Noam Hassenfeld
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4,033 appearances
103 recordings
15 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 27 Aug
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So, I'm Noam Hassenfeld, and this week on Unexplainable, is our entire universe inside a black hole?
Okay, so before we dive into the black hole, let me just give you a little heads up.
James, this particle physicist at CERN, he's really good at posing fascinating questions.
He's also pretty good at not really answering them, which means there's going to be a lot more speculation than explanation coming up, even more questions than normal for our show.
Let's just say it's going to get weird, but it's going to be a lot of fun.
So to start, here's a little Gravity 101.
What we observe as gravity, so a ball falling toward the ground or the moon orbiting around the Earth,
It's not that the Earth is tugging on those things.
It's that the mass of Earth is warping the fabric of the universe.
It's essentially creating a kind of crater in space.
This is where we get to black holes, because if you get enough mass in a small enough area, space starts to warp dramatically.
The sinkhole gets so steep that nothing can escape it, even light.
And this incredibly strong gravity doesn't just affect light.
It affects everything.
Like, if you were falling into a small black hole and you made it past the edge, what's called the event horizon, space would be warped so dramatically that your feet would be pulled in faster than your head.
That's basically what I knew before speaking to James.
It's the way you'll often see black holes presented in movies like Interstellar or High Life or Star Trek.
Black holes suck in light.
They stretch things out.
They're not exactly fun places to be.
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