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2022-10-19: The Equation That Explains (Nearly) Everything!

  • 07:51: ... written has to be repeated several times depending on the dimensions of spacetime, the number of charges, the number of different particles, or things like ...

2022-10-12: The REAL Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets!

  • 04:12: ... tells us that gravity is due to curvature in the fabric of spacetime due to massive objects. But   that curvature also bends the ...
  • 14:06: ... worlds, brought into focus by our own Sun and its lens of curved spacetime. ...

2022-08-03: What Happens Inside a Proton?

  • 09:50: ... that is much harder to do, for three reasons. First, any patch of spacetime technically   contains an infinite number of points and  ...
  • 12:52: ... not all the way there yet.  After all, spacetime isn’t really   a discrete lattice of points. But it ...
  • 14:32: ... we’re going to learn so much just simulating such tiny patches of spacetime. ...
  • 12:52: ... not all the way there yet.  After all, spacetime isn’t really   a discrete lattice of points. But it turns  out ...
  • 09:50: ... that is much harder to do, for three reasons. First, any patch of spacetime technically   contains an infinite number of points and  no computer can hold an ...

2022-07-20: What If We Live in a Superdeterministic Universe?

  • 07:40: ... point in space and time - every event - can only be influenced by a spacetime event in its causal past - so, near enough to have sent a ...
  • 08:18: Let’s play out the Bell test on something called a space-time diagram - with one dimension of space only on the x axis and time on the y.
  • 07:40: ... point in space and time - every event - can only be influenced by a spacetime event in its causal past - so, near enough to have sent a ...

2022-06-15: Can Wormholes Solve The Black Hole Information Paradox?

  • 08:14: ... gravitational path integral you analyze some patch of spacetime changing from one geometry to   another. And you do this by ...
  • 09:17: ... geometries should be included which include spacetime folding into itself in a way   required to build wormholes. ...
  • 10:42: ... Renyi entropy is found using the gravitational path integral. For a spacetime geometry where none   of the black holes interact with each ...
  • 11:13: ... you take this spacetime topology into account, and then you set n equal to 1 single black ...
  • 13:07: ... our universe, past an infinity of strange topologies and imaginary spacetime. ...
  • 08:14: ... gravitational path integral you analyze some patch of spacetime changing from one geometry to   another. And you do this by adding up ...
  • 09:17: ... geometries should be included which include spacetime folding into itself in a way   required to build wormholes. Even ...
  • 10:42: ... Renyi entropy is found using the gravitational path integral. For a spacetime geometry where none   of the black holes interact with each other, ...
  • 11:13: ... you take this spacetime topology into account, and then you set n equal to 1 single black hole,   ...
  • 09:36: ... go into a little bit more detail. What do these crazy topological spacetimes look like?   It’s very difficult to properly picture  ...

2022-05-04: Space DOES NOT Expand Everywhere

  • 01:59: ... metric. You can think of a metric as the coordinate system of a patch of spacetime. ...
  • 02:24: ... of the Earth, a metric in GR is the coordinate system of a chunk of spacetime with 3 spatial and 1 temporal ...
  • 03:48: ... at the math. This is the FLRW metric - it’s basically Pythagorus for 4-D spacetime - the squared proper distance between two points is the sum of the ...
  • 05:19: ... fact the shape of spacetime around massive objects is NOT the FLRW metric because the matter isn’t ...
  • 06:04: ... gravitational field isn’t somethin,g that lies on top of the fabric of spacetime. The gravitational field IS the fabric of spacetime. If the gravitational ...
  • 06:51: ... other way the balloon analogy fails is that the fabric of spacetime doesn’t get stretched in the way the rubber gets stretched - it doesn’t ...
  • 08:34: ... certain regions expansion won, and threw apart objects and the spacetime grids they trace. But in sufficiently dense regions gravity won and ...
  • 10:06: ... of geodesic completeness,  which we’ve talked about before. All spacetime paths can be traced to the infinite future or past until they hit a ...
  • 13:16: ... we never would have even known that we live in an infinitely expanding spacetime. ...
  • 03:48: ... at the math. This is the FLRW metric - it’s basically Pythagorus for 4-D spacetime - the squared proper distance between two points is the sum of the squares ...
  • 06:51: ... other way the balloon analogy fails is that the fabric of spacetime doesn’t get stretched in the way the rubber gets stretched - it doesn’t thin out ...
  • 08:34: ... certain regions expansion won, and threw apart objects and the spacetime grids they trace. But in sufficiently dense regions gravity won and there the ...
  • 06:04: ... expanding grid that this field has to fight against. In fact, the spacetime inside the Milky Way doesn’t even know that the universe is ...
  • 10:06: ... of geodesic completeness,  which we’ve talked about before. All spacetime paths can be traced to the infinite future or past until they hit a ...
  • 02:38: ... of 3-D spaces. But those 3-D spaces are also just slices out of 4-D spacetimes - representing single instants in time. If you use general relativity to ...

2022-04-20: Does the Universe Create Itself?

  • 04:57: ... In his words, “Every it — every particle, every field of force, even the spacetime continuum itself — derives its function, its meaning, its very existence ...

2022-03-30: Could The Universe Be Inside A Black Hole?

