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2022-02-23: Are Cosmic Strings Cracks in the Universe?

  • 00:58: ... to convince you that they probably do exist, we need to understand phase transitions   in quantum fields - we need to see how a whole  universe can freeze ...

2021-08-18: How Vacuum Decay Would Destroy The Universe

  • 07:01: ... In fact it has a lot of similarities with the sort of phase transitions that you get in matter.   For example, when water boils - it ...

2020-09-21: Could Life Evolve Inside Stars?

  • 03:04: These may have been formed soon after the Big Bang when massive phase transitions swept across the universe.
  • 03:11: These transitions were analogous to the phase transitions between states of matter - for example, water freezing into ice.
  • 03:32: ... that more in the future, but for now the important thing is that these phase transitions could have resulted in different types of topological defects, just like ...
  • 03:04: These may have been formed soon after the Big Bang when massive phase transitions swept across the universe.

2019-08-19: What Happened Before the Big Bang?

  • 06:09: These theories predict phase transitions in the behavior of fields as the temperature of the universe changes.

2016-11-02: Quantum Vortices and Superconductivity + Drake Equation Challenge Answers

  • 00:21: These theoretical physicists pioneered work in the understanding of phase transitions of materials at temperatures close to absolute zero.
  • 00:31: The familiar phase transitions happen due to heating or cooling of a material.
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