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	2022-10-19: The Equation That Explains (Nearly) Everything! 01:02: ... for this episode for a while now, with episodes on all of the individual components of the Standard Model. We finally have what we need to bring it ... 08:52: ... of the fact that the weak force and electromagnetism used to be components of the one ... 11:28: ... conjugate, which is the process of flipping the signs of imaginary components. And it can also stand for hot coffee, because this is the point in ... 01:02: ... for this episode for a while now, with episodes on all of the individual components of the Standard Model. We finally have what we need to bring it ... 08:52: ... of the fact that the weak force and electromagnetism used to be components of the one ... 11:28: ... conjugate, which is the process of flipping the signs of imaginary components. And it can also stand for hot coffee, because this is the point in ...
	2022-08-17: What If Dark Energy is a New Quantum Field? 09:05: Alternatively, it can be thought of as a fifth energetic component of the universe on top of baryons, dark matter, neutrinos, and photons.
	2022-07-27: How Many States Of Matter Are There? 01:31: And what about materials like sand or glass, which may have different properties to their component parts. 03:57: ... an emergent property of that state of matter; one not possessed by the component H20 ... 04:43: OK, so a state of matter is an emergent behavior due to the interactions between components under particular conditions. 09:19: If that’s true for the subatomic states within the atomic states, what about states formed by components larger than atoms and molecules? 03:57: ... an emergent property of that state of matter; one not possessed by the component H20 ... 01:31: And what about materials like sand or glass, which may have different properties to their component parts. 04:43: OK, so a state of matter is an emergent behavior due to the interactions between components under particular conditions. 09:19: If that’s true for the subatomic states within the atomic states, what about states formed by components larger than atoms and molecules?
	2022-06-01: What If Physics IS NOT Describing Reality? 02:44: ... into its most elementary components.   We learn how those components behave, and see  if we can rebuild the world from those ...
	2022-04-27: How the Higgs Mechanism Give Things Mass 10:23: ... like the two valleys we saw earlier, but now  with this extra field component to give us this   shape. It’s called a mexican hat potential. ...
	2022-03-16: What If Charge is NOT Fundamental? 07:34: ... themselves were not elementary particles, but rather made up of smaller components, which he dubbed ... 10:05: For example, the electron has both a right- and left-handed component. 10:10: Only the left-handed component can emit one of the weak-force carrier particles - the W boson - and in doing so transform into a neutrino. 07:34: ... themselves were not elementary particles, but rather made up of smaller components, which he dubbed ...
	2022-03-08: Is the Proxima System Our Best Hope For Another Earth? 04:42: ... named because the Doppler effect is only  produced by the component of the star’s velocity that’s either directly towards us or away from us ...
	2022-02-23: Are Cosmic Strings Cracks in the Universe? 05:59: ... every point in space defining the relative   value of the two components of the Higgs  field. We’ll call that the phase angle.   ...
	2022-02-10: The Nature of Space and Time AMA 00:03: ... in the friedman robertson walker lemartrometric um the uh the the t component has a c out front and it's just it's just the scaling factor between ...
	2021-10-13: New Results in Quantum Tunneling vs. The Speed of Light 04:03: ... even a critical part of the working of transistors and other electronic components. ...
	2021-09-21: How Electron Spin Makes Matter Possible 12:37: ... both components of the superposition are the same, with the exception that the second ... 16:27: ... could take a spectrum of a bright quasar and see the different components of that light vary in different ways over months or years. Not advisable ... 12:37: ... both components of the superposition are the same, with the exception that the second ... 16:27: ... could take a spectrum of a bright quasar and see the different components of that light vary in different ways over months or years. Not advisable ...
	2021-09-07: First Detection of Light from Behind a Black Hole 02:41: A spectrum, by the way, is what you get when you split light into its component colors or wavelengths. 11:18: We have other reasons to think that this iron-laced wind also has a powerful rotational component. 02:41: A spectrum, by the way, is what you get when you split light into its component colors or wavelengths.
	2021-08-03: How An Extreme New Star Could Change All Cosmology 02:51: ... needed to do the spectroscopy - to break the white dwarf’s light up into component colours. Splitting the light this way makes it even harder to detect ...