  • 03:44: These are the straightest paths that can be taken through a curved spacetime.
  • 03:48: In a sense geodesics form the grid that defines the fabric of spacetime.
  • 05:05: Which means that all geodesics within a black hole spacetime end at the singularity in the future.
  • 05:19: ... black hole singularity is the all-encompassing future for the spacetime that lives beneath the event horizon in the same way that the big bang ...
  • 07:27: For one thing its made of pure spacetime - no matter included , and it;s highly inhomogeneous.
  • 07:48: And the space-time curvature is nearly flat, so no crazy tidal forces like in a white or black hole.
  • 07:54: ... spacetime of our universe is well described by the ...
  • 08:36: ... but within the collapsing cloud the matter remains homogeneous and the spacetime is flat until it becomes a ...
  • 09:20: In fact you can describe the spacetime of a collapsing star by patching an FLRW metlric inside a Schwarzschild metric.
  • 07:27: For one thing its made of pure spacetime - no matter included , and it;s highly inhomogeneous.
  • 07:48: And the space-time curvature is nearly flat, so no crazy tidal forces like in a white or black hole.
  • 10:27: ... don’t form singularities, but rather bounce back outward to create a new spacetimes from the resulting white hole - which itself creates new black holes, ...

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

  • 03:04: General relativity can be used to calculate the spacetime curvature produced by the Earth or the Sun to determine their gravitational effects.
  • 03:11: It can also give us the gravitational field of the entire universe, which tells us the shape of all of spacetime.
  • 04:03: The FLRW metric also predicts that there are only three possible global shapes to 4D spacetime, determined entirely by one number- the curvature.
  • 08:58: In the language of GR, we call this ending of spacetime paths “geodesic incompleteness”.
  • 09:19: ... it occupies all space at t=0 and is in the past of all paths through spacetime. ...
  • 13:51: ... even you personally, are not at the very center of a very non-Copernican spacetime. ...
  • 03:04: General relativity can be used to calculate the spacetime curvature produced by the Earth or the Sun to determine their gravitational effects.
  • 04:03: The FLRW metric also predicts that there are only three possible global shapes to 4D spacetime, determined entirely by one number- the curvature.
  • 08:58: In the language of GR, we call this ending of spacetime paths “geodesic incompleteness”.

2022-03-16: What If Charge is NOT Fundamental?

  • 13:24: We’ll find out soon as we continue to unravel the tangled symmetries of spacetime.

2022-03-08: Is the Proxima System Our Best Hope For Another Earth?

  • 15:04: ... there, on a planet around Sol, Alpha-Centauri’s nearest neighbor across spacetime. ...
  • 17:27: ... being “hit” by the non-linearities across the wavefunction introduce by spacetime ...
  • 17:38: And on the subject of gravity, Jan Wester asks why the curvature of spacetime can’t be in a superposition.
  • 17:27: ... being “hit” by the non-linearities across the wavefunction introduce by spacetime curvature. ...

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

  • 10:09: ... - which is the warping of background light sources due to the space-time warping effect of gravity.   When a massive object sits ...
  • 12:19: ... workings of the universe than  to find a crack in the fabric of spacetime. ...
  • 10:09: ... - which is the warping of background light sources due to the space-time warping effect of gravity.   When a massive object sits between  ...

2022-02-16: Is The Wave Function The Building Block of Reality?

  • 09:25: ... General relativity says that the mass from that object will warp the space-time around it. But quantum mechanics says that this object can be in a ...
  • 14:52: ... exactly right. Gravitational waves have to move along the same fabric of spacetime as everything else. After all, they are wiggles in that very fabric. So ...

2022-02-10: The Nature of Space and Time AMA

  • 00:03: ... general as possible in fact that covers the entire scope of this show space-time and so the topic for the day is the nature of space and the nature of ...

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

  • 02:02: For example we have gravitational waves - ripples in spacetime caused by certain types of motion.
  • 03:34: In GR, the gravitational field - the curvature of spacetime - has an independent existence to the mass that causes it.
  • 04:24: ... way to think about the action of gravity: instead of a stretching spacetime, we can think about space as flowing towards the massive ...
  • 06:08: Now in quantum mechanics - or more specifically quantum field theory - forces are mediated by particles, not by the geometry of spacetime.
  • 10:06: ... gravity is communicated by the curvature of spacetime or by virtual gravitons, we maintain a causal connection to the mass ...
  • 11:18: You interact with the local curvature of spacetime, which is produced by the past mass, which from your point of view is on the event horizon.
  • 03:34: In GR, the gravitational field - the curvature of spacetime - has an independent existence to the mass that causes it.
  • 02:02: For example we have gravitational waves - ripples in spacetime caused by certain types of motion.

2022-01-12: How To Simulate The Universe With DFT

  • 13:51: Our computationally tractable reality, due to its very few dimensions of spacetime.

2021-12-10: 2021 End of Year AMA!

  • 00:02: ... object whose light traveling through einstein's universe of curved space-time follow curvy paths and sometimes those curvy paths are deflected ...

2021-11-17: Are Black Holes Actually Fuzzballs?

  • 11:35: ... into stringy mess, is pushed up to the surface and the interior grid of spacetime is deleted from the ...
  • 12:38: For a fuzzball, spacetime closes on itself at the event horizon.

2021-11-10: What If Our Understanding of Gravity Is Wrong?

  • 08:35: ... field - a multi-component object that describes the curvature of spacetime. ...
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  • 16:46: Isn’t it spacetime that bends, not light?

2021-11-02: Is ACTION The Most Fundamental Property in Physics?

