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Episode 17
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The Crisis In Physics: Are We Missing 17 Layers of Reality?
Season 11
Episode 6
Big things are made of smaller things, and those smaller things are made of smaller things still. That’s reductionism in a nutshell, and digging our way to the smallest layer has been one of the primary goals of physics for ever. But what if, just before we reach the bottom, we find out that reductionism fails?
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Black hole complementarity may force us to rethink what it means to say that it exists.
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To travel the stars without faster than light travel we’re going to need a generation ship.
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The Moon: humanity’s first destination beyond our atmosphere.
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Is our 3-D universe is just the inward projection of an infinitely distant boundary?
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What if aliens are deliberately keeping quiet for fear that they might be destroyed?
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The terrible singularity at the heart of the black hole may be no more.
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We may have solved the mysterious origins of supermassive black holes in our universe.