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Are The Fundamental Constants Finely Tuned? | The Naturalness Problem
Season 11
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Did God have any choice in creating the world? So asked Albert Einstein. He was being poetic. What he really meant, was whether the universe could have been any other way. Could it have had different laws of physics, driven by different fundamental constants. Or is this one vast and complex universe the inevitable result of an inevitable and unique underlying principle, perhaps expressible as a su
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We’ve found lots of “habitable” worlds but we don’t know what factors are needed for life.
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What is the graviton, and does it even exist?
19:52
Antimatter drives sound like science fiction, but they may not be as far as you think.
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Does quantum mechanics allow the future to retroactively influence the past or not?
19:14
Life on mars could result in humanity’s destruction via Fermi Paradox.
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How to build a particle collider the size of the solar system.
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One of the most important reasons we go to space is to know our own planet better.
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Is there evidence for the existence of an enormous number of other universes?
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Can something that exists be bad science?
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It may be that our very DNA inherited its twist from the underlying handedness of reality.
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What if, just before we reach the bottom, we find out that reductionism fails?
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The biggest news in cosmology in recent years is that dark energy may be fading away.