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Paul Mecurio

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
252 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

Even though you're in the same place, yeah. While we're sitting here, I'm here, you're running by, we look up at the Andromeda at the same time, and we're seeing something from the same location, essentially. We're seeing things days apart. Days apart. And that leads to the idea of what is now, and your now and my now are two different nows. There is no now. No, there is now. There's always now.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

Even though you're in the same place, yeah. While we're sitting here, I'm here, you're running by, we look up at the Andromeda at the same time, and we're seeing something from the same location, essentially. We're seeing things days apart. Days apart. And that leads to the idea of what is now, and your now and my now are two different nows. There is no now. No, there is now. There's always now.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

I've never gotten heckled from the left and the right at the same time.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

I've never gotten heckled from the left and the right at the same time.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

It was about gravitational waves, wondering can they also alter time? If a huge collision occurred near our solar system, how would we feel them? Would we be alive to physically notice?

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

It was about gravitational waves, wondering can they also alter time? If a huge collision occurred near our solar system, how would we feel them? Would we be alive to physically notice?

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

But there are a whole host of, it's an infinite number of things that could cause a gravitational wave, right? But actually, wait, wait, wait.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

But there are a whole host of, it's an infinite number of things that could cause a gravitational wave, right? But actually, wait, wait, wait.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

All right, we're going to move on. Can we do a lightning round? Yeah, absolutely. We got some great ones. Here we go. Okay, go. Lightning round, dude.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

All right, we're going to move on. Can we do a lightning round? Yeah, absolutely. We got some great ones. Here we go. Okay, go. Lightning round, dude.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

Yes, exactly. Right, right. Yeah, okay, here we go. I've always been bothered by physicists' preoccupation with

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

Yes, exactly. Right, right. Yeah, okay, here we go. I've always been bothered by physicists' preoccupation with

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

with conservation of information especially in regard to particles falling into a black hole firstly it sounds more like a philosophical position than one derived from through mathematics or scientific method correct me secondly mr heisenberg taught us that one can never know all information about a particle thus can't we consider that information to never have existed in the first place and thus can't be destroyed i i have one thing for alan alan if you're gonna

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

with conservation of information especially in regard to particles falling into a black hole firstly it sounds more like a philosophical position than one derived from through mathematics or scientific method correct me secondly mr heisenberg taught us that one can never know all information about a particle thus can't we consider that information to never have existed in the first place and thus can't be destroyed i i have one thing for alan alan if you're gonna

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

ask a question on acid, you got to send the tablets to us too so we can be on the same wavelength and answer the question. Tablets? Go. You mean tabs. There you go. There we go. There we go. Alan Geist, go ahead and answer that question.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

ask a question on acid, you got to send the tablets to us too so we can be on the same wavelength and answer the question. Tablets? Go. You mean tabs. There you go. There we go. There we go. Alan Geist, go ahead and answer that question.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

I don't know. It's like in China. Wait, you mean they'd say like, you know, Paul McCure, the guy with the dark hair? Yeah, exactly.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

I don't know. It's like in China. Wait, you mean they'd say like, you know, Paul McCure, the guy with the dark hair? Yeah, exactly.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

See, I do it with voice. Like, you know, Neil Tyson. He talks like James Earl Jones. I do it like that. You do it basically... This is CNN.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

See, I do it with voice. Like, you know, Neil Tyson. He talks like James Earl Jones. I do it like that. You do it basically... This is CNN.