	2021-07-13: Where Are The Worlds In Many Worlds? 01:47: ... amplitude - in this case the height of the ripple - is the sum of the component ... 12:01: On a quantum scale, worlds - or wavefunction components - recombine all the time. 01:47: ... amplitude - in this case the height of the ripple - is the sum of the component waves. ... 12:01: On a quantum scale, worlds - or wavefunction components - recombine all the time.
	2021-07-07: Electrons DO NOT Spin 07:30: ... spin. Pauli managed to fix this by forcing the wavefunction to have two components - motivated by this  ambiguous two-valuedness of ... 13:59: ... entropy is  an illusion created by our observation of isolated components within a "larger"  entangled system? Well the answer is that ... 07:30: ... spin. Pauli managed to fix this by forcing the wavefunction to have two components - motivated by this  ambiguous two-valuedness of ... 13:59: ... entropy is  an illusion created by our observation of isolated components within a "larger"  entangled system? Well the answer is that ... 07:30: ... spin. Pauli managed to fix this by forcing the wavefunction to have two components - motivated by this  ambiguous two-valuedness of ...
	2021-04-21: The NEW Warp Drive Possibilities 09:54: When you calculate the total energy with only this component than it’s alway negative. 10:01: ... found that by including components of the wave motion that were perpendicular to the direction of motion he ...
	2021-03-09: How Does Gravity Affect Light? 06:31: To get technical: any massive object has a component of its 4-dimensional spacetime velocity - its 4-velocity in the time direction. 06:40: That temporal component is rotated into the downward spatial direction, which translates into falling.
	2021-02-24: Does Time Cause Gravity? 09:10: ... before the big bang” - which I mentioned in reference to a potential component of the gravitational wave ...
	2021-02-10: How Does Gravity Warp the Flow of Time? 11:03: ... the photon - or whatever light-speed quantum components make up matter - actually do have to travel further - between mirrors or ...
	2020-11-04: Electroweak Theory and the Origin of the Fundamental Forces 06:20: ... a complex 2D vector, where the axes are the real and imaginary components, which we can rotate but not stretch or shrink: the length of the vector ...
	2020-08-24: Can Future Colliders Break the Standard Model? 08:11: ... will be achieved by upgrading the existing components with more cutting edge versions - for example better superconducting ...
	2020-06-15: What Happens After the Universe Ends? 07:06: ... and particles of matter will decay into their lightest possible components. ...
	2020-04-28: Space Time Livestream: Ask Matt Anything 00:00: ... idea of physicality emerging from from simple more like informational components that you know there's something compelling there okay so I wouldn't ...
	2020-04-22: Will Wormholes Allow Fast Interstellar Travel? 09:44: ... two conducting plates that are brought very close together will block components of the quantum vacuum from existing in that region. The gap between the ...
	2020-03-16: How Do Quantum States Manifest In The Classical World? 08:44: ... the vertically-aligned magnetic fields, which only affect the vertical component of the electron’s spin, we haven’t even defined the basis that the ...
	2019-08-19: What Happened Before the Big Bang? 02:24: Other fields like the particle field or the electromagnetic field are described by multiple components and vectors instead of single numbers.
	2019-06-20: The Quasar from The Beginning of Time 04:53: ... spectrograph takes incoming light and breaks it into its component wavelengths, similar to a prism, and it records how much energy is ...
	2019-05-09: Why Quantum Computing Requires Quantum Cryptography 06:06: ... a vertical filter and it’ll be blocked because its vertical polarization component has been measured to be ...
	2019-04-10: The Holographic Universe Explained 04:45: Those rules are a field theory, the lattice itself is the field, and the cells are some elementary component of the field. 04:53: But perhaps not the smallest possible component.
	2019-03-28: Could the Universe End by Tearing Apart Every Atom? 08:06: So, protons and neutrons will be separated into their component quarks...
	2019-02-20: Secrets of the Cosmic Microwave Background 12:34: ... Combining this, we can separate the relative contents of all three components extrapolate that to the modern Universe and we get the baryons ...
	2019-01-16: Our Antimatter, Mirrored, Time-Reversed Universe 00:42: ... of backwards components are all flipped left to right and it ticks counterclockwise and then he ...
	2018-12-20: Why String Theory is Wrong 02:43: ... space-time, you can separate the resulting Einstein equations into a 4-D component that looks exactly like the familiar general relativity in our universe, ...
	2018-11-14: Supersymmetric Particle Found? 00:53: The last component of that model, the Higgs boson, was verified in 2013.
