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	2022-11-23: How To See Black Holes By Catching Neutrinos 11:18: A number of studies have come out describing the possible mechanisms and environment of the neutrino production.
	2022-10-19: The Equation That Explains (Nearly) Everything! 02:45: It’s a nice idea for all the forces of nature to arise from the same underlying mechanism. 11:57: ... the rest of the Lagrangian deals with. We have episodes on the Higgs mechanism if you’re ... 14:43: ... is easier to fit on a coffee mug, and to a deeper description of the mechanisms ruling space ...
	2022-09-28: Why Is 1/137 One of the Greatest Unsolved Problems In Physics? 12:55: ... other fundamental constants - perhaps pointing to an underlying common mechanism that set the  values for the constants at the Big ...
	2022-08-17: What If Dark Energy is a New Quantum Field? 07:31: ... there’s a final reason to look for a mechanism for accelerating expansion due being some other than quantum ... 13:27: ... is an extremely flexible theoretical mechanism. There’s even a scenario in which the field evolves in such a way to halt ...
	2022-05-04: Space DOES NOT Expand Everywhere 13:35: ... Archibald Wheeler’s Participatory Universe, and the episode on the Higgs mechanism and the mass of the W boson. Let’s do the latter ...
	2022-04-27: How the Higgs Mechanism Give Things Mass 01:25: ... path to that unification leads to  the Higgs mechanism, which not only   explains the mass of the weak bosons, ... 16:02: ... that’s where we are today. This is the Higgs mechanism. The Higgs field also gives mass   to the matter particles - ...
	2022-02-16: Is The Wave Function The Building Block of Reality? 07:17: ... this “hitting” mechanism gives a potential explaination for the quantum-classical divide - it ... 08:02: ... Localization. In CSL, physicists imagined that the localizing mechanism was a randomly jiggling field, like the frenetic Brownian motion of ... 08:32: ... neither of these models really tried to explain what the mechanism actually was. They just thought there was some mysterious field that ...
	2021-11-17: Are Black Holes Actually Fuzzballs? 06:55: ... that this was a mere coincidence — it seemed they’d stumbled on the mechanism by which information could be encoded on the event ...
	2021-08-18: How Vacuum Decay Would Destroy The Universe 01:00: ... although don’t get too cosy - there’s   at least one mechanism that could rewrite  the laws of physics across the ... 03:11: ... into all the detail of the   mass-granting power of the Higgs mechanism in a previous video. For today, all you need to know is   ...
	2021-08-10: How to Communicate Across the Quantum Multiverse 02:56: ... a story about what's really happening behind the math - what “physical” mechanisms give rise to the equations of quantum mechanics. And the fact is, every ...
	2021-08-03: How An Extreme New Star Could Change All Cosmology 09:18: ... there is another mechanism that could have done this - one that we know must happen in the ...
	2021-04-21: The NEW Warp Drive Possibilities 01:16: ... of science fiction, the first mention of a “space-warp” as a propulsion mechanism was in J. Williamson’s 1936 story The ...
	2021-04-13: What If Dark Matter Is Just Black Holes? 04:48: But the most mainstream mechanism is that they collapsed from density fluctuations.
	2021-01-19: Can We Break the Universe? 15:33: This was done with human cells, but the mechanism is exactly that proposed one for bird magnetoreception.
	2021-01-12: What Happens During a Quantum Jump? 10:19: ... to wonder if the whole process is driven by an underlying deterministic mechanism, rather than fundamental ...
	2020-12-22: Navigating with Quantum Entanglement 07:53: ... so we have a mechanism to influence two tiny electrons - but a few questions remain: how is the ... 08:11: Klaus Schulten and colleagues proposed the mechanism that has remained mostly unchanged to this day. 09:32: Although birds do have cryptochromes, the mechanism itself has not been directly observed in a bird, and it remains only the most likely explanation. 10:12: ... radical pairs only need to stay entangled for a microsecond for this mechanism to do its job - because after the entanglement is destroyed the ...
	2020-10-05: Venus May Have Life! 06:17: ... the two gas giants - but no one screamed life, because there’s a clear mechanism for producing that phosphine by abiotic ...
	2020-09-21: Could Life Evolve Inside Stars? 00:45: But could some other mechanism exist that could allow the incredible chemical diversity needed to power life? 07:06: Those stellar interiors might then provide the mechanism for necklaces to rapidly change and even replicate. 00:45: But could some other mechanism exist that could allow the incredible chemical diversity needed to power life?
