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The First Black Hole Image: What is It and Why Should You Care?

August 15, 2019 / JeffreyBennett / Featured Videos, Op/Ed Pieces, Relativity, Space News, Videos

Please see this post on Medium. I’ve also made a video version of that you can see at this Youtube link.

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Second Life: Reflections on a 40th Reunion, Life to Come, and The Cosmic Perspective

August 31, 2016 / JeffreyBennett / Op/Ed Pieces, Relativity, Space News

I’m soon to be attending my 40th high school reunion, and found myself feeling a bit down. Forty years is a long time, and I’m sure that anyone else of similar age knows that at this point, it’s easy to think that our best days are behind us. We look back at the promise that […]

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high school reunion, relativity, second life, the cosmic perspective

Scott Kelly’s Time Dilation

March 6, 2016 / JeffreyBennett / Jeff in the Media, Other Fun Stuff, Relativity

I was asked to comment about how time dilation affected astronaut Scott Kelly during his “year in space,” leading to this article at the Huffington Post: Neil DeGrasse Tyson Says Scott Kelly Aged More Slowly In Space, And He’s Right We’ve got the math to prove it. by: David Freeman Astronaut Scott Kelly got countless […]

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What Are Gravitational Waves, and Why Should You Care?

February 17, 2016 / JeffreyBennett / Featured Videos, Op/Ed Pieces, Relativity, Videos

This post also appears (with an extra illustration) on my Huffington Post blog page. The short answer: Gravitational waves are an important prediction of Einstein’s general theory of relativity, published a century ago. Because this theory changed the way we understand the nature of space, time, and gravity, it also fundamentally changed our perception of […]

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Denver Post: For Boulder astrophysicist, it’s all relativity

August 20, 2015 / JeffreyBennett / Jeff in the Media, News Features, Relativity, Space News

Published in the Denver Post As an astrophysicist, Jeffrey Bennett grapples with big ideas all the time. When the cosmos is your beat, your thinking has to be as unbounded as a Voyager spacecraft. So in this centennial year of Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, Bennett has taken on a big task: A lecture tour […]

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RADIO: Boston Herald Radio Interview — Relativity, Space Exploration, Global Warming

July 7, 2015 / JeffreyBennett / Climate/Global Warming Science, Jeff in the Media, Radio/Podcast Interviews, Relativity

Hear a wide-ranging, 13-minute interview at Boston Herald Radio, in which we covered topics including relativity, space exploration, global warming, and much more…

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VIDEO: “What is Relativity?” on Barry Kibrick’s TV show.

June 27, 2015 / JeffreyBennett / Jeff in the Media, Relativity, TV Interviews, Videos

Barry Kibrick hosts in-depth interviews with authors on his outstanding book show, Between the Lines. I’ve now had the pleasure of appearing on his show four times, which he tells me makes me his most frequent guest. Here is the show for What is Relativity?’s, which we taped in November 2014 and aired on PBS […]

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The Relativity Tour

June 12, 2015 / JeffreyBennett / Featured Videos, Relativity, Space News, Videos

See a recording of Jeff’s relativity tour lecture for the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures (recorded May 6, 2015 at Foothill College’s Smithwick Theater): See a recording of Jeff’s relativity tour lecture at Fiske planetarium: This  year (2015) marks the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s publication of his general theory of relativity. Today, this theory lies at […]

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VIDEO: Do you understand the Theory of Relativity, really?

March 17, 2015 / JeffreyBennett / Featured Videos, Jeff in the Media, News Features, Relativity, TV Interviews, Videos

Featured on 9NEWS Maya Rodriguez, KUSA

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INTERSTELLAR Science — “That’s Relativity”

November 11, 2014 / JeffreyBennett / Op/Ed Pieces, Relativity, Resources for Teachers

The following post also appears on my Huffington Post blog. ALSO: Learn about my  2015 Relativity Tour… Have you seen Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar yet? It’s generating a lot of discussion both about the story and the science, and as one of the characters explains in the movie (“that’s relativity”), the science focuses around Einstein’s theory of […]

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