  • 12:16: ... this to relativity we see the configuration space becomes configuration spacetime, where the shortest path minimizes proper time. In quantum mechanics ...
  • 17:54: ... operates under certain assumptions (infinite/finite, discrete/continuous spacetime, invariance, quantum etc.) then constructor theory gives us insights as ...

2021-10-20: Will Constructor Theory REWRITE Physics?

  • 05:31: ... task: as a free-falling body the apple must follow a geodesic through spacetime, which results in it falling towards the ...

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

  • 12:37: The universe insists that we take the long way around, and as fast as we can find them it seals up any new shortcuts through spacetime.

2021-08-10: How to Communicate Across the Quantum Multiverse

  • 04:30: ... in a particular way - whether that medium is water, air, the fabric of spacetime itself. Waves can happen in any elastic medium - anything that tends to ...

2021-07-21: How Magnetism Shapes The Universe

  • 00:39: It would mean seeing the literal threads of the fabric of spacetime.
  • 00:50: But there’s really only one gravitational field in the universe - manifest as the fabric of spacetime itself.

2021-07-07: Electrons DO NOT Spin

  • 13:30: ... things we call spinors - strange little knots in the subatomic fabric of spacetime. ...

2021-06-16: Can Space Be Infinitely Divided?

  • 05:45: ... and second, that mass and energy warp the fabric of spacetime. So back to Heisenberg’s ...
  • 09:58: ... subatomic scales, on the Planck scale you   get virtual spacetime fluctuations, and  even virtual black holes and wormholes - ...
  • 10:55: ... we can’t sensibly define distances. We think that space AND time - spacetime - “go quantum” at that   scale - but we just don’t know in ...
  • 11:26: ... what might lie beneath the smallest possible scale of measurable spacetime. ...
  • 10:55: ... we can’t sensibly define distances. We think that space AND time - spacetime - “go quantum” at that   scale - but we just don’t know in what ...
  • 09:58: ... subatomic scales, on the Planck scale you   get virtual spacetime fluctuations, and  even virtual black holes and wormholes - a   ...

2021-05-25: What If (Tiny) Black Holes Are Everywhere?

  • 11:07: ... black hole, a tiny hole punctured in your neighborhood’s fabric of spacetime. ...

2021-04-21: The NEW Warp Drive Possibilities

  • 04:01: ... distribution of mass, energy, on the right side and it spits out the spacetime geometry on the ...
  • 10:31: The entire patch of spacetime would travel at superluminal speeds, carrying a spaceship with it.
  • 04:01: ... distribution of mass, energy, on the right side and it spits out the spacetime geometry on the ...

2021-04-13: What If Dark Matter Is Just Black Holes?

  • 01:06: These hyper-dense holes in the fabric of spacetime seem to be great dark matter candidates - being so black and holey and all.
  • 07:44: ... like a black hole passes in front of a distant light source, the warped spacetime around the black hole acts like a lens, magnifying the source in an ...

2021-03-16: The NEW Crisis in Cosmology

  • 12:25: ... case,   of the strange forces driving  our ever-expanding spacetime. ...
  • 12:52: ... constant is. But your support grants some much needed stability to spacetime - the   youtube show, not the expanding fabric of ...
  • 13:38: ... relativity. In relativity, there's this thing  called the spacetime interval which describes   the separation between two events ...
  • 14:47: ... would also need to justify why the c in the   spacetime interval has to be the speed of light. It's worth a full episode to ...
  • 12:52: ... constant is. But your support grants some much needed stability to spacetime - the   youtube show, not the expanding fabric of ...
  • 13:38: ... same dimentions as space. Your velocity through   spacetime - also called your 4-velocity - is just the change in spacetime ...
  • 12:52: ... constant is. But your support grants some much needed stability to spacetime - the   youtube show, not the expanding fabric of the universe - that’s ...
  • 13:38: ... relativity. In relativity, there's this thing  called the spacetime interval which describes   the separation between two events in space ...
  • 14:47: ... would also need to justify why the c in the   spacetime interval has to be the speed of light. It's worth a full episode to explore ...
  • 13:38: ... spacetime - also called your 4-velocity - is just the change in spacetime interval   divided by the change in time. But if you are motionless then you ...
  • 10:40: ... light around massive objects due  to their warping of spacetime.   One manifestation of this is when a distant quasar - a giant, ...

2021-03-09: How Does Gravity Affect Light?

  • 06:31: To get technical: any massive object has a component of its 4-dimensional spacetime velocity - its 4-velocity in the time direction.
  • 12:38: ... of some more fundamental reality underlying this generally relative spacetime. ...
  • 06:31: To get technical: any massive object has a component of its 4-dimensional spacetime velocity - its 4-velocity in the time direction.

2021-02-24: Does Time Cause Gravity?

  • 02:09: We can show this with our old friend the spacetime diagram.
  • 02:33: We know that the presence of mass and energy warp spacetime - and the most intense part of that warping is in time - our gravitational time dilation.
  • 03:54: Objects don’t just have a velocity through space or through time - they have a velocity through spacetime.
  • 02:33: We know that the presence of mass and energy warp spacetime - and the most intense part of that warping is in time - our gravitational time dilation.
  • 02:09: We can show this with our old friend the spacetime diagram.

2021-02-17: Gravitational Wave Background Discovered?

  • 00:00: ... exactly what it was built to detect vast ripples in the fabric of space-time produced by colliding black holes a billion light years away since then ...

