Theatre Of The Cosmos

Episode 002:  An Interstellar Visitor Hello and welcome, I'm Dr. Andrew J. Wagers - but you can call me Andy.  Join me as we discover that the cosmos doesn't just have a purpose, it has a storyline.  I have saved you a seat, so sit down as the house lights dim in the Theatre of the Cosmos. *************************************************************************** An Interstellar Visitor   By Original: ESO/M. KornmesserDerivative: nagualdesign [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons   Recently, you may have heard the announcement of an exciting discovery, astronomers claim to have found an asteroid from outside our solar system.  1I/2017 U1, or `Oumuamua (pronounced 'oh-oo-moo-ah-moo-a') was discovered on Oct. 19th of this year by the Pan-STARRS1 program at the University of Hawaii.  Pan-STARRS stands for, Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System and it was designed to detect near Earth asteroids and other transient

In this episode, we talk about the importance of story and how behind every view or theory of how the universe works is a story that informs the view.  Even scientific theories are not divorced from a larger story that guides the questions we ask and therefore how we do science.