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	2022-11-09: What If Humanity Is Among The First Spacefaring Civilizations? 05:18: ... Earth that involved the first formation of self-replicating cells, the evolution of complex Eukariot cells, then multi-cellular organisms, the ... 06:53: The more steps there are in the typical evolutionary pathway, the earlier humanity must be. 09:47: ... steps, then virtually all civilization will result from very drawn-out evolutionary processes trillions of years in the ... 06:53: The more steps there are in the typical evolutionary pathway, the earlier humanity must be. 09:47: ... steps, then virtually all civilization will result from very drawn-out evolutionary processes trillions of years in the ... 06:53: The more steps there are in the typical evolutionary pathway, the earlier humanity must be. 09:47: ... steps, then virtually all civilization will result from very drawn-out evolutionary processes trillions of years in the ...
	2022-09-21: Science of the James Webb Telescope Explained! 04:51: Combined with its sensitivity sensitified to the earliest galaxies this let’s us complete our map of galaxy evolution over cosmic history.
	2022-07-27: How Many States Of Matter Are There? 13:30: Check out “Why Am I Like This” which looks at the evolutionary biology of the human body and how we ended up with all these quirks.
	2022-07-20: What If We Live in a Superdeterministic Universe? 11:00: ... on its own doesn’t guarantee the sort of uncanny convergence in that evolution needed to solve the EPR paradox; that’s what the super part is ...
	2022-06-22: Is Interstellar Travel Impossible? 00:38: ... - like the idea that we are among the first to overcome some extreme evolutionary challenges - to the horrific - like the prospect that every civilization ...
	2022-06-15: Can Wormholes Solve The Black Hole Information Paradox? 05:20: ... figured out by physicist Don Page. It’s actually the exact evolution of von Neumann entropy   that must occur if Hawking radiation ...
	2022-05-25: The Evolution of the Modern Milky Way Galaxy 01:09: ... it’s possible to stitch together a  frankenstein flipbook of galaxy evolution. ... 01:41: ... we know about the Milky Way of the present,   and of galaxy evolution in the general ... 02:19: ... life of violence. So   let’s look at what we know about galaxy evolution  based on all the other galaxies in the ...
	2022-05-18: What If the Galactic Habitable Zone LIMITS Intelligent Life? 09:26: ... from the resulting giant impacts  was probably good for driving evolution, but life   needs time to recover. Overly frequent mass  ... 08:01: ... some radiation may be essential  - because genetic mutation drives evolution.   We don’t know where the exact line is in  terms of getting blasted ...
	2022-02-16: Is The Wave Function The Building Block of Reality? 05:00: The behavior of the wave function is described by the Schrodinger equation, which tracks its evolution through space and over time.
	2022-01-27: How Does Gravity Escape A Black Hole? 12:29: ... Astrophysics to run a few Universe simulations and track the evolution of the entity known as Alex ...
	2022-01-19: How To Build The Universe in a Computer 03:17: For 3 or more bodies there  is no simple set of equations   describing their future evolution under gravity. 05:26: ... to watch the detailed formation of individual galaxies, as well as the evolution of giant clusters of ... 08:08: All of these processes are key parts of galaxy evolution and of star and planet formation, and so we’d better be able to simulate this too.
	2021-11-02: Is ACTION The Most Fundamental Property in Physics? 09:56: ... analog of the action existed that was related to the integrated time evolution of the wavefunction. And he realized that this quantity should result in ... 11:12: ... - for example, Schrodinger’s wave mechanics that talks about the evolution of a single wavefunction. This is analogous to how Lagrangian mechanics ... 12:59: ... application of the quantum action principle to the evolution through quantum states underpins modern quantum theory. Back to Paul ... 13:23: ... gives us the Standard Model Lagrangian, which allows us to track the evolution of all quantum fields through configuration space, and so predict the ...
	2021-10-20: Will Constructor Theory REWRITE Physics? 12:30: ... better to think of all motion  as … not motion, but rather as the evolution   of the wavefunction until some event causes a  choice of position ...
	2021-08-10: How to Communicate Across the Quantum Multiverse 04:30: ... dig a little deeper. This principle says that you can determine the evolution of multiple overlapping waves by calculating the evolution for each wave ...
	2021-07-13: Where Are The Worlds In Many Worlds? 04:32: The actual mechanics of quantum mechanics is all about determining the shape and evolution of the wavefunction.
	2021-06-23: How Quantum Entanglement Creates Entropy 05:55: ... of a  spoiler - von Neumann entropy seems to reveal the   evolution of entanglement connections is  what drives the 2nd law of ...
