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How Much Of The Universe Can Humanity Ever See?
Season 9
Episode 9
There’s an absolute limit to our access to the universe beyond our own galaxy. So we’re going to figure out the absolute limit of our future view of the universe, and of the universe’s ability to influence us.
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Could we turn our solar system into a spaceship and drive the Sun around the galaxy?
16:00
If we want to see quantum weirdness with our eyes, we’ll need Bose-Einstein Condensates.
16:42
Could LIGO find alien spacecraft accelerating to near light speed?
15:51
How can we tell the difference between fermions & bosons? Statistical Mechanics!
13:25
Why has a newly discovered a black hole started pointing directly at us?
15:57
There’s a hard limit to humanity’s expansion in the universe. So, how big can we get?
16:28
Physics is the business of figuring out the structure of the world. So are our brains.
14:28
Nuclei are held together by a quirk of nature, without which there’d be nothing.
16:29
Your motion through the universe is extremely complicated, so let’s figure it out!
