Limited with Laura Lexx

 Limited with Laura Lexx

This is a solo intro with me, Ron

Ron: Foreign.

Ron: Foreign. Hello, and welcome to another episode of Lex Education. This is a solo intro with me, Ron, your favourite science boy from the west coast country of the United Kingdom, who's got a sister who's a little bit comedy, she's a little bit books, she's a lot dumb. Ins. That's Laura. Lex. Where's she? She's in New Zealand right now, so she's not here for intros. She may not be here for intros for some time. We don't know. It's 11 hours ahead there. That's a recording conundrum that us brainiacs, you'll be surprised to hear, did not solve before she left for a month, immediately after she comes back as well. Where's Ron? He's going to Sweden. So, um, it's a puzzle, it's a headache, but here we are.

This week we dive deeper into physics than we've ever dived before

Here I am, It's a bank Holiday Sunday, it's 9:00. I've been camping. I've been in the Wye Valley. I canoed. I canoed the Wye river for, um, some hours. I'm very tired. I should have edited this. I should have done this days ago, but I didn't. Dear listeners, I'm here now with you, pulling it off so that you can have a lovely bank holiday Monday, listening to us. What are we talking about? What are we talking about, indeed? Oh, we dive deeper into physics than we've ever dived before with the most physicsy physics that you've ever heard. Um, Lora handles it good from what I remember from when I just edited it. Um, it's a great app. I'm not gonna bore you for too long. I'm not the most charismatic when I'm on my own, nor indeed with other people. So I'll let you get into it. The only thing I will say sorry for doing a lot of bits with the filters on Google Meets that we don't explain, not even once, really sort of what we're doing. But we just had a giggle. But Laura was having a bad week and we wanted to cheer, so we had a very silly ep. So, um, enjoy. Have a lovely time. I'll, uh, see you on the other side. This is. This is Ron saying, love the ep, love you, enjoy.

Laura: I don't feel like we're going into this with a good energy.

Ron: No.

Laura: Why does moles kill us? Do you think moles would be this bad if we hadn't had, um, to do the very first one twice?

Ron: I think? Yeah, I think so. Uh, it's. It's just. It's for some reason, because you didn't get it the first time. It's not like that was a walk in the park for some reason. It's just, um. Yeah. To shit off a duck's back in your brain. You just can't remember it.

Laura: No, I can. For, like, glimpses of it.

Ron: When do those happen?

Laura: Oh, I felt like in that lesson.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: It was there.

Ron: But you didn't. Yes, but that's not remembering, is it?

Laura: No, but it is understanding.

Ron: Yes.

Laura: And, um, that's good.

Ron: Yeah. I think I just, um, expected too much of you in that quiz.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: Trying to sort of apply two principles at once.

Laura: Yeah. It was quite a lot.

Ron: Yeah. But you.

Laura: I accept your apology.

Ron: I'm not apologising.

Laura: Too late. Already accepted it. And I won't give you a receipt. I've got this. Tunics. Caramel bar.

Ron: Caramel bar, yeah.

Laura: That did come out weird, didn't it?

Ron: Very West Country. Um.

Laura: Okay, I think maybe I should do a wee before we do this lesson.

Ron: Yeah. I need a cup of tea and to just not look at your stupid face for a second.

Laura: Okay. You've had a break from my big, stupid face.

Ron: Yes. Yes.

Laura: Right, let's make this episode really fun, Ron, because I've got another meeting straight after this and I don't want to have brain frazzle.

Ron: Sure. Okay. Yeah. Like I said weeks, um, ago in an intro, I've made the exact decision to just move on to the next topic.

Laura: Okay. Because we were doing all of this uncertainty. Oh, yeah.

Ron: Precision.

Laura: Blah, blah, blah. I don't say blah, blah, blah.

Ron: It's long.

Laura: You know what? That's a quote from Ron.

Ron: Hotel Transylvania, probably.

Laura: Yeah.

Laura has a fringe that's just missing the middle of itself

Ron: Um, so we're moving on to 3.2. Laura, this is some proper bloody physics.

Laura: Okay? Balls, hills, pushing, pulling.

Ron: No, no, no. Uh, particles and radiation.

Laura: Ooh. Oh, I liked radiation.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: I think it's because I radiate such joy.

Ron: Well, it's A levels where this really starts, like, getting kind of crazy. Okay.

Laura: Whoa. So crazy. Like this fringe that's just missing the middle of itself.

