Starts With A Bang — June 29, 2016

New Starts With A Bang Podcast: Interstellar Travel

Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all

And the wisdom from an exclusive interview with Larry Niven.

Ever since humanity had the thought that the distant, twinkling stars might be Suns like our own, with their own planetary systems and chances at life, we’ve dreamed of extending humanity’s reach to the galaxy and beyond. What are our actual chances of doing so, technologically, scientifically and practically? This podcast — based on an exclusive interview with Larry Niven — explores what’s possible.

The new Starts With A Bang Podcast, on interstellar travel, is now live and free to listen-and-download for all!

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Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all

Bright cosmic explosion with flames and smoke surrounded by stars against a dark, starry background.

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Starts With A Bang podcast #111 – Black hole jets

Black holes are the most massive individual objects, spanning up to a light-day across. So how do they make jets that affect the cosmic web?

Two observatory domes under a starry night sky, with the Milky Way visible, form a stunning backdrop as an optical interferometer captures the universe's secrets.

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Starts With A Bang podcast #110 – Optical Interferometry

Interferometry gave us a black hole’s event horizon, but that was in the radio. What can we accomplish with a new optical interferometer?

A detailed image of two galaxies in space, one with spiral arms on the left and the other, more elliptical, on the right, surrounded by distant stars.

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Starts With A Bang Podcast #109 – Launching a galactic cone

Galactic activity doesn’t just arrive when supermassive black holes feast on matter. Before, during, and after all create fascinating signs.

A computer-generated visualization shows particle collision data with yellow lines and red dots against a black background. The simulated particles appear to interact within a transparent geometric shape.

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Starts With A Bang podcast #108 – A future particle collider

Today, the Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful particle physics experiment in history. What would a new, successor collider teach us?

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Starts With A Bang podcast #107 – Binary stars and modified gravity

The standard picture of our Universe is that it’s dominated by dark matter and dark energy. But this alternative is also worth considering.

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