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Habitable Exoplanets Debunked!

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Is Gravity An Illusion?

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Can a Circle Be a Straight Line?

Can a Circle Be a Straight Line?

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Do Events Inside Black Holes Happen?

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What if Singularities DO NOT Exist?

What if Singularities DO NOT Exist?

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Can You Trust Your Eyes in Spacetime?

Season 1 Episode 22

Last time we talked about what curvature means, looked at geodesics, great circles on spheres, and tried to understand the notion of "straightness". This week on Spacetime, we take a detour into how geometry works in spacetime. Get excited, because this episode is even more mind-bending than the last!

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Today we are jumping into a black hole. Again.
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