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2021-05-25: What If (Tiny) Black Holes Are Everywhere?

  • 03:08: ... such black holes the Hawking radiation is just photons - electromagnetic waves with kilometers-long wavelengths, so really, really low energy radio ...

2021-05-19: Breaking The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

  • 05:36: ... sent along those paths and then later recombined in such a way that the electromagnetic waves of these laser beams destructively ...

2020-09-08: The Truth About Beauty in Physics

  • 09:30: And Maxwell’s equations, which parsimoniously unite electricity and magnetism but also predict the existence of electromagnetic waves - of light.

2020-05-11: How Luminiferous Aether Led to Relativity

  • 05:53: ... to that the fact that in the 1860s, Maxwell’s equations predicted that electromagnetic waves should travel at exactly the speed of … wait for it, light. It was ...

2016-04-27: What Does Dark Energy Really Do?

  • 01:33: During that expansion, it increases the wavelength of these electromagnetic waves, resulting in what we see as redshift, cosmological redshift.

2015-10-22: Have Gravitational Waves Been Discovered?!?

  • 02:49: ... ripples on a pond or even electromagnetic waves-- which are all simple, up-down, longitudinal waves-- gravitational waves ...
  • 05:21: ... length of those paths just right, we can make the peaks of one of those electromagnetic waves line up with the valleys of the other, causing them to completely cancel ...

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

  • 08:29: ... cosmic speed limit also happens to define the speed of propagation of electromagnetic waves-- the speed of ...

2015-03-25: Cosmic Microwave Background Explained

  • 01:46: It's emitting electromagnetic waves of all wavelengths.
  • 03:16: And just like toasters, people and tacos, it was emitting a thermal distribution of electromagnetic waves.
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