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What does “antimatter” actually mean? Can a particle be its own opposite? What would happen to it, and what does this have to do with a missing scientist?
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How can matter ever go faster than light? What happens when it does? Who discovered this, and what is it good for?
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What did the universe do to make so many defects? What happens when they get trapped? And could they be hiding right in front of our noses?
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What makes the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas so weird? Why are we finding so many interstellar visitors recently? How are they made, and where do they come from?
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What do we find when we push the James Webb Space Telescope to its limits? Are Little Red Dots newborn galaxies or old black holes?
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How can anyone agree on the age of the universe? And how can we be so confident if it’s all just a bunch of models? What if the universe is extra lumpy?
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Why is math so effective at describing the universe? What is reality is made of math? What does it mean for us to be conscious beings in a mathematical structure?
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What is the weak equivalency principle? How was antimatter discovered and why is it the perfect thing to put gravity to the test? What did the CERN experiment discover?
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How does the double-slit experiment work? What does it teach us about reality and measurement if we try to mess with the experiment after it’s already started?
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What is causal determinism? What are some of the ways that physics can permit free will? What does emergence have to do with all of this?
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What do extra dimensions have to do with the strength of gravity? What is a tower of gravitons? How can we detect extra dimensions even if we can’t perceive them?
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What happens to a white dwarf when it cools off? How long does it take? Do they just stay black forever, or will something more interesting happen to them someday?
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How did we discover the weak nuclear force? Why is it so strange compared to the other forces? What do mirrors have to do with all of this?
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"The Universe is dying. Mars is a death trap. And we are likely alone."
Time for something different, @PaulMattSutter is back for some more complexities of the Universe.
We cover the big stuff - the big bang, dark matter, living on Mars and aliens.
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Is the universe infinite? What about the cosmological horizons, the limits to what we can see? Will we ever know for sure what’s beyond them?
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Why did we develop the International Space Station in the first place? What have we learned in its 25+ years of operation? When is it coming down, and why? And what’s coming up next?
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How do particle colliders work? What kinds of energies are we talking about? Are there any uses for colliders except for physics experiments?
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What are some sources of gravitational waves that aren’t black holes? How did inflation create gravitational waves? How can we possibly detect them?
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How do we measure the sizes of stars? What are the biggest ones today, and how big could stars have gotten in the past? Is there any way for a star to cheat and get even bigger?
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What powers Cepheid variable stars? What about Mira variables and pulsating stars? And are there variable stars that don’t actually vary at all?
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