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866: Astrochemist Studying the Elements of Planet and Star Formation - Dr. Ted Bergin
May 25, 202644 min · 7,783 words
Show notes
Dr. Edwin "Ted" Bergin is Professor and Chair of Astronomy at the University of Michigan. Ted is an astrochemist who is interested in understanding how and why stars, planets, and living organisms came to be. He examines the formation of stars and planets to better understand the origins of Earth and life on Earth.
Highlighted moments
If we look at the amount of material that was present in the area where the earth was born, the earth captured only one in 10,000 carbon atoms. And in nitrogen, it's even worse. It's one in 100,000.
“The pressures are so low in these regions that you skip the liquid state. It's just a gas to solid transition.”
“all the deuterium that we have in the universe was created in the Big Bang, and we haven't made any since.”
“I went and I talked to the professor and I met with him probably once a week and tried to figure out what are the concepts that I'm not understanding and why. And I was able to pull my way through fine.”
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