Released: 25 January 2018
Duration: 21 minutes, 51 seconds
A hundred years ago cosmologists were struggling to understand the nature and structure of the universe, and at the heart of this struggle was the island universe hypothesis. Today we find ourselves confronted with a similar question posed at a far greater scale. As we confront these great questions of cosmology, whether a hundred years ago or today, we find ourselves faced with as many philosophical questions as scientific questions when we challenge the boundaries of our understanding. In Part II we focus on cosmological scales of time and what this means for human observation of a very old universe.
Links:Writer and Host: Nick Nielsen
Voiceover and Producer: Paul Carr
Music: Jason Robinson
Season 3, Episode 5 - Catching Tabby's Star in the Act
Season 3 Episode 4 - Tabby's Star for the Perplexed, part 3
Burst 16 - Tabby's Star for the Perplexed, Part 2.
Burst 15 - Nick Nielsen on the Social Context of SETI
Burst 14 - Jason Hessels on the Repeating Fast Radio Burst
Burst 13 - Tabby's Star for the Perplexed, Part 1
Burst 12 - Nick Nielsen on SETI as a Process of Elimination
Burst 11- DASCH Photometry with Dr. Josh Grindlay
Episode 27 - The Slow and Fast Dimming of Tabby's Star
Burst 10 - Nick Nielsen on the Wilderness Hypothesis
Burst 9 - The Halos of Vanished Civilizations
Burst 8 - Questions about Asteroid Mining
Episode 26 - Martin Elvis on the Science of Asteroid Mining
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Burst 7 - Why Interstellar space flight is hard.
Episode 25 - Breakthrough Listen
Burst 6 - The Caves of the Moon
Burst 5 - What about these FRBs?
Episode 24 - SETI at the SKA
Burst 4 - Upper Limits
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