	2021-03-09: How Does Gravity Affect Light? 07:49: The sum of all those waves perfectly describes the future evolution of the original wave.
	2020-12-08: Why Do You Remember The Past But Not The Future? 00:06: The equations we use to describe how things evolve forward in time also perfectly describe their evolution backwards in time.
	2020-10-27: How The Penrose Singularity Theorem Predicts The End of Space Time 13:38: ... mechanics. It’s what you get   when you assume nothing but the evolution of the wavefunction under the Schrodinger equation. ...
	2020-10-20: Is The Future Predetermined By Quantum Mechanics? 10:14: The evolution of the wave function is deterministic.
	2020-10-13: Do the Past and Future Exist? 03:36: ... and even our conscious experience, which itself emerges in the forward evolution of patterns of information in our ... 04:01: To us, none of the rest of the block universe exists, because our existence emerges from the forward evolution of a razor-thin slice.
	2020-09-28: Solving Quantum Cryptography 14:30: ... or slower than chemical reactions - so what would be the timescale of evolution or lifespan of these ... 15:19: That would suggest slower timescales than the evolution of chemical life.
	2020-08-10: Theory of Everything Controversies: Livestream 00:00: ... are snails and cats and dogs without the key idea and the key idea is evolution and i think that the the question we should be asking is how do the ...
	2020-06-08: Can Viruses Travel Between Planets? 00:42: And it’s increasingly believed that they are critical factors in the process of evolution, perhaps even in pre-cellular days. 02:45: Their extreme numbers and reproduction rate means rapid evolution. 03:00: But viruses aren’t just masters of their own evolution - it seems they may be an essential driver of the evolution of cell-based life. 03:27: As well as driving cellular evolution, viruses may have been critical in the formation of cells in the first place. 03:59: ... powers that far back means they may have massively accelerated the evolution that led to the development from RNA-based pseudo-life to the first true ... 04:19: ... extreme abundance of viruses on Earth, and their critical role in evolution and possibly even abiogenesis, suggests that we probably should be ... 13:13: ... danger of a hidden world that has always lived alongside us, driven our evolution, and perhaps predated life itself - the world of viruses, our currently ... 03:00: But viruses aren’t just masters of their own evolution - it seems they may be an essential driver of the evolution of cell-based life. 03:27: As well as driving cellular evolution, viruses may have been critical in the formation of cells in the first place. 12:38: ... found in populations of horseshoe bats - and the philogenics - the evolutionary path - is consistent with it evolving out of that ...
	2020-05-04: How We Know The Universe is Ancient 11:07: ... as our understanding of stellar evolution improved, those ages came down to under 13 billion years. Now to arrive ...
	2020-04-22: Will Wormholes Allow Fast Interstellar Travel? 06:25: If we include time slices in the past, we see the full evolution of the wormhole - it opens, it widens, shrinks, and then pinches off again.
	2020-04-07: How We Know The Earth Is Ancient 05:38: ... ideas gave Darwin the millions of years he needed for his theory of evolution, and its painfully slow mechanism of natural selection. But Darwin was ... 06:07: ... biology are now intimately connected. We can trace the progress of evolution by mapping the fossil record to the geological clock. The ordering of ...
	2020-03-16: How Do Quantum States Manifest In The Classical World? 12:24: There’s no meaningful mutation and natural selection, so the link to evolution is dubious. 16:29: ... could indeed be a big-bang machine. On the other hand, if the evolution of that wavefunction can't conceivable produce big bang conditions, then ...
	2020-02-24: How Decoherence Splits The Quantum Multiverse 02:04: Wavefunctions evolve over time according to the Schrodinger equation, and that evolution tracks how the system’s properties might change.
	2020-01-27: Hacking the Nature of Reality 01:08: ... by the Schrodinger equation and Paul Dirac’s notation representing evolution in a space of quantum ...
	2020-01-20: Solving the Three Body Problem 03:18: ... reality of the three-body problem is that the evolution of almost all starting configurations is dominated by chaotic dynamics. ... 06:20: ... future or solve for millions of objects to simulate the formation and evolution of entire galaxies. But these numerical solutions didn’t begin with the ... 08:46: ... of a triangle, whose center is the center of mass of the system. The evolution of the system can be expressed through the changing shape of that ... 11:21: ... the ejection. This looks to be incredibly useful for understanding the evolution of dense regions of the universe, where three-body systems of stars or ...
	2020-01-13: How To Capture Black Holes 01:54: ... the collapse of stellar cores. That is if our understanding of stellar evolution is half as good as we think it is. This led astrophysicists to think of ... 13:26: ... into an entirely new spacetime then it may not care about the later evolution of its parent black hole - perhaps unaffected by whether it grows or ...
