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2022-11-23: How To See Black Holes By Catching Neutrinos

  • 06:28: If we only pay attention to signals from below we eliminate atmospheric muons.

2022-11-09: What If Humanity Is Among The First Spacefaring Civilizations?

  • 18:41: If there are multiple possible effects, then the cause gets to choose between them by picking from the time traveling signals.
  • 18:50: ... is equivalent to standard quantum field theory, with the time-reversed signals corresponding to negative frequency ...

2022-10-26: Why Did Quantum Entanglement Win the Nobel Prize in Physics?

  • 11:05: ... all, signals could have travelled to both the calcium atom and the random number ...
  • 16:12: ... all, we’re having a hard time keeping track of the Voyager’s faint signals, and the gravitational lens focal range is  at least 4 times further ...

2022-03-23: Where Is The Center of The Universe?

  • 18:31: ... astronomer Sofia Sheikh found around 60 similar signals that were not clearly associated with stars and had radio frequency ...
  • 18:49: Or in other words, the Proximans realized we were onto them and hacked the database and injected fake signals to put us off their tracks.

2022-01-27: How Does Gravity Escape A Black Hole?

  • 09:46: ... star does appear to go black, but really the faintest signals of that collapsing star continue to make their way out into the universe ...

2021-12-29: How to Find ALIEN Dyson Spheres

  • 00:00: In our search for alien lifeforms we scan for primitive biosignatures, and wait and hope for their errant artificial signals to happen by the Earth.

2021-10-13: New Results in Quantum Tunneling vs. The Speed of Light

  • 05:27: ... relativity explains that if you move faster than light, you can send signals into the past, and create a whole bunch of ...
  • 12:28: All signals in our universe, whether via quantum tunneling or quantum entanglement, seem to be bound by the same limits imposed by relativity.

2021-09-15: Neutron Stars: The Most Extreme Objects in the Universe

  • 10:06: ... signal. These gravitational waves are   much weaker than the signals we’ve detected when neutron stars or black holes merge,   ...

2021-07-13: Where Are The Worlds In Many Worlds?

  • 06:37: ... the screen, as action potentials down our optical nerves, and finally as signals in our ...

2021-05-19: Breaking The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

  • 06:39: And that noise will obscure faint gravitational wave signals.
  • 09:05: Less flickering due to random phase shifts means that we can see real signals due to much weaker gravitational waves.

2021-05-11: How To Know If It's Aliens

  • 10:35: ... Breakthrough Listen has detailed protocols for sifting out these false signals. According to the program, this is one of a few candidates that so far ...

2021-02-17: Gravitational Wave Background Discovered?

  • 00:00: ... away since then ligo and its partner virgo have detected 50 similar signals from merging black holes and neutron stars across the universe these ...

2020-10-20: Is The Future Predetermined By Quantum Mechanics?

  • 05:56: Or at least the parts of that wave function for which signals actually reach our awareness.

2020-10-13: Do the Past and Future Exist?

  • 06:22: ... of the block universe that we can possibly perceived with a light-cone - signals from things inside that cone have had time to reach ...
  • 06:33: The boundary of the cone holds the paths of light-speed signals.
  • 07:22: As that happens, signals begin to reach you from the time-slice you’re trying to map.
  • 07:57: They are racing towards one set of incoming signals and away from the other.

2020-02-24: How Decoherence Splits The Quantum Multiverse

  • 10:01: ... excited and not excited across the screen, and superpositions of signals traveling from those pixels ultimately to the brain of the ...

2020-02-18: Does Consciousness Influence Quantum Mechanics?

  • 04:17: ... to light-sensitive molecules in our retinas, which initiate electrical signals to our visual cortex, and more electrical signals in other parts of the ...

2020-01-06: How To Detect a Neutrino

  • 03:33: ... 𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘴𝘦𝘴) ♪ (title) "ICARUS (Imaging Cosmic And Rare Underground Signals): Liquid Argon Neutrino Hunter" ♪ ♪ MATT: Down here, we have the ICARUS ...

2019-10-15: Loop Quantum Gravity Explained

  • 14:20: But first the context: this year LIGO detected two black hole merger signals within 20 minutes of each other and in similar patches of the sky.
  • 15:09: ... of this particular example it's not really the favored explanation - the signals don't look like they were from quite the same location after all, and ...

2019-10-07: Black Hole Harmonics

  • 05:20: The problem is, at the tail-end of the ring-down the LIGO signals are probably too weak to detect the overtones.
  • 06:55: This means that these overtones are potentially detectable in the real merger signals from LIGO and VIRGO.

2019-05-01: The Real Science of the EHT Black Hole

  • 10:17: ... cool fact is that, just like those gravitational wave signals from a couple of years ago, the black hole looks just like we predict ...

2018-10-25: Will We Ever Find Alien Life?

  • 07:23: ... factors like the fraction of intelligent life that transmits radio signals and how long that communicative civilization ...

