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133: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Mercury with Dr. Padovan

Sep 9, 2018 · 31 min · Episode 133 · 44.8 MB
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Dr. Sebastiano Padovan talks about the planet closest to the sun, Mercury. He compares the evolution of planets to movies, and says that understanding a planet's history from its current state is like trying to figure out the plot of an entire movie from a single snapshot. He also explains why Mercury is "a favorite" of scientists who do computational modeling.