Ron: It. It's. Nothing is as crazy as this fringe. I can't believe it's just not growing out at all.

Laura: I know. The rest of my hair is definitely growing and I can tell from the way my hair dye is slowly eking away from my head. But the fringe is just. It's like it's dyed.

Ron: It's like she salted the tips.

Laura: Yes.

Ron: Um, okay, so run me through the structure of an atom, please, Laura.

Laura: Hey, do you think it Would be funny when I go to New Zealand and I'm gigging there to have a joke about how when I'm in the other hemisphere, my hair is shaved on the other side of my head.

Ron: I think you should try it every show and see if it's good.

Laura: That's a no, then.

Ron: I think. Try it. But I. I don't know how. I don't know if the Antipodeans are sick of that kind of joke.

Laura: Probably.

Ron: I think that's the worry.

I had an idea for a bit last night, Ron, about relationships

Laura: I had an idea for a bit last night, Ron, about, like, you know, when you really love your partner, but obviously, like, nobody can be everything. Um, and I was thinking about how, like, Tom is a great guy and everybody loves him. He's fantastic. Like, you can go to a party with him, have brilliant time, blah, blah, blah. But then domestically, you know, some things fall through the cracks. But, like, do you reckon there's legs in comparing that to, like, he's got great foreign policy, but all the trains are replacement, uh, buses, or like, there's loads of. Do you know what I mean? Like, comparing it to the cabinet in some way. Like, he's really strong on X, but he. You can't expect him to be foreign minister. And, um, the treasurer.

Ron: I think there is lakes in it. I. I don't know if you have the political savvy to put.

Laura: Yeah, might get messy. Because I've also been doing my analogy about how lions have got it absolutely nailed sexually. And then if I start. But maybe that's really funny if I then introduce, like, a political slant and then have, like, that could, like, slide into some political lions, or it's like.

Ron: A group of female lions and then just Kia Starmer comes over and drags them everywhere.

Laura: Yeah, Maybe that's the way to do it. That's fun. Okay. Particles and radiation.

Ron: Okay, Laura, run me down.

Laura: This is why science doesn't stay in my brain, because that's the way my brain works. So then all of this, like, put it in lines and columns and the numbers all do the same thing every time. Like, logic doesn't exist within my thought stream.

Ron: Sorry, Laura, what's the way your brain works? What do you mean? What are you narrowing in on when you say that?

Laura: Like fireworks, you know? And just like, boundaries are, uh, meaningless, and everything's. Everything's a membrane, not a wall. Everything can meld into everything. I can see the connections between it all. Like, limitless.

Ron: Limited. With Laura Legs, uh, you're giving yourself a lot of credit, Laura.

Can you talk me through the structure of an atom, please

Can you talk me through the fucking Structure of an atom, please.

Laura: Oh, yeah. Did you ask that?

Ron: Yes, twice.

Laura: Now, structure of an atom, Ron. There's a nucleus. The nucleus contains protons and neutrons. Then we have loads, um, of space. And then we have shells of electrons around the outside in different shapes and layers depending on the atom.

Ron: Yep, absolutely. Um, okay, so what, um. What's the charge of, uh. What is the charge eating a meal? Um, what's the charge of a proton, a neutron and an electronic, uh, Neutron?

Laura: No charge. Proton plus one, electron minus one.

Ron: Now, what's the unit of that charge? Well, yeah, relative charge. We've made it relative to each other to make the,

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Ron: um. To make the calculations easier. Now, in A level, and we're just gonna rattle this off, you're gonna write it down, you're gonna learn it, but at a level, we need to have, um, an understanding of, um, the numbers in SI units. Units. Do you know what the SI unit of charge is?

Laura: No.

Ron: It's a unit called the qlom.

Laura: Oh, yeah. Because I keep thinking that a qlom is. It sounds like some sort of Australian mammal.

Ron: Yeah, I think I'm in the gum tree again.

Laura: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have you got Coulomb trap?

Ron: Coulomb is spelled C O, U, L O. Maybe mb.

Laura: Uh, wow, that's so different how I spelt it.

Ron: A protons charge in Coulomb's Law is 1.6 times 10 to the minus 19.

Laura: 1.6 times 10 to the -19. Okay.

Ron: Yep. What's the charge of a neutron in coulombs?

Laura: Zero.

Ron: Still zero. Very good. What's the charge of an electron in Coulombs?

Laura: 1.6 times 10 to the positive 19.

