Particles at two places at the same time—superposition. Particles communicating instantly with no respect to distance—entanglement. How to make sense of such weirdness?...
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To appreciate Time is to touch the texture of reality. Does Time differ from our common perceptions of it? Is Time fixed or flexible?
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Episode 02
Season 11
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Cosmologists believe that multiple universes really exist; they call the whole vast collection, which might even be infinite in number, the ‘multiverse’. But how...
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The “big breakthroughs” in science seeming to be “bigger” than ever, and happening faster and faster. But just how do scientists challenge current...
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What could life be as we don’t know it? Three transitions. Non-life to life. Life to intelligent life. Intelligent life to technological civilization. Fermi’s Paradox:...
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The stunning realization that there may be multiple universes has progressed from speculative metaphysics (or science fiction) to serious theoretical cosmology to data-rich...
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Are the laws of nature or physics blind in that they seek no direction and have no ‘purpose’? That’s the scientific paradigm. But the world works so well:...
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Do stars and spaces go on forever? Do the numbers of galaxies, and even of universes, have no end? Here’s how infinity enriches appreciation of reality.
Episode 07
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Beautiful, elegant and full of charm and symmetry. That’s how some scientists would describe quantum physics, the most basic and scientific picture of our world. Join...
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Does the concept of observation have deep relevance in fundamental physics? What about in quantum physics where some kind of observation seems to be needed to transform...
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There was a time when there was no consciousness in our universe. Now there is. What caused consciousness to emerge? Did consciousness develop in the same way that, say, the...
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Dig down to the deepest level of reality, the smallest things that exist, the building blocks of everything else. What do we find? What’s there at the very bottom?...
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