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68 - The Age of the Universe
68 - The Age of the Universe
Today we are debunking the recent paper that claims our universe is much older than previously thought.For ask-us-anythi... Read more
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6 - Your Tour Through Quantum Weirdness (Rebroadcast)
6 - Your Tour Through Quantum Weirdness (Rebroadcast)
We are celebrating our 3 year anniversary with a throwback to one of our earliest episodes! Entanglement, wave-particle ... Read more
31 Jul 2023
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67 - When Science Meets Spirituality (Ft. Alan Lightman)
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Special guest Alan Lightman takes us through a fascinating discussion of consciousness, and tells us how he reconciles s... Read more
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66 - When Space Was Filled With Music
66 - When Space Was Filled With Music
Shortly after the Big Bang, space was densely packed with enough stuff for sound to travel through it. What was producin... Read more
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65 - Should We Build a Muon Collider? (Ft. Cari Cesarotti)
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Special guest Cari Cesarotti tells us why so many particle physicists are itching to build a whole new type of particle ... Read more
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64 - The Journey to the Big Bang
64 - The Journey to the Big Bang
The Big Bang is well accepted today as the leading theory of how our universe evolved over time - but in today's episode... Read more
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63 - The Question of Consciousness (Ft. David Chalmers)
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47 - Boltzmann Brains: Could Reality Be An Illusion? (Rebroadcast)
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A whirlwind of questions brings us to an odd conclusion: could reality be an illusion created by a quantum fluctuation o... Read more
27 Mar 2023
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62 - JWST and the Earliest Galaxies in the Universe (ft. Mike Boylan-Kolchin)
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Astronomers' newest telescope, JWST, just discovered galaxies that formed earlier than previously thought possible. What... Read more
13 Mar 2023
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61 - Could the Large Hadron Collider Destroy the World?
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Before the LHC turned on in 2008, many feared that it would create a dangerous black hole that would destroy the world. ... Read more
27 Feb 2023
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