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2022-09-28: Why Is 1/137 One of the Greatest Unsolved Problems In Physics?

  • 13:15: ... like pi, but perhaps we haven't realized this is the case because our mathematics are not advanced enough yet This is pretty speculative, but the ...

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

  • 10:28: ... mathematics used to describe this system just happen to be the same as the ...

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

  • 00:28: Both of these involve matter being packed to infinite densities - they are singularities where the mathematics of GR breaks down.

2022-03-16: What If Charge is NOT Fundamental?

  • 02:49: ... by a property  analogous to spin, governed  by analogous mathematics. ...
  • 05:13: ... the same way that isospin followed the same mathematics as regular quantum spin, this new property seemed to obey the math for ...

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

  • 00:03: ... divide the second uh uh with no limit uh according to the the um the mathematics of relativity but i think most physicists now think that we need ...

2021-12-10: 2021 End of Year AMA!

  • 00:02: ... dropping them apart but as with any story that we tell about the mathematics of physics we can't take these stories too seriously um and we can't ...

2021-11-02: Is ACTION The Most Fundamental Property in Physics?

  • 16:26: ... Skooks. As for what category theory is it’s loosely a way to generalize mathematics by representing mathematical concepts and the relationships between them ...

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

  • 07:21: ... we carve off all the “can’ts” from the marble block of all possible mathematics. ...

2021-10-05: Why Magnetic Monopoles SHOULD Exist

  • 02:22: The non-existence of magnetic monopoles is codified in the mathematics of electrodynamics.

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

  • 03:47: ... uncertainty principle. Bare  with me though with just a touch of mathematics. ...

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

  • 00:41: At least, that’s the black hole as it appears in the mathematics of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

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

  • 06:25: The other delves deep into theory - in speculative mathematics beyond the standard model for signs of new particles.

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

  • 00:00: ... is sort of as sacrosanct as girdle's incompleteness theorem is in mathematics and i've had this discussion with with you with janet levin uh even ...

2020-04-28: Space Time Livestream: Ask Matt Anything

  • 00:00: ... the laws that govern the physical world without entering the world of mathematics blah blah blah skipping forward in modern physics one cannot avoid ...

2020-02-18: Does Consciousness Influence Quantum Mechanics?

  • 00:41: ... in predicting the behavior of quantum system - rules encapsulated in the mathematics of quantum ...

2020-02-11: Are Axions Dark Matter?

  • 00:27: ... is a classic physics tale: intrepid scientists delve deep into trackless mathematics in search of answers to a mystery. And there, against all expectations, ...

2019-10-15: Loop Quantum Gravity Explained

  • 13:31: But the mathematics have yielded intriguing clues to the nature of the fabric of the universe – and that nature is very weird.

2019-09-23: Is Pluto a Planet?

  • 03:27: ... betrayed the existence of Neptune, which was discovered first in the mathematics and then with a telescope in ...

2019-08-26: How To Become an Astrophysicist + Challenge Question!

  • 03:35: ... To come to a PhD at their University The first step is to take a ton of mathematics and physics as an undergraduate most estra PhD programs require a good ...

2019-07-18: Did Time Start at the Big Bang?

  • 08:14: ... of what tells us. It's wrong Any time you encounter a singularity in the mathematics of a physical theory you have good reason for skepticism It's probably ...

2019-04-24: No Dark Matter = Proof of Dark Matter?

  • 00:03: ... Halliday's brilliant drawing in which the lightsaber blade is the matrix mathematics of the more penrose conditions truly an elegant weapon for a more ...

2019-04-03: The Edge of an Infinite Universe

  • 01:50: In fact, if we twist our human intuition and our mathematics to its limit we can build our picket fence around an infinite universe.

2019-02-20: Secrets of the Cosmic Microwave Background

  • 02:05: ... Each layer has fluctuations of a certain size defined by the mathematics of spherical harmonics Sort of like sine waves but different wavelengths ...

2018-12-20: Why String Theory is Wrong

  • 00:07: There's this idea that beauty is a powerful guide to truth in the mathematics of physical theory.

2018-11-07: Why String Theory is Right

  • 01:36: ... mathematics seem to come together so neatly towards a unified description of all ...

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

  • 00:17: [MUSIC PLAYING] Quantum field theory is notoriously complicated, built from mind-bendingly abstract mathematics.

