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Astrophysicist Explores Stonehenge to Uncover Its Secrets

Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 What connects a 5,000-year-old stone circle to the most ambitious radio telescope ever built? In this episode, we travel from Stonehenge to Jodrell Bank and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) to trace humanity’s obsession with the sky — from lifting megaliths to catching whispers of the Big Bang. We start at Stonehenge, a Neolithic “star clock” aligned with the solstices, then fast-forward through millennia to stand beneath the 76 m Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank, and finally into the control rooms of the SKA: hundreds of dishes and over 100,000 antennas designed to detect the first stars and galaxies. The tools change — stones, steel, superconducting detectors — but the question stays the same: what is our place in the universe? Topics: How Neolithic builders engineered and aligned Stonehenge with the Sun? Why Jodrell Bank became a Cold War–era listening post and a pulsar powerhouse? How pulsars, neutron stars, and the Crab Nebula became cosmic calibration tools? What the SKA will actually “hear” from the cosmic Dark Ages and first stars? How the Simons Observatory and SKA together will rewrite our map of the cosmos Timestamps: 00:00 Stonehenge introduction and the mystery of its construction 01:56 Transport and engineering of the Sarsen and bluestones 05:34 Stonehenge as a solar-aligned cosmic calendar 08:00 Transition from Stone Age to modern astronomy at Jodrell Bank 09:15 Lovell Telescope history and its role in tracking Sputnik 20:00 Overview of the SKA and its global scientific mission 44:23 From ancient stones to radio telescopes: the shared human quest to understand the cosmos Thanks to the incredible staff of Jodrell Bank for their hospitality! Featuring Lucio Piccirillo (U. Manchester) https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/... Keith Grainge (SKA Headquarters; Jodrell Bank scientist) Website: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk... Simon Garrington (Director, e-MERLIN, Jodrell Bank) Website: https://www.jodrellbank.net/ Learn more about the Simons Observatory: https://simonsobservatory.org/about/s... SO-UK https://www.souk.ac.uk Learn more about what SO:UK is delivering from Michael Brown talk: https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/28120/c... The UK-based data center, in Manchester, transitioned to full operations in Spring 2025. The SO:UK project is funded by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Infrastructure Fund, the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), and the UKRI Carbon Reduction Fund. --------------------------------- This is the channel for short clips from Prof. Brian Keating's main channel, @DrBrianKeating Join this channel to get access to perks:    / @drbriankeating   📺 Watch my most popular videos:📺 Neil Turok    • Neil Turok Believes Physics Is In Crisis (...   Frank Wilczek    • Nobel Prizewinner Frank Wilczek: Beautiful...   Eric Weinstein vs. Stephen Wolfram    • Stephen Wolfram vs. Eric Weinstein: Mathem...   Sir Roger Penrose:    • Nobel Prize in Physics, Black Holes and Wo...   Noam Chomsky:    • Noam Chomsky: Consciousness, Elon Musk, & ...   Sabine Hossenfelder:    • “I Don’t Care About Your Theory of Everyth...   Avi Loeb:    • UFOs & UAPs: The Situation Has Changed! Av...   Follow me to ask questions of my guests: 🏄‍♂️ Twitter:   / drbriankeating   🔔 Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeatin... 📝 Join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeating.com/mailing_list ✍️ Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ Listen on audio-only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast A production of http://imagination.ucsd.edu/ --------------------------------- Please subscribe to the main YouTube Channel, just click here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeatin... #universe #podcast #briankeating #intotheimpossible #science #astronomy #cosmology #cosmicmicrowavebackground #astronomy