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General Relativity
1hr 16mins
NASA astronomer Michelle Thaller makes the case that quantum entanglement may be the underlying fabric from which spacetime itself emerges.
1hr 19mins
Theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili explores why our sense of time may be incredibly misleading, including the idea that past, present, and future might all exist at once.
16mins
“The messy reality of it is that all of these very smart people, including Isaac Newton, were talking to other people.”
23mins
"Could black holes be the key to a quantum theory of gravity, a deeper theory of how reality, of how space and time works? Well, I think so."
1hr 26mins
“I like to say that physics is hard because physics is easy, by which I mean we actually think about physics as students.”
1hr 18mins
“Could black holes be the key to a quantum theory of gravity, a deeper theory of how reality, of how space and time works?”
19mins
"It's a very, very beautiful calculation, but it's the best example I know of the relationship between these rather abstract quantities perhaps and something that you can look at in a telescope."
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"We are all in orbit around the center of the Milky Way galaxy. How big is this collection of stars? Somewhere between 200 and 400 billion suns in the Milky Way galaxy, about 100,000 light years across."
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Nobel Prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek reflects on Einstein’s greatest contribution.
12mins
When black holes disappear, what happens to the stuff that fell in? Physicist Brian Cox explains.
5mins
NASA’s Michelle Thaller explains what happens when the densest stars in the galaxy collide.
5mins
Gravity defies quantum mechanics. What does that mean for a theory of everything?
42mins
Sabine Hossenfelder talks about Albert Einstein, dead grandmothers, the physics of aging, and more in this full interview with Big Think.
Basic and breath-taking – Dr. Frank Wilczek addresses symmetry’s critical role in nature’s laws and what we consider to be beautiful.
John Templeton Foundation
To understand the edges of our universe, we’ll need to explore the edges of our own philosophies.
John Templeton Foundation