2018-04-25: Black Hole Swarms

  • 02:26: ... five and 15 solid amasses, although, the recent gravitational wave signals detected by LIGO, suggest they may be even more ...
  • 07:57: Now, we keep seeing these gravitational wave signals from black hole merges, and as I've discussed previously, they're kind of confusing.
  • 02:26: ... five and 15 solid amasses, although, the recent gravitational wave signals detected by LIGO, suggest they may be even more ...

2018-04-18: Using Stars to See Gravitational Waves

  • 02:09: Perhaps these gravitational waves signals were amplified by another phenomenon predicted by Einstein's general relativity, gravitational lensing.
  • 02:59: ... like this should allow us to figure out where the gravitational wave signals are often also gravitationally ...
  • 06:13: It looks for shifts in the time of arrival of their signals.

2017-12-06: Understanding the Uncertainty Principle with Quantum Fourier Series

  • 13:23: Sukuraslight suggested that Seti@home use its computing cycles to mine bitcoin instead of look for alien signals.

2017-11-29: Citizen Science + Zero-Point Challenge Answer

  • 03:53: ... example, spotting supernovae or looking for gravitational wave signals in LIGO and finding planets forming in the debris disks of new solar ...
  • 05:08: This all started with the City at Home program, which looks through radio data for signs of signals from intelligent life.
  • 05:15: But there's also Einstein at Home, which searches for LIGO gravitational wave data for signals produced by rotating neutron stars.

2017-11-22: Suicide Space Robots

  • 08:58: ... the long silent Pioneer spacecraft, Voyager 1 still sends faint radio signals, bringing us our first and only direct measurements from beyond our home ...

2017-09-13: Neutron Stars Collide in New LIGO Signal?

  • 06:19: After all, LIGO can only constrain the origin of its signals to a wide band across the sky.

2017-02-02: The Geometry of Causality

  • 05:44: Our traveler does the same thing, but from my point of view, their clock is slow, so I see them register signals at a different rate.
  • 05:53: ... the same time, they're moving away from the signals coming from the left and towards the ones originating on the right, ...

2017-01-11: The EM Drive: Fact or Fantasy?

  • 13:08: And Richie is correct in countering that an advanced civilization may not be so leaky with their own broadcast signals.

2016-12-21: Have They Seen Us?

  • 00:16: What are the chances that alien civilizations have detected and even decoded these signals?
  • 05:18: This is another advantage for searching for alien signals in and around the water hole.

2016-12-08: What Happens at the Event Horizon?

  • 07:14: ... increasingly curved space-time and so the interval between receiving signals also ...

2016-07-20: The Future of Gravitational Waves

  • 02:56: It's the same very well-understood tech that we use to process radar signals and at this point, we have a lot of confidence in how this works.
  • 03:15: The answer is almost never for signals of the sort that were seen last year.
  • 03:59: It's kind of amazing that the signals observed look exactly like what we expect them to from the predictions of general relativity.

2016-02-17: Planet X Discovered?? + Challenge Winners!

  • 05:14: ... chases after its own photons, condensing the distance between the light signals that carry those ...
  • 05:25: ... direction, stretching out the distance, and hence the time, between tick signals. ...

2016-02-11: LIGO's First Detection of Gravitational Waves!

  • 04:21: Now these mergers have very distinct signals.
  • 05:22: ... the merger signals deviate significantly from the expected signal, then it may be a clue ...
  • 05:33: Now as far as I know, there's no indication of that from the detected signals.
  • 05:49: The signals are expected to carry information about the strange warping of space in the region of the event horizon.
  • 05:22: ... the merger signals deviate significantly from the expected signal, then it may be a clue that the ...

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

  • 08:07: ... are so cautious that the team deliberately injects false signals into the system to check the verification process, and make 100% sure ...
  • 08:30: Now, even the fake signals are meant to be secret.

2015-09-23: Does Dark Matter BREAK Physics?

  • 08:39: ... signals from the monkey to the outside universe can be received at arbitrarily ...

2015-06-17: How to Signal Aliens

  • 05:44: To my knowledge, no one has actually analyzed exoplanet transit data to look for these signals.
  • 05:55: ... besides looking for radio signals and laser pulses, which SETI does now, should SETI also be looking for ...

2015-05-13: 9 NASA Technologies Shaping YOUR Future

  • 01:15: ... the ear with just the right vibrations could sync up the electrical signals going to the brain from the auditory system and from the vestibular ...

2015-04-29: What's the Most Realistic Artificial Gravity in Sci-Fi?

  • 04:46: ... ear that moves back would curve in opposite directions, sending mixed signals to your vestibular ...

2015-04-22: Are Space and Time An Illusion?

  • 03:27: When it's zero or negative, signals or things can get from one event to the other and everyone agrees on their sequence.

2015-02-18: Is It Irrational to Believe in Aliens?

  • 01:19: The details are different, since Drake, the founder of SETI, was estimating the number of detectable alien radio signals.
  • 04:17: ... other such species that's jetted around the cosmos, something like radio signals, space station probes, a broken down Millenium Falcon, I don't know, an ...
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