Speaker 1: Welcome once again to the Doctor Sky Experience heard exclusively
Speaker 1: here on Talk Radio seventy seven w ABC, the crown
Speaker 1: Jewel of radio. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, as we move
Speaker 1: through time and space, welcome to the Doctor Sky Sky
Speaker 1: Events Calendar, episode number twenty. As we wrap up mostly
Speaker 1: month number three, March twenty twenty three, and moving in
Speaker 1: to April.
Speaker 2: Month number four.
Speaker 1: That's Ryan, the crown Jewel of radio here Talk Radio
Speaker 1: seventy seven WABC with the Doctor Sky Experience. We naturally
Speaker 1: begin with the moon, and as we move past the
Speaker 1: mid portion of March twenty twenty three, we find the
Speaker 1: moon in its new phase, the dark of the Moon.
Speaker 2: On the twenty first Why do I mention it?
Speaker 1: This, in my opinion, is the best time naturally to
Speaker 1: view faint sky objects. As we look into our late
Speaker 1: March skyes, what can you see? Well, if you have
Speaker 1: a dark location away from city lights, you should be
Speaker 1: able to see some amazing sights. Take a good look,
Speaker 1: and we also offer up a star map for your convenience.
Speaker 1: Simply go to skymaps dot com and download your very
Speaker 1: own personalized star chart. On there you can see the
Speaker 1: great winter constellation of Orion, the Hunter, the most brilliant
Speaker 1: star in the heavens, the stars Sirius in Canus Major,
Speaker 1: the large dog some eight point six light years away,
Speaker 1: among a host of other amazing objects. Let me find
Speaker 1: out that the moon then continues to move on as
Speaker 1: a waxing crescent low into the western part of the sky.
Speaker 1: Pay attention on the evenings of both March the twenty
Speaker 1: second and the twenty fourth, as the moon, once again
Speaker 1: in a new cycle, glinds past the planet Jupiter, and
Speaker 1: then on the twenty fourth, as it passes the goddess
Speaker 1: of love and beauty herself, the planet Venus.
Speaker 2: So much to talk about in our skies.
Speaker 1: The moon, of course, that it's farthest position from the
Speaker 1: Earth during this particular month. As we move toward the
Speaker 1: thirty first, wrapping up March, well, as we talk about
Speaker 1: things in the nighttime sky, let's also talk about some
Speaker 1: of the things that are going on in the world
Speaker 1: of news and astronomy. And a lot of that, ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, has to do.
Speaker 2: With the subject of quantum physics.
Speaker 1: We've all heard that the so called Big Bang, which
Speaker 1: I like very far more accurately as the Big Expansion
Speaker 1: without a doubt happened some thirteen point seven seven billion
Speaker 1: years ago. What does that mean? So every single thing
Speaker 1: you me, the telephone, the table, the food you see,
Speaker 1: the car you drive, everything is made, as Carl.
Speaker 2: Sagan said, native star stuff.
Speaker 1: But in the universe there's more other amazing conundrums, strange things.
Speaker 1: We find out that the universe is made of twenty
Speaker 1: two percent at least dark matter. It's an invisible component
Speaker 1: of gravity, and of course it's not seen. So great
Speaker 1: astronomers like Vira Rubin help us understand the concept of
Speaker 1: dark matter, something that astronomers are still confused about. Nobody
Speaker 1: simply really knows what the answer is. And then we
Speaker 1: have something called dark energy. Of all of our universe,
Speaker 1: some seventy four percent is made up of this magical
Speaker 1: thing called dark energy.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 1: A negative pressure that's opposite gravity? Einstein thought he had
Speaker 1: he had an idea that this was out there, and
Speaker 1: he basically called it spooky action at a distance. Well,
Speaker 1: his cosmological constant was also factored into understanding what we
Speaker 1: think we know and what we don't.
Speaker 2: Know about dark energy.
