About this episode

Dr. Ranadeep Dastidar discusses the implications of the Theory of Relativity and the phenomena in astrophysics that occur at speeds close to the speed of light.

The Theory of Relativity was discovered by Einstein over a century ago, and it tells us how time and space are distorted when moving close to the speed of light. We mere earthlings don't get the opportunity to move that fast, but there are some phenomena in astrophysics that move very fast; more than 99.9999% of the speed of light. Ranadeep Dastidar is a computational modeler who writes code to predict and interpret these "relativistic" phenomena.

People in this episode

Host: Paul Duffell

Guest: Dr. Ranadeep Dastidar

Topics covered

• Theory of Relativity
• astrophysics
• speed of light
• computational modeling
• relativistic phenomena

Keywords

• relativity
• astrophysics
• speed of light
• computational modeler
• relativistic phenomena

Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the The Astrophysics Podcast podcast page.