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PBS Space Time
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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How can we tell the difference between fermions & bosons? Statistical Mechanics!

13:25
Why has a newly discovered a black hole started pointing directly at us?

15:57
There’s a hard limit to humanity’s expansion in the universe. So, how big can we get?

16:49
Let’s figure out the absolute limit of our future view of the universe!

16:34
Let see if Black Holes and Dark Energy are the same thing!

16:28
Physics is the business of figuring out the structure of the world. So are our brains.

18:58
Does the next level of physics require us to do away with space and time?

14:28
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16:29
Your motion through the universe is extremely complicated, so let’s figure it out!

14:47
Could there silicon-based life beyond Earth?

17:33
If you believe the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis then yes. And so are you.

15:32
Learn more about the time when the moon didn’t exist, and then hours later suddenly did.