May 21 2020 36 mins 158
In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast the science journalist Jon Cartwright explains how ultraviolet light at a specific wavelength could help in the fight against the next pandemic. Physics World’s science fiction aficionado Tushna Commissariat is on hand to talk about the plausibility of the physics in the Chinese blockbuster film Wandering Earth. We also chat about two recent proposals to use fleets of tiny spacecraft to find out if a primordial black hole is lurking in the outer solar system. This podcast is sponsored by Teledyne Hastings Instruments. Coming up in next week’s episode, the philosopher of physics Robert P Crease looks back on his 20 years of penning his Critical Point column for Physics World.
