Thank you dear Sean and Happy New Year. I’m nearly 52 now and for the last 2 decades at least you and your contemporaries showed me how mind-blowingly incredible our Universe is. I’ll always be most grateful ✨🦋
Who would have thought that Covid was going to create this wonderful channel. When you first started posting I really thought you would get back to your normal life right after pandemic, or even before the pandemic ends. But here we are, years later. You worked hard and rarely missed a week. Your channel contain so much information now its incredible. It will be useful for a lot of people. I really like you because you think exactly like me on everything in life. But you are less emotional and come up with great reflections which often calm my anger of the world we live in right now. Cheers
Thank you for this episode. A bit of a niche field but listening to Dr. Curtis you begin to appreciate the actual scope of nuclear synthesis. It was a pleasure to listen in on your conversation. I'm full of respect and admiration for Dr Curtis and her work, a great addition to the Mindscape guest list for sure.
Somehow this topic isnt as prevalent in the public domain as perhaps particle physics or quantum mechanics or the standard model, black holes etc even though it's so fundamental! Thank you both so very much Sean and Sanjana, you are both so talented at science communication and such charming people to listen to as well. I actually learned a lot and got to fill in some gaps in the overall big picture of cosmology and astrophysics. Neither of you both ever dare to be anything other than yourselves, because we need you! Thank you so much again and happy 2024!
(11:56) From what I have seen in the documentries, red on web and watched on other youtube videos, the first atom(of hydrogen) was formed around 380,000 years after the big-bang in the process known as recombination.
An electron/positron pair can annihilate each other creating two photons. Equally the reverse interaction can occur where two photons come together to create an electron/positron pair.
Photons have energy and are the force carriers for electromagnetism. Therefore, they can interact. Remember energy and mass are equivalent, so it doesn’t matter that photons are massless.)
The question I ask my self when thinking about the elements is, when do they form the structure of a human beings? Is it before the sperm fertilizes the egg? Or is it in the process Embryogenesis? Because it’s not just oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium. There’s even 0.2 mg of gold in our body.
⚛ Happy new year. Nobody says Herzsprung Russel Diagram anymore... Maybe some branches. Nucleosynthesis, beyond classes... Generations of stars? 🤔 Some of us are old... 🙏 ✨ 53:20 😅
Loved this episode! I’ve had a real interest in post-Big Bang nucleosynthesis for several years now, much of I knew about in disjointed bits. Your & Dr. Curtis’ discussion really filled in a lot of gaps.
This was maybe the most frustrating episode of the podcast! The topic is absolutely fascinating! There were multiple thoughts throughout that weren't fleshed out. I would have liked a little more explanation on basically everything that was said. I am sure she was just nervous, but it seemed like every explanation had to be forced out of her be Sean. Multiple time he explained what she said. I am sure she knows her stuff, but I am doubtful of her abilities as a science communicator. She was also hard to understand at multiple points, because she wasn't pronouncing things clearly. This topic has so much potential. I hope Sean gets a guest who is in this field too but is more willing to explain the intricacies. I would love to hear that.
People have to start somewhere. Nothing wrong with constructive feedback, but you can’t have fully formed perfect performers in every instance. This kind of reminds me of people refusing to be seen by medical students/junior doctors… not sustainable long term.
I agree. I still listened to it. Almost enjoyed it :-) In all seriousness, I would have really loved more information on this topic. It is really fascinating!@@rjScubaSki