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PBS Space Time
9 NASA Technologies Shaping Your Future
Season 1
Episode 14
NASA is really good at going to space, amongst other things, but did you know that part of their mission is to work also for the public good!? It’s part of NASA’s doctrine that they must release the patents on the stuff they work on, which has, over the years, given us some really awesome things you would have never thought have come from NASA!
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14:59
Spacetime on its smallest scale is an ocean of black holes and wormholes...or so we think.

11:49
Did JWST just find a new type of star powered by dark matter?

16:21
Did we just uncover new evidence to support Cold Dark Matter?

15:51
The gravitational wave background has probably been detected using a pulsar timing array.

15:05
Let’s explore how constant this speed of light fundamental constant really is.

14:39
Dark matter may be a quantum mechanical wave that literally holds galaxies together.

16:24
Has AI proven that the proton is made of 5 quarks rather than 3 quarks?

15:16
How close is too close for supernova explosions?

12:14
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!