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	2022-12-14: How Can Matter Be BOTH Liquid AND Gas? 15:34: ... researched thousands of language learners and created a unique method that teaches words and sentences based on their relevance in real-life ...
	2022-11-23: How To See Black Holes By Catching Neutrinos 00:42: ... - and yet mapping the neutrino sky will surely unlock secrets no other method can ...
	2022-10-12: The REAL Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets! 06:05: ... light - of photons from   the Sun. More traditional propulsion methods that carry their own fuel have hard constraints   on payload size ...
	2022-09-21: Science of the James Webb Telescope Explained! 13:46: And asks whether the methods of string theory are being brought back to understanding gluons again?
	2022-09-14: Could the Higgs Boson Lead Us to Dark Matter? 02:10: We can bundle the different methods into three broad categories, each represented by a different Feynman diagram. 04:39: So far we have no clear evidence from this method. 02:10: We can bundle the different methods into three broad categories, each represented by a different Feynman diagram.
	2022-08-03: What Happens Inside a Proton? 10:18: ... Monte Carlo sampling. This  is an extremely common computational method   in which you do your calculation based on  randomized selections ...
	2022-06-15: Can Wormholes Solve The Black Hole Information Paradox? 06:01: ... to explore black   hole entropy using these holographic methods, and even managed to produce the Page curve. The   problem with ...
	2022-03-08: Is the Proxima System Our Best Hope For Another Earth? 04:38: This way of finding exoplanets is called the radial velocity method. 05:07: ... the most prolific method for finding  exoplanets has been the transit method,   in ... 05:20: That restricts the transit method to planetary systems that are almost perfectly edge-on. 05:37: Now that we know this, the radial velocity method can step in and potentially catch many more systems - as long as they’re not perfectly face-on. 05:46: ... radial velocity method is emerging as a competitor to the transit approach due to rapid ... 05:07: ... most prolific method for finding  exoplanets has been the transit method,   in which planets are identified by their dimming of their parent star as ...
	2022-01-27: How Does Gravity Escape A Black Hole? 13:06: ... talked about the ingenious method for simulating the insane amount of information in the quantum ...
	2022-01-19: How To Build The Universe in a Computer 04:26: For simulating a solar system,  this method is pretty reasonable. 04:44: ... near enough to do N-body simulations of entire galaxies using the method that I ... 07:17: The force at each point can then be solved using Fourier transform methods, which can be very fast. 09:05: ... practice, modern simulations often use an amalgam of these methods - for example SPH for large scale flows and particle-particle N-body for ... 07:08: ... approach is the particle-mesh method,  in which particles are converted into a density distribution and a ... 07:17: The force at each point can then be solved using Fourier transform methods, which can be very fast. 09:05: ... practice, modern simulations often use an amalgam of these methods - for example SPH for large scale flows and particle-particle N-body for ...
	2021-12-20: What Happens If A Black Hole Hits Earth? 03:00: ... rarity of this phenomenon, along with several other clever methods, has allowed us to pretty much rule out all masses greater than about ...
	2021-09-07: First Detection of Light from Behind a Black Hole 01:59: ... method doesn’t need an international team or a planet-sized telescope - it can ... 12:54: ... V-A wonders whether faster than light communication methods might be detectable from great distances - as in, could we see the ... 01:59: ... method doesn’t need an international team or a planet-sized telescope - it can be done ... 12:54: ... V-A wonders whether faster than light communication methods might be detectable from great distances - as in, could we see the ...
	2021-06-09: Are We Running Out of Space Above Earth? 03:52: Large pieces of space junk can be tracked using ground based radar and more precise optical and lidar methods. 04:15: But this method is far from perfect. 03:52: Large pieces of space junk can be tracked using ground based radar and more precise optical and lidar methods.
	2021-04-21: The NEW Warp Drive Possibilities 08:28: ... these might be an example of a “reaction-less” drive - a propulsion method that doesn’t need any propellant - not stuff ejected from behind like in ...
	2021-04-13: What If Dark Matter Is Just Black Holes? 02:45: Scientific method 101 - form a hypothesis, then try to prove it wrong. 07:40: At this point, gravitational lensing becomes the go-to method for dark matter hunters. 02:45: Scientific method 101 - form a hypothesis, then try to prove it wrong.
	2021-03-16: The NEW Crisis in Cosmology 02:36: ... distance measurements were based on a method pioneered by Henrietta Swan Leavitt.   She developed one of ... 03:55: ... improving that measurement.   One is to double down on the old method - find more type 1a supernova and improve those   ... 04:42: ... - and this is where the crisis   emerged. One alternative method for getting the expansion rate is to study the oldest light in ... 05:31: ... of dark energy   has doubled down on the supernova  method. A couple of years ago his   team published a new Hubble ... 06:22: ... Cepheids in our own galaxy, for which we can get distances by a method that’s much more reliable.   That method is stellar parallax - ... 09:50: ... remember that we’re level-headed scientists. Two independent methods aren’t enough.   We need more - and we have some great  ... 10:40: ... extremely promising method is  gravitational lensing - the bending of   light around ... 03:55: ... distance ladder - which means if any rung below it is broken, the method fails. ... 10:40: ... extremely promising method is  gravitational lensing - the bending of   light around massive ... 03:55: ... improving that measurement.   One is to double down on the old method - find more type 1a supernova and improve those   distance measures. ... 02:36: ... distance measurements were based on a method pioneered by Henrietta Swan Leavitt.   She developed one of the first ... 09:50: ... remember that we’re level-headed scientists. Two independent methods aren’t enough.   We need more - and we have some great  ... 00:22: ... that’s not been the case.   But just recently, one of these methods  received a massive refinement due to the   Gaia mission and ...