2021-02-10: How Does Gravity Warp the Flow of Time?

  • 01:45: John Archibald Wheeler put this notion the most pithily: Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.
  • 07:36: We can see that when we use a spacetime diagram to show how the traveler tracks the passage of time back on Earth.
  • 07:52: Here’s the spacetime diagram for our rotating lab.
  • 07:58: The spacetime path or worldline of the lab is a helix, and the lab’s perception of “now” is this shifting plane.
  • 12:04: And I’ll show you exactly why that’s true real soon, when we explore the tangled connections between time and gravity in a curved spacetime.
  • 07:36: We can see that when we use a spacetime diagram to show how the traveler tracks the passage of time back on Earth.
  • 07:52: Here’s the spacetime diagram for our rotating lab.
  • 07:58: The spacetime path or worldline of the lab is a helix, and the lab’s perception of “now” is this shifting plane.
  • 01:45: John Archibald Wheeler put this notion the most pithily: Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.

2021-01-26: Is Dark Matter Made of Particles?

  • 12:35: ... to this completely invisible and vastly more massive sector of dark spacetime. ...

2021-01-19: Can We Break the Universe?

  • 04:07: The best way to see this is on a space-time diagram.
  • 04:33: ... the spacetime diagram, the set of simultaneous events for a motionless observer lie on ...
  • 05:12: ... the spacetime diagram, that’s whenever one of these lines of constant time extending ...
  • 06:20: But to see why we need a much weirder version of the spacetime diagram.
  • 06:29: We end up with a spacetime cylinder.
  • 09:46: Again, the best way to see this is on a spacetime diagram.
  • 11:12: The answer is in our looped spacetime diagram.
  • 12:05: ... deeply strange, but unfailingly self-consistent theory of Einstein’s spacetime. ...
  • 06:29: We end up with a spacetime cylinder.
  • 04:07: The best way to see this is on a space-time diagram.
  • 04:33: ... the spacetime diagram, the set of simultaneous events for a motionless observer lie on a ...
  • 05:12: ... the spacetime diagram, that’s whenever one of these lines of constant time extending from ...
  • 06:20: But to see why we need a much weirder version of the spacetime diagram.
  • 09:46: Again, the best way to see this is on a spacetime diagram.
  • 11:12: The answer is in our looped spacetime diagram.

2020-11-04: Electroweak Theory and the Origin of the Fundamental Forces

  • 13:19: ... they enable, inevitable consequences of the broken symmetries of spacetime. ...
  • 14:51: ... parallel from any trapped surface must converge in any positively curved spacetime. ...

2020-10-27: How The Penrose Singularity Theorem Predicts The End of Space Time

  • 05:01: ... did it in a clever way - by showing that the grid of spacetime literally comes to an end inside   a black hole. In general ...
  • 08:49: ... traced  indefinitely into the past and future.   All of spacetime should be a smooth, if  curved structure - a manifold - ...
  • 12:11: ... how light rays travel and terminate at the singular dead ends of spacetime. ...
  • 05:01: ... did it in a clever way - by showing that the grid of spacetime literally comes to an end inside   a black hole. In general relativity ...

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

  • 00:00: - Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity combines space and time into one dynamic unified entity, spacetime.
  • 00:16: ... song) In the last episode, we saw that we could think of the unified spacetime in terms of the block universe, an a temporal entity that sort of just ...
  • 02:14: And the only aspect of the present that exists is a vanishingly small patch of spacetime around your own brain.
  • 06:38: In fact, any part of spacetime, not in your future light cone is potentially the past for another observer in your present.

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

  • 04:24: Another way I like to think about it is that 4-D spacetime is a vinyl record, and our subjective experience is the music coded in the grooves.
  • 08:02: At the same time, their entire perception of the spacetime grid is warped due to their motion.

2020-08-24: Can Future Colliders Break the Standard Model?

  • 13:17: Of coordinating thousands of scientists over many decades to build these crazy machines that can crack open the inner workings of spacetime.

2020-08-17: How Stars Destroy Each Other

  • 10:10: ... little petulant. Like the final slamming of doors from distant parts of spacetime. ...
  • 14:07: Here’s a simulation from the SXS - simulating extreme spacetimes group at ... that shows how the event horizons merge.

2020-08-10: Theory of Everything Controversies: Livestream

  • 00:00: ... many many tiny constituents which are sometimes called the atoms of space-time but um you know you shouldn't take this too seriously in any case the ...

2020-07-28: What is a Theory of Everything: Livestream

  • 00:00: ... of sort of the quantum qubit structure informational structure of spacetime right i mean even as an experimentalist you know with six years of ...

2020-07-20: The Boundary Between Black Holes & Neutron Stars

  • 00:29: ... deal that we regularly read the infinitesimal ripples in the fabric of spacetime due to a cataclysmic collision of black holes billions of light years ...
  • 11:16: Billion-year-old secrets carried to us on ripples in spacetime As always guys, I want to give our deep thanks to all of your support.

2020-06-30: Dissolving an Event Horizon

  • 00:57: In the most real possible sense, the interior of the black hole is its own separate spacetime, excised from our universe.
  • 03:34: As the spin of a Kerr black hole increases, the spacetime waterfall is beaten back, and so the inner horizon grows.
  • 10:59: ... upcoming deeper dive to witness the horrors of the cosmicly uncensored spacetime. ...
  • 12:08: ... singularity, and the narrowing of the funnel represents extremely curved spacetime. ...
  • 00:57: In the most real possible sense, the interior of the black hole is its own separate spacetime, excised from our universe.
  • 03:34: As the spin of a Kerr black hole increases, the spacetime waterfall is beaten back, and so the inner horizon grows.

