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Something Disturbing Happens When You Solve Einstein's Equations This Way
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Episode 25
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We Thought Black Holes Ended in Singularities. They Might End In a Frozen Big Bang
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Episode 28
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We’ve Been Looking for Aliens for 70 Years. We've Been Doing It Wrong All Along
Season 11
Episode 29
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The Universe Has Been Expanding Since the Big Bang. Just Not How We Thought.
Season 11
Episode 32
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Dark Energy Is Driving the Universe Apart. We May Finally Know Why.
Season 11
Episode 22
We’ve known since 1929 that the universe is expanding, and since 1998 that it’s speeding up. The unknown force behind this acceleration is called “dark energy,” assumed to stay constant in density. But new evidence hints it may change over time, possibly explaining why major measurements of the universe’s expansion rate don’t agree.
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Will we ever become a Kardeshev Type-1 civilization and how can we get there?
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New data is telling us that Neutron stars may make one of the most popular dark matter candidates.
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Here’s the story we like to tell about the beginning of the universe.
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We’ve never seen a TDE in the Milky Way, but we’ve seen them in distant galaxies.
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Let’s talk about quantum gravity experiments that can be done here on Earth!
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What if gravity isn’t weirdly quantum at all, but rather … just a bit messy?
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Have we reached the end of the line of discoverable elements?
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Learn about Nobel laureate Roger Penrose's idea of how consciousness is caused by quantum processes.
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Faster than light travel may produce gravitational waves that we could see here on Earth.
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All particles belong to two large groups: fermions and bosons.