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How To Become an Astrophysicist
Season 5
Episode 30
Do you want to major in Astrophysics? Are you thinking about becoming (or ever just wondered how one becomes) an Astrophysicist? Do you want to know Matt O’Dowd’s origin story? Then buckle up and enjoy the ride and try your astrophysics skill in calculating bubble universes.
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15:02
Is gravity just an emergent effect of entropy?
14:28
Is our 3-D universe is just the inward projection of an infinitely distant boundary?
14:12
What if aliens are deliberately keeping quiet for fear that they might be destroyed?
15:13
So what exactly is an EMP, and how dangerous are they?
14:44
The terrible singularity at the heart of the black hole may be no more.
14:33
We may have solved the mysterious origins of supermassive black holes in our universe.
16:30
Does antimatter fall down, or does it fall up?
14:29
Could cosmic voids be driving the universe?
17:53
Is there a black hole hiding in the core of the Sun eating it from the inside out?
19:19
What if we aren't the first technological civilization on Earth?
19:03
Many World’s lack wavefunction collapse might be the key to the measurement problem.
18:32
The holy grail of physics is a quantum theory of gravity. What if it’s not possible?