Modern WisdomA New Kind Of Matter | Professor Paul Steinhardt
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EPISODE INFO
- Released
- March 18, 2019
- Duration
- 1h 9m
- Channel
- Modern Wisdom
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Professor Paul Steinhardt is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist at Princeton University, Director of the Princeton Centre for Theoretical Science and an author. Despite Professor Steinhardt's resume reading like a scientist, today's story is closer to that of a crime detective novel than a research project. Join us on a rollercoaster tale as we travel across the world with Professor Steinhardt and his team in search of a new kind of matter. Expect to meet some crafty Russians, an old lady in Amsterdam, a Romanian man called Tim and an asteroid that no one ever new existed. More Stuff: The Second Kind Of Impossible - https://amzn.to/2CqhiQX Professor Steinhardt's Website - https://paulsteinhardt.org/ - Listen to all episodes online. Search "Modern Wisdom" on any Podcast App or click here: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/modern-wisdom/id1347973549 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XrOqvxlqQI6bmdYHuIVnr?si=iUpczE97SJqe1kNdYBipnw Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/modern-wisdom - I want to hear from you!! Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Email: modernwisdompodcast@gmail.com
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Chris Williamson
hostProfessor Paul Steinhardt
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EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Modern Wisdom, featuring Chris Williamson and Professor Paul Steinhardt, A New Kind Of Matter | Professor Paul Steinhardt explores cosmic Quasicrystals: The Meteorite Mystery That Rewrote Solid Matter Professor Paul Steinhardt explains the discovery of quasicrystals, a fundamentally new form of ordered matter once thought mathematically impossible under the classical rules of crystallography. By allowing multiple building blocks arranged in a non-repeating (quasi-periodic) way, he and his student showed that forbidden symmetries, like fivefold patterns, can in fact exist—and were soon matched by an accidental laboratory discovery.
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