Astrophiz Podcasts

Astrophiz 62: Prof Peter Coles 'Why the Universe is Extremely Overrated'~ on Soundcloud & iTunes Our feature story for this episode ‘Why the universe is extremely overrated’ from the blog at telescoper.wordpress.com by Dr Peter Coles, who is a Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics at Cardiff University in Wales and Professor of Theoretical Physics at Maynooth University in Ireland. His research is in the area of cosmology and the large-scale structure of the Universe. His fabulous blog is named 'In the Dark', where he writes under the name Telescoper, covering a range of topics including astronomy, science funding, opera, jazz, rugby and crosswords. Since 1999 it has been considered one of the greatest long-running physics blogs, and we wish him the best for his 20 year anniversary next year. Unfortunately we were not able to find a time for a live interview, but he has kindly given permission to read you this thought-provoking blog entry of his. I have made a couple of small edits just to making the rea