A relatively new interpretation of quantum mechanics asks us to reimagine the process of science itself.
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If you can model anything in the Universe with an equation, mathematics is how you get the solution(s). Physics must go a step further.
Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.
Is information intrinsic in our universe? NASA’s Michelle Thaller explains.
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If the evolution of the Universe is a movie, what happens when we rewind it all the way backward?
We can reasonably say that we understand the history of the Universe within one-trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. That’s not good enough.
Smashing things together at unprecedented energies sounds dangerous. But it’s nothing the Universe hasn’t already seen, and survived.
Einstein called his idea “abominable,” but the world of physics came around to embracing the views of Georges Lemaître.
How are we to deal with the quantization of spacetime and gravity?
You can only create or destroy matter by creating or destroying equal amounts of antimatter. So how did we become a matter-rich Universe?
An enormous amount of antimatter is coming from our galactic center. But the culprit probably isn’t dark matter, but merely neutron stars.
Whether you run the clock forward or backward, most of us expect the laws of physics to be the same. A 2012 experiment showed otherwise.
Once the initial blaze of heat dissipated, the constituent particles of atoms were free to bind.
The combination of charge conjugation, parity, and time-reversal symmetry is known as CPT. And it must never be broken. Ever.
We don’t need to think about what life is made of but rather what it does.
When it comes to predicting the energy of empty space, the two leading theories disagree by a factor of 100 googol quintillion.
The multiverse pushes beyond the limits of the scientific method. From our vantage point in the Universe, we cannot know if it’s real.
All the things that surround and compose us didn’t always exist. But describing their origin depends on what ‘nothing’ means.
Roger Babson wanted a “partial insulator, reflector, or absorber of gravity” — something, anything, that would stop or dampen it.
Some physicists are besot with the multiverse, but if we can’t detect these other universes, how seriously should we take them?
If Einstein couldn’t solve the theory of everything, could anyone? Physicist Michio Kaku explains what it would take.
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Sabine Hossenfelder discusses the physics of… dead grandmothers?
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Not even Einstein immediately knew the power of the equations he gave us.
Some constants, like the speed of light, exist with no underlying explanation. How many “fundamental constants” does our Universe require?
Our host Kmele went inside Fermilab, America’s premiere particle accelerator facility, to find out how the smallest particles in the universe can teach us about its biggest mysteries.
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The multiverse is an idea that has gained a lot of traction in popular culture. But what does science have to say about it?
For many years, some cosmologists embraced the idea of an eternal, steady state universe. But science triumphed over philosophical prejudice.
When the hot Big Bang first occurred, the Universe reached a maximum temperature never recreated since. What was it like back then?
From the Big Bang to black holes, singularities are hard to avoid. The math definitely predicts them, but are they truly, physically real?
“Once quantum mechanics is applied to the entire cosmos, it uncovers a three-thousand-year-old idea.”