What is Energy? Content team winner! (Patreon)

The episode What is Energy was the clear winner of our last content team vote. The episode is now mostly finished. In it we'll explore some of the basics of this thing we call energy, but will also look at the deeper implications of the law of conservation of energy, which will lead into discussing Noether's theorem in later episodes.

This is a slight diversion from our Hawking radiation thread, but we needed a bit more time to get that series just right (I just managed to sit down with a world expert on the subject yesterday). Also, a clearer appreciation of the origin of the law of conservation of energy is needed to really understand why black holes should evaporate.

And a final, sad note: the What is Energy episode itself took longer to pull together than we expected. As a result we're going to need to take a break week this week. We'll be back next week with this one.

I suppose, in the meantime, we could all just stare at the livestream of a red sports car actually tumbling through space. Because we live in the future now. I didn't think this is what they meant when they said the future would have flying cars. 

- Matt