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2022-11-16: Are there Undiscovered Elements Beyond The Periodic Table?

  • 18:14: ... I define my reference class as those who are able to formulate anthropic arguments then it’s less surprising that I live in a modern ...

2022-08-17: What If Dark Energy is a New Quantum Field?

  • 10:08: ... This could be a crazy coincidence, or perhaps there are anthropic arguments for this - for example we could only exist in such a ...

2021-03-23: Zeno's Paradox & The Quantum Zeno Effect

  • 08:17: A flurry of papers came out after the 1990 result disputing the claim on various grounds, and the arguments have continued.

2021-01-12: What Happens During a Quantum Jump?

  • 04:43: But Schrodinger had his arguments too.

2020-10-27: How The Penrose Singularity Theorem Predicts The End of Space Time

  • 03:18: ... Kerr solution was still highly symmetrical,   so the same old arguments held against  these things forming in ...
  • 10:36: ... showed that Penrose’s arguments  about black holes also applied to the   universe - that ...
  • 09:31: ... In his PhD thesis Hawking   showed that you could use the same arguments to investigate the behavior of geodesics traced   backwards ...

2020-08-10: Theory of Everything Controversies: Livestream

  • 00:00: ... i should clarify though that um my problem is not generally with using arguments from beauty because um i i'm very much with fire um with firearms ...

2020-06-22: Building Black Holes in a Lab

  • 11:04: ... can analog black holes actually tell us about real black holes? Early arguments in the late ‘90s claimed that because Hawking radiation should appear ...

2020-03-03: Does Quantum Immortality Save Schrödinger's Cat?

  • 09:36: ... some people used much more sophisticated probability arguments including Bayesian analysis or thinking in “observer years” rather than ...

2019-12-17: Do Black Holes Create New Universes?

  • 07:56: ... Smolin has various arguments against this: for example, we don’t know that our physics can really be ...
  • 14:07: There were a lot of counter arguments - perhaps good ones because apparently we're still here.

2019-11-18: Can You Observe a Typical Universe?

  • 14:36: Well, actually, fine tuning arguments for the fundamental constants for the most part take that into account.

2019-09-30: How Many Universes Are There?

  • 15:37: ... are two main arguments - firstly that the IAU definition is arbitrary and ambiguous, second ...

2018-10-31: Are Virtual Particles A New Layer of Reality?

  • 14:57: All of these arguments of aliens probably don't do this or that are what we call a soft filter.
  • 15:11: These arguments on alien psychology are soft filters.

2018-05-23: Why Quantum Information is Never Destroyed

  • 11:11: Merissan has plans to use the loss of energy in cosmological redshift as a refutation of conservation of energy arguments.

2018-03-07: Should Space be Privatized?

  • 06:47: Well, there are arguments on both sides.

2018-02-28: The Trebuchet Challenge

  • 05:12: You should be able to use simple energy arguments to calculate for your enemy's destruction.

2017-09-13: Neutron Stars Collide in New LIGO Signal?

  • 13:14: At any rate, by simple energy arguments, it just doesn't work for any weapon we now possess.

2017-05-03: Are We Living in an Ancestor Simulation? ft. Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • 10:51: Another big issue is just the potential for spectacular overreach in using these Copernican and entropic arguments.

2017-03-15: Time Crystals!

  • 03:23: ... and Masaki Oshikawa of the University of Tokyo showed from theoretical arguments that time translational symmetry can't be broken by a quantum system in ...

2017-01-11: The EM Drive: Fact or Fantasy?

  • 06:25: ... potential sources of false positive signal, and either make reasonable arguments against them or propose tests to rule them ...

2016-11-30: Pilot Wave Theory and Quantum Realism

  • 06:38: In fact, most of the arguments for or against it are about this special thinking.

2016-10-12: Black Holes from the Dawn of Time

  • 06:07: These arguments let us rule out all but a very narrow set of mass ranges for primordial black holes as an explanation for dark matter.

2016-09-21: Quantum Entanglement and the Great Bohr-Einstein Debate

  • 11:52: OK, so the same statistical arguments for Von Neumann probes tells us that if we expect one, then we expect lots.

2016-01-13: When Time Breaks Down

  • 04:57: ... the way, similar arguments will show us that a photon clock in an accelerating reference frame-- ...

2015-10-15: 5 REAL Possibilities for Interstellar Travel

  • 01:11: So for argument's sake, let's say humanity's future is at stake, and we just discovered Earth 2.0 in the Alpha Centauri system.

2015-10-07: The Speed of Light is NOT About Light

  • 07:40: And honestly, just from the symmetry and relativity arguments that we made, c could be infinity.

2015-05-13: 9 NASA Technologies Shaping YOUR Future

  • 09:06: Talia Enright pointed out that all these arguments could apply to a #OccupyVenus Cloud City mission.

2015-05-06: Should the First Mars Mission Be All Women?

  • 00:42: Today, I'm going to review some of the data underlying the various arguments.
  • 00:47: Let's start with the physiological arguments for all-female missions beyond Earth's moon.

2015-02-18: Is It Irrational to Believe in Aliens?

  • 01:54: There are sensible arguments both for and against the existence of aliens.
  • 02:01: None of those arguments is decisive.
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