Ron: Why would that be opposites? Well, how does standard form work? If something was 1.6 times 10 to the 19, what type of number would that be?

Laura: Big number.

Ron: Yeah. Do electrons have a massive charge?

Laura: No.

Ron: What's the relative charge of a proton?

Laura: One.

Ron: What's the relative charge of an electron?

Laura: Minus one.

Ron: Which one's bigger?

Laura: Don't know. Minus 1.6 times 10 to the. Minus 19.

Ron: There we go.

Laura: I just did the opposites in the wrong place.

Ron: Yes, yes, you just said things.

Laura: I didn't just say things. I Fuck you. I applied logic. And the logic was it'd be the opposite. I just got the opposite wrong.

Ron: Yeah, you just said something rather than thinking about what 1.6 times 10 to the 19 would be.

Laura: Sorry, I was trying to make a jazzy show.

Ron: This isn't jazz, this is blues. It's repetitive, it's sorrowful and it's lo fi.

Laura, what's the SI unit of mass? Mhm. What's that? Mass

Now, Laura, what's the SI unit of mass? Mhm.

Laura: Zootons. What are they called? Newtons.

Ron: That's right. Kilogrammes.

Laura: What's a Newton?

Ron: A neutron.

Laura: Newtons. Newtons.

Ron: Newton is the SA unit of force.

Laura: Oh, for fuck's sake. Kilogrammes. What's that? Mass?

Ron: Yes.

Laura: Okay. God damn it. Are they named after Isaac Newton?

Ron: Yes, obviously.

Laura: That's cool.

Ron: Okay. The um.

Laura: Someone complimented how nice my nails were at the weekend and now they've all started breaking. Why can I not have nice things?

Ron: The mass of a proton 1.67 times 10 to the minus 27.

Laura: Hang on. Mass of a proton is what?

Ron: 1.67.

Laura: Mhm.

Ron: Times 10 to the minus 27.

Laura: Okay, well that's very close to its charge, isn't it?

Ron: No.

Laura: 1.6 and 1.67. That's similar. Get. Because it is.

Ron: What's. What's the other part of both of those numbers?

Laura: Sure. Yeah. There's. It's got a different minus Y bit. So it's bigger and smaller.

Ron: But 1.6 about 10,000 times apart.

Laura: Sure. But the 1.6 is similar. Let's focus on where I was correct. This is your problem. This is why you shouldn't have kids.

Ron: Hands out handouts. You cannot all the time.

Laura: You just can't bring yourself to begin with anything that might cheer me up.

Ron: Your contributions are worthless and I will not recognise them.

A neutron is a proton and an electron added together

What's the mass of a neutron?

Laura: Um, neutrons are a lot bigger. Wait. A neutron is a proton and an electron added together. So I don't think it's going to be that much bigger than the mass of a proton.

Ron: What's the relative mass of a proton?

Laura: 1.

Ron: What's the relative mass of a neutron?

Laura: 1.

Ron: Okay.

Laura: 1.67 times 10 to the minus 27.

Ron: Yep.

Laura: Great.

Ron: Alright. And then last one. The mass of an electron is 9.11 times 10 to the minus 31.

Laura: 9.11 times 10 to the -31.

Ron: Yes, absolutely.

Laura: Gosh.

Ron: All right. You just need to log that away. M. That's info that you need to know.

Laura: Gosh.

Ron: There's no fun waiting.

Laura: That. Just know that like a telephone number I used to.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: Crikey.

Large branches of physics are more just kind of the study of the nucleus

Ron: Um, okay, Laura, let's think about the nucleus. Okay.

Laura: Okay.

Ron: I've said before, um, chemistry, you can. You can broadly think of it as kind of like the study of electrons. And large branches of physics are more just kind of the study of the nucleus. Okay.

Laura: Okay.

Ron: All. If we. If we think about the, um, the. The makeup of a nucleus. We've got lots of protons banging around, um, and a bunch of neutrons. There's. There's a charge on all of these protons, right?

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: Positive charge. What happens if you get two positive charges next to each other?

Laura: They will repel each other.

Ron: They will repel each other. Exactly. Why do you know at all why a nucleus doesn't just fly apart? Why all of those things don't just, uh.

Laura: A wall.

Ron: What wall?

Laura: Around the nucleus.

Ron: Is there a wall?

Laura: I always assumed so.

Ron: Why?

Laura: Because. That's because we always say, like, it's in the nucleus. So I assumed it had, like, a little. It was like a little ball.

