Just a suggestion - It may help to encourage interview guests to use a microphone or purchase a cheap one. It's difficult to follow many of your brilliant guests because their audio is so rough.
@@Music--ng8cd CC does help with the video, but I listen to the content on the podcast. Perhaps there is a way that Fraser can check out and improve the audio before he and the guest launch into the full interview. If we cannot understand what the guest is saying, very little is gained. I think that it may be something as simple as requesting and requiring the guest to be within a foot of his/her device. What I typically hear is the effects of the noise canceling capabilities of the device trying to cope with the speaker’s voice from a distance of several feet. For example, the device is on a desk in front of the speaker and the speaker is sitting back in his/her chair. Just my opinion. Many thanks, however, to Fraser and his guests for their time and efforts to bring us these interesting interviews!
@@frasercain That could work. Perhaps also sharing example recordings with them of how people sound with/without a mic to help them see why it's important. And letting them know that owning a mic could serve them on future podcast speaking engagements and even Zoom calls.
Absolutely loved the interview. Just thinking, hypothetically, is the disturbance of intense magnetic fields the cause of FRB’s? Could this be an engine?
you and a bunch of other space nerds are my favorite peope to fall asleep to. you guys have such nice voices to fall asleep to and are so nice to listen to.
I can’t even properly convey how much I appreciate your unrelenting sharing content that pretty much every time captivates me. Many, mucho, jättemånga thanks 🙏😌
Our theory of gravity needs work, and also, I am not sure I believe the current concept of black holes either. Here's what bothers me, surely we have found at least some very large neutron stars that are close to the transition to a black hole, what does light behave like near these super massive neutron stars ? it must refract to extreme angles warping any light sources behind it, but does a black hole, just being a stronger source of gravity, make light behave any different ?. Also , is there any direct evidence for a neutron star actually "collapsing" when it becomes a black hole, or are they roughly the same volume after the transition ? I think back to organic chemistry with things like the resonance stabilized Benzene ring, and I wonder if all those protons and neutrons all smashed into each other are doing something similar, somehow sharing the strong force in a massive resonance structure and this prevents the mass from actually contracting.
Here's an article about the most massive neutron star ever seen: www.sciencenews.org/article/heaviest-neutron-star-mass-sun-record-black-holes It's feeding on a companion star so it might actually kick over into becoming a black hole.
I imagine having 4 telescopes that sit still for frbs would work quite well, just areas super quiet in the 4 corners of the globe just monitoring all around
Having listened to FRBs and worked as a community contributor detecting noise in LIGO, the FRB sound definitely has the same quickly-rising tone as a neutron star merger. Hadn't thought of it before, but very probable.
The universe are just like when you are hiking in the forest, just like walking up a hill just give you another hill to walk up you will just see more universe on the edge of the universe
Neutron stars colliding with stuff thrown out in all directions, nice animation and spectacular events of course, but do not Neutron stars contain strange matter? Do we really want this thrown out in the universe when we know strange matter change anything it touch to strange matter? Perhaps a droplet of strange matter hits Mars and prevent Elon Musk from building a colony there because no one want to be transformed into strange matter? Or, was it only a cool animation that is not showing how a collision between to Neutron stars really looks?
“Don’t worry, my audience will find it cool” - darn right we found it cool!! That’s why we’re here ❤ another great interview - thanks a million!!
Hah, yep.
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This year is turning out to be a really fun year for space. This month especially.
Knocked it out of the park again, sir! Fantastic interview. I always gain some knowledge from your interviews, thank you.
This explanation of FRBs is really satisfying. I hope it’s confirmed. Great interview, Fraser!
So FRBs solved before Fusion... good interview thanks
11:02 The question Fraser _actually_ wanted to ask is "What percentage of FRB do you think are signs of aliens doing something?"
All these interviews are most delightful throughout the weeks.
Just a suggestion - It may help to encourage interview guests to use a microphone or purchase a cheap one. It's difficult to follow many of your brilliant guests because their audio is so rough.
Yeah, I need to figure out a solution for this, maybe send them a microphone.
@@frasercain Turning on the captions helps
@@frasercain - if you choose to make such preparations, ask your interview objects to place their camera a little higher also
@@Music--ng8cd CC does help with the video, but I listen to the content on the podcast. Perhaps there is a way that Fraser can check out and improve the audio before he and the guest launch into the full interview. If we cannot understand what the guest is saying, very little is gained.