	2019-12-17: Do Black Holes Create New Universes? 01:37: We now know that the fantastic complexity of living organisms is an inevitable consequence of evolution by natural selection. 01:46: Inspired by biological evolution, theoretical physicist Lee Smolin came up with Cosmological Natural Selection. 04:50: If that were the case, a sort of evolution by natural selection would become as inevitable as biological evolution. 11:38: ... tuning, and one that parallels a known process in nature - biological evolution by natural ... 01:46: Inspired by biological evolution, theoretical physicist Lee Smolin came up with Cosmological Natural Selection.
	2019-12-09: The Doomsday Argument 09:03: ... you define our reference class as all observers in our past and future evolutionary chain, then we could still be in the middle of that chain but have ...
	2019-11-18: Can You Observe a Typical Universe? 04:37: ... Tipler misinterpret the strong anthropic principle to mean that the evolution of observers somehow had some causal influence on the initial formation ... 05:50: ... that's happened since - from the formation of stars and galaxies to the evolution of life - has been powered by the slow increase in entropy from that ...
	2019-11-11: Does Life Need a Multiverse to Exist? 16:03: ... worth pointing out that this particular evolutionary event, the first evolution of the eukaryote cell, took at least half of life's entire evolutionary ... 14:34: ... type scenarios because the factors we talk about are needed for OUR evolutionary tree, but other types of life are no doubt ... 15:51: ... Roman, although this particular point was only intended as an example of evolutionary great filters - and I certainly didn't come up with this one ... 16:03: ... also worth pointing out that this particular evolutionary event, the first evolution of the eukaryote cell, took at least half of ... 14:34: ... type scenarios because the factors we talk about are needed for OUR evolutionary tree, but other types of life are no doubt ... 15:51: ... Roman, although this particular point was only intended as an example of evolutionary great filters - and I certainly didn't come up with this one ... 16:03: ... also worth pointing out that this particular evolutionary event, the first evolution of the eukaryote cell, took at least half of ... 15:51: ... Roman, although this particular point was only intended as an example of evolutionary great filters - and I certainly didn't come up with this one ... 16:03: ... evolution of the eukaryote cell, took at least half of life's entire evolutionary history to ... 14:34: ... type scenarios because the factors we talk about are needed for OUR evolutionary tree, but other types of life are no doubt ...
	2019-11-04: Why We Might Be Alone in the Universe 06:29: And that may have been a critical driver of evolution, promoting biodiversity. 07:51: A moderate tilt could be critical if seasons are an important driver of evolution. 09:53: If we’d had a significantly higher rate of mass-extinction-level impacts, perhaps evolution would not have progressed so far. 10:17: But the final thing that may make Earth a cosmic rarity is the path taken by evolution. 10:41: Just one example of this: the evolution of the eukaryote cell. 06:29: And that may have been a critical driver of evolution, promoting biodiversity. 10:29: ... filter is one or more extremely improbable steps that happened in the evolutionary transition from single-cellular life to complex life, or to ... 10:45: ... seems to have been a freak evolutionary incident, in which two much simpler cell types fused - one absorbing the ... 10:29: ... filter is one or more extremely improbable steps that happened in the evolutionary transition from single-cellular life to complex life, or to ... 10:45: ... seems to have been a freak evolutionary incident, in which two much simpler cell types fused - one absorbing the ... 10:29: ... filter is one or more extremely improbable steps that happened in the evolutionary transition from single-cellular life to complex life, or to ...
	2019-10-15: Loop Quantum Gravity Explained 05:45: ... instead of an equation that describes the quantum evolution of the properties of an object in spacetime, maybe there’s an equation ...
	2019-03-28: Could the Universe End by Tearing Apart Every Atom? 15:34: Checkmate, evolutionists. They would also explain how they fit elephants on the ark and those extra pounds I put on over the winter.
	2019-02-07: Sound Waves from the Beginning of Time 00:54: ... we know the stunning detail, the properties that govern the very birth, evolution, and the end of our ...
	2019-01-16: Our Antimatter, Mirrored, Time-Reversed Universe 10:54: ... - that T is more accurately thought of as flipping the direction of the evolution of a physical system - an explosion becomes an implosion and particle ...
	2018-12-12: Quantum Physics in a Mirror Universe 00:02: ... they also had some really cool fringe notions like the epidemics and evolutionary leaps might be due to microbes arriving from space in fact this stuff ...
	2018-12-06: Did Life on Earth Come from Space? 00:37: ... earth first became habitable is it really reasonable to imagine that evolution turned an unliving chemical soup into the first true living cells in ...
