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2022-08-17: What If Dark Energy is a New Quantum Field?

  • 05:18: ... that there are problems with the explanation where dark energy is due to quantum fluctuations. For example, it’s actually very difficult to get the vacuum energy to be ...
  • 07:31: ... for a mechanism for accelerating expansion due being some other than quantum fluctuations. It’s because we know there must be one to explain cosmic inflation. This ...

2021-12-20: What Happens If A Black Hole Hits Earth?

  • 18:16: ... potentially detect deviations from general relativity in the form of quantum fluctuations near the event horizon that might be amplified by gravitational lensing. ...

2021-05-19: Breaking The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

  • 06:32: Quantum fluctuations result in a low level of noise - a flickering signal where you should see darkness.
  • 06:44: ... quantum fluctuations in the phase of the laser beams are larger than the change in the arm ...
  • 07:15: That would enable us to line up those waves more perfectly to reduce quantum fluctuations.
  • 08:54: ... they’re recombined, they still have quantum fluctuations in the phase, but the fluctuations between the two beams are now ...
  • 06:32: Quantum fluctuations result in a low level of noise - a flickering signal where you should see darkness.

2020-07-08: Does Antimatter Explain Why There's Something Rather Than Nothing?

  • 09:19: ... and even the strength of the coupling between the particles and the quantum fluctuations of the vacuum. Any difference in these properties in anti-matter versus ...

2020-01-27: Hacking the Nature of Reality

  • 12:13: ... in the universe today - galaxies and galaxy clusters - as collapsed from quantum fluctuations in the extremely early ...

2019-12-17: Do Black Holes Create New Universes?

  • 07:16: ... proposed that if a universe lasts forever then in the distant future, quantum fluctuations of that near vacuum will cause black holes to spontaneously appear - and ...
  • 07:38: ... by the biggest universes - more space means more chances for these quantum fluctuations. ...
  • 07:56: ... be extrapolated to the insanely long timescales required for these quantum fluctuations to ...

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

  • 07:53: But seeding all of the structure in our universe is probably the least impressive thing those quantum fluctuations did.
  • 08:06: ... differences in when the inflation ends from one point to the next But quantum fluctuations come in all sizes and a rare strong fluctuation would force the inflaton ...

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

  • 11:36: ... nothing moments physicists have a thing or two to say about that from quantum fluctuations from nothing - Stephen Hawking's timeless interpretation of internal ...

2019-02-07: Sound Waves from the Beginning of Time

  • 03:51: ... bit less there, These fluctuations probably were the remnants of random quantum fluctuations From when the universe was subatomic in ...

2018-09-12: How Much Information is in the Universe?

  • 15:41: ... that a metaphor for quantum fluctuations in impossibly distant futures spontaneously generating a new big bang by ...

2018-08-23: How Will the Universe End?

  • 12:29: Or quantum fluctuations may spawn new universes from the void.

2017-10-11: Absolute Cold

  • 00:11: We'll always have quantum fluctuations to warm our chilly bones.

2017-06-07: Supervoids vs Colliding Universes!

  • 02:22: We think that they came from random quantum fluctuations from the very first instant after the Big Bang.

2016-10-12: Black Holes from the Dawn of Time

  • 02:43: Back then, quantum fluctuations caused a sort of static fuzz across the minuscule cosmos.

2015-10-22: Have Gravitational Waves Been Discovered?!?

  • 06:08: Even quantum fluctuations in the photon rate causes noise.
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