Episode 15: Music From Before Time with Ted Leo
Posted May 13, 2012 by bn
This is the Picture of Temperatures/Densities in the Cosmic Microwave Background. It was taken by the WMAP satellite!
Okay. So. Today’s Episode is MONUMENTAL. Both in terms of the ambitious scope of our topic, and the awesome guest!
Lets say I build you a nice time machine, and I send you back to the very early universe. Back when the universe was just a bath of electrons and protons and photons bouncing around: a plasma. You would hear a sound (Hey look! the sound has been recreated and posted to the internet!). And when the universe cooled enough, and the electrons and protons coupled up; these sound waves turned into the centers of gravitational collapse: forming galactic superclusters.
In other words: Music provided the blueprints for the structure of the universe. MONUMENTAL!
ALSO. our guest today is the Indie Punk Rocker, our guest is TED LEO! the guy from the intro-song (Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead)! Ted is super smart, and this show is awesome! A music video on his newest album is notorious! Buy his ALBUMS, follow him on twitter, go see him play, and tell him Ben sent you!
Physicists: Michael Zemcov, Vicky Scowcroft
Intro Music: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Exit Music: John Vanderslice
Transcript: Ep_15_Music_From_Before_Time