	2018-10-31: Are Virtual Particles A New Layer of Reality? 16:40: It really could be that modern Homo sapiens underwent an improbable genetic or cultural evolutionary movement that qualifies as a great filter.
	2018-10-25: Will We Ever Find Alien Life? 09:44: ... watery planets may be abundant, but maybe there's a step in that slow evolutionary crawl from primordial chemical soup to techno monkey that makes advanced ...
	2018-10-10: Computing a Universe Simulation 01:36: And together, they form a sort of computer whose sole task is to compute its own evolution. 01:48: ... as a computation, so long as it's underlying mechanics are rules-based evolution over ... 09:20: ... the universe is computing its own evolution at maximum speed, our black hole computer would take a factor of 10 to ...
	2018-10-03: How to Detect Extra Dimensions 11:57: ... upcoming three-part series "Age of Big Cats," which looks at the unique evolution of big cats, their innovative hunting techniques, and how they spread ...
	2018-09-12: How Much Information is in the Universe? 00:41: ... view reality, as informational at its most fundamental level, and its evolution through time can be thought of as a ...
	2018-07-25: Reversing Entropy with Maxwell's Demon 11:17: ... fact, the evolution of quantum entanglement may be the ultimate source of entropy, the ...
	2018-07-11: Quantum Invariance & The Origin of The Standard Model 02:35: ... describes the evolution of the wave function, which is the mathematical object that contains all ...
	2018-06-13: What Survives Inside A Black Hole? 12:03: In our discussion during the episode, we talked about the unitary evolution of a one-particle function. 12:18: ... and annihilation is described by quantum-field theory, and unitary evolution and the conservation of probability and information still works ... 12:28: QFT describes the evolution of quantum fields in which particles are excited states. 12:34: Now it's the evolution of the fields, not the particles, that conserves probability.
	2018-05-23: Why Quantum Information is Never Destroyed 04:51: The time dependent Schrodinger equation describes the time evolution of this thing called the wave function. 05:19: ... Schrodinger equation perfectly predicts both the past and future evolution of a given wave function in any given environment, or in quantum speak, ... 06:42: If this is true, and it must be, we say that the time evolution of the wave function is unitary. 07:41: The only type of evolution that preserves probability and unitarity is the evolution that also preserves the number of quantum states.
	2018-05-09: How Gaia Changed Astronomy Forever 02:50: Location on this diagram can tell us about a star's mass, size, fusion activity, and even its past and future evolution. 04:14: The information Gaia provides will revolutionize our understanding of stellar formation and evolution. 03:39: ... details within that sequence, an unexpectedly clear separation of evolutionary paths that may reveal the composition and past life of the white ...
	2018-04-18: Using Stars to See Gravitational Waves 01:30: Some are trying to adjust stellar evolution models to allow for the formation of more massive black holes.
	2018-04-11: The Physics of Life (ft. It's Okay to be Smart & PBS Eons!) 03:03: When we look at the fossil record, we see the evidence of evolution carved in stone. 05:24: Following that synthesis, evolution took hold, and the first protocell and then first true living cell pulled itself together. 03:03: When we look at the fossil record, we see the evidence of evolution carved in stone.
	2018-02-21: The Death of the Sun 07:58: It's wildly speculative and optimistic to even imagine that species, or its evolutionary or silicon descendants, will still exist through all of this.
	2018-02-14: What is Energy? 07:35: Instead, the concept of energy allows us to write down equations describing the evolution of the entire system. 08:20: Then there's Hamiltonian mechanics, which traces the evolution of the total energy of the system. 08:25: ... describes the motion of individual particles but can also describe the evolution of extremely complex systems, for example, the combined behavior of many ... 10:53: ... of Einstein's general theory of relativity due to the potential time evolution of ...
	2017-08-24: First Detection of Life 05:08: ... water is a little harder to come by, yet it's incredibly important for evolutionary ...
	2017-06-21: Anti-Matter and Quantum Relativity 01:21: ... wave functions, change over time, and allowed physicists to predict the evolution of quantum systems, such as the strange interference pattern in the ... 01:56: ... the Schrodinger equation tracks the evolution of a particle's wave function according to one and only one clock, ... 05:45: The resulting Dirac equation describes the spacetime evolution of this weird four-component particle-wave function, represented by the symbol psi.
	2017-05-31: The Fate of the First Stars 09:26: Such black holes power quasars, which themselves, had a huge influence on the later evolution of our universe. 11:53: A few of you suggested that humans are essentially immune to evolution due to our powerful control over our environments and our modern medicine. 12:44: At the very least, with the removal of environmental pressures, the passive evolution that has maintained certain traits is impacted. 13:00: We may take evolution into our own hands, with some very unnatural selection. 11:45: This would only increase the isolation, and perhaps speed up the evolutionary divergence.
