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These Vibes are Too Cosmic

Jul 20, 2022 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

With DJ AskTheQuestion

The Ancient Stars Are on Fire

Danger!!! 13 billion years to go!!!

These Vibes are Too Cosmic
10:00 AM
Marianne Nowottny - Grey City
Marianne Nowottny Grey City Marianne Nowottny
Afraid of Me Abaton Book Company 1999
10:05 AM
JPEGMAFIA - 1539 N. Calvert (excerpt)
JPEGMAFIA 1539 N. Calvert (excerpt) JPEGMAFIA
Veteran 2018
10:07 AM
Set Break: Show Intro & quick announcement on a long fast radio burst
10:11 AM
Psychic Teens - No
Psychic Teens No Psychic Teens
Come SRA Records 2013
10:15 AM
The Soviettes - Blue Stars
The Soviettes Blue Stars The Soviettes
Lp Rad Girlfriend Records 2003
10:17 AM
Moor Mother - Woody Shaw (feat. Melanie Charles)
Moor Mother Woody Shaw (feat. Melanie Charles) Moor Mother N
Jazz Codes Anti/Epitaph 2022
10:19 AM
Set Break: Fields Medalist Maryna Viazovska and spheres in 8 dimensions

How do you pack a lot of higher-dimensional objects in a box??

Find out and you could WIN BIG (like Maryna Viazovska)

https://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/IMU/Prizes/Fie...

For insight on the "magic" function that makes these problems much easier to prove:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/universal-math-solu...

10:32 AM
Joanna Newsom - Sapokanikan
Joanna Newsom Sapokanikan Joanna Newsom
Divers Drag City 2015
10:37 AM
Human Adult Band - This Will Happen Again in a Year and a Half
Human Adult Band This Will Happen Again in a Year and a Half Human Adult Band
Sonic Enlightenment Third Uncle Records 2018
10:39 AM
Set Break: The "James Webb" Space Telescope is miraculously, magically snapping its first shots

For this reason and a few others, it is a great time to be alive!

Webb Telescope view of the star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina nebula

Why is it useful to see into the infrared? Because HISTORY

10:50 AM
Spowder - Tower
Spowder Tower Spowder
Live on WPRB WPRB Studios 2019
10:52 AM
Jennifer O'Connor - Sister
Jennifer O'Connor Sister Jennifer O'Connor
Jennifer O'Connor Kiam Records 2002
10:56 AM
Cheri Knight - Primary Colors
Cheri Knight Primary Colors N
American Rituals Freedom To Spend 2022
Compilation of Cheri's work over the decades; this song originally from 1982
11:02 AM
11:10 AM
Invalid Sisters - Side A
Invalid Sisters Side A Invalid Sisters
Invalid Sisters (Part 1 Of 2) - EP Youuoy Records 2020
11:18 AM
Set Break: According to krypton and xenon measurements of the middle of Mars, it formed backwards

We thought the heavier isotopes should be on the Martian outside, but they're actually inside! Weird.

Maybe it happened like this? https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk117...

science.abk1175-f4.jpg

11:28 AM
E.V.O.E. - I Don't Wanna Give Up Your Love
E.V.O.E. I Don't Wanna Give Up Your Love N
Ciao Italia. Generazioni Underground Vol. 2 V/A Rebirth 2022
11:33 AM
Dramarama - Anything, Anything
Dramarama Anything, Anything Dramarama
Cinema Verite Question Mark/ Harvey Star 1985
11:37 AM
Set Break: Better ways to make bacteriophages that eat whatever bacteria you want

Typical bacteriophage structure. | Download Scientific Diagram

Gil Gregor Westmeyer, a medical doctor and biological engineer at the Technical University of Munich
Just use bacteria guts, get rid of the cell wall
https://www.science.org/content/article/there-s-now-cleaner-better-way-create-viruses-kill-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria

