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Alex Filippenko is an astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at Berkeley. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(06:36) - Universe expansion
(08:00) - Dark energy
(15:28) - Scientific revolutions
(27:18) - Asteroid hitting Earth
(30:50) - Giant solar flares and the power grid
(37:50) - Elon Musk and space exploration
(42:41) - Exoplanets
(50:03) - Traveling close to the speed of light
(52:13) - Traveling faster than the speed of light
(1:00:39) - Intelligent life in the universe
(1:04:14) - Fermi Paradox
(1:13:52) - Finding alien life would be bad news
(1:18:49) - UFO sightings
(1:31:58) - Universe expansion speed
(1:36:42) - The universe is infinite
(1:40:58) - What happened before the Big Bang?
(1:45:14) - Roger Penrose
(1:48:48) - Nobel Prize for the accelerating universe
(2:10:23) - Supernova
(2:21:47) - The greatest story ever told
(2:25:44) - Richard Feynman
(2:32:37) - Meaning of life