Podcaster: Host : Fraser Cain ; Guest: Dr. Paul Halpern, Dr. Nick Castle, Allen Versfeld
Title: Weekly Space Hangout – Flashes of Creation by Dr. Paul Halpern: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, & the Great Big Bang Debate
Link: Cosmoquest: http://cosmoquest.org
Description:
Today’s story:
- Water on Mars…
- Giant exoplanets!
- How quickly the Moon cooled.
[Editor Rich: I’m sorry about the many, many audio dropouts in the feed today. We’ll look into the cause and try to address the problem. Thank you for understanding!]
Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guest: This week we welcome Dr. Paul Halpern, professor of physics at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. His new book, “Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate” brings to life one of the greatest clashes of ideas in the history of science.
Dr. Paul Halpern is a professor of physics at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia and the author of seventeen popular science books, including The Quantum Labyrinth, Einstein’s Dice and Schrödinger’s Cat, and Synchronicity. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He lives near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Be sure to follow Paul on Twitter (https://twitter.com/phalpern) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/DrPaulHalpern/).
Regular Guests:
- Dr. Nick Castle ( @PlanetaryGeoDoc )
- Allen Versfeld ( http://www.urban-astronomer.com & @uastronomer )
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