11:45 AM
Kelley Stoltz - Empty Kicks
Kelley Stoltz Empty Kicks Kelley Stoltz
Que Aura Castle Face 2017
11:50 AM
OHDYA - Przysposobienie Do Życia W Bólu
OHDYA Przysposobienie Do Życia W Bólu N
Pan Bóg Spełni Wszystkie Pragnienia Lewaków... I Dojdzie Do Katastrofy! La Vida Es un Mus 2022
11:53 AM
Set Break: Starquakes and their implications for the magnetic fields within
Azimuthal velocity structure for m = −1, ℓ = 2 waves with frequencies $f=0.872\ {\rm d}^{-1}$ (left-hand panel; npg = −15) and $f=0.840\ {\rm d}^{-1}$ (right-hand panel; npg = −16) in the inertial frame, assuming a dipole magnetic field with $B_\mathrm{r}=4.68\times 10^5 \, {\rm G}$ at r = 0.18R⋆. The top panels show the incoming waves, and bottom panels show outgoing waves. The lower frequency wave, corresponding to the unobserved npg = −16 mode, interacts strongly with the magnetic field when it enters into chemical composition gradient region, triggering a latitudinally localized resonant AW. The AW is calculated only at a single radius near the radiative-convective interface, but is plotted over a range of radii to give a sense of its structure.

Magnetic fields in stars suck up some of the starquake frequencies

That means you can watch these vibrations to learn how the inside of a star works!

Daniel Lecoanet, Northwestern U and UC Santa Barbara

https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article-abstract/512/1/L16/6526877

11:57 AM
Noveller - Rainbows
Noveller Rainbows Noveller
Red Rainbows No Fun Productions 2009
Chat is archived.
Brian (host) 10:01:00 AM
Dearest Community Members, Unite!
Tomi Tyrrell 10:08:12 AM
Yessss math
Tomi Tyrrell 10:08:27 AM
Go sphere packing
Brian (host) 10:12:49 AM
Your request did not go unheeded Tomi! Fields Medal coverage coming up!
Brian (host) 10:33:52 AM
Constructive criticism on my description of abstract concepts is extremely welcome!
Tomi Tyrrell 10:35:05 AM
it's hard when you can't draw pictures
Tomi Tyrrell 10:35:12 AM
I liked the hockey rink analogy
Brian (host) 10:37:50 AM
I guess that's the closest I got to drawing a picture!
Tomi Tyrrell 10:41:40 AM
Just Wonderful Space Telescope
Tomi Tyrrell 10:42:06 AM
my astrophysicist friend only refers to it by acronym
Brian (host) 10:51:12 AM
I like that a lot better!
Andy Wing 10:58:58 AM
Just tuning in. This shows 2022 as the release year, but it sounds very familiar somehow.
Moka Khan 11:09:05 AM
listening and lurking
Brian (host) 11:11:10 AM
Thank for joining, Andy and Moka! Andy, I appreciate the "correction" of sorts
Andy Wing 11:13:28 AM
OK, my memory was jogged there. Thom Dura played stuff like this on the old Directions in Music show in the 80's.
Brian (host) 11:14:17 AM
Glad to bring back the canon!
Freddie Furia 11:45:42 AM
i would eat E coli paste personally
Brian (host) 11:46:23 AM
all the protein you need, delivered harmlessly to your gut
JimBo Askalot! 11:50:34 AM
DJ AskThe?; how would I contact you about my research coming around to name Joseph Henry as one of the originators of the Greenhouse Effect? I have found this thru studying Eunice Foote and finding much more to her science than known before.
Brian (host) 11:51:38 AM
Sounds neat, JimBo! you could put info here, or you could put your email and I'll reach out
JimBo Askalot! 11:51:39 AM
Also can you plug the historic speech on ClimChang the Pres. will give today?
JimBo Askalot! 11:53:06 AM
This makes Princeton deeply rooted to World Climate Day, Aug 23. Celebrating our 6th year 2022.
Guelove 11:54:42 AM
lets go Joe get at it we need it
Guelove 11:54:54 AM
noice song last one was
JimBo Askalot! 11:55:00 AM
jimbo.daily@aol.com
JimBo Askalot! 11:58:33 AM
AWESOME explainers DJ AskThe?!!! You've got such a great talent for that!
Brian (host) 11:59:25 AM
Thanks JimBo, thanks Guelove! I am glad I can get something across to all of you nice people. See you next time!