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How We Know The Universe is Ancient

How We Know The Universe is Ancient

Season 6 Episode 14
14:01
Mapping the Multiverse

Mapping the Multiverse

Season 6 Episode 16
14:21
Does Gravity Require Extra Dimensions?

Does Gravity Require Extra Dimensions?

Season 6 Episode 17
12:41
Can Viruses Travel Between Planets?

Can Viruses Travel Between Planets?

Season 6 Episode 18
13:58
What Happens After the Universe Ends?

What Happens After the Universe Ends?

Season 6 Episode 19
14:34
Building Black Holes in a Lab

Building Black Holes in a Lab

Season 6 Episode 20
13:12
Dissolving an Event Horizon

Dissolving an Event Horizon

Season 6 Episode 21
11:32
How Stars Destroy Each Other

How Stars Destroy Each Other

Season 6 Episode 24
10:41
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Was the Milky Way a Quasar?

Season 6 Episode 12

The Milky Way galaxy is relatively calm by the destructive standards of the rest of the Universe, and compared to its own very violent past. But just recently we discovered that its violent past was much more recent than we thought - and could even happen again.

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Does Antimatter Create Anti-Gravity?
16:30
Does antimatter fall down, or does it fall up?
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Could cosmic voids be driving the universe?
What If There's A Black Hole Inside The Sun?
17:53
Is there a black hole hiding in the core of the Sun eating it from the inside out?
What if Humans Are Not Earth's First Civilization?
19:19
What if we aren't the first technological civilization on Earth?
Does Many Worlds Explain Quantum Probabilities?
19:03
Many World’s lack wavefunction collapse might be the key to the measurement problem.
What If Gravity is Not Quantum?
18:32
The holy grail of physics is a quantum theory of gravity. What if it’s not possible?
How Will We (Most Likely) Discover Alien Life?
18:32
Alien life will most likely be discovered by faint changes in the color of alien sunsets.
Why Did Attosecond Physics Win the Nobel Prize?
12:05
The 2023 Physics Nobel prize has been awarded to three physicists for attosecond physics.
JWST Discovered The Farthest Star Ever Seen!
15:59
With the James Webb Space Telescope we’ve now seen the earliest star ever detected.
Are Many Worlds & Pilot Wave The Same Theory?
17:24
Some are arguing that Many Worlds and Pilot Wave are really the same.
Are Room Temperature Superconductors Impossible?
18:00
What if we could produce superconductivity at room temperature? It would change the world.
What New Science Would We Discover with a Moon Telescope?
20:39
We may need to build a radio telescope in the quietest place nearby - the moon!
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