2020-06-22: Building Black Holes in a Lab

  • 03:05: ... replace sound with light and the water with spacetime itself and you have a black hole. The surface around the central, ...
  • 03:26: ... in a form that is a close analogy to the equations governing the flow of spacetime - the equations of general relativity. And a vortex expressed in those ...
  • 12:34: ... Hawking radiation, and the nature of the underlying, you guessed it, spacetime. ...
  • 03:26: ... in a form that is a close analogy to the equations governing the flow of spacetime - the equations of general relativity. And a vortex expressed in those ...

2020-06-15: What Happens After the Universe Ends?

  • 02:27: A conformal scaling of spacetime means scaling both space and time.
  • 04:06: To really compare the sizes of two chunks of spacetime we need to grid them up with rulers and clocks.
  • 04:41: This is a spacetime diagram.
  • 05:23: ... best way to define the separation between two events in spacetime is by the travel time of something taking the most direct path between ...
  • 05:36: ... is the so-called spacetime interval, and it’s equal to the amount of time that passes on the clock ...
  • 06:26: A clock must see the spacetime grid - and to do that it must travel at sub-light speed.
  • 08:08: Filled with only timeless radiation, it would possess no spacetime grid, so perhaps could be considered sizeless.
  • 09:34: ... diagrams - these are ways of mathematically transforming our grid of spacetime to fit infinite distance and time into the one map, while at the same ...
  • 10:00: ... the full 4-D spacetime the edge becomes a 3-D “hypersurface” in which infinite distance and ...
  • 14:24: ... and try to have fun in this infinite chain of conformally rescaled spacetime. ...
  • 18:01: Well sorry Aurora, but if 2020 watches spacetime then in we’re trouble.
  • 04:41: This is a spacetime diagram.
  • 06:26: A clock must see the spacetime grid - and to do that it must travel at sub-light speed.
  • 08:08: Filled with only timeless radiation, it would possess no spacetime grid, so perhaps could be considered sizeless.
  • 06:26: A clock must see the spacetime grid - and to do that it must travel at sub-light speed.
  • 05:36: ... is the so-called spacetime interval, and it’s equal to the amount of time that passes on the clock of the ...

2020-05-27: Does Gravity Require Extra Dimensions?

  • 13:15: Christina, with your great generosity and excellent taste in youtube shows, I hereby appoint you mayor of spacetime city.
  • 13:23: Because no one said spacetime city was a democracy, and I think you’d do an amazing job.
  • 14:16: Now the multiverse through the black hole arises from tracing the paths of spacetime through the black hole mathematically.
  • 15:33: ... the assumption that the impossibly unstable inner structure of the Kerr spacetime doesn't collapse ...
  • 13:15: Christina, with your great generosity and excellent taste in youtube shows, I hereby appoint you mayor of spacetime city.
  • 13:23: Because no one said spacetime city was a democracy, and I think you’d do an amazing job.
  • 15:33: ... the assumption that the impossibly unstable inner structure of the Kerr spacetime doesn't collapse ...

2020-05-18: Mapping the Multiverse

  • 00:02: Or in physics-ese, it’s the maximally extended Penrose diagram of a Kerr spacetime.
  • 01:47: It describes the way spacetime warps and flows in the vicinity of a spinning mass.
  • 05:33: ... order to create these maps of spacetime, physicists use the equations of general relativity to trace what we call ...
  • 07:17: ... ring is like a portal to a new, very different region of spacetime - and that’s because the geodesics passing through one side do not map ...
  • 08:24: This is the Carter time machine, after the aussie physicist Brandon Carter who did much of the early exploration of the Kerr spacetime.
  • 11:21: The complete Penrose diagram for the Kerr spacetime has not one, but two inner event horizons leading to two parallel wormholes.
  • 13:57: Never travel the multiverse without a Carter-Penrose diagram of the maximally extended Kerr spacetime.
  • 07:17: ... ring is like a portal to a new, very different region of spacetime - and that’s because the geodesics passing through one side do not map to ...
  • 05:33: ... order to create these maps of spacetime, physicists use the equations of general relativity to trace what we call geodesics ...
  • 01:47: It describes the way spacetime warps and flows in the vicinity of a spinning mass.

2020-05-11: How Luminiferous Aether Led to Relativity

  • 12:25: ... of the gravitational field, and which we now think of the fabric of spacetime. Paul Dirac suggested that a “particulate aether” could explain the near ...

2020-05-04: How We Know The Universe is Ancient

  • 12:59: ... years since the fiery beginning of time-as-we-know it, the birthday of spacetime. ...
  • 15:09: ... one. Is the tube connecting the ends of the wormhole meant to be in 4D spacetime, or somewhere else? The answer is ... somewhere else. The tube Lucid ...

2020-04-28: Space Time Livestream: Ask Matt Anything

  • 00:00: ... of space and the dimensions of time in a sense just all exist space-time exists from the beginning of the universe to the end and we as ...

2020-04-22: Will Wormholes Allow Fast Interstellar Travel?

