Up Next
Back to Show
PBS Space Time
Breaking The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Season 7
Episode 17
Quantum mechanics forbids us from measuring the universe beyond a certain level of precision. But that doesn’t stop us from trying. And in some cases succeeding, by squeezing the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to its breaking point.
Support Provided By
Season
15:35
What do you get if you combine something that’s infinitely massive and negative infinitely massive?
13:39
What does an electron really look like?
17:19
I’d like to invite you to an even higher level of nerdom!
11:43
Gravitational tsunamis exist and we’re on the verge of being able to detect them.
18:40
Will we ever become a Kardeshev Type-1 civilization and how can we get there?
14:05
New data is telling us that Neutron stars may make one of the most popular dark matter candidates.
15:14
Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker?
16:08
Here’s the story we like to tell about the beginning of the universe.
17:44
We’ve never seen a TDE in the Milky Way, but we’ve seen them in distant galaxies.
16:51
Let’s talk about quantum gravity experiments that can be done here on Earth!
19:25
What if gravity isn’t weirdly quantum at all, but rather … just a bit messy?
17:02
Have we reached the end of the line of discoverable elements?