Ron: No, no, lose that idea.

Laura: Um, does the negativity of the electrons push them in?

Ron: Well, if you think about it, the negativity of the electrons, that should be pulling them out. Because the electrons are outside the positive and negatives should, um. Should attract.

Laura: This doesn't make any sense.

Ron: No, that's because there are forces at work that you may not be aware of. Dark matter, uh, might have a part to play, but don't worry about that matter.

Laura: If I was a duck and I had a physics podcast, I would call it Duck Matter.

Ron: Okay. Yeah. Instead of quarks, you can have quacks. That's something.

Laura: Bill Nye the Duck Science Guy.

Ron: Yeah, that's good.

There are four fundamental forces in the universe, Laura says

Um, there are four fundamental forces in the universe, Laura. Two of them you'll have heard of before. One of them was discovered by gravity. Yeah, gravity's one guess. Could you guess at the other one? We've just been discussing it.

Laura: Charge.

Ron: Electromagnetism. Exactly.

Laura: Electromagnetism. Yes.

Ron: Okay.

Laura: I wonder if electromagnets love to do comedy about how they've got a touch of the tism.

Ron: Didn't get that one. Tism.

Laura: Yeah, it's like a. You know, like when people go, oh, I've got a touch of the tism. And it's like,

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Laura: you just. No, Autism is an actual thing. Yeah.

Ron: Oh, no, I've never heard someone.

Laura: It's the new thing to do. It's the new. I'm a little bit ocd, right?

Ron: Yeah. No, I've not heard that one before. That sounds exhausting.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: Um.

Laura: Oh, just got my visa waivers.

Ron: So we've got gravity and we've got electromagnetism.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: Then there are two other forces. We've got the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force.

Laura: Okay. Those could have had jazzier names.

Ron: Yes, they could. Um, the. These all fall on a scale. Okay. Gravity is by far the weakest force of the four.

Laura: That's crazy.

Ron: Why? Why do you think that's crazy?

Laura: Well, because it's just the one I. In. In. In. I know about.

Ron: Yeah, but if you think about it, even you, with your rotten shrimp stumps, you can overpower all the gravity of the earth by jumping.

Laura: Oh, yeah.

Ron: It's like you need so much mass to.

Laura: I'm working on really strong.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: Ah. My goal is for gravity to win, and I will just be stuck to the earth like a little Velcro moustache.

Ron: You love an underdog. You want gravity to be the strongest.

Laura: Hey, when I lie down in a field, it's like the earth, uh, is playing fuzzy felts.

Ron: What are fuzzy felts?

Laura: Did you know how fuzzy felt as a kid?

Ron: I know that you've talked about it before.

Laura: It was like a fuzzy board. And then you had lots of felt shapes and you could, like, lay them out in scenes.

Ron: Oh. Uh, I think you. You know when you had sort of your regression period during college and you started wearing, like, a brownie sash.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: And playing with your bank again. I think you might have.

Laura: I threw my bank away recently.

Ron: That's, uh, sad.

Laura: Fuzzy felts.

Ron: Yeah. I think you might have played with fuzzy felts then.

Laura: Maybe. Sounds like me.

Ron: M. Shall we stop?

Laura: No, this is going well. My notes look profesh.

Ron: I need 20% more focus.

Laura: Why?

Ron: Because it's really hard. We've been recording for over an hour.

Laura: No, but this episode has only been 20 minutes.

Ron: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't say this episode was long. I said this has been long, this interaction.

Laura: Well, guess what, Ron? We've still got another record to do tonight, so strap in for a day of me.

Light is the weakest force. Then we have electromagnetism and nuclear force

Ron: Um, so, Laurie.

Laura: Yes.

Ron: Gravity is the weakest.

Laura: Yes.

Ron: Then we. Then we have the weak nuclear force.

Laura: Second weakest.

Ron: Yeah. That one we will come across later on when we look at radioactive decay. But it's essentially the force that springs particles apart.

Laura: Okay. Tbc.

Ron: Yeah. Then we have electromagnetism.

Laura: Okay.

Ron: We know that's strong because, um, you.

Laura: Know, should I switch to second strongest at this point?

Ron: Depends how your brain works.

Laura: Yeah, I think I'm gonna do second strongest.

Ron: Okay.

Laura: Okay. And then Ron, applying electromagnetism. Sorry.

Ron: Is obviously charged between things. But it's also electromagnetic. Um, radiation is also obviously light. And that. That spectrum of energy.

