change if you could go back in time? What kind of life you could have had if only you’d made even one different decision? These questions and more were inspired by Michelle reading How To Stop Time by Matt Haig, which is a gorgeous time-skipping novel about the power of love and the point of living, which Michelle basically reviews in this episode. She then talks about The Midnight Library, another Matt Haig book, about a place between life and death where you can try on different lives the way you’d try on a coat… Michelle then gets very confused about Einstein’s time-travel theory that’s part of his special relativity theory and time dilation, but she has some interesting info about time gain and GPS satellites. She also discusses some real-life time travellers and about what she might change if only she’d bought those 9 Bitcoins…
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SHOW LINKS
Teacher’s Pet the podcast – listen here! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-teachers-pet/id1385379989
What is a Super Massive Black Hole? Find out more here: https://www.voanews.com/a/australian-led-team-discovers-supermassive-black-hole/6618360.html#:~:text=A%20massive%2C%20fast%2Dgrowing%20black,light%20from%20our%20own%20galaxy.
Go Aussie Scientists! They’ve discovered a super massive black hole… https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-06-15/black-hole-fastest-growing-past-nine-billion-years/101149598
More on Oumuamua: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/comets/oumuamua/in-depth/
Read about The Sentinal by Arthur C Clarke here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sentinel_(short_story)
The trailer for 2001: A Space Odyssey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR_e9y-bka0
Arthur C Clarke predicted the future… https://historyofyesterday.com/the-predictions-made-by-arthur-c-clarke-50-years-ago-have-proven-true-f3299c12dca4
Brian Cox on the multiverse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_VrMvTNvX0
Brian Cox also says he doesn’t believe in aliens: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/brian-cox-says-doesnt-believe-26388811
Michelle is desperate to go to the Abba hologram concert!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdm7rwP2xVk
What is the Big Bounce theory? https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a34941841/big-bounce-universe-theory/#:~:text=In%20the%20Big%20Bounce%20theory,is%20what%20makes%20our%20universe.
More on Time Slips… https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-9565865/Have-experienced-time-slip.html
The ladies from Versailles who reckoned they time travelled… https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/time-traveling-claims-a-lie-or-reality-b630cf03e3c2
More on Frank and the Liverpool Time Slip incident: https://medium.com/@NellRose1/the-liverpool-time-slips-and-mysterious-occurences-in-bold-street-7a42898c124b
What is the multiverse theory? https://www.livescience.com/multiverse
David Bowie’s Space Oddity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYYRH4apXDo
How to Stop Time – the book by Matt Haig: http://www.matthaig.com/how-to-stop-time/
The Midnight Library – another book by Matt Haig: http://www.matthaig.com/books/midnight-library/
Looper: the official trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iQuhsmtfHw
Here’s the un-confused explanation of time dilation! https://blog.scienceborealis.ca/time-travel-is-possible-but-its-a-one-way-ticket/
Time travelers are real! Read all about it here! https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5574774/time-travellers/
Watch the weird melty face of time traveler Alexander Smith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyIUlKeRpq8
More on real life time travelers: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/worldnews/5583228/time-traveller-alexander-smith-2118-picture-proof/