#77 - Dr. Maura McLaughlin - Detecting the Ripples from Merging Supermassive Black Holes
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Episode 77 features Dr. Maura McLaughlin - an expert on pulsars and gravitational wave astronomy. We discuss gravitational waves, how we have detected them in the past, how we are trying to use pulsars to detect them within NANOGrav, the intricacies of neutron stars, supermassive black holes and much more!
Episode 86 features particle physicist and cosmologist Dr. Dan Hooper. We discuss the recent Muon g-2 experiment results and what they tell us about the potential for new physics!
Dan is a Senior Scientist and the Head of the Theoretical Astrophysics Group at the Fermi National Accelerator...
Published 05/24/21
Episode 85 features theoretical physicist Dr. Stephon Alexander who specializes in cosmology, particle physics and quantum gravity. We begin our conversation with an exploration of black holes, quantum mechanics, and string theory. After that, we discuss how physics suffers from a monoculture...
Published 03/28/21