Jay Novella
speaker
3,559 appearances
13 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5 Sep
Jay Novella’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is going to rock your world, Jay.
All right.
This story was fascinating.
It has to do with kilonovas, the speed of light versus the speed of gravity, and possibly one of the greatest measurements in the history of science.
That's all.
That's what it's about.
So some of you may remember probably one of the greatest collisions ever observed.
In 2017, they observed a kilonova from 130 million light years away.
These are two neutron stars that had been spiraling together and crashed together.
Now, these are neutron stars.
These are city-sized objects, each with the mass of the sun, traveling at near the speed of light.
I mean, this is like one of the coolest things that happens in the universe, besides maybe, what, colliding supermassive black holes?
I mean, how do you top neutron stars colliding?
What's propelling it?
You know when a skater pulls their arms in and they go faster and faster?
Well, as these neutron stars get closer and closer, they go faster and faster.
So eventually, at some point in their co-orbits, they're going near the speed of light.
That's amazing.
Oh, yeah.
It's incredible.
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