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Minisode 5: Scary Math

Minisode 5: Scary Math

Update: 2017-09-292
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In a scary time, in a scary world, in a scary universe, NASA astronomer Andrew Booth says one of the things that frightens him most is math.



Specifically, the power of mathematics to describe the universe.



That’s because, beyond the comforting world of Newtonian physics, math gets mind-bendingly weird. So from the relative safety of their backyard hot tub, Dr. Michelle Thaller and Booth (who happen to be married) try to sort out what it really means to live not in just three dimensions, but in eleven — as mathematics now tells us we do.



Join us in the hot tub as we turn on the jets, get wet, and weird…and just a little freaked out.



Orbital Path is produced by David Schulman and edited by Andrea Mustain. Production oversight by John Barth and Genevieve Sponsler. Hosted by Michelle Thaller.



Photo: To see Michelle and Andrew in hot tub please use dimension 5.

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