Laura: Okay. Light is really weak.

Ron: What makes you say that?

Laura: Well, my hand can get in the way.

Ron: Yeah. But also, like, gamma radiation could melt your face off.

Laura: Yeah. I went through a phase of really feeling really sorry for sunlight. Because it must be really crazy to travel all that way and then, like, in my head, the goal of light was to, like, get to the Earth and then you'd get all the way here and a, uh, pigeon would get in the way or something.

Ron: Yeah. But if you think about it, like, the whole thing, then it

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Ron: travels all that way and powers billions of years of life.

Laura: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Once I erased from my brain the idea that the light was trying to get to the Earth, it's good again.

Ron: Yeah. Because the light that doesn't get here just pisses off into space.

Laura: Yeah. I wonder when it runs out. It doesn't ever.

Ron: No.

Everything in the universe is affected by its gravity and electromagnetism

Laura: Is the whole of space seeable in then?

Ron: Um. Well, you have something called the visible universe, which is the. As far as we can see because of the age of the universe. Um, because the light further than that hasn't got to us yet, but, yes, it goes on forever and you could theoretically see forever.

Laura: It's crazy, isn't it?

Ron: Yeah. So I think that the Universe is about 14 billion years old. We can see 14 billion light years away because the light that far has had 14 billion years to get to us. And then in another billion years, we'll be able to see 15 billion light years away.

Laura: So every second. Can you see a bit further?

Ron: Yep, about 300,000 metres further, I think.

Laura: And are there people monitoring that?

Ron: No.

Laura: Okay.

Ron: Because on the scale of the universe, that's not much.

Laura: Yeah. Space is wild.

Ron: Yeah. Um, and then you've got the strong force.

Laura: Strongest.

Ron: Yeah. Which binds the nucleus together.

Laura: Okay.

Ron: Electromagnetism and gravity, they both have infinite ranges. Everything in the universe is affected by everything else's gravity. And everything in the universe that has a charge is affected by everything else in the universe that has a charge.

Laura: Ron, is this a callback to the moon knows about me?

Ron: Yes.

Laura: Ah.

Ron: Uh.

Laura: I've got my mug here.

Ron: Cute. The moon knows about you in two ways. Um, because of your charge and your gravity.

Laura: Am I charged?

Ron: Some parts of you are charged.

Laura: Whoa. That's cool. Didn't know I had a charge.

Ron: Lots of years charged. There's loads of ions inside you. Huh.

Laura: Huh. Well done, me. So when you drink ionised water, that's not just bollocks.

Ron: Probably has ions. Oh, water has ions in it.

Laura: Oh, so it is bollocks.

Ron: I, um. Hang on. I'd have to look up what they're claiming.

Laura: We haven't got time, Ron.

Ron: Ionised. Oh, yeah. But we could talk about weather. Bollocks. You want to talk about? Um. Do you mean deionized water, which is what's coming up quite a lot. Um, anyway, the weak force, Lora. Has a range of 10 to the -18 metres.

Laura: Weak force, weak source. Wait, what? Sorry. Say that, uh, again, Ron. I was looking at something 10 to.

Ron: The minus 18 metres. That's its range.

Laura: 10 to the minus 18 metres. That's gravity's range. No, that's weak nuclear forces range.

Ron: Yes.

Laura: Okay.

Ron: The strong force has a range of about 10 to the minus 15.

Laura: Okay. Not wildly different, then.

Ron: About a thousand times different.

Laura: Yeah. That's not as much as I'd have thought.

Ron: Okay. Obviously, uh, gravity only affects things with mass. Not everything has mass. Gravity only affects the things that do.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: Electromagnetism only affects things with charge. Not everything does. Obviously. The weak interaction affects all particles. Everything is affected by that.

Laura: Hold on, hold on. Say that again. So electromagnetism, um, only affects charge. Okay, go back to nuclear.

The strong interaction affects only one branch of particles, called hadrons

Sorry.

Ron: The weak interaction affects all particles.

Laura: Okay.

Ron: Everything

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Ron: is under force because of that. The strong interaction affects only one branch of particles, um, which are called hadrons.

Laura: Oh, colliding.

Ron: The Large Hadron Collider. Exactly.

Laura: Hadrons, Ron.

Ron: Hadrons.

Laura: Oh, Judith's. We will call them. Judith.

Ron: Um, this is where. Laura, we're going to introduce two things where, uh, physics starts to sound made up and science fictiony. Um, hadrons are the group of subatomic particles that are made up of quarks.

