[Q&A] JWST Worth the Hype? How to Build a Wormhole? How to Pass Van Allen Belts?

Are there alternatives to CMB? Will we ever build a space elevator? How can we see radiation coming from a black hole when nothing can escape it? Can you heat something with gravitational waves? Why JWST can look lame to the laymen? All this and more in this week's Q&A with Fraser Cain.

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• 00:00 Intro

• 01:32 [Tatooine] Neutrino Background Radiation and CMB alternatives

• 08:56 [Coruscant] Can gravitational waves heat a planet?

• 10:39 [Hoth] Why do stars seem to change colour?

• 13:00 [Naboo] How can radiation escape black holes?

• 16:18 [Kamino] How to pass through the Van Allen belts?

• 20:07 [Bespin] How do wormholes work?

• 22:55 [Mustafar] Is JWST really worth its $10B?

• 28:15 [Alderaan] Misconseptions about telescopes

• 31:49 [Dagobah] Will we ever build a space elevator?

• 36:34 Outro

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