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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Perhaps our entire universe is like a gigantic computer game, the creation of super-smart hackers existing somewhere else? Before you smirk and laugh, watch and think!
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Episode 10
Season 01
26:46
Information has become increasingly important in understanding the physical world around us, from ordinary computers to the underlying principles of fundamental physics,...
4 videos
24:21
Mathematics is like nothing else. The truths of math seem to be unrelated to anything else—independent of human beings, independent of the universe. The sum of 2 + 3 = 5...
7 videos
47:10
The world works at different levels — fundamental physics, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, sociology — with each level having its own rules and regularities. ...
5 videos
45:52
Mathematics describes the real world of atoms and acorns, stars and stairs, with remarkable precision. So is mathematics invented by humans just like chisels and hammers and...
9 videos
1:34:28
Information is a common word but has technical meanings so important that our entire world depends on them. What are the kinds of information? How about the scientific...
37:58
Why is an observer a critical part of quantum physics? What does it mean to be an observer? Does the act of observation affect what exists and what happens in the external...
6 videos
52:16
We think we understand the physical world but we do not. For example, some features of the world are derived from others, which makes the latter more fundamental and the...
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We search deepest levels of cosmic reality, the big picture of the puzzle of the universe — beginning, size, structure, future, far future. We seek significance in...
Episode 01
Season 19
26:48
What is an event in physics? What are its attributes? This question didn’t seem very interesting until quantum physics changed the world. Is an observer or an observation...
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