Laura: God. I started thinking about something else, and, um, everything changed into cheese. What was it? Hadrons are made of quarks.

Ron: Hadrons are made of quarks.

Laura: God. Okay.

Ron: Now there are two.

Laura: Now that. Ron, that works really well with this duck theme.

Ron: Yep. Now, there's two types.

Laura: Posh ducks. Quark. Quark. There's two types of those fuzzy ones that have got, like, the frilly little hats on. Um, do you know the ones?

Ron: I know the ones. A ruddy duck. Um, there are two types of hadrons. Lora. We have the baryons.

Laura: Okay.

Ron: And the mesons.

Laura: Oh, these sound like dinosaurs.

Ron: Yeah, Baryonyx mesosonics.

Laura: M area. Um, those are the two types of hadrons. And sorry, Ron, in layman's terms, what's a hadron? Like a type of particle?

Ron: It's a fam. It's a. It's a family sort of subatomic particles. It's the ones that are made of quarks.

Laura: And when we're saying subatomic particles. So there are things other than electrons, protons and neutrons that are smaller than atoms, so.

Ron: Yes. Um, and the baryons the most two. The most common two baryons are your protons and your neutrons. They are hadrons.

Laura: Okay, so protons and neutrons are types of baryons.

Ron: Yep. And they're made of quarks.

Laura: Oh, God. Okay. Okay.

Ron: Baryons, protons and neutrons, uh, are, uh, made up of three quarks. Okay.

Laura: Okay, so three quarks in a baryon. Is this the trick? This is starting to feel tricko Y and April fool has come and gone this year with no sign of a tricko, which is fearing me that there's like a long running tricko that I'm not noticing.

Ron: No, it's genuinely not. Um, and bear with on the next bit, because mesons are made up of two particles. They're made up of a quark and an anti quark.

Laura: Jesus. And that's a meson.

Ron: That's a meson. Yeah. 2. The most common mesons, pions and kaons.

Laura: Uh, what's an electron?

Ron: Um, as far as I'm aware, an electron is just its own thing. Um, what are electrons made of? They're not made of smaller components. Yeah. An electron is a fundamental particle.

Laura: Okay.

Ron: So you, you obviously have, um. Yeah, hadrons. But while we're on the topic of antimatter, you obviously, if you have hadrons, you then also have antihadrons. So we will have anti baryons, anti mesons, and they're just made of the inverse. So an antibaryon will be made up of three antiquarks.

Laura: Oh, God. M. I've got a problem with my notebook because I start on the wrong page and then I add to that page and then it's like when I have to then turn the page, it's two pages away.

Ron: See?

Laura: Are we nearly done?

Ron: We've only got eight minutes left

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Ron: till your meeting, so.

Laura: Yeah, but I'd like to have a cup of tea.

Ron: Uh, we can stop whenever.

It's been ages since we did this lesson, Ron. Oh, Christ, it feels like forever

Laura: Can we, can we, can we stop and come back and just refresh this from hadrons onwards?

Ron: We'll refresh it in the quiz.

Laura: Yeah, but I'm enjoying this, but I'm getting soup brained.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: And I, uh, want to get this in.

Ron: Yeah, well, what we'll do is we'll come back for the quiz and then we can just talk about it after the quiz.

Laura: Okay, great.

Ron: So we don't have to do a three part record.

Laura: Great. No, I meant in the next physics lesson.

Ron: Oh, I see. Yes, yes, of course. Yeah.

Laura: Okay. See you for the quiz.

Ron: Recording. M.

Laura: Oh, Christ, it feels like forever. Why? What in the Ever loving banana is happening.

Ron: It's good.

Laura: Yeah. I mean, what a filter.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: Wow.

Ron: You were gone for like 20 minutes. Yeah, I was mucking about.

Laura: I see that.

Ron: Yeah, there's. There's good stuff on there.

Laura: What's this on reactions? No filters on Google. On the Google Meet.

Ron: Yeah. Yeah. I can be a piece of cake as well.

Laura: Oh, I can't even find filters. I've got. I've got chocolates to get us through this.

Ron: Nice. And, um, it's good stuff. Um, anyway, um, I couldn't really. Ugh, my beard makes it look like this strawberry's got a dirty mouth.

Laura: Am I not working? Oh, no, I'm mum.

Ron: Your mum.

Laura: Oh, my God, that's terrifying. Oh, no, let's turn, um, that. Back off. This is so for us. Nobody can see what's happening.