	2020-09-28: Solving Quantum Cryptography 00:31: ... our digital civilization because they can easily overcome the encryption method that underpins almost all of ...
	2020-09-01: How Do We Know What Stars Are Made Of? 10:02: This was much more precise than the previous method of just observing the overall color of the thermal light.
	2020-08-10: Theory of Everything Controversies: Livestream 00:00: ... lee um you both have quite provocative perspectives on the scientific method as a whole eric i want to start with you and then i want to go to lee ...
	2020-07-28: What is a Theory of Everything: Livestream 00:00: ... to then observe it itself so you know we as humans are the the method by which the universe is asking questions and observing itself and ...
	2020-06-30: Dissolving an Event Horizon 06:13: Once you have an extremal black hole by whatever method, it lasts for a very, very long time - if not forever. 08:55: ... of gravitational waves from colliding black holes and various other methods for estimate black hole spin has not yet reveals a single black hole ...
	2020-06-15: What Happens After the Universe Ends? 13:43: Others have questioned the statistical methods of that study, which were non-standard, and they say there are no statistically significant features.
	2020-05-18: Mapping the Multiverse 15:40: ... the experiment has been performed with much higher precision using other methods - lasers, vacuum chambers, strange quantum mechanical states of light - ...
	2020-05-11: How Luminiferous Aether Led to Relativity 09:02: ... produce observable shifts in the fringe pattern. And this is exactly the method that LIGO uses to detect gravitational ...
	2020-05-04: How We Know The Universe is Ancient 00:00: ... universe is precisely 13.8 billion year old - or so our best scientific methods tell us. But how do you learn the age of the universe when there’s no ... 08:58: ... the next step in improving this number, I need to explain another method astronomers had been using to get distances to galaxies, and so ... 12:59: ... Friedman equations - and despite some intriguing conflicts - different methods are mostly in agreement. They converge on a single number. It’s been ... 08:58: ... the next step in improving this number, I need to explain another method astronomers had been using to get distances to galaxies, and so calculate the Hubble ... 00:00: ... universe is precisely 13.8 billion year old - or so our best scientific methods tell us. But how do you learn the age of the universe when there’s no ... 12:59: ... Friedman equations - and despite some intriguing conflicts - different methods are mostly in agreement. They converge on a single number. It’s been ...
	2020-04-22: Will Wormholes Allow Fast Interstellar Travel? 00:00: ... Stargate to Interstellar, wormholes have long been one of our favorite method for traveling across fictional universes. But they've also been a very ...
	2020-04-14: Was the Milky Way a Quasar? 14:01: ... we did give a review of the method, but you guys are right that we should have mentioned Clair – who was not ...
	2020-04-07: How We Know The Earth Is Ancient 01:48: ... calculate the age of the Earth using what we would now call scientific methods, publishing his result in 1778. It was ingenious really. He assumed the ...
	2020-03-03: Does Quantum Immortality Save Schrödinger's Cat? 07:19: ... though this is your one quantum timeline While we’re discussing dubious methods for predicting survival times - I think it’s time to answer the Doomsday ...
	2020-01-20: Solving the Three Body Problem 06:09: ... method of solving differential equations one step at a time is called numerical ...
	2019-12-09: The Doomsday Argument 04:05: ... off by a factor of 2 - which considering the method, and the fact that dark energy could potentially have spanned many, many ...
	2019-10-15: Loop Quantum Gravity Explained 12:10: ... researchers think that the method and foundations are sound and that the current criticisms and ...
	2019-07-15: The Quantum Internet 00:43: ... but one day soon this may not be enough and so quantum cryptographic methods and algorithms are being ...
	2019-05-09: Why Quantum Computing Requires Quantum Cryptography 10:29: But there are classical authentication methods that can make this very difficult.
	2019-04-24: No Dark Matter = Proof of Dark Matter? 00:03: ... to atoms once again roughly consistent with what we measure from other methods modified gravity theories had to hard to keep up with the mounting ...
	2019-03-06: The Impossibility of Perpetual Motion Machines 15:22: Julio Toboso García points out that the method used to model the CMB fluctuations - multipole expansion - sounds a like Fourier Analysis.