	2018-10-31: Are Virtual Particles A New Layer of Reality? 13:25: At best, they can be interpreted as a small component of possibility space for a quantum field doing something real.
	2018-10-10: Computing a Universe Simulation 00:44: ... a universe in which the most elementary components are stripped of all properties besides some binary notion of existence ...
	2018-08-15: Quantum Theory's Most Incredible Prediction 05:49: It describes electrons as weird, four component objects with quantum spin magnitudes of half.
	2018-07-11: Quantum Invariance & The Origin of The Standard Model 03:52: It has two components, one real and one imaginary. 03:56: These components oscillate in sync with each other, but they're offset, shifted in phase by a constant amount. 04:16: The magnitude squared of the real and imaginary components stays the same, even as those components move up and down. 04:31: ... as long as you do the same shift to both the real and imaginary components. ... 03:52: It has two components, one real and one imaginary. 03:56: These components oscillate in sync with each other, but they're offset, shifted in phase by a constant amount. 04:16: The magnitude squared of the real and imaginary components stays the same, even as those components move up and down. 04:31: ... as long as you do the same shift to both the real and imaginary components. ... 03:56: These components oscillate in sync with each other, but they're offset, shifted in phase by a constant amount. 04:16: The magnitude squared of the real and imaginary components stays the same, even as those components move up and down.
	2018-06-27: How Asteroid Mining Will Save Earth 05:22: ... groups are essential in everything from electronic components, batteries and fuel cells, magnets, as chemical catalysts and reagents, ...
	2018-04-18: Using Stars to See Gravitational Waves 04:17: The three components of this craft will trail behind the earth in an orbit around the sun.
	2018-04-11: The Physics of Life (ft. It's Okay to be Smart & PBS Eons!) 08:01: The most random possible form for energy is thermal radiation, and the lower the energy of its component photons, the higher the entropy.
	2018-03-28: The Andromeda-Milky Way Collision 03:32: But Doppler shift measurements only gives the line of sight velocity, the component of the galaxy's motion directly towards or away from us.
	2017-12-06: Understanding the Uncertainty Principle with Quantum Fourier Series 03:36: ... changing with time, you can also represent it in terms of its frequency components, each with its own weighting or ... 04:24: ... example, you can build a wave packet by adding frequency components with the right phases to destructively interfere everywhere except ... 04:35: The tighter you want to make that time window for the wave packet, the more frequency components you need to use. 04:41: ... need to add higher and higher frequencies, because the high frequency components are the ones that give you rapid changes in ... 03:36: ... changing with time, you can also represent it in terms of its frequency components, each with its own weighting or ... 04:24: ... example, you can build a wave packet by adding frequency components with the right phases to destructively interfere everywhere except ... 04:35: The tighter you want to make that time window for the wave packet, the more frequency components you need to use. 04:41: ... need to add higher and higher frequencies, because the high frequency components are the ones that give you rapid changes in ...
	2017-11-22: Suicide Space Robots 07:33: Tens of millions of kilograms of comet were ejected in a debris cloud to be analyzed by the surviving spacecraft component of Deep Impact.
	2017-10-11: Absolute Cold 00:16: [MUSIC PLAYING] The mystical-seeming quality of heat is nothing more than the motion of a substance component particles. 01:57: And while a substance can theoretically have any temperature above absolute zero, its component particles cannot. 00:16: [MUSIC PLAYING] The mystical-seeming quality of heat is nothing more than the motion of a substance component particles. 01:57: And while a substance can theoretically have any temperature above absolute zero, its component particles cannot.
	2017-08-10: The One-Electron Universe 11:50: ... of dark flow, given that we can only really measure the velocity components that are towards us or away from ...
	2017-08-02: Dark Flow 04:54: ... effect is really, really tiny, and it can only tell us the component of the peculiar velocity that's either towards or away from us, not side ...
	2017-07-12: Solving the Impossible in Quantum Field Theory 14:25: ... amplitudes-- so the square of the real plus the square of the complex components. ...
	2017-06-21: Anti-Matter and Quantum Relativity 04:16: We now call these two component wave functions, spinors. 05:27: Instead of having a two-component spinor, up and down, as in Pauli's theory, he needed four components. 05:34: Now, he had no idea what those two additional mysterious components might mean. 09:48: ... two extra components correspond to the up and down spins of the electron's anti-matter ... 04:16: We now call these two component wave functions, spinors. 05:27: Instead of having a two-component spinor, up and down, as in Pauli's theory, he needed four components. 05:34: Now, he had no idea what those two additional mysterious components might mean. 09:48: ... two extra components correspond to the up and down spins of the electron's anti-matter ...
