What constitutes good science? Are there limits to science? If so, what are the boundaries? How deep can science dig into the foundations of the world?
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Episode 12
Season 16
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Extra dimensions—beyond length, width, height—seem like the stuff of science fiction. What would extra dimensions be like? Is time the fourth dimension? Does string...
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To know reality, one must confront the quantum. It is how our world works at the deepest level. What’s the quantum? It is bizarre, defying all common sense.
Episode 05
Season 06
26:46
Extra dimensions-beyond length, width, height-seem the stuff of science fiction. What would extra dimensions be like? Is time the fourth dimension? Could deep reality be so...
Episode 06
Season 04
26:45
One of artificial intelligence’s legendary pioneers, Marvin Minsky, recently died. With this tribute, we celebrate his penetrating analysis of brains, minds, AI, religion...
Episode 13
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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56:29
The expanding universe is humanity’s monumental discovery. Beginning infinitesimally small, the universe has become majestically large. How could this happen? What...
7 videos
1:07:48
Does information work at the deep levels of physics, including quantum theory, undergirding the fundamental forces and particles? But what is the essence of...
1:17:42
Why is an observer key to quantum physics? Does the act of observation affect what exists and what happens in the external world? Why is Observation in the quantum world a...
Episode 08
Season 17
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
The universe began as a simple hot bath of particles and forces. How then the vast diversity of things we find on earth today? Much depends on the principles of...
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The observable universe may contain two trillion galaxies and there may be innumerable universes. Is there ultimate unification, a final theory? Search for deep harmony....
Episode 09