2018-07-11: Quantum Invariance & The Origin of The Standard Model

  • 00:28: As far as we can tell, mathematics is the language in which the universe is written.
  • 10:29: ... fundamental forces, perhaps it's the fact that by pure exploration of mathematics, delving many layers of abstraction deeper than our capacity for ...
  • 10:58: Mathematics truly seems to be the language in which the universe is written.
  • 10:29: ... fundamental forces, perhaps it's the fact that by pure exploration of mathematics, delving many layers of abstraction deeper than our capacity for intuition, we ...

2018-06-20: The Black Hole Information Paradox

  • 11:54: They were glimpsed as dark stars in the mathematics of Isaac Newton's law of universal gravitation.
  • 13:29: In the mathematics, it looks as though anything falling into a charged black hole is ejected into a separate universe.

2018-05-23: Why Quantum Information is Never Destroyed

  • 12:49: ... most of the solution but had put it by the wayside for more important mathematics. ...

2018-05-16: Noether's Theorem and The Symmetries of Reality

  • 09:21: Her contributions to mathematics, particularly abstract algebra, redefined entire fields.

2018-03-15: Hawking Radiation

  • 04:54: The narrative of Hawking's mathematics goes something like this.

2018-01-17: Horizon Radiation

  • 07:43: Well, because they actually make the mathematics much easier.

2017-08-30: White Holes

  • 00:05: Lurking in the depths of the mathematics of Einstein's general relativity is an object even stranger than the mysterious black hole.
  • 00:50: ... own Milky Way galaxy harbor these gravitational monstrosities, but the mathematics that predicts the existence of the black hole also describes entities ...
  • 11:57: The mathematics of the Schwarzschild metric describes an entirely independent region of space time parallel to our own.

2017-07-12: Solving the Impossible in Quantum Field Theory

  • 03:08: ... Richard Feynman developed these pictorial tools to organize the painful mathematics of quantum field theory, but they also serve to give a general idea of ...

2017-06-28: The First Quantum Field Theory

  • 07:53: His mathematics, then, kept track of the number of particles, or quantum oscillations, in each of these states.

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

  • 05:10: ... stumbled upon a single simple idea that caused the resulting horrendous mathematics to collapse into an incredibly simple, beautiful ...

2017-03-29: How Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole

  • 00:06: ... the strange switching in the roles of space and time that occurs in the mathematics when we drop below the event horizon of a black ...
  • 04:36: In the mathematics the coordinate r, which once represented distance, now grants the negative sign needed to maintain your causal flow.

2017-02-02: The Geometry of Causality

  • 11:56: ... core of a black hole an artifact of the limitations of three dimensional mathematics?" Well, maybe, sort ...
  • 12:47: Mathematician Georg Cantor invented set theory, the mathematics we use to study different types of infinity.

2017-01-19: The Phantom Singularity

  • 00:09: In mathematics, singularities come in wild and wonderful varieties.
  • 03:29: ... models of the movement of water to human population growth, mathematics predicts a physical singularity, and we've been forced to reject the ...
  • 00:09: In mathematics, singularities come in wild and wonderful varieties.

2016-11-30: Pilot Wave Theory and Quantum Realism

  • 00:47: There are some pretty out there explanations for the processes at work behind the incredibly successful mathematics of quantum mechanics.

2016-11-16: Strange Stars

  • 00:14: [MUSIC PLAYING] The mathematics of modern physics that emerged through the 20th century explained so much about our universe.
  • 00:28: But the same mathematics also hid some surprises.

2016-10-26: The Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse

  • 05:52: This sounds outrageous, but it's a very serious interpretation of the mathematics of quantum mechanics.
  • 08:18: ... worlds may, in fact, be the more pure interpretation of the mathematics of quantum mechanics because there's nothing in that math that requires ...
  • 09:47: ... so although it is supported by the incredibly successful mathematics of quantum mechanics, it has not yet added a prediction that might ...

2016-05-25: Is an Ice Age Coming?

  • 12:37: Mathematics is a model that we use to describe the behavior of the universe.

2016-04-13: Will the Universe Expand Forever?

  • 01:09: We'll need to peer into the mathematics of general relativity.

2016-02-24: Why the Big Bang Definitely Happened

  • 02:28: If we rewind the universe using the mathematics of general relativity, then the further back you go, the smaller the universe is.

2015-12-09: How to Build a Black Hole

  • 00:42: And just because something exists in the mathematics does not mean it has to exist in reality.
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