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PBS Space Time
Zero-Point Energy Demystified
Season 4
Episode 2
Let’s talk about the mysterious zero-point energy and what it really can, and really can’t do.
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19:26
What if gravity isn’t weirdly quantum at all, but rather … just a bit messy?
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17:02
Have we reached the end of the line of discoverable elements?
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15:32
Can we change the color of a black hole?
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18:26
Learn about Nobel laureate Roger Penrose's idea of how consciousness is caused by quantum processes.
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16:28
Faster than light travel may produce gravitational waves that we could see here on Earth.
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20:07
All particles belong to two large groups: fermions and bosons.
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16:11
Just how much stronger is this year’s solar activity going to get?
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17:25
So you’ve decided to jump into a black hole...
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12:51
We only recently figured out where cosmic rays are coming from.
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13:28
Black hole complementarity may force us to rethink what it means to say that it exists.
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20:15
To travel the stars without faster than light travel we’re going to need a generation ship.
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16:19
Today we are jumping into a black hole. Again.