California Institute of Technology
Private university in Pasadena, Californiawww.caltech.edu
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Sep 17, 2026
AnnaHOST
Coming up, Roman opens its eye and finds it has twice as long to look as anyone planned.
AveryHOST
Caltech says the solar system has an expiry date, and it is very much earlier than the textbooks say.
AnnaHOST
The United States says, out loud and for the first time, that it has weapons in orbit.
AveryHOST
Rubin finds a globular cluster that was hiding behind 100,000 light-years of dust and bad luck.
AveryHOST
And the coronagraph?
AnnaHOST
Progressing.
AnnaHOST
The team at Caltech and IPAC have completed initial communications testing.
AnnaHOST
Software, thermal systems, mechanisms, cameras, avionics, all responding.
AnnaHOST
Coming up, Roman opens its eye and finds it has twice as long to look as anyone planned.
AveryHOST
Caltech says the solar system has an expiry date, and it is very much earlier than the textbooks say.
AnnaHOST
The United States says, out loud and for the first time, that it has weapons in orbit.
AveryHOST
Rubin finds a globular cluster that was hiding behind 100,000 light-years of dust and bad luck.
AveryHOST
And the coronagraph?
AnnaHOST
Progressing.
AnnaHOST
The team at Caltech and IPAC have completed initial communications testing.
AnnaHOST
Software, thermal systems, mechanisms, cameras, avionics all responding.
Hector MonsegurHOST
Mm.
Chris TarbellHOST
Um, open letter about a mathon circulated around on September 10th, uh, calls on Caltech organizers to cancel the Caltech Mathon.
Hector MonsegurHOST
Right, right.
Chris TarbellHOST
Uh, the event is a 40-hour math hackathon in which approximately 100 teams are to attack open research problems, uh, by prompting frontiers LLMs.
Hector MonsegurHOST
Now, depending on who you believe, OpenAI said, "Yeah, we came to the conclusion on our own." Um, and the mathematician went, "Uh, I don't think so.
Hector MonsegurHOST
Some of this stuff is ours." So there's two things happening here.
Hector MonsegurHOST
Number one, you have the math- mathematicians, uh, at, at Caltech and a- and abroad.
Hector MonsegurHOST
They're like, uh, "Why are we going to do math using AI?" It's math slop.
Dan GrzinskiNARRATOR
Originally, it had been Lingman's project.
Dan GrzinskiNARRATOR
Then Moran, graduating from Caltech, had joined him.
Dan GrzinskiNARRATOR
Together, they had traced the rumors across the solar system.
Dan GrzinskiNARRATOR
The legends of an ancient humanoid race who had known the answer to all things, and what built Answerer, and departed.
PeterHOST
A number of those icy objects have similar orbits, which statistically just shouldn't happen.
PeterHOST
In 2016, a pair of Caltech scientists noticed that there was something odd about the orbits of six rocky, icy objects called trans-Neptunian objects.
PeterHOST
We call them TNOs for short.
PeterHOST
These objects weren't randomly drifting around the Sun.
PeterHOST
Which makes it one of the hottest discoveries in our solar system.
PeterHOST
When we finally find it, it'll be historical.
PeterHOST
But we aren't going to wait for Caltech to send a probe there to confirm.
PeterHOST
We'll send our very own space explorer, Chase.
Neville GoddardSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Then he asked the government to relieve him of the secrecy imposed upon him because of his position.
Neville GoddardSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And he came here to Caltech and taught at Caltech.
Neville GoddardSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Theoretical physics.
Neville GoddardSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He said, I want the freedom of imagination.
RichardHOST
me.
RichardHOST
I know you're not a fan of Caltech, but she shoots the Caltech.
RichardHOST
Well,
JohnHOST
it's got to be nine mil.
Dan GrudzinskiNARRATOR
Originally, it had been Lingman's project.
Dan GrudzinskiNARRATOR
Then Moran, graduating from Caltech, had joined him.
Dan GrudzinskiNARRATOR
Together, they had traced the rumors across the solar system, the legends of an ancient humanoid race who had known the answer to all things, and what built Answerer and departed.
Dan GrudzinskiNARRATOR
Think of it, Moran said.
Mark BurrGUEST
And you read it.
Mark BurrGUEST
You're like, why would anybody destroy this? It's a story about a guy and a whole lot of science, which was state of the art of the day with all those Caltech and Cal Poly and UCLA and all these brilliant scientists over there and the defense industry and NASA and all that.
Mark BurrGUEST
saying yeah yeah many of them europeans totally agreeing they're like you americans are nuts okay we've known about this for like 500 years in europe you know we call it different things juvenile water and la la you know they're like yeah the science is there and they just get squashed uh by 1960 they're in courts the feather river bond project passes and the rest is history they could care less about those guys steve reese won the the suit and asked for a dollar and walked away
Sam TripoliHOST
Unbelievable, dude.
Marlessa StivalaHOST
Why is it that...
Marlessa StivalaHOST
Because it would have, to be honest, it would have made sense if one of their experiments was sto- was sto- like, like something specific to their jobs, because then it could be like, okay, it's someone from Caltech who is jealous of something that Sheldon or Leonard's working on, has a vendetta against them, targeted them, stole from them.
Marlessa StivalaHOST
But it's very random.
Marlessa StivalaHOST
It doesn't make any sense.
36 MINS LATER
Katie DeFonzoHOST
And so finally, and this is my favorite line of this episode, uh, she finally just asks, and picture it in Lisa Simpson's voice, "Okay.
Katie DeFonzoHOST
Mr. Cooper, let me just ask you a question.
Katie DeFonzoHOST
What was your last job?" "Well, senior theoretical particle physicist at Caltech focusing on M theory, or in layman's terms, string theory." "I see.
Katie DeFonzoHOST
Just, okay, j- just give me a second.
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