  • 00:42: ... episode, the Schwarzschild solution describes two symmetric regions of spacetime, and the funnel itself is the wormhole connecting ...
  • 02:34: ... and Wheeler realized that such a “multiply connected” spacetime could allow near-instantaneous travel across the universe because the ...
  • 03:33: ... name is an embedding diagram - a 2-D spatial sheet sliced out of 4-D spacetime. ...
  • 05:43: ... diagram we saw was a particular time-slice of the Schwarzschild spacetime. If we instead take a slice a little further in the future we see the ...
  • 07:52: ... general relativity permit any smoothly-varying shape for the fabric of spacetime, and any topology. The only limitation is the nature of the matter and ...
  • 12:51: ... possible scales, the geometry and even the topology of the fabric of spacetime may fluctuate wildly, its form shifting due to Heisenberg’s uncertainty ...
  • 13:26: ... with entanglement and may provides a passage not to distant parts of spacetime, but to deeper understanding of its nature. Which we will of course ...
  • 12:51: ... to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. The result is what we call the spacetime foam, and it may imply that tiny wormholes form and vanish in a fraction of an ...

2020-04-07: How We Know The Earth Is Ancient

  • 12:35: ... time, and it’ll do the same again. Into what I guess you could call deep spacetime. ...

2020-03-31: What’s On The Other Side Of A Black Hole?

  • 01:38: ... the dimension of time. And maps of the universe in this 4-dimensional spacetime also have coordinate singularities - for example around the black ...
  • 01:53: ... first map of the spacetime of a black hole was the Schwarzschild metric - a relatively simple bit ...
  • 05:00: ... relativity uses null geodesics - the paths taken by light rays - to grid spacetime, and we also assume that those lines don’t just end. There’s no abrupt ...
  • 09:55: ... the Mercator projection, traveling off the edge of the Schwarzschild spacetime brings you back somewhere else in the same spacetime. Exactly where ...
  • 10:58: ... a sublightspeed path through a Kerr black holes into parallel regions of spacetime. ...
  • 09:55: ... the Mercator projection, traveling off the edge of the Schwarzschild spacetime brings you back somewhere else in the same spacetime. Exactly where depends on ...
  • 05:00: ... also assume that those lines don’t just end. There’s no abrupt edge to spacetime flapping in the wind. The only place geodesics end is at true singularities, like ...

2020-03-24: How Black Holes Spin Space Time

  • 03:27: ... we’re going to look at what the Kerr solution can tell us about the spacetime outside a rotating black hole. We’ll save the even weirder details of ...
  • 04:11: ... field and its rotation can be thought of as properties of the spacetime ...
  • 04:26: ... holes are self-sustaining holes in the fabric of spacetime. Space at the event horizon cascades downwards, dragging more space ...
  • 05:14: ... case. But in the case of a Kerr black hole, this circular dragging of spacetime changes ...
  • 09:37: ... hole’s spin. To get a little more technical - it works because the weird space-time flip in the Kerr metric of the ergosphere allows one half of the object ...
  • 12:11: ... we drop below the event horizon into the deeper weirdness of the Kerr spacetime. ...
  • 09:37: ... hole’s spin. To get a little more technical - it works because the weird space-time flip in the Kerr metric of the ergosphere allows one half of the object to ...
  • 04:26: ... holes are self-sustaining holes in the fabric of spacetime. Space at the event horizon cascades downwards, dragging more space behind it, ...

2020-03-03: Does Quantum Immortality Save Schrödinger's Cat?

  • 13:20: eddybox on the spacetime discord asked about the quantum eraser, as did several people in the comments.

2020-02-11: Are Axions Dark Matter?

  • 11:08: ... for one of the tiniest and most elusive potential particles in all of spacetime. ...

2020-02-03: Are there Infinite Versions of You?

  • 12:10: And at risk of over quoting whatshisname: I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count my self a King of infinite spacetime.
  • 12:56: That's because objects in orbit are all moving, so the curvature of the background spacetime is constantly changing.

2020-01-13: How To Capture Black Holes

  • 12:49: ... required by that initial creationary event - it only needs to produce a spacetime capable of exponential growth - after that the fundamental constants ...
  • 13:26: ... If it grows by some inflation-like expansion into an entirely new spacetime then it may not care about the later evolution of its parent black hole ...
  • 12:49: ... required by that initial creationary event - it only needs to produce a spacetime capable of exponential growth - after that the fundamental constants sort of ...

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

  • 03:38: ... to exit the event horizon of the black hole, it forms a new region of spacetime, effectively creating a new ...

2019-12-09: The Doomsday Argument

  • 16:05: ... while these are valid geometries for spacetimes that can be constructed within Einstein's general relativity, it's not ...

2019-11-11: Does Life Need a Multiverse to Exist?

  • 12:04: ... popular - bubble universes forming in a larger exponentially expanding spacetime, and in each bubble the constants of nature - and especially the vacuum ...

2019-11-04: Why We Might Be Alone in the Universe

  • 12:11: We find ourselves in the only place we could be: gazing out from our rare earth into the untamed, unpopulated reaches of spacetime.

2019-10-21: Is Time Travel Impossible?

  • 01:56: So if you could travel faster than light you could navigate a path to a point in spacetime before you departed.
  • 03:16: ... explains the force of gravity as a result of curvature in the fabric of spacetime due to the presence of mass and ...
  • 07:22: It will drag spacetime in its vicinity into a sort of vortex.
  • 07:26: This generates sub-lightspeed paths through spacetime that form closed loops, ending up back where they started in both space and time.
  • 07:55: Stephen Hawking showed that unless the cylinder is infinitely long this doesn’t work – unless you also modify the spacetime with negative energy.
  • 08:51: The maelstrom of spinning spacetime may generate closed timelike curves deep down below the event horizon.

