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Season 12
Episode 2
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The Quantum Experiment that Broke Reality
The double slit experiment radically changed the way we understand reality. Find out what the ramifications of this experiment were and how we can use it to better comprehend our universe.
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Learn about the standard model of particle physics, the most accurate physical theory yet.
10:36
One paper reports on a new particle outside the standard model: the sterile neutrino.
10:38
Forget oil. There’s another natural resource that’s never been touched, Asteroids.
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Nothing can escape from below the event horizon- not matter, light, or even information.
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Nothing can escape from below the event horizon- not matter, light, or even information.
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Is the entire history of the universe perfectly knowable? Or has information been lost?
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Flawed conservation laws are consequences of a much deeper principle: Noether’s theorem.
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New Gaia mission data has dramatically changed how we understand our own galaxy.
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We can now see that the Milky Way is swarming with tens of thousands of black holes.
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We’re going to need a gravitational wave observatory - in fact, we've already built one.