I think that it may be something as simple as requesting and requiring the guest to be within a foot of his/her device.
What I typically hear is the effects of the noise canceling capabilities of the device trying to cope with the speaker’s voice from a distance of several feet. For example, the device is on a desk in front of the speaker and the speaker is sitting back in his/her chair. Just my opinion.
Many thanks, however, to Fraser and his guests for their time and efforts to bring us these interesting interviews!
@@frasercain That could work. Perhaps also sharing example recordings with them of how people sound with/without a mic to help them see why it's important. And letting them know that owning a mic could serve them on future podcast speaking engagements and even Zoom calls.
Great interview, learned a lot about neutron stars
Square Kilometer Array will be super useful in studying these.
Absolutely loved the interview. Just thinking, hypothetically, is the disturbance of intense magnetic fields the cause of FRB’s? Could this be an engine?
Props for the Raj poster on the cupboard door. 😆
Well, the next time in which FRB's are Petrov's story of the day is never far away. Strong material in this one today!
Great interview! Very interesting.
you and a bunch of other space nerds are my favorite peope to fall asleep to. you guys have such nice voices to fall asleep to and are so nice to listen to.
Are my ears just super sensitive or is his mic picking up the Ss super strongly? It feels like radio bursts in my ears.
I can’t even properly convey how much I appreciate your unrelenting sharing content that pretty much every time captivates me. Many, mucho, jättemånga thanks 🙏😌
великое множество THANKS .. ??
do you think white holes exists? and what are your thoughts on it?
Our theory of gravity needs work, and also, I am not sure I believe the current concept of black holes either. Here's what bothers me, surely we have found at least some very large neutron stars that are close to the transition to a black hole, what does light behave like near these super massive neutron stars ? it must refract to extreme angles warping any light sources behind it, but does a black hole, just being a stronger source of gravity, make light behave any different ?. Also , is there any direct evidence for a neutron star actually "collapsing" when it becomes a black hole, or are they roughly the same volume after the transition ? I think back to organic chemistry with things like the resonance stabilized Benzene ring, and I wonder if all those protons and neutrons all smashed into each other are doing something similar, somehow sharing the strong force in a massive resonance structure and this prevents the mass from actually contracting.
Here's an article about the most massive neutron star ever seen: www.sciencenews.org/article/heaviest-neutron-star-mass-sun-record-black-holes
It's feeding on a companion star so it might actually kick over into becoming a black hole.
Question: Why is this? 39:20 "...and of course the southern hemisphere is a great place to study our own galaxy"
Sorry I missed this! It's because the centre of our galaxy is in the Southern Hemisphere, so more of the galaxy is visible to telescopes in the South.
I imagine having 4 telescopes that sit still for frbs would work quite well, just areas super quiet in the 4 corners of the globe just monitoring all around
Four corners of a globe, is where ya lost me.
There's at least one project being planned to do just this, to try to monitor all parts of the sky all the time! Though I think they aim for three
@Chad Schrader use your imagination a little and you'll get there, I can't really draw it for ya
Have to admit, I chuckled at "corners of the globe". But I think I know what you're getting at.
@michael blacktree it's also an extremely old term that's still used today
What about a cloud of satellites, like StarLink but above Geostationary altitude but just listening for FRBs and the like?
Having listened to FRBs and worked as a community contributor detecting noise in LIGO, the FRB sound definitely has the same quickly-rising tone as a neutron star merger. Hadn't thought of it before, but very probable.
We've all missed the point.
FRBs are the triggers and the repeaters are the track sync for the music of the spheres.
Ayo! We got a local on! Yes!
Really bad sound quality.
I’m curious as to what the amplitude is on these frbs
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So why did astronomers keep the location of the first neutron star merger secret, to stop tourists going there?
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wow!
When they say the edge of the universe, how do they make sure that there is the edge and what is beyond it?
The universe are just like when you are hiking in the forest, just like walking up a hill just give you another hill to walk up you will just see more universe on the edge of the universe
nice
Neutron stars colliding with stuff thrown out in all directions, nice animation and spectacular events of course, but do not Neutron stars contain strange matter?
Do we really want this thrown out in the universe when we know strange matter change anything it touch to strange matter? Perhaps a droplet of strange matter hits Mars and prevent Elon Musk from building a colony there because no one want to be transformed into strange matter?
Or, was it only a cool animation that is not showing how a collision between to Neutron stars really looks?