John Preskill
speaker
321 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 29 May
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It doesn't matter what it is.
Everything is interesting.
My colleague Kip Thorne remembers that when he was a freshman, that must have been around 1958, he heard the rumor.
He went to the rumored room at the rumored time and finally was there.
And he said, okay, what do you want to talk about today?
And somebody says, oh, let's talk about waves on Mars.
Where that came from, I have no idea.
So he starts to talk about waves on Mars.
Well, let's say there's not really water on Mars, but let's suppose there is.
Maybe there were oceans before.
But the gravity is different than Earth.
So that means water waves will propagate at a different speed.
And he worked that out.
But another thing, the atmosphere is thinner, so there's less wind.
And that's not going to work up, you know, such high waves blowing across the surface of the water.
How high will the waves be?
And he worked that out.
And Kip came away from this enormously inspired.
You know, you can just look at nature and you ask questions and you can calculate answers.
Because of the success of science, there is a kind of a
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