Name: 🎧 Learning English with Podcasts | Episode 024 Big Bang Theory Advance Level
Uploaded: 2026-03-25T06:34:29.000Z
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Welcome back to another lesson with us here at EnglishPod.

And today we're going to be talking about physics.

That's right, an advanced lesson for, um, all you physics lovers out there, and

even for those of you who maybe don't love physics so much.

We're going to be talking about the Big Bang Theory, a very popular theory of how the universe, or the world,

but we've also got some really, um, tough words that I bet many of our users have never seen before, which we're going to look at those, um, in this lesson.

All right, so why don't we get started with this great and interesting lesson,

and let's listen to the dialogue for the first time.

It's all math, really: arcs, curves, velocity.

But today's lesson was all about the creation of the universe.

A physics class about the creation of the universe?

That's some pretty unscientific language there.

How is it possible that all of the stuff in the universe comes from an explosion?

That's no better than Atlas carrying the globe on his back, or African myths about turtles and stuff.

Look, all that's required for the creation of matter is an imbalance of particles and antiparticles.

You know Edwin Hubble, the guy who in the early 20th century was the first scientist to measure the drift of matter in the universe, thus advancing notions of an expanding universe.

Why do people go around touting theories?

A theory only becomes a theory after withstanding rigorous testing.

Well, it sure does sound like a difficult class, doesn't it?

It's a very interesting topic and very controversial, so there are many opinions on it.

But before we get into that, why don't we take a look at some of those physics-related words that we listened to in Language Takeaway.

We've got, uh, four words we've heard in the dialogue that are all related to physics.

So let's start with the first one, which is matter.

Okay, so you probably know this word from "What's the matter?

In this case, we're talking about matter, so anything that occupies space that has a mass or that is related to energy.

So all things in the world are made up of matter, right?

Now, particles are a little bit more now, particles are a little bit easier.

They're just very small pieces of a hole.

You can if you want to understand it easily, yeah, you apple has many small particles that make up the apple.

Imagine we've got a beach, and all the pieces of sand are particles of the beach.

Now, the next one is a little bit difficult for me.

Now, this prefix, anti, it means something that is against, right?

And I've seen this one in anti-clockwise.

All right, so antiparticles are those that are against particles.

So basically, if you have a particle that has a positive charge, and

another one comes in with a negative charge in the same weight and the same type of particle, if they get together, they cancel each other out,

All right, well, you heard it first here at EnglishPod.

So antiparticles are not a good thing to have around.

Now, we also heard them talk about the drift of matter.

Also sometimes called drift of dark matter.

Okay, well, I know the verb to drift, right?

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🎧 Learning English with Podcasts | Episode 024 Big Bang Theory Advance Level

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