The Lumpy Universe with Prof. David Kaiser
[MUSIC PLAYING] DAVID KAISER: Rockets, incredibly powerful clocks-- soon, lasers-- what hasn't been impacted by these things? SARAH HANSEN: Today on Chalk Radio, my guest is David Kaiser, a professor in the physics department at MIT, who also teaches the history of science. His course, Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics in the 20th Century was recently shared on MIT OpenCourseWare. Professor Kaiser is such an interesting person to get to interview. Simply thinking about how to interview someone responsible for teaching the history of, well, everything from the Big Bang to how hippies saved physics-- and, yep, that is the title of one of his books-- was humbling. There was so much here that we wanted to share with you, so we decided to air this interview in its near entirety. Professor Kaiser explains the earliest moments of the universe and how those moments help us understand our current night sky. We talk about how culture, politics, and even physical spaces sh...