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2022-11-09: What If Humanity Is Among The First Spacefaring Civilizations?

  • 18:50: ... it turns out that the mathematical description implied by this interpretation is equivalent to standard quantum field ...

2022-03-30: Could The Universe Be Inside A Black Hole?

  • 08:15: ... very first “realistic” mathematical description of a black hole formation was discovered in 1939 by Robert Oppenheimer - ...

2022-02-10: The Nature of Space and Time AMA

  • 00:03: ... actually pursuing here so i guess we have a spectacularly successful mathematical description of both space and time okay we start in this description with ...

2021-10-20: Will Constructor Theory REWRITE Physics?

  • 02:25: In the mechanistic approach the fundamentals are the mathematical descriptions of how a process occurs.

2021-06-16: Can Space Be Infinitely Divided?

  • 01:16: ... by   thinking about hot pokers. He found the  long-sought mathematical description of   blackbody, or thermal radiation - by requiring that ...

2020-07-28: What is a Theory of Everything: Livestream

  • 00:00: ... all the successes of artificial intelligence so far suggests that the mathematical descriptions of this in computation can actually at least kick our butt in the ...

2020-05-27: Does Gravity Require Extra Dimensions?

  • 00:33: ... no surprise that it was the first force to get a decent mathematical description with Isaac Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation back in the 17th ...

2020-01-27: Hacking the Nature of Reality

  • 00:43: ... mathematical description should depend only on observable quantities - in this case, the ...

2017-08-30: White Holes

  • 00:37: ... theory of relativity, physicists wondered how seriously to take this mathematical description of an inescapable region of ...
  • 02:26: White holes first emerged in the very earliest mathematical description of black holes.

2017-07-07: Feynman's Infinite Quantum Paths

  • 00:13: ... or not this is true, a mathematical description of this crazy idea led to the most powerful expression of quantum ...

2017-06-28: The First Quantum Field Theory

  • 00:46: Its wild success tells us that the mathematical description provided by quantum mechanics reflects deep truths about reality.
  • 00:06: ... Feynman called it "the jewel of physics." Of all of our mathematical descriptions of the universe, this one has produced the most stunningly precise ...

2017-06-21: Anti-Matter and Quantum Relativity

  • 01:01: Bohr, Heisenberg, Born, Pauli, and others pieced together a mathematical description for the weird nature of subatomic particles.

2016-07-27: The Quantum Experiment that Broke Reality

  • 06:00: ... call the mathematical description of this wave-like distribution of properties a "wave function." ...

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

  • 04:54: The key to unlocking the mystery lay in finding a mathematical description for the blackbody spectrum.

2016-03-23: How Cosmic Inflation Flattened the Universe

  • 06:48: Actually, Einstein came up with the exact mathematical description that we need-- an antigravity term called the cosmological constant.

2015-11-25: 100 Years of Relativity + Challenge Winners!

  • 00:36: ... of thought experiments, simple statements about reality and yet the mathematical description that flowers from those statements describes our universe with stunning ...
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