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2022-11-23: How To See Black Holes By Catching Neutrinos

  • 03:50: ... will continue through the ice, emitting light as it interacts with other charged particles. ...
  • 04:32: ... expanding EM waves created by the charged particle expand slower than the particle itself, so their wavefronts overlap each ...

2022-08-24: What Makes The Strong Force Strong?

  • 06:03: Electrically charged particles interact with each other via the electromagnetic field.
  • 06:07: We can think of each charged particle as generating a constant buzz of virtual photons around it, forming what we think of as its EM field.

2022-08-03: What Happens Inside a Proton?

  • 01:31: ... describes the interactions of electrons and any other charged particle   via photons. We’re going to come back  to a full description of QCD ...

2022-06-30: Could We Decode Alien Physics?

  • 16:39: ... Well actually a magnetic shield may be   enough to block many charged particles, but  neutral particles like dust would pass right   ...

2022-05-04: Space DOES NOT Expand Everywhere

  • 13:50: ... our hair out writing this episode, gave the correct answer: when a charged particle is created in a particle collider it travels through the powerful ...

2022-01-27: How Does Gravity Escape A Black Hole?

  • 06:16: ... example the electromagnetic force is communicated between charged particles by transferring virtual photons - ephemeral excitations in the ...

2021-10-05: Why Magnetic Monopoles SHOULD Exist

  • 06:49: So magnetic fields affect charged particles.
  • 06:57: Imagine a charged particle - say an electron - passing by a Dirac string.

2021-09-15: Neutron Stars: The Most Extreme Objects in the Universe

  • 02:00: ... due to their opposite electric charges. These and   other charged particles end up being blasted out along the poles of the magnetic ...

2021-09-07: First Detection of Light from Behind a Black Hole

  • 01:13: We talked about this soon after it came out - but to remind you, here we have radio light from charged particles whirling around the black hole.

2021-08-03: How An Extreme New Star Could Change All Cosmology

  • 09:51: ... stars and planets are generated by dynamos - self-sustaining currents of charged particles. A collision like this could well produce the sort of turbulent motion to ...

2021-07-21: How Magnetism Shapes The Universe

  • 01:39: It’s generated when electrically charged particles move.
  • 02:30: ... a moving charged particle will feel a force perpendicular to both its direction of motion and to ...
  • 04:21: We can see those tangled field lines in ultraviolet light as charged particles spiral along them, up and down from the Sun’s surface.
  • 08:30: These are the densest regions of those galactic disks - places where magnetic fields have confined the charged particles of the interstellar plasma.

2021-01-26: Is Dark Matter Made of Particles?

  • 02:05: Any electrically charged particle experiences the electromagnetic force and can communicate with other charged particles by exchanging photons.

2020-12-22: Navigating with Quantum Entanglement

  • 04:56: Magnetic fields exert a force on a moving or rotating charged particle.

2020-11-04: Electroweak Theory and the Origin of the Fundamental Forces

  • 02:36: ... effort was quantum electrodynamics, in which charged particles interact not by actually touching - but via a mediating particle that ...
  • 03:12: Given that the weak interaction could change a neutral particle into a pair of charged particles this mediating particle must itself be charged.
  • 03:20: This was an early hint that somehow the electromagnetic force, which acts on charged particles, was playing a role here.

2020-08-24: Can Future Colliders Break the Standard Model?

  • 01:22: ... or linac, which uses oscillating electric fields to accelerate charged particles in a straight line, while the beam is focused by magnetic ...

2020-08-17: How Stars Destroy Each Other

  • 04:38: ... charged particles spiral along the magnetic field lines they emit synchrotron radiation, ...

2020-06-30: Dissolving an Event Horizon

  • 09:37: Then surely we can just throw charged particles into the black hole.

2020-04-22: Will Wormholes Allow Fast Interstellar Travel?

  • 01:09: ... thread the funnels with electromagnetic field lines then they act like charged particles. ...

2020-03-24: How Black Holes Spin Space Time

  • 10:51: ... spins up the magnetic field into a gigantic particle accelerator. Charged particles are accelerated along those magnetic field and can radiate intense ...

2020-01-06: How To Detect a Neutrino

  • 05:37: ... interacts in our detector, ♪ ♪ an Argon nucleus is broken apart and charged particles are released - in particular, pions and ...

2019-09-03: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Reversing?

  • 00:38: Magnetic fields exert a force on moving charged particles, causing them to spiral around those force lines.
  • 00:46: Now, that’s helpful, because Earth is constantly bombarded by very fast moving charged particles, especially coming from the Sun.
  • 03:15: Alternatively, flows of many charged particles like electrons – so electrical currents - can produce magnetic fields.

2019-03-06: The Impossibility of Perpetual Motion Machines

  • 13:47: ... the stars, and also from individual electrons either bumping into other charged particles or circling in magnetic fields Fortunately we can model that stuff ...

2019-02-07: Sound Waves from the Beginning of Time

  • 03:08: ... interaction between the charged particles of the plasma via the trapped photons meant that ripples in the plasma ...

2018-08-15: Quantum Theory's Most Incredible Prediction

  • 01:13: ... calculations of QED describe how this field interacts with charged particles to give us the electromagnetic force, which binds electrons to atoms, ...
  • 11:32: This is the fundamental constant governing the strength of the electromagnetic interaction of charged particles.

2018-08-01: How Close To The Sun Can Humanity Get?

  • 02:19: Charged particles traveling at nearly 1% the speed of light bombarded the earth.
  • 04:51: ... will capture the most energetic particles of the solar wind-- charged particles like electrons, protons, and heavier nuclei, measuring their energies ...

2018-04-04: The Unruh Effect

  • 09:06: A charged particle accelerating in a magnetic field emits radiation, bremsstrahlung radiation.
  • 09:13: An inertial observer sees the charged particle itself radiating, its energy extracted from the magnetic field.
  • 09:19: But an observer accelerating with that charged particle sees it absorbing Unruh particles and then spitting them out again.

2018-01-10: What Do Stars Sound Like?

  • 12:39: In fact, the magnetic field of a gamma ray burst focuses charged particles-- electrons and the nuclei of the exploding star.
  • 12:56: The charged particles spiral around the axial magnetic fields and emit photons as they do.
  • 13:17: ... of the light emitted in the same direction as the near light speed charged particles of the ...

2017-10-19: The Nature of Nothing

  • 04:33: For example, QFT describes the electromagnetic force as the exchange of virtual photons between charged particles.

2017-08-10: The One-Electron Universe

  • 03:45: Well, moving charged particles also produce a current-- an electric currents.

2017-04-19: The Oh My God Particle

  • 03:48: These cascades are called air showers, streams of charged particles cause the air to fluoresce, a glow that can be seen by specialized telescopes.

2017-03-15: Time Crystals!

  • 02:01: Wilczek came up with a simple model in which charged particles in a superconducting ring break what we call continuous time translational symmetry.

2016-06-22: Planck's Constant and The Origin of Quantum Mechanics

  • 03:19: And so an object made of jiggling charged particles, like electrons and protons, glows.

2016-03-30: Pulsar Starquakes Make Fast Radio Bursts? + Challenge Winners!

  • 04:21: ... and helium nuclei, the other common charged particles hanging around the universe at this time, have much smaller scattering ...
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