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The Gravity Particle Should Exist. So Where Is It?
Season 11
Episode 16
Physics is this close to understanding the entire universe. And what lives in this gap? Many physicists think it’s the elusive graviton—the quantum particle of gravity—whose discovery will finally allow us to stitch together our two great theories of nature into a single master theory. But what is the graviton, and does it even exist?
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Is there evidence for the existence of an enormous number of other universes?
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It may be that our very DNA inherited its twist from the underlying handedness of reality.
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Did God have any choice in creating the world? So asked Albert Einstein
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What if, just before we reach the bottom, we find out that reductionism fails?
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The biggest news in cosmology in recent years is that dark energy may be fading away.
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Quantum energy teleportation may be as close as we get to transporter beams. But how close is that?
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Why is there any matter in the universe? A new antimatter breakthrough at LHC holds clues.
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There’s an extremely good chance that Earth once did have a ring system.
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How is it possible to tell if a space rock will one day collide with the Earth?
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Did you know that many of us have up to 4% neanderthal DNA?