heretics. | andrew gold

200. Black holes: the weirdest things in the universe

Becky Smethurst is an astrophysicist, author and youtuber with a huge channel called Dr. Becky. She has won all sorts of prizes in physics and astronomy, but her best ability is being able to break down that complex stuff into enjoyable, accessible and easy to understand bites for lay people like us.
She talks today about what would happen if you fell into a black hole, what the science of Interstellar gets wrong, the movie, and what will happen at the end of the universe.

Rebecca Smethurst links:
https://rebeccasmethurst.co.uk
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B1DTJSH9/
https://twitter.com/drbecky_
https://www.youtube.com/c/DrBecky

Andrew Gold links:
http://youtube.com/andrewgold1
http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok
http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok
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What makes you a heretic? Journalist Andrew Gold believes that, in an age of group-think and tribes, we need heretics - those who use unconventional wisdom to speak out against their own groups, from cancelled comedians and radical feminists to cult defectors and vigilantes hunting deviants.

Learn from my guests how to rebel, think differently and resist social contagion. From Triggernometry's Francis Foster and the world's most cancelled man Graham Linehan to ex-Hasidic Jew Julia Haart and gender critical atheist Richard Dawkins. These are the people living with the weight of their own community's disappointment on their shoulders.