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Navigating with Quantum Entanglement

Navigating with Quantum Entanglement

Season 7 Episode 3
12:11
What Happens During a Quantum Jump?

What Happens During a Quantum Jump?

Season 7 Episode 4
12:43
Can We Break the Universe?

Can We Break the Universe?

Season 7 Episode 5
12:32
Is Dark Matter Made of Particles?

Is Dark Matter Made of Particles?

Season 7 Episode 6
13:03
Does Time Cause Gravity?

Does Time Cause Gravity?

Season 7 Episode 9
8:55
How Does Gravity Affect Light?

How Does Gravity Affect Light?

Season 7 Episode 10
13:24
The New Crisis in Cosmology

The New Crisis in Cosmology

Season 7 Episode 11
13:08
The New Warp Drive Possibilities

The New Warp Drive Possibilities

Season 7 Episode 15
13:11
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The Supernova At The End of Time

Season 7 Episode 2

It looks like the universe is going to end with a series of catastrophic explosions. The very, very long story short is that the universe ends in heat death, as it approaches maximum entropy, and its eternal exponential expansion drives it to effective utter emptiness and absolute cold. But new calculations have revealed we may be able to look forward to one last source of astrophysical cataclysm

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Anti-gravity and the True Nature of Dark Energy
12:04
We’ve come a long way in our understanding of dark energy.
What Does Dark Energy Really Do?
9:50
How does dark energy affect the universe's expansion?
Why the Universe Needs Dark Energy
9:33
What's needed to determine the shape and geometry of our universe?
We Are Star Stuff
10:38
Stars are our stellar alchemists.
Will Starshot's Insterstellar Journey Succeed?
8:51
Starshot is an interstellar travel expedition unlike any other before it.
How Cosmic Inflation Flattened the Universe
10:17
The Big Bang Theory only gets us part of the way there.
Why is the Earth Round and the Milky Way Flat?
10:48
Our universe is not a very diverse place when it comes to shapes.
What’s Wrong With the Big Bang Theory?
9:56
We continue our search for a grand unifying theory of the Big Bang!
Why the Big Bang Definitely Happened
8:54
The actual moment of ‘the Big Bang’ is still a bit of a grey area within physics.
Should We Build a Dyson Sphere?
10:14
The Kepler telescope recently found a strange partial eclipse...possibly a Dyson Sphere.
How the Quantum Eraser Rewrites the Past
10:06
Causality is meant to move in one direction: forward.
LIGO's First Detection of Gravitational Waves!
7:29
Gravitational waves have officially been detected by LIGO!
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