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What Physics Teachers Get Wrong About Tides!

What Physics Teachers Get Wrong About Tides!

Season 1 Episode 24
9:09
Do Events Inside Black Holes Happen?

Do Events Inside Black Holes Happen?

Season 1 Episode 25
11:50
What if Singularities DO NOT Exist?

What if Singularities DO NOT Exist?

Season 10 Episode 1
14:44
What Happens If We Nuke Space?

What Happens If We Nuke Space?

Season 10 Episode 2
15:13
Dark Forest: Should We Not Contact Aliens?

Dark Forest: Should We Not Contact Aliens?

Season 10 Episode 3
14:12
Does Space Emerge From A Holographic Boundary?

Does Space Emerge From A Holographic Boundary?

Season 10 Episode 4
14:28
What If Gravity is Not A Fundamental Force?

What If Gravity is Not A Fundamental Force?

Season 10 Episode 5
15:02
How Eclipses Revealed Our Solar System

How Eclipses Revealed Our Solar System

Season 10 Episode 6
15:07
Why Is The World Rushing Back To The Moon?

Why Is The World Rushing Back To The Moon?

Season 10 Episode 7
15:36
What Happens If You Jump Into A Black Hole?

What Happens If You Jump Into A Black Hole?

Season 10 Episode 8
16:19
Interstellar Expansion WITHOUT Faster Than Light Travel

Interstellar Expansion WITHOUT Faster Than Light Travel

Season 10 Episode 9
20:15
Can Black Holes Unify General Relativity & Quantum Mechanics?

Can Black Holes Unify General Relativity & Quantum Mechanics?

Season 10 Episode 10
13:28
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PBS Space Time

General Relativity & Curved Spacetime Explained!

Season 1 Episode 23

We've been through the first few episodes of our crash course on general relativity, and came out alive! But it's officially "time" for CURVED spacetime. Join Gabe on this week’s episode of PBS Space Time as he discusses Newton and Einstein's dispute over inertial frames of reference. Is Einstein's theory inconsistent? Is gravity even a force??? Check out the episode to find out!
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Hacking the Nature of Reality
13:34
Season 6 Episode 2
Hacking the Nature of Reality
An insight by a young scientist in 1925 allowed us a better understanding of space time.
Solving the Three Body Problem
13:35
Season 6 Episode 1
Solving the Three Body Problem
The three body problem is famous for being impossible to solve.
How To Capture Black Holes
12:02
Season 5 Episode 45
How To Capture Black Holes
How about black holes being captured by the screaming vortex of a quasar?
How To Detect a Neutrino
9:54
Season 5 Episode 44
How To Detect a Neutrino
Why is there something rather than nothing?
Do Black Holes Create New Universes?
12:24
Season 5 Episode 43
Do Black Holes Create New Universes?
Do black holes create new universes?
The Doomsday Argument
12:50
Season 5 Episode 42
The Doomsday Argument
A simple statistical argument tells us that the doom of our species is much, much closer.
Is The Universe Finite?
12:25
Season 5 Episode 41
Is The Universe Finite?
Our universe may actually be finite in size.
Can You Observe a Typical Universe?
13:36
Season 5 Episode 40
Can You Observe a Typical Universe?
How do you correctly use the anthropic principle?
Does Life Need a Multiverse to Exist?
13:09
Season 5 Episode 39
Does Life Need a Multiverse to Exist?
Does life need a multiverse to exist?
Why We Might Be Alone in the Universe
12:24
Season 5 Episode 38
Why We Might Be Alone in the Universe
Why does it appear, that humanity is the lone intelligence in the universe?
Is Time Travel Impossible?
12:33
Season 5 Episode 37
Is Time Travel Impossible?
Is Time Travel Impossible?
Loop Quantum Gravity Explained
13:49
Season 5 Episode 36
Loop Quantum Gravity Explained
What exactly is it?
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