	2020-08-10: Theory of Everything Controversies: Livestream 00:00: ... and their forces and that the progress will come to focusing on the mechanisms by which laws evolve rather than the particular so that's my ...
	2020-07-20: The Boundary Between Black Holes & Neutron Stars 14:19: Matter and antimatter would have been smoothly mixed, and there’s no mechanism to separate them.
	2020-06-30: Dissolving an Event Horizon 06:58: ... stripped of its event horizon - but it doesn’t tell us the physical mechanism. ... 10:32: Once again, the universe appears to have a mechanism to avoid the naked singularity.
	2020-06-08: Can Viruses Travel Between Planets? 02:01: ... the term for that bundle is a virion, and this is more of a transport mechanism for the genetic ... 07:38: ... and it’s a compelling way to transport viruses because the mechanism is especially effective for very small water droplets - of the kind that ...
	2020-04-22: Will Wormholes Allow Fast Interstellar Travel? 09:39: The casimir effect is by far the most popular speculative mechanism for opening a wormhole.
	2020-04-07: How We Know The Earth Is Ancient 05:38: ... of years he needed for his theory of evolution, and its painfully slow mechanism of natural selection. But Darwin was also into the ...
	2020-03-03: Does Quantum Immortality Save Schrödinger's Cat? 00:53: We’ve been exploring decoherence as a mechanism for this quantum-classical transition - and we’re not done yet. 14:10: ... exact mechanism varies by quantum eraser experiment, but this is true even in the ...
	2020-02-18: Does Consciousness Influence Quantum Mechanics? 13:54: ... in the big bang - and I mean right at the beginning - before the Higgs mechanism gave elementary particles their ...
	2020-01-13: How To Capture Black Holes 07:17: ... each other and forming binary pairs, which then quickly merge. This mechanism helps lone black holes find each other, so it should massively boost the ... 12:17: ... hole? Well, the answer is ... not necessarily. There's at least one mechanism in which you can make an arbitrarily gigantic universe from very little ... 07:17: ... each other and forming binary pairs, which then quickly merge. This mechanism helps lone black holes find each other, so it should massively boost the ...
	2019-12-17: Do Black Holes Create New Universes? 05:36: ... should be close to optimal in a given universe, at least for a given mechanism for making black ...
	2019-11-11: Does Life Need a Multiverse to Exist? 04:30: There’s no other mechanism in the universe capable of similar natural complexity - at least as far as we can tell - which is, frankly, pretty far.
	2019-09-03: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Reversing? 10:47: Whatever the mechanism for geomagnetic reversals really is – we know it happens, and will surely happen again.
	2019-08-06: What Caused the Big Bang? 00:24: Is there really any mechanism that could cause something like this to happen?
	2019-07-15: The Quantum Internet 08:16: Combined with a quantum key distribution protocol, this can give a mechanism for secure communication.
	2019-07-01: Thorium and the Future of Nuclear Energy 02:49: ... that in the event of an emergency Even if every mechanical or human mechanism failed the reactor would simply power down Another compelling advantage ...
	2019-06-06: The Alchemy of Neutron Star Collisions 02:47: ... decay process the converted neutrons back to protons also provides the mechanism for their escape the beta decay releases both electrons and neutrinos in ...
	2019-05-09: Why Quantum Computing Requires Quantum Cryptography 10:46: It uses a similar choice-of-quantum-basis mechanism but with the added frill of quantum entanglement.
	2018-12-12: Quantum Physics in a Mirror Universe 00:02: ... only had to happen once in the galaxy then we can consider abiogenesis mechanisms that are tens of billions of times less probable than mechanisms that ...
	2018-12-06: Did Life on Earth Come from Space? 00:37: ... before we talk about the hazards of that journey let's look at a gentler mechanism for getting life into space a wide variety of living single-celled ...
	2018-11-07: Why String Theory is Right 05:22: ... reproduce the theory of general relativity and, in the same mechanism, seem to promise to reproduce all of quantum theory ...
	2018-10-18: What are the Strings in String Theory? 04:48: ... resulting superstring theory sought to become an all-encompassing mechanism to explain the underlying workings of our entire reality, a theory of ... 08:51: These last properties are important because it gives a mechanism for the particles of string theory to interact and to decay into other particles.
	2018-10-03: How to Detect Extra Dimensions 12:50: ... as the other forces to show that it arises from the same underlying mechanism. ...
	2018-09-05: The Black Hole Entropy Enigma 02:47: He described a mechanism by which the information contained by infalling particles could be preserved on the event horizon of the black hole.
