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What If the Galactic Habitable Zone Limits Intelligent Life?
Season 8
Episode 15
Our solar system is a tiny bubble of habitability suspended in a vast universe that mostly wants to kill us. In fact, a good fraction of our own galaxy turns out to be utterly uninhabitable, even for sun—like stellar systems. Is this why .. most of us .. haven’t seen aliens?
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19:03
Many World’s lack wavefunction collapse might be the key to the measurement problem.

18:32
The holy grail of physics is a quantum theory of gravity. What if it’s not possible?

18:32
Alien life will most likely be discovered by faint changes in the color of alien sunsets.

12:05
The 2023 Physics Nobel prize has been awarded to three physicists for attosecond physics.

15:59
With the James Webb Space Telescope we’ve now seen the earliest star ever detected.

17:24
Some are arguing that Many Worlds and Pilot Wave are really the same.

18:00
What if we could produce superconductivity at room temperature? It would change the world.

20:39
We may need to build a radio telescope in the quietest place nearby - the moon!

14:59
Spacetime on its smallest scale is an ocean of black holes and wormholes...or so we think.

11:49
Did JWST just find a new type of star powered by dark matter?

16:21
Did we just uncover new evidence to support Cold Dark Matter?

15:51
The gravitational wave background has probably been detected using a pulsar timing array.