Thing You Thought You Knew – Red Hot, Blue Hot

Hey Star Talkians, we've got yet another Things You Thought You Knew episode. We're talking about small molecules, the temperature of light, and food gone bad. Check it out. Welcome to Star Talk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.

Star Talk begins right now. Do you have any idea how small molecules are? Well, seeing uh as I can't see them, I'm gonna say I do not. Right. And even if you did say you knew, I would say you didn't know.

I'm just pulling rank here. I'm just saying molecules, I mean, think about it, our understanding of the existence of atoms did not even come into age until the 20th century. Atoms was were still a hypothesis, all right, that there'd be this sort of smallest unit of a material called the atom. By the way, the word atom from the Greek means indivisible.

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