Ron: We're not even narrating.

Laura: I'm gonna be. Should I be a pirate now? I'm dad. I'm gonna be this pirate for this lesson. Okay, um, you're gonna be Judith.

Ron: Wait, I'm.

Laura: Um.

Ron: This. This one's horrible.

Laura: Oh, where did my pirate go? Oh, there it is. This is weird. Put your butt away.

Ron: Yeah, um, okay, well, um. Oh, my God. I can be an arch. Big time. For the quiz, Laura. Um, right. I couldn't. It's been ages since we did this lesson.

Laura: You can't be this pig that's trying to seduce me.

Ron: That could be a dinosaur.

Laura: Oh, no, the dinosaur's evil looking.

Ron: Um.

Laura: I've got a lot of notes for this quiz, Ron, so I'm worried.

Ron: Um, I remember what we went through, but I couldn't remember how much detail we did it in.

Laura: Oh, let's say none.

What are the four fundamental forces, Laura? Gravity, electromagnetic, nuclear

Ron: So, Laura, what are the four fundamental forces?

Laura: Gravity, electromagnetic, and then strong and weak nuclear. Or is it nuclear and then strong and weak electromagnetic?

Ron: I didn't ask for them in order, so.

Laura: No, but I can't remember. I know there's a strong and weak gravity and. No, I think electromagnetic and then I think strong and weak nuclear.

Ron: Yes, yeah, that's correct. Well done. Um, now I'm going to ask for them in order.

Laura: Okay. Gravity is the weakest.

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Laura: Gravity. Ron's being a dog.

Ron: Um.

Laura: Gravity is the weakest and then, uh, then I think it was weak nuclear, then. Put your tongue away, you creep. Then. Then electromagnetic, then strong nuclear.

Ron: Sorry, I wasn't the same.

Laura: No, you're not. You're farting about, trying to make your dog do weird stuff.

Ron: Say it again.

Laura: I think gravity is the weakest, then weak nuclear, then electromagnetic, then Strong nuclear.

Ron: I think that's true.

Laura: Hooray. Um, I can't get my bunny ears to go up.

Ron: You, uh, have to raise your eyebrows. I haven't actually tried.

Laura: That's raising my eyebrows.

Ron: Uh, that's how you raise the dog ears.

Laura: No, my bunny just has eyebrows.

Ron: Yeah, that was correct. Laura, well done. Another four points for. Yeah. Um, right. Laura, what's a hadron?

Laura: M. What is a hadron? This one's very fitting for doing good. There's a tiny light bulb wandering around my head. Um, what's a. Ah, hadron. I love this question. Is a hadron a. Christ. What's a hadron?

Ron: Just covered in bugs.

Laura: Fuck. What's a hadron? A hadron. Is it a nucleus that's got something missing? I don't know what a hadron is, Ron.

Ron: Um, a hadron is a family of particles that are made up of quarks. Laura's a space alien. Now the pop shield is, um. It's fucking you up though.

Laura: Yeah. Do you think that's what it is? Do you think that's why my bunny ears didn't work?

Ron: I don't know if the bunny ears go up.

Laura: Oh, I hate you as a cake.

Ron: Yeah, the cake's sly.

Laura: Those are just your eyes, though. Yeah, you're sly.

Ron: Nah, there's something smug about this cake.

Laura: Oh, the mouth is upside down on the alien. That's weird.

Ron: Yeah. Really hurt.

Laura: Yeah, I put my tongue out too far and it hurt. Ow. Pulled my tongue.

Laura, what are the two groups of hadrons

Ron: Laura, I don't think you're gonna get this because you didn't get the last one, but what are the two groups of hadrons?

Laura: Oh, um, uh, I know where this is written on the page of my notebook. Is that anything?

Ron: No.

Laura: Um, two groups of hadrons and a hadron is a quark.

Ron: Uh, that's not what I said.

Laura: What did you say a hadron was?

Ron: It's a family of particles that are made of quarks.

Laura: Okay. So one group I'm going to say are called quarks, and the other group I'm going to say snorks.

Ron: No, it's baryons and mesons.

Laura: Um, oh, yeah.

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Laura: This is when it really starts to get into made up territory.

Ron: Yeah, it's all getting a bit Big.

Laura: Bang Theory, Baryonyx and Mesozoic Era. That's how I'm going to remember that.

Ron: Baryonyx. Um, okay, Laura, last question. What force affects hadrons?