	2019-01-24: The Crisis in Cosmology 00:10: Finally, two powerful and independent methods... 02:02: You can imagine the alarm when the two most powerful methods... 06:04: ...we prefer it to be made through independent methods. 10:35: ...and independent methods have been used to calibrate the supernovae as standard candles. 12:37: Independent methods, like using gravitational lensing, or gravitational waves,... 00:10: Finally, two powerful and independent methods... 02:02: You can imagine the alarm when the two most powerful methods... 06:04: ...we prefer it to be made through independent methods. 10:35: ...and independent methods have been used to calibrate the supernovae as standard candles. 12:37: Independent methods, like using gravitational lensing, or gravitational waves,...
	2018-10-25: Will We Ever Find Alien Life? 15:05: ... that can be repeatedly tested and verified in accordance with scientific method using accepted protocols of observation, measurement, and evaluation of ...
	2018-10-10: Computing a Universe Simulation 10:53: Some of you gave answers close to these by various ingenious methods.
	2018-08-01: How Close To The Sun Can Humanity Get? 11:30: Physics is not intuitive and takes real methodical work to verify those instincts.
	2018-05-09: How Gaia Changed Astronomy Forever 06:55: New binary star systems can also be found with these same methods.
	2018-04-25: Black Hole Swarms 10:00: Juxtaposed stars asks whether, theoretically, you could build an engine to extract power from gravitational waves via the sticky bead method?
	2018-03-21: Scientists Have Detected the First Stars 06:06: And I asked you to use energy methods to figure some stuff out.
	2018-01-31: Kronos: Devourer Of Worlds 08:52: Mark points to a paper-- Korycansky, Laughlin, and Adams, 2000-- that proposes a method to do just this.
	2017-10-04: When Quasars Collide STJC 09:33: For Markarian 533, we're going to have to stick to traditional observing methods.
	2017-09-20: The Future of Space Telescopes 00:55: Fortunately, NASA isn't constrained by traditional methods.
	2017-09-13: Neutron Stars Collide in New LIGO Signal? 13:56: ... of Proxima Centauri B. Well, the answer is no, at least by the method described in the ... 14:10: That method is to watch the effect on the parent stars' light as it passes through the planet's atmosphere. 14:38: ... Cen B was instead found by the Doppler method, which can measure the tiny wobble in a star's motion caused by the ...
	2017-08-10: The One-Electron Universe 12:00: And yeah, that's a limitation and a challenge of this method.
	2017-07-12: Solving the Impossible in Quantum Field Theory 13:23: ... Haas asked how Feynman's path integral method, which is compatible with special relativity, can derive Schrodinger's ...
	2017-07-07: Feynman's Infinite Quantum Paths 09:31: ... path integral method is able to deal with all of this weirdness because it's able to describe ...
	2017-06-21: Anti-Matter and Quantum Relativity 12:40: ... wasn't identified by the, "oh, that bit looks a bit bluer than the rest method." Detailed statistical analysis of the entire Planck CMB map pointed to ...
	2017-03-15: Time Crystals! 11:18: Matthew Pick asks about the transit method, and wonders how rare it is for a planetary system to be lined up so we actually see the transit.
	2017-03-01: The Treasures of Trappist-1 00:48: Both telescopes use the transit method, watching for the dimming of the central star as the planets pass in front of it.
	2016-11-02: Quantum Vortices and Superconductivity + Drake Equation Challenge Answers 03:00: ... first question asked you to follow the method used by astrophysicists Adam Frank and Woodruff Sullivan to answer the ...
	2016-10-05: Are We Alone? Galactic Civilization Challenge 04:31: I want you to follow Frank and Sullivan's method, plus whatever other information you care to include, to answer this.
	2016-06-15: The Strange Universe of Gravitational Lensing 05:57: ... of the universe, independently confirming the results from other methods. ...
	2016-05-25: Is an Ice Age Coming? 13:05: It gets more spread out, but the method doesn't disappear.
	2016-04-13: Will the Universe Expand Forever? 07:14: We measure it from the redshifts of galaxies as well as other independent methods.
	2015-06-17: How to Signal Aliens 00:24: Today, I'm going to summarize three different signaling methods that have been discussed in the literature along with their pros and cons. 02:14: So let's move on to method two, lasers. 03:24: In a recent video, we discussed the transit method for finding exoplanets. 03:54: Because even though there are other ways to detect exoplanets, the transit method is the only one that scales well. 00:24: Today, I'm going to summarize three different signaling methods that have been discussed in the literature along with their pros and cons.
	2015-05-27: Habitable Exoplanets Debunked! 04:22: There are two basic methods. 04:44: The second method takes advantage of what are called planetary transits. 05:01: ... unfortunately, this method only works for planets that are really close to their stars, because ... 04:44: The second method takes advantage of what are called planetary transits. 04:22: There are two basic methods.
	2015-04-08: Could You Fart Your Way to the Moon? 03:23: You can click over here to see my method of weighing farts.
	2015-02-11: What Planet Is Super Mario World? 03:10: ... indeed change at a steady rate whenever he jumps or falls, so that our method of measuring g's should be ...

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