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The Particle We’ve Been Chasing for 30 Years Might Not Exist
Season 11
Episode 20
The universe thrums with quantum fields; and the particles of matter and force emerge as vibrational manifestations of the deep symmetries of these fields. The layers and reflections of those symmetries give us the wonderful richness of what we call the standard model of particle physics. Except there seems to be something missing: the sterile neutrino.
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What if we aren't the first technological civilization on Earth?
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Many World’s lack wavefunction collapse might be the key to the measurement problem.
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The holy grail of physics is a quantum theory of gravity. What if it’s not possible?
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Alien life will most likely be discovered by faint changes in the color of alien sunsets.
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The 2023 Physics Nobel prize has been awarded to three physicists for attosecond physics.
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With the James Webb Space Telescope we’ve now seen the earliest star ever detected.
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Some are arguing that Many Worlds and Pilot Wave are really the same.
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What if we could produce superconductivity at room temperature? It would change the world.
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We may need to build a radio telescope in the quietest place nearby - the moon!
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Spacetime on its smallest scale is an ocean of black holes and wormholes...or so we think.
