The most mysterious thing in the universe. Dark matter.

0:00 Speaker 1 What is today is Steve Kates, otherwise known as Doctor Sky, and he’s with us every Sunday morning to talk about what the heck is going up in the skies. And on a Sunday morning, it’s really pleasurable to listen to it.

0:15 Steve tell us what’s going on this week?

0:19 Speaker 2 Well, John healthy, big excitement of the total eclipsed and partial eclipse across the nation again to see this in totality. I just come back from Texas. That was an amazing experience as many people got to see. We will see one for quite a number of years in the United States.

0:35 But John always telling the truth here and subject matter because sometimes, in my opinion, the media might get this just a little bit long. And here’s what we’re going to talk about. It’s interesting. There’s a star in the heavens that the media purports that will be this exploding star in the sky and that people might be able

0:51 to see it. Well, it’s in the constellation of Corona Borealis and it’s known as T Corona Borealis. What is it. Well, every eighty years or or so, this red giant and white dwarf combination can flare up in the sky while that’s not totally unusual, other than the fact that we call these recurring nova and there’s only five of these

1:11 known in the galaxy. So why I was harping on the way the media might report it. They may give the impression to people that they can go outside and see this brilliant object. But from the astronomy side, if you had a pair of binoculars, if you look up on the constellation called Corona Borealis, which is high up

1:26 in the northeast after sunset sometime this year, John, this star which is fascinating. It’s a red giant and it spits off material with this little white dwarf next to it. And what does it do? The white dwarf sucks up all this energy, and for reasons we don’t know the mechanism, it blasts this material back out into space and making

1:45 this star go can look like it’s exploding. It’s called a recurring nova. But always truth here as we talk with you on the Cat’s Roundtable on subjects like that.

1:55 Speaker 1 Fascinating, Thanks it is, I mean, but give it take a being years and we won’t be able to see it again.

2:04 Speaker 2 Absolutely, yes, what else is going on?

2:07 Speaker 1 This NASA launched the last Delta Heavy rocket.

2:12 Speaker 2 Absolutely, and here we go. This is an amazing rocket. It’s been around for quite a long time, in sixty four years. Maybe people never noticed it because NASA got all the credit with the Apollos. This is the last of three hundred eighty nine launches. It’s a Tria type rocket.

2:26 I mean he has a central core and two big boosters on the side. But what it did the other day is quite interesting. It launched another National Reconnaissance Office so called secret satellite into space that’s known officially as NROL DASH seventy. Now what’s important about this rocket. The United Launch Alliance John has been manufacturing this really reliable

2:48 rocket for such a long time, and it’s sad to see it go. But yes, they have something even quote better on the horizon. It’s called the Vulcan rocket, and that will be coming up very soon. Isn’t it amazing? John?

3:01 All these different powerful rockets. I mean, we were stuck in the nineteen sixties and seventies with the Saturn five, which is actually a great rocket. But now we’re seeing all these rockets. So the Delta floor Heavy goes into the history books quite an interesting workhorse in the world.

3:16 Of rockets, fascinating stuff there too.

3:19 Speaker 1 And anything going on on the Moon, on Mars, I mean, people always like to hear that stuff.

3:25 Speaker 2 Well, John, the latest on Mars a continuation of what I said last week that the surface of Mars may become more contaminated than we should with old spacecraft. So hopefully people in the future, that is, and I think they got their eye on the ball on this, they’re going to be hopefully looking at ways not to pollute

3:42 the surface of Mars. Because the most important thing, and we didn’t mention it last week, is let’s not pollute the surface of Mars with any Earth bacteria, no matter how much we try, because that might do things that well, we don’t know. But if we’re looking for life, let’s not pollute it. But here’s something, John, that’s fascinat And

4:00 we always talk about the mystery of the week, and here’s the most dynamic thing, in my opinion, in the whole universe, of all the conundrums and all mysteries, the subject of dark matter really comes up. What the heck is this eighty five percent of the entire universe is made up of this dark material that’s somewhat a component

4:19 we don’t know for sure of gravity, and it helps buying things together at least that’s what astrophysicists and astronomers tell us. But the most amazing thing John, when we look out, like people who saw the eclipse, whether they’re partial or total, you look out in nature, you see all this beauty with God. Hopefully people have two good eyes, John,

4:38 we’re only seeing about five percent of the entire universe. All that stuff is called baryonic matter. That’s a fancy term, but imagine this in the world of dark matter. Something is gluing the galaxies together or holding space together. And even Einstein couldn’t figure this out. As maybe I mentioned before in one of our programs and updates, he called

4:59 it spooky at a distance. And it’s still one of the most amazing things. John, I wonder your comment on this, because nobody really knows what the heck it is, but somehow they think and really kind of look at this stuff is out in the universe. Eighty five percent, that.

5:15 Speaker 1 Is who I mean. I still don’t understand doc matter. I mean, is it positive matter? Is it? Is it real matter?

5:26 Speaker 2 Nobody knows, John. It’s a component of gravity. And when we get into the subject of gravity in our short but important interview here today as we talk about this whole story about what the universe is made of somehow, and there was an astronomer, a female. Her name was Vera Rubin, and she studied John for years in the

5:43 nineteen forties and fifties to get a PhD. And unfortunately at the time, men didn’t want to see that particular woman, or women for that matter, get a PhD. But she had the biggest i think, advance on trying to understand it.

5:56 So trying to address it today to the Cat’s roundtable and short time, it’s that it’s something or component of gravity that makes everything. How do I say this, It’s like a glu in the universe, keep a simple way of describing it. But really, John, nobody knows everybody’s opinion on this, even the great astrophysicist. I’ve interviewed so many

6:16 of them who have the quote, you know, the leading edge on this, and they’re still trying to go and scratch their heads saying, what the heck is this. It’s something that we don’t understand yet. And the bottom line is our whole story of cosmology. You know, how the universe formed, they also have to have a revision. And

6:33 then the other one is the dark energy. That’s even stranger but also important that the farther you go out into the universe with the expansion, instead of things slowing down, something again in gravity might be pushing it at accelerating rates where maybe you would think it would slow down.

6:49 Just mind boggling for a Sunday, is it.

6:52 Speaker 1 Is mind boggling? Now, I’ve been told by sources, by people that are in the know, that we do have anti gravity.

7:05 Speaker 2 Type ships, John, I would believe you one hundred percent, and not just to agree with you that there’s so much that I think we still don’t understand. Not to be a conspiracist he or a conspiracy theory guy, but all the stuff about the alien technology. You know, we remember last July it was admitted in a whistleblower hearing

7:24 in the Congress. One of the guys, David Grush said pretty much emphatically that we do have and possess alien spacecraft or alien artifacts and even the bodies. So I wouldn’t be surprised John, if somewhere along the line somebody’s laughing right now, going, hey, you’re right, Steve, Doctor Sky and John you know, but we’re not going to tell

7:44 you how to figure this out. But wouldn’t that be amazing, John, because if we could.

7:50 Speaker 1 Live long enough to see it, Doctor Skyway, live long and prosper.

7:56 Speaker 2 Absolutely, and it’s always great to be on the Cat’s Roundtable. Always check us at the Doctors Guy Experience where of course the WABC radio dot com website great information John, as you know, and the listeners also. I appreciate their commentary on astronomy, space, aviation, and weather. And let’s not forget American exceptionalism as you talk about every day and

8:17 we believe it right to our core truth, justice and the American lay. Thank you for having me so much