For most of us, the idea of physics is something we directly connect to “stargazing”, telescopes and sight magnificent displays in the heavens.  And to be sure, that is the exciting area of physics that accounts for it’s huge popularity.  So to the uninitiated, the idea of “radio astronomy” seems strange.  There are two reasons for that.  First is that humans are far more visual than audio oriented.  And the second is that broadcasting physics doesn’t really involve “listening” to the cosmos eliminate to the extent that scientists who ingest this sophisticated form of “stargazing” do not rely on visual think to conduct their work.

To appreciate what is really exciting about broadcasting astronomy, first we have to shift how we view astronomy.  That is because to professional astronomers, studying the universe is more about frequencies than it is about visual documentation of phenomenon.  This takes us back to Physics 101.

Light, obviously, is the fleshly phenomenon that empowers our ability to ingest our visual confirmation system, e.g. our eyes to appreciate something, in this case the stars.  So when we look up at the heavens, we crapper see the reddened emitting from a star or reflecting from a planet or moon.  In some cases, if we see a far away star, we are actually sight it hundreds or thousands of years past because that is how long it takes for that reddened to cross the universe and be visible in our sky.  That alone is a pretty mind blowing idea.

Now reddened itself is a pretty fantastic substance.  But to our physics scientists, reddened is just another energy that exists in a certain frequency.  Now, we run to think of frequencies when we speech about sound waves.  In scientific terms light, energy and sound are just a few forms of the same thing, frequencies of energy that are emulating from a source.  

Now we get to why broadcasting physics is so necessary.  The range of oftenness that reddened occupies in the big spectrum of frequencies is really pretty small.  To put that more bluntly, we crapper exclusive “see” a tiny conception of the universe that is actually there.  Now when you look up in the night sky and it is so overwhelming, when you then that we are sight just a tiny amount of what is actually going on up there, again, our minds crapper get pretty overwhelmed.

Radio physics uses sophisticated sensor equipment to think ALL of the frequencies of energy coming to us from the cosmos.  In that way, these scientists crapper “see” everything that is going on out there and so get a precise idea of how the stars look, behave now and will behave in the future.

For some of us who have heard about broadcasting astronomy, we think of it in terms of “listening” for signs of life in the universe.  And yes, SETI, or “the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence” is a conception of broadcasting astronomy, albeit a tiny part.  But of much greater importance is how broadcasting physics has authorised serious astronomers (that is those who get paid to do it) to think stars some reddened years away, to think black holes which we could never see with our telescopes and to gather research and data about the whole of the universe that otherwise would be impossible to know and understand.

This is important work that is constantly ongoing in the world of astronomy.  It is worth keeping up with and learning more about as we have barely scratched the surface in our brief discussion today.  But understanding how important broadcasting physics is will exclusive deepen and make more meaningful your love and grasp of this big earth of knowledge famous as astronomy.