Do Colliding Pulsars Create All of the Universe’s Gold? | Cosmic Queries #112

The moon is always full. You just can't always see it. I've been saying that for years and am grateful that someone who knows what the heck he's talking about backs it up.

This is an excellent show. Thank you you both.

This isn't a congressional hearing, Neil. It's okay to answer the actual questions that are asked.

Great segment! Dr. Tyson is spot on that we need these edge case ideas to keep us uncomfortable enough to make new discoveries. The concept of time being emergent becomes incredibly concrete when you look at it as a physical baseline. If time is simply the macroscopic tracking of sequential state updates driven by the smallest gravitational particles, produced at a structural black hole threshold to give our specific scale its mass. Then it isn’t a sci fi illusion at all. It is just the natural clock rate of deterministic structural mechanics. Thought provoking discussion!

Six minutes in and I felt the urge to let you all know I've been watching startalk for about two years and I've learned more than I've learned in my other sixty years❤️ I'm so happy I share your existence my giant brained brother!

17:00 I believe she is asking about a super conducting train. Only one exists and it is in Japan. Mag-lev trains have wheels that do make contact with the rail, they just do it from the bottom of the rail and the magnets do relieve a part of the load.

The one super conducting train is fascinating, no part touches after it "takes off" from its wheels at about 60 mph. You should check it out.

EDIT: I wanted to be clear I am talking specifically about the unique SCMAGLEV L0 Series train, the one and only SUPER CONDUCTING maglev on Earth. It is owned by the Central Japan Railroad Company. It's literally built different zooming along at a record breaking 590 km/h (367 mph). This isn't the maglev you find in Disneyland.

8:00 fueling stations. Wait until you taste their sushi.

If you want to watch cat videos 24/7 on the other side of the Moon, you'll need a relay station.

The intro to this podcast is impeccable compared to the rest!!

Gonna upgrade my website to a spacesite

The cross over between Star Talk and NPR is beautiful ❤🎉

Last 2 episodes the editor has been brilliant on the cold-opens.

📖 Space Relay Networks and 1G Acceleration (0:00 - 8:34)
├─ 2:08 Micro Satellite Relay Networks
├─ 3:53 Interplanetary Travel Speed and G-Force Limits
└─ 5:53 Space Travel Fueling and Refueling Challenges
📖 Physics Laws vs Technological Limits (8:34 - 15:03)
├─ 11:07 Physics Laws Failures and Newton vs Einstein
└─ 13:32 Exponential Tech Growth and Mars Feasibility
📖 Red Shift Physics and Maglev Trains (15:03 - 20:53)
├─ 16:41 UFOs, Physics, and Redshift Explained
└─ 18:28 Doppler Effect and Spectral Shifts
📖 Redshift, Big Bang, and Moon Myths (20:53 - 28:42)
├─ 23:06 Moon's Influence on Human Biology
├─ 25:02 Moon Phases, Gravity, and Tides Explained
└─ 26:49 Debunking Full Moon Effects on Tides and Behavior
📖 Debunking Full Moon Myths and LIGO (28:42 - 34:03)
└─ 32:01 LIGO Gravitational Wave Detection Verification
📖 Gravitational Wave Discoveries and Cosmic Mysteries (34:03 - 41:33)
├─ 36:39 Colliding Pulsars and Heavy Element Formation
└─ 37:57 Future Cosmic Questions and Martian Life
📖 Time Emergence and AI Naturalness (41:33 - 50:05)
├─ 42:48 Emergent Time and Quantum Gravity
├─ 44:39 Time as Dimension and Physics Discovery
├─ 45:59 Artificial Intelligence as Natural Evolution

I just like listening to Neil talk tbh he’s kinda calming

Here I was, thinking that mag-lev was common knowledge.

Always good to be reminded of the fact everything we learn about the universe just leads to smarter questions.

When I saw the podcast advertised with "Why do strange things happen under a full moon?", my first reaction was "Because it would be strange if they took that time off." :)

If an alien ever asks me to bring them to my leader, I'll bring them to Neil.

After seeing his reaction to her question about the laws of physics being wrong I really want to see an interview with Philomena Cunk now

When my mom was in college...early to mid 40's...her science professor spoke about the eventuality of space flight and moon landing. The poor guy was publicly fired and then permanently blacklisted. She shared this with me as we were 'watching' the moon landing on our family radio.