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Episode 17
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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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We may need to build a radio telescope in the quietest place nearby - the moon!
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Spacetime on its smallest scale is an ocean of black holes and wormholes...or so we think.
15:51
The gravitational wave background has probably been detected using a pulsar timing array.
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Let’s explore how constant this speed of light fundamental constant really is.
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Dark matter may be a quantum mechanical wave that literally holds galaxies together.
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Has AI proven that the proton is made of 5 quarks rather than 3 quarks?
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How close is too close for supernova explosions?
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Could we turn our solar system into a spaceship and drive the Sun around the galaxy?
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If we want to see quantum weirdness with our eyes, we’ll need Bose-Einstein Condensates.
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Could LIGO find alien spacecraft accelerating to near light speed?