Episode 29: Dark Equivalence with Alasdair Stuart
Posted Feb 11, 2013 by bn
Do you remember where you were on the night when Danny Devito hugged his twin brother Arnold Schwarzenegger goodbye, climbed into to super-rocket, and departed for alpha centauri? Do you remember what you were doing when you heard, so many decades later, that he had returned? and do you remember seeing the photos of the reunited twins in the newspapers the next day? How old Arnold looked, while Danny Devito hadn’t aged more than a few months? Remember how sad the two men looked next to each other: one shrunken with age, and the other also quite short?
This week, we are talking about time and black holes. About drinking alone in dark rooms. About how there’s no difference between falling and floating. About lonely twin brothers, displaced in time from one-another. about how GPS works.
This week our guest is Alasdair Stuart, a man of letters. You might recognize Alasdair as the host of the pseudopod podcast, wherein horror stories are read aloud by talented people (who can somehow abstain from doing bad impressions of bela lugosi the whole time). Alasdair has compiled his essays from pseudopod, and has published them as a collection. I am a big fan of these essays, and Alasdair is a super cool guy.
This weeks episode is one of the best we’ve recorded so far. It’s a fun topic with fun people. listen past the end song to hear a conversation where we explain general relativity to Alasdair. OH! FUN!
Physicists: Dave Tsang, Jocelyn Read
Intro Music: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Exit Music: John Vanderslice
