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2022-05-18: What If the Galactic Habitable Zone LIMITS Intelligent Life?
- 14:14: ... mythology episode, which features a visit from Matt to explain nuclear fusion. ...
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2021-10-13: New Results in Quantum Tunneling vs. The Speed of Light
- 04:03: ... necessary for the nuclear fusion reactions that power the sun, in some biological processes, and it’s ...
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2021-08-18: How Vacuum Decay Would Destroy The Universe
- 08:30: ... particles. The ability for stars to form and undergo nuclear fusion, and the ability for chemistry to work as it does, depend ...
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2021-08-03: How An Extreme New Star Could Change All Cosmology
- 01:45: ... their lives, they blast off their outer layers in their final fits of nuclear fusion. This exposes their naked cores, which by now are insanely hot nuggets of ...
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2021-04-13: What If Dark Matter Is Just Black Holes?
- 06:53: ... enough heat to allow the stars' ultra dense carbon and oxygen to undergo nuclear fusion. ...
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2020-09-01: How Do We Know What Stars Are Made Of?
- 10:20: ... Eddington himself had postulated the whole nuclear fusion thing just a few years earlier in 1920, but now knowing what stars are ...
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2020-08-17: How Stars Destroy Each Other
- 07:58: ... which is a star not quite massive enough to generate its own energy by nuclear fusion. ...
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2019-09-23: Is Pluto a Planet?
- 06:54: ... giant orbs of gas aren’t massive enough to ignite nuclear fusion in their cores like a true star, but still seemed too massive to be ...
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2019-06-06: The Alchemy of Neutron Star Collisions
- 00:34: ... periodic table between carbon and iron were produced in onion shells by nuclear fusion in the cores of very massive stars during the last phases of their lives ...
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2017-05-31: The Fate of the First Stars
- 04:43: Now, the rate of nuclear fusion reactions is incredibly sensitive to temperature.
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2017-02-02: The Geometry of Causality
- 13:57: Mike Cammiso asks whether nuclear fusion occurs inside accretion disks.
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2016-04-06: We Are Star Stuff
- 03:28: ... after the Big Bang, the entire universe was hot and dense enough for nuclear fusion, for protons to slam together hard enough to overcome the electrostatic ...
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2016-03-16: Why is the Earth Round and the Milky Way Flat?
- 07:11: Here the pressure comes from the upward flow of energy from the nuclear fusion engine in the core.
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2016-02-24: Why the Big Bang Definitely Happened
- 07:03: ... this time, nuclear fusion raged across the cosmos, baking some of the existing protons into ...
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