Laura: Chaos theory, Electromagnetic, strong nuclear. Uh, your eyebrow is creeping into the cake face. It's horrible. I got my M Eyebrows professionally done yesterday.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: Yeah. It's nice they're tamed.

Ron: Maybe I'll do that one day.

Laura: If you do go to people from the Middle east, because I think our family's eyebrows come from that region and they don't look at you like you're a, uh, problem. They just go, yeah, these are some eyebrows.

Ron: That's a good tip. Do you think we've got Middle Eastern eyebrows?

Laura: Yeah. We're quite a heavy browed family, Ron. Is it strong nuclear?

Ron: It is strong nuclear, yes. Yeah. But also gravity, the weak. Nuclear and electromagnetic, I think.

Laura: Well, I'd argue all forces are working on all things at all times, Ron.

Ron: Yeah, like I said, Laura, I wrote this quiz while I was very drunk last night. So I don't really know what I meant by that. Um, but that's a very good quiz for you, Laura. And I thought that was gonna be worse.

Laura: Yeah, me too.

Ron: Yeah, you got nine out of, um.

Laura: All right, happy with that. And now we get to do biology lessons. Uh.

Ron: Yay. There you go, gang. There is the part you've listened to it. We're gonna have a lovely little outros now. Nothing really to, um, to shout out. Um, yeah, I asked Laura if she had anything that she wanted me to say. She said no, but if you're in New Zealand, go see one of the many shows the Laura is doing over there. I'm sure you can find them if you googled Laura Lex Live, Laura Lex tour, Laura Lex New Zealand, Laura Lex tickets. One of those things will get you to one of the many shows that she's doing. She's very funny and she's having a good time down under. If you want to see Ron perform, uh, my band's playing a gig in Bristol on the 16th at, um, the Thunderbolt. Uh, I'll send you a link and you can, um, uh, you can come to that as well. That would be lovely. Um, um, I've got a few people to do shoutouts for. I just put a little, uh, put the word out in the discord to the gang. Um, so lots of love to Carol. Carol wants me to say why. Um, uh, she. Why they're my favourite lab rats. Um, it's the general enthusiasm. Um, I don't get this from anyone. I send a message out, a lot of warmth comes in. So, um, on the vague shout outs will, um, will give love to. To Carol. Jenny, Mike. Um. Oh, no, hang on, wait. Okay, no, we have specific shout outs. Oh, Jenny C and Jenny O. Uh, both get vague shoutouts now. Special Shout outs to. We get one to Lucy. She is trying to start out new chemo regrowth. Apparently it's the wrong colour and now curly. I've spent most of my life the wrong colour and too curly. So, um, we can all identify with that. Um, sending strength to Lucy. Um, Justin asks, um, for good luck to his year 13 students who go on study leave on Wednesday. They don't need luck study leaves for dossing about and doing the occasional pass paper. But we will send luck anyway. Trumpet mic Mike. Lovely Mike. Mike also asks for good luck for students, not for exams, just because he's in their life. But we don't believe he needs that at all.

Hats are completely allowed to be worn at school, Chief says

Um, and then Carol, Carol gets in for a second one. Um, Carol says, um, asked me to tell her students that wearing the down and don't just say things. Hats are completely allowed to be worn at school. As, um, as I give express permission, um, as, um, chief. Chief of this podcast, that that is allowed. Um, I don't know what authority I have that. God help those, those kids if, um, if I am in charge, um, if you want to be part of the discord, um, and have spontaneous little fun

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like that, you can be. I'm told it's a Patreon perk, so maybe Google Lex Education Patreon. And. And you'd be allowed to do that as well. It's very cheap. It's three pounds a month. Um, that's like 60% of a pint these days, if you're lucky. So who couldn't afford to be part of that?

I need to get this uploaded. I need to write a description for it

Um, I think that's all for now. I need to get this uploaded. I need to write a description for it, I need to choose a funny name for it and then probably go watch an episode of, um, Desperate Housewives and, um, maybe, maybe a slice of toast. Maybe a slice of toast. Well, uh, yeah. Have a great time everyone. See you next week. It's Laura's edit next week, so maybe she'll be doing, um, the, the Intros and Outros solo then. Um, so, yeah, maybe I won't see you next week. God, who knows?

Rambling now. Class dismissed. Too late, K. Steven, I sees you typing

Rambling now. Class dismissed. Too late, K. Uh, too late. Steven, I sees you typing. Class dismissed.

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