	2017-05-17: Martian Evolution 02:03: First, let's think about this evolution thing. 02:06: It's important to remember that evolution doesn't just morph a species into the optimal form for its environment. 02:13: Evolution is blind. 06:40: But again, assuming this isn't completely mitigated with technology or terraforming, we may see rapid evolution of darker skin pigmentation. 07:53: An increased mutation rate may mean evolution proceeds faster on Mars than it does on Earth. 10:16: ... Martian colonies some tens of thousands of years and some rapid evolution and Homo martiansis may enter the scene-- tall, strong-boned yet ... 11:57: But it does represent a long, fascinating story of human evolution and history that ended in me, in us. 02:06: It's important to remember that evolution doesn't just morph a species into the optimal form for its environment. 07:53: An increased mutation rate may mean evolution proceeds faster on Mars than it does on Earth. 02:03: First, let's think about this evolution thing.
	2017-04-26: Are You a Boltzmann Brain? 05:16: ... of galaxies, stars, planets, Alan Tudyk-- indeed, the entire process of evolution. ... 07:45: ... occur should be Boltzmann brains, rather than ones that arise from, say, evolution. ...
	2017-03-29: How Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole 02:00: In fact forward temporal evolution requires a negative spacetime interval. 02:05: In flat space time, that negative sign in front of the delta t drives that forward evolution. 02:00: In fact forward temporal evolution requires a negative spacetime interval.
	2017-03-22: Superluminal Time Travel + Time Warp Challenge Answer 03:52: Each contour is smaller than the one before, and so forward temporal evolution means rolling down the causality hill. 10:15: Our experience of the universe is a thing that emerges from the forward causal evolution of the matter that we're composed of.
	2017-02-02: The Geometry of Causality 10:23: ... soon see how this requirement of a forward causal evolution leads to some incredible predictions when we try to calculate the sub ... 10:58: ... things of all-- quasars, and especially how important they are in the evolution of the ... 10:23: ... soon see how this requirement of a forward causal evolution leads to some incredible predictions when we try to calculate the sub event ...
	2016-11-02: Quantum Vortices and Superconductivity + Drake Equation Challenge Answers 06:06: ... need the initial abiogenesis, you need a few important steps in evolution, you need the conditions to be right for one species to have a runaway ...
	2016-10-05: Are We Alone? Galactic Civilization Challenge 01:47: ... also have a slightly better understanding of abiogenesis, the initial evolution of life and perhaps even the subsequent evolution of intelligence, ...
	2016-09-29: Life on Europa? 04:57: These, in turn, may have resulted in a sort of prebiotic chemical metabolism that enabled evolution into true life.
	2016-08-03: Can We Survive the Destruction of the Earth? ft. Neal Stephenson 01:30: ... others may have been due to massive bursts of volcanism, leaps in evolution overturning the biosphere's equilibrium, or even nearby exploding ...
	2016-04-27: What Does Dark Energy Really Do? 00:09: However, we now know that the evolution of our universe is driven by something even more mysterious-- dark energy. 07:43: And it must eventually dominate the evolution of the universe.
	2016-03-02: What’s Wrong With the Big Bang Theory? 03:11: ... theories, except they aren't theories in the same sense as relativity or evolution because we don't know which, if any, are actually ...
	2016-02-24: Why the Big Bang Definitely Happened 05:23: ... process, the evolution from a smattering of tiny fluctuations to a network of giant galaxy ...
	2016-01-13: When Time Breaks Down 01:24: The sum total of this motion results in a smooth, consistent evolution of time. 07:03: In a fast moving object, the interactions driving this evolution appears to happen more slowly. 07:30: Atoms feel time in their internal evolution similar to our own perception of the changing patterns in our brains. 07:03: In a fast moving object, the interactions driving this evolution appears to happen more slowly.
	2015-12-16: The Higgs Mechanism Explained 03:21: It undergoes no internal evolution.
	2015-11-18: 5 Ways to Stop a Killer Asteroid 09:17: It may be that advanced civilizations' psychos sociological evolution converges on an extremely narrow range of outlooks and motivations.
	2015-04-22: Are Space and Time An Illusion? 04:39: No evolution.
	2015-03-11: What Will Destroy Planet Earth? 03:00: ... French physicists ran 2,500 distinct simulations of the solar system's evolution over the next few billion ...
	2015-02-18: Is It Irrational to Believe in Aliens? 06:12: There very well might be an evolutionary "great filter" that works against intelligent species.

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