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Is There a Simple Proof For a Vast Multiverse?
Season 11
Episode 10
In 1987, Steven Weinberg wrote a cute little paper entitled “Anthropic Bound on the Cosmological Constant”. Weinberg was foundational in establishing the standard model of particle physics, but his little 1987 paper, though more obscure, may tell us something about how the multiverse works, and can even be thought of as evidence for the existence of an enormous number of other universes.
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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?
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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.
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Just how much stronger is this year’s solar activity going to get?
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So you’ve decided to jump into a black hole...
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We only recently figured out where cosmic rays are coming from.