2019-10-15: Loop Quantum Gravity Explained

  • 02:31: They describe how the presence of mass and energy warp the fabric of spacetime.
  • 02:41: ... metric - the object encapsulating the geometry and causal structure of spacetime - evolves in the equations of GR. So those equations need to work ...
  • 05:45: ... that describes the quantum evolution of the properties of an object in spacetime, maybe there’s an equation that describes the quantum evolution of the ...
  • 06:07: ADM starts by defining this abstract space of spaces - 3-D spatial metrics, 3-D space slices cut out of 4-D spacetime.
  • 07:58: ... connections contain all the information about spacetime, them maybe we can represent spacetime with these connections instead of ...
  • 10:10: Not with chunks of spacetime but with quantum circuits of gravitational field.
  • 11:37: ... it’s not actually clear that this independence extends to 4-D spacetime. ...
  • 12:41: ... the way they propagate through the graininess of a loop quantum gravity spacetime. ...
  • 16:26: So just how resilient is the fabric of spacetime?
  • 16:29: ... of general relativity That equation says that the amount stretching of spacetime is proportional to the mass and and energy contained by that ...
  • 16:47: The smaller the number, the more energy is needed to stretch spacetime.
  • 16:58: Spacetime is a very, very stiff fabric.
  • 02:41: ... metric - the object encapsulating the geometry and causal structure of spacetime - evolves in the equations of GR. So those equations need to work ...

2019-10-07: Black Hole Harmonics

  • 00:14: And the rich harmonics of those vibrations, seen through gravitational waves, could hold the secrets to the nature of the fabric of spacetime itself.
  • 02:06: The event horizon seems to define the surface of the black hole, but really it’s the fabric of spacetime itself that’s vibrating.
  • 02:14: ... two inspiralling black holes make powerful spacetime ripples – gravitational waves – which intensify as the black holes ...
  • 02:27: ... then the merged black hole continues to radiate these spacetime ripples as it oscillates, but these quickly die away as the black hole ...
  • 12:59: ... and through them better understand the fundamental nature of extreme spacetime. ...
  • 02:14: ... two inspiralling black holes make powerful spacetime ripples – gravitational waves – which intensify as the black holes approach ...
  • 02:27: ... then the merged black hole continues to radiate these spacetime ripples as it oscillates, but these quickly die away as the black hole settles ...
  • 05:53: ... a simulated merger by the SXS – Simulating Extreme Spacetimes - project basically the result of teaching a supercomputer general ...

2019-09-30: How Many Universes Are There?

  • 00:42: Bubbles that are continuously appearing and growing within a vastly larger spacetime that itself expands at an exponentially accelerating rate.
  • 00:52: A greater inflationary spacetime whose expansion never ends.
  • 01:48: ... bubble has an edge, and the edge spreads into the surrounding inflating spacetime at the speed of light, causing inflation to stop within the growing ...
  • 05:05: As soon as the inflating spacetime is big enough to make one universe, in the next second it should make 10^10^34 universes, and so on.
  • 12:09: If they form too far apart then the intervening inflating spacetime will throw them apart at faster than light speed before they can merge.
  • 13:56: It’s the best humorous science apparel in all of spacetime.
  • 14:00: Did you get enough spacetime today?
  • 14:14: We just launched a spacetime discord for 24-7 conversations on all of the above.
  • 15:19: ... section echoed these thoughts - but special props to Regolith on the spacetime discord, who's a bona fide planetary ...
  • 14:14: We just launched a spacetime discord for 24-7 conversations on all of the above.
  • 15:19: ... section echoed these thoughts - but special props to Regolith on the spacetime discord, who's a bona fide planetary ...
  • 14:00: Did you get enough spacetime today?

2019-09-23: Is Pluto a Planet?

  • 13:48: And anyway, the word “world” still applies to Pluto - and it's a rather more poetic label for one of the greatest dwarf planets in known spacetime.
  • 14:20: ... answered by the smartest people on the internet - that is to say, other spacetime viewers - and sometimes by ...

2019-08-26: How To Become an Astrophysicist + Challenge Question!

  • 10:46: ... bubble universes are forming across the great sir Eternally, inflating space-time and every second more universes form than in the previous second because ...
  • 11:51: ... by subject line We'll select six correct answers to win your pick of space-time merch From the merch store as well as the conference of the degree of ...

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

  • 12:39: ... inflation doesn't explain where the very first speck of space-time and energy came from but it does give a potential explanation for the ...

2019-08-12: Exploring Arecibo in VR 180

  • 03:24: ... the world to learn whether or not we are the only living rock in all of space-time ...

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

  • 06:02: ... a geodesic which in general relativity is the shortest path between two space-time coordinates These are the grids we use to map space-time Remember that ...
  • 09:52: ... expanding bubble in an unimaginably larger continuously inflating space-time in that case before the Big Bang was a period of exponential expansion ...
  • 11:36: ... things we'll discuss in the future as we travel beyond the beginning of Space-Time. ...
  • 06:02: ... a geodesic which in general relativity is the shortest path between two space-time coordinates These are the grids we use to map space-time Remember that in our rewind ...

