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Black Holes. Explained. For 1.5 Hours.
Black holes are not just the strangest objects in the universe, they're the sharpest test we have of how reality actually works. This episode explores how these extreme cosmic laboratories force general relativity and quantum physics into direct confrontation. We look back through a decade of content to understand their formation and the theoretical diagrams that describe them.
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Does quantum mechanics allow the future to retroactively influence the past or not?
19:14
Life on mars could result in humanity’s destruction via Fermi Paradox.
19:01
How to build a particle collider the size of the solar system.
12:39
One of the most important reasons we go to space is to know our own planet better.
16:18
Is there evidence for the existence of an enormous number of other universes?
18:56
It may be that our very DNA inherited its twist from the underlying handedness of reality.
17:21
Did God have any choice in creating the world? So asked Albert Einstein
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What if, just before we reach the bottom, we find out that reductionism fails?
19:03
The biggest news in cosmology in recent years is that dark energy may be fading away.
16:58
Quantum energy teleportation may be as close as we get to transporter beams. But how close is that?