	2017-06-07: Supervoids vs Colliding Universes! 05:46: ... in layman's terms, they split the light from those galaxies into component wavelengths and determined the shift in the wavelengths of those spectra ...
	2017-04-05: Telescopes on the Moon 12:26: ... the way, speaking of those extra angular components in the line element, AntiTwister over at the Space Time subreddit had ... 12:34: He points out correctly that it's only the radial component that becomes timelike. 12:39: The sideways components, angular or orbital components in spherical coordinates, stay space-like. 12:26: ... the way, speaking of those extra angular components in the line element, AntiTwister over at the Space Time subreddit had ... 12:39: The sideways components, angular or orbital components in spherical coordinates, stay space-like.
	2016-12-21: Have They Seen Us? 06:28: You get the resolution of a telescope as large as the separation of the component telescopes, also super-useful.
	2016-11-16: Strange Stars 03:56: This may cause neutrons to dissolve into their component quarks.
	2016-11-02: Quantum Vortices and Superconductivity + Drake Equation Challenge Answers 02:36: ... advanced electronic components are very likely, and it may even be possible to build a topological ...
	2016-10-19: The First Humans on Mars 01:20: This is only feasible because of the reusability of the components.
	2016-06-22: Planck's Constant and The Origin of Quantum Mechanics 04:13: It was Sir Isaac Newton who first analyzed this heat glow in the 1660s when he used a prism to split sunlight into its component colors.
	2016-05-04: Will Starshot's Insterstellar Journey Succeed? 06:14: Miniaturization of payload components isn't quite there yet.
	2016-04-13: Will the Universe Expand Forever? 02:05: ... have 10 independent components, giving 10 independent field equations to describe the response of the ...
	2016-04-06: We Are Star Stuff 04:03: The components are in a lower energy state together compared to when they're apart. 10:13: We are "starstuff." But more, we our universe stuff, the most complex component that has risen from a beautiful and chaotic spacetime. 04:03: The components are in a lower energy state together compared to when they're apart.
	2016-01-27: The Origin of Matter and Time 06:17: ... covered the fact that real matter is comprised of massless light speed components confined not by mirrored walls, but by interactions with other particles ... 06:28: ... that's an interpretation we can take even for the most elementary components of the atom, in which the familiar electrons and quarks are composites ... 10:04: ... or quark feels-- is felt by the composite particle, not by their components. ... 06:17: ... covered the fact that real matter is comprised of massless light speed components confined not by mirrored walls, but by interactions with other particles ... 06:28: ... that's an interpretation we can take even for the most elementary components of the atom, in which the familiar electrons and quarks are composites ... 10:04: ... or quark feels-- is felt by the composite particle, not by their components. ... 06:17: ... covered the fact that real matter is comprised of massless light speed components confined not by mirrored walls, but by interactions with other particles and ...
	2016-01-13: When Time Breaks Down 01:28: But do the individual components of the clock feel the same flow of time? 06:38: ... in an atom, that ticking corresponds to interactions between its component particles and fields, in which the internal parts exchange energy, ... 01:28: But do the individual components of the clock feel the same flow of time?
	2016-01-06: The True Nature of Matter and Mass 02:54: The photon box is massive, even though none of its components-- not the photons, not the walls-- have any mass.
	2015-12-16: The Higgs Mechanism Explained 02:14: The basic QFT equations of all the components of the atom leave them massless.
	2015-12-09: How to Build a Black Hole 09:25: Neutrons are certainly shredded into component quarks and gluons.
	2015-11-25: 100 Years of Relativity + Challenge Winners! 06:08: The angle of the thrusters ends up being around 30 degrees, so the effective exhaust velocity is the backwards or reverse component of the thrust. 06:18: The sideways components end up being useless. 06:21: ... two directions on either side of the asteroid to cancel the sideways component ... 06:29: The reverse component of the exhaust velocity ends up being 427 kilometers per second. 06:18: The sideways components end up being useless.
	2015-08-05: What Physics Teachers Get Wrong About Tides! 12:39: ... force-- are just the pieces of the geodesic equation that involve "time" components when projected into that ...

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