Extraterrestrial Data of the Macrocosm - Special Guest: Harvard’s Top Astronomer Professor Avi Loeb
Alex and Jason brought us a great episode of TARTLEcast recently. They had the chance to sit down with Dr. Avi Loeb. If that name is familiar to you, it’s because he was on The Joe Rogan Experience a few months back talking about his theories about Oumuamua, that strange interstellar object that made its way through the solar system a couple of years ago. He joined our illustrious hosts to talk about his new book, Extraterrestrial. The book goes into the investigations on that strange object and what it reveals about how the world of science actually operates and what it could reveal about the universe.
Since the Harvard professor has not been shy about sharing his theories publicly (no, ‘you have to read the book to find out’ nonsense from him) the short version is that it might have been a piece of interstellar wreckage. A thin piece of metal or other material looks like the best way to explain its unusual behavior, especially its accelerating through the solar system thanks to the sunlight pushing