Matt O'Dowd
@matt_of_earth
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Earthling, astrophysicist, professor at @LehmanCollege, Physics DEO at @GC_CUNY, associate at @AMNH, host & writer of @PBSSpaceTime, free to a good home
New York, NY
Joined August 2015
Question time has started for my Reddit AMA. Answers will begin in a little bit, but now's the best time to ask yours (& upvote pls!)
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Every answer in physics generates more questions. Time to contribute to the exponential growth of questions by trying to answer a few! Please join me for TWO AMAs - today (12/19, 4pm EST) on @PBSSpaceTime and tomorrow (12/20) on
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❤️We're doing it! For real! Whatever "real" really is.
When I met @matt_of_earth 5 years ago we got thinking about making a Reality TV-style show called The Reality Show about humanity's quest to understand the reality of the world “out there”.So excited that a version of that idea is now happening (or I hope, with people’s support!).
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It’s called Inventing Reality, and it brings together everything we’ve learned making Space Time to seek new paths forward. Please check out our Indiegogo page and help spread the word!.
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Reality is not what it seems. Is its true nature even accessible? I’m producing a documentary with @BaharGholipour and my @PBSSpaceTime friends about humanity's grand quest for the fundamental.
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Amazing how ChatGPT nailed my bio . from the year 2045! Can't wait to do all this stuff!.
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If you can see the lunar eclipse right now, you're watching all sunrises and sunsets across the world, reflected back to us by the moon. #LunarEclipse. (Image from @NASAGoddard )
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RT @BaharGholipour: The quantum uncertainty we experience at @PBSSpaceTime : Will the cat ruin or not ruin the take?
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RT @QuantaMagazine: Just because dark matter is dark doesn’t mean physicists are completely in the dark about it, @Matt_of_earth explains i….
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Last year I visited Arecibo Observatory with @BaharGholipour & @PBSSpaceTime. Such an important symbol of the power of our collective curiosity. It will be missed. We made a VR 360 vid so if you never climbed the catwalk, try it now. Look down if you dare
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This should be fun - I'm hosting a 2-part live webinar w @DrBrianKeating on @pbsspacetime, discussing our next steps in searching for a Theory of Everything. Part 1 is tomorrow! (July 28 @4pm EDT) with @lirarandall, @stephstem, @tegmark, @jbbeacham
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One of the most fun conversations I've had in a long time - talking science & spirituality with @rainnwilson & @rezaaslan on #metaphysical milkshake by @hearluminary.
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RT @BaharGholipour: I disagree. This is an example of self-correction in science. Science's capacity to self-revise is exactly what makes….
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Science "fact": our brain knows the result of decisions seconds before we are consciously aware of making them, ergo free will is dead. Um, no! This nonsense based on one misinterpreted experiment from the 80s. @BaharGholipour reveals all in @TheAtlantic
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Anyone headed to #BurningMan2019? I'll be speaking at @BlackRockObserv on Tuesday at 5:30(ish!) I'd love to hang out with all you dusty space nerds. Also, please help bring those beautiful domes to the Playa! 3 days left on the Kickstarter
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What does the near future of human space travel look like? @RichardBranson shared some surprising insights with me at his beautiful island home. Soon on @PBSSpaceTime! Thanks for the warm welcome, Richard
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My favourite of these so far. .
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Anyone know a talented physics teacher in the NY area? Looking for someone to either teach Intro Physics I, or alternatively to TA for me. Mon & Wed evenings this semester at CUNY Lehman College. Help me bring the awesomeness of physics to the Bronx!.
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Three weeks of beaches, rainforest, marsupials, and my amazing family (I don't mean the camels, though we did really connect with those cool dudes on NYE).Ate as many meat pies as we could…
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You know how the 2-D residents of flatland couldn't see into the 3rd dimension? That's because the didn't build gravitational wave detectors. Check out this week's episode to see how we…
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