Speaker 1: And then we move on to another phenomenal subject. How
Speaker 1: about the topic in quantum physics called quantum entanglement. What's
Speaker 1: that those are subatomic particles that are linked by let's say,
Speaker 1: billions of light years apart, and that those objects that
Speaker 1: are out there in space. Let's say it simply was
Speaker 1: a light switch on one side of the universe. You
Speaker 1: flipped the switch. Well, we think nothing could go faster
Speaker 1: than the speed of light. We'll think again, because that
Speaker 1: same flipping of the switch would happen instantaneously on the
Speaker 1: opposite side of the universe.
Speaker 2: So what are we all building up to?
Speaker 1: The area that Einstein, of course worked on so hard
Speaker 1: and so accurately is general and special theories of relativity,
Speaker 1: And now with quantum physics, sciences and cosmologists are trying
Speaker 1: desperately to put together the theory of everything, and that
Speaker 1: is a combination of what makes sense in well Einsteinian physics,
Speaker 1: special in general relativity, and also the world of quantum physics.
Speaker 2: Good luck.
Speaker 1: The big subject beyond that is what is consciousness and
Speaker 1: what is reality?
Speaker 2: But that's a story for another time. As we continue
Speaker 2: to move through.
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Speaker 1: we continue on Ladies Diamen to talk about the month
Speaker 1: of April, and there's a lot of exciting things that
Speaker 1: are going to be happening in our April skies.
Speaker 2: And we begin, of.
Speaker 1: Course with an analysis of the moon itself, and we
Speaker 1: find out that the next of the moons, the full
Speaker 1: moon in April, officially known as the Pascal or Easter
Speaker 1: or Passover Moon, that'll take place on the sixth of April,
Speaker 1: just in time as we celebrate this particular special season
Speaker 1: of Passover and the Easter. On the din, we find
Speaker 1: out that the moon then moves on to its last
Speaker 1: quarter on the thirteenth of April, back to new moon
Speaker 1: on the twentieth of April, and we'll have something special
Speaker 1: to say about what you can see around that time.
Speaker 1: And then the moon continues to wax once again in
Speaker 1: the west.
Speaker 2: And first quarter on the twenty seventh.
Speaker 1: Well, how about this an amazing sight in our skies,
Speaker 1: the first of the major meteor showers of the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three What I'm referring to is the annual return
Speaker 1: of the Lyrid meteor shower that takes place during the
Speaker 1: early morning hours of April twenty second and probably into
Speaker 1: the twenty third. Where do you look Look high into
Speaker 1: the northeast sky after midnight on the night of the
Speaker 1: twenty first into the twenty second, and try it again
Speaker 1: on the twenty second into the twenty third. The area
Speaker 1: in the sky that you should be looking for is
Speaker 1: a brilliant star known as Vega. The star itself is
Speaker 1: some twenty five light years away. It heralds in the
Speaker 1: most impressive part of the constellation of Lyra, the harp
Speaker 1: the star Vega, and in that area of the sky
Speaker 1: is where all these particular meteors come from. But you
Speaker 1: need dark skies, well you have something going for you
Speaker 1: because at that particular time of the month, as I
Speaker 1: mentioned before, the moon is at its new phase. So
Speaker 1: you have and the sound of my voice here on
Speaker 1: the Doctor's Sky Experience on Talk Radio seventy seven w ABC,
Speaker 1: the crown Jewel of radio, as we like to say,
Speaker 1: you may be in for a great sign, the Lyriid
Speaker 1: meteor shower brought to us by a comet called Comet thatcher.
Speaker 1: Anywhere in dark skies of upwards maybe twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: meteors per hour.
Speaker 2: What about city dwellers, do you have a chance to
Speaker 2: see this?
Speaker 1: Yes you do, but of course albeit with lower numbers
Speaker 1: because of the extreme amount of man made light.
Speaker 2: We call it light pollution. You'd like to send us
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Speaker 1: Doctor Sky wishes you health and happiness as we wrap
Speaker 1: up the month of March and move into more promising weather,
Speaker 1: hopefully clearer and warmer weather for.
Speaker 2: A good part for listening audience, have a great day.