	2018-08-23: How Will the Universe End? 01:33: ... civilizations may be able to harness those mechanisms and so cling to existence through uncountable eons-- uncountable, but ... 06:18: But there are several beyond the standard-model mechanisms that would allow them to decay into positrons, neutrinos, and gamma ray photons. 08:14: ... radiation, as we've also discussed previously, but also via other mechanisms that deserve episodes of their ... 09:41: The fate of these depends on quantum mechanisms. 01:33: ... civilizations may be able to harness those mechanisms and so cling to existence through uncountable eons-- uncountable, but ... 06:18: But there are several beyond the standard-model mechanisms that would allow them to decay into positrons, neutrinos, and gamma ray photons. 08:14: ... radiation, as we've also discussed previously, but also via other mechanisms that deserve episodes of their ... 09:41: The fate of these depends on quantum mechanisms.
	2018-08-15: Quantum Theory's Most Incredible Prediction 15:13: Another possible mechanism is through turbulence in waves generated by the rapid motion of magnetic fields.
	2018-07-25: Reversing Entropy with Maxwell's Demon 06:46: ... turns out that there are plausible non-demonic-- or even intelligent-- mechanisms to detect approaching particles and open the door, mechanisms which, in ...
	2018-07-04: Will A New Neutrino Change The Standard Model? 02:10: ... and antimatter, the bizarreness of quantum chirality and the Higgs mechanism, and finally, why all of this points to sterile ... 04:42: ... we saw in our episode on the Higgs mechanism, real quarks and electrons are actually a combination of left and right ... 06:15: If neutrinos gained their mass by the same mechanism as quarks and electrons, that means their chirality oscillates. 06:51: ... of the sterile neutrino, but it could also come from some more exotic mechanism-- for example, the Majorana mechanism that would require the neutrino to ... 04:42: ... we saw in our episode on the Higgs mechanism, real quarks and electrons are actually a combination of left and right chiral ...
	2018-06-20: The Black Hole Information Paradox 06:59: One, there's no known mechanism for that infalling stuff to leave enough of an information imprint to affect Hawking radiation. 08:32: OK, so we can argue our way around the no-cloning theorem with black-hole complementarity, but there was still no known mechanism for this to happen. 09:47: ... something we'll come back to because besides giving a concrete mechanism by which information can be stored on the surface of a black hole, it ...
	2018-04-18: Using Stars to See Gravitational Waves 11:42: Slimthrall suggests a flaw in the idea that life is a mechanism for increasing entropy.
	2018-01-17: Horizon Radiation 08:42: There's a nice mechanism in quantum field theory for doing this.
	2017-10-11: Absolute Cold 06:39: This leads to the famous Higgs mechanism and possibly also the phenomena of inflation and dark energy.
	2017-07-19: The Real Star Wars 15:48: We talk about this in our Higgs mechanism episode.
	2017-05-17: Martian Evolution 07:44: We have natural DNA repair and cancer-fighting mechanisms.
	2016-06-01: Is Quantum Tunneling Faster than Light? 04:41: When it's an alpha particle escaping a nucleus, this is one of the most important mechanisms for radioactive decay.
	2016-03-23: How Cosmic Inflation Flattened the Universe 08:27: Another really important thing about the driving mechanism of inflation is that it stopped.
	2015-08-19: Do Events Inside Black Holes Happen? 12:10: And in case there was any confusion, I'm not claiming to be the harbinger of some new insight into the mechanism of tides. 12:23: ... and physics teachers, as you've seen in our comments, and me had this mechanism wrong in our heads for a variety of ... 12:32: And I just wanted to make sure that a correct representation of the mechanism was out there in video form. 12:23: ... and physics teachers, as you've seen in our comments, and me had this mechanism wrong in our heads for a variety of ...
	2015-06-24: The Calendar, Australia & White Christmas 02:44: The calendar system has a mechanism to keep it in sync with the seasons. 02:47: But interestingly, leap years are not that mechanism.
	2015-04-29: What's the Most Realistic Artificial Gravity in Sci-Fi? 00:24: ... for TV and movies is just another rationale for inventing some kind of mechanism for artificial gravity on ...
	2015-04-15: Could NASA Start the Zombie Apocalypse? 00:35: Now, the underlying zombification mechanism varies from store to store.
	2015-03-18: Can A Starfox Barrel Roll Work In Space? 06:04: In fact, automotive engineers are trying to make flywheels the braking mechanism in cars to avoid losing energy to friction every time you saw.

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