2019-07-01: Thorium and the Future of Nuclear Energy

  • 15:29: ... stage and send us to greater distances and further futures in space-time In a recent episode we talked about how black holes influence the ...

2019-06-17: How Black Holes Kill Galaxies

  • 10:49: ... to leave raging starbursts and fiery quasars to an earlier epoch of Space-Time. ...

2019-06-06: The Alchemy of Neutron Star Collisions

  • 02:47: ... when the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave Observatories spotted the space-time ripples from the merger of a pair of neutron stars many of the world's ...

2019-05-09: Why Quantum Computing Requires Quantum Cryptography

  • 14:30: Visit audible.com/spacetime OR text spacetime to 500-500 to learn more.
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2019-05-01: The Real Science of the EHT Black Hole

  • 08:55: ... flow and magnetic fields, in this case with the addition of the warped spacetime of a black hole using Einstein’s theory of general ...

2019-04-24: No Dark Matter = Proof of Dark Matter?

  • 00:03: ... of two galaxies that appear to have no dark matter at all today on spacetime journal Club we'll look at the papers that reveal this discovery the ...

2019-04-10: The Holographic Universe Explained

  • 00:24: ... our 3+1 dimensional universe may better described as resulting from a spacetime one dimension lower – like a hologram projected from a surface ...
  • 03:19: This is the first glimpse of a holographic spacetime: a 2-D surface that encodes the properties of the 3-D interior.
  • 04:32: Let’s say we start with a plane – a flat, 2-D spacetime.
  • 10:23: ... found that the resulting braney structure looked just like a Minkowski spacetime of 3+1 dimensions on which their lived a field theory that arose from ...
  • 13:15: The resulting column has a geometrically flat and finite surface that is a spacetime all on its own.
  • 14:27: An abstract mathematical surface infinitely far from our location and from our intuition, projecting inwards our familiar holographic spacetime.
  • 14:55: Last week was the warm-up to today's episode, in which we looked out how an infinite spacetime can have a finite boundary.
  • 16:00: ... we say there would be no gravity on the surface of the (2+1)Minkowski spacetime. ...
  • 16:12: So first - the "surface" in current AdS/CFT spacetime is 3+1. 3 spatial, one temporal dimensions.

2019-04-03: The Edge of an Infinite Universe

  • 04:20: ... in the early 60s when physicists tried to find ways to map infinite spacetime –to the edge of an infinite universe or across the event horizon of a ...
  • 05:40: As a quick review: start with a graph of space versus time – a spacetime diagram – then compactify.
  • 07:44: ... inside, but at its boundaries the simple rules of non-curved, Minkowski spacetime ...
  • 12:43: They give you a cylinder and representing an AdS spacetime with 2 spatial and one temporal dimensions – let’s call that 2+1 dimension.
  • 15:06: Stay tuned for the final installment of the holographic principle in not-so-infinitely-distant future of spacetime.
  • 16:01: ... produce a global state where everything just looks like an inflationary spacetime. ...
  • 16:25: ... that are time symmetric - systems where the global properties of the spacetime don't evolve over ...
  • 07:44: ... inside, but at its boundaries the simple rules of non-curved, Minkowski spacetime apply. ...
  • 05:40: As a quick review: start with a graph of space versus time – a spacetime diagram – then compactify.
  • 16:25: ... that are time symmetric - systems where the global properties of the spacetime don't evolve over ...
  • 13:32: ... space and the interior space – also called the “bulk” - as separate spacetimes with their own ...

2019-03-28: Could the Universe End by Tearing Apart Every Atom?

  • 12:53: ... ripped to shreds by the infinitely accelerating subatomic structure of space-time. ...
  • 13:18: ... week we did a spacetime journal Club on that paper that actually presented evidence that dark ...

2019-03-20: Is Dark Energy Getting Stronger?

  • 12:34: It’s a potential end of the universe in which space-time rips itself to shreds at subatomic scales due to the increasing strength of dark energy.
  • 15:02: ... then you'll want to check out the course: Black Holes, Tides, and Curved Spacetime: Understanding ...
  • 12:34: It’s a potential end of the universe in which space-time rips itself to shreds at subatomic scales due to the increasing strength of dark energy.
  • 15:02: ... then you'll want to check out the course: Black Holes, Tides, and Curved Spacetime: Understanding ...

2019-03-06: The Impossibility of Perpetual Motion Machines

  • 12:56: ... can learn more at curiositystream dot com slash spacetime Hey guys, quick announcement - if you’re in New York this week I’m going ...

2019-02-20: Secrets of the Cosmic Microwave Background

  • 12:34: ... that in that noise can be found the secrets of the earliest epochs of Spacetime Thank you to Curiosity Stream for supporting PBS Digital Studios ...

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

  • 12:39: I mean think about it. There are rings in the sky inscribed in galaxies, frozen echoes of the very first sound waves to reverberate across space-time.
  • 16:26: ... that occurs if you put both positive and negative masses in the same spacetime. ...
  • 16:18: That's kind of like having parallel spacetimes, one with positive and one with negative masses, which can still interact gravitationally.

2019-01-30: Perpetual Motion From Negative Mass?

  • 06:31: General relativity describes gravity as the warping of the fabric of spacetime.
  • 06:36: ... and of energy, momentum, pressure, and more, change the geometry of spacetime and that new geometry defines the paths objects