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I did something that I’ve wanted to do since I was a young kid, and have been able to ask the world famous Dr Karl on air.

Dr Karl is a radio personality who is known as the smartest man in Australia. He has a show every week on Australia’s ABC and another on BBC’s Up All Night. Both shows are available as podcasts, have a look at the right hand side of this page, under “Podroll”.

Dr Karl answers questions asked by listeners, usually on the phone in the Australian show, but on the BBC show, often answers questions sent via email. This week, the host of Up All Night, Rhod, was kind enough to ask Dr Karl one of my questions. I sat in suspense through the show until we got to “And now, an email from… Max in Shanghai!”

I got two great answers, from both “Dr” Rhod and Dr Karl (on air, Dr Karl addresses everyone as “Dr”, one of his eccentricities!). I won’t spoil it for anyone who wants to listen to the show, but I do recommend looking up null nodes and sine wave oscillation in Wikipedia.

So thanks to both Dr Karl and “Dr” Rhod for choosing my question, and the answers.

Have a listen to my 15 seconds of fame here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/drkarl/ . If you subscribe to the podcast, you’ll be able to download the fateful episode by clicking on “15 May 2008″. My question comes on at about 25 minutes.