High Science

In this special episode John interviews two scientists over Skype. Sam is a biochemistry/biophysics student studying the protein(s) involved in bringing nutrients to the transparent lens of your eye. Sirius Jay is a chemistry student studying the degradation products of turpenes. Turpenes are oily molecules that are found in nature and are responsible for many odors. Terpenes have many applications but the most interesting of which may be in vaporizing cannabis oils. Jay has taken history's first quantitative dab. Both of these guys are wicked smart and the conversation hits topics such as electron microscopes, quantum physics, and fact that teleportation is happening in our stomachs. We also talk about the history of chemistry back to the Greeks (love those Greeks) and some philosophy of science. We talk about some space travel possibilities such as solar sails and the alcubierre drive (incorrectly stated on the episode that the drive started with an "L"). We freak out over gravitational waves, stars, and su