It is the Holy Grail of physics: All the particles and forces of nature unified and explained by equations so simple that you can print them on your tee shirt. Are we getting...
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Episode 09
Season 03
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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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Of what is reality made? What are the most basic building blocks from which the cosmos is constructed? Particles? Mass-Energy? Forces? Fields? A new candidate is...
Episode 06
Season 14
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The expanding universe is humanity’s monumental discovery. Beginning infinitesimally small, the universe has become majestically large. How could this happen? What...
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Quantum theory explains how particles and fields work. General relativity, discovered by Einstein, explains how gravity generates the structure of the universe. But the two...
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In 1960, the physicist Eugene Wigner published an article, “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences,” which has attracted great...
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Why isn’t there nothing at all? Why is it not the case that there is no cosmos, no laws of nature, no consciousness, literally nothing at all? Scientists claim that the...
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Are there “general principles” that encompass all sciences, that explain even beyond the sciences? What would that mean about our world and about us?
Episode 04
Season 10
Quantum theory may be weird—superposition and entanglement of particles that in our normal world would make no sense—but quantum theory is truly how the microworld works....
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What are applications of mathematics to research in evolution? What are categories or examples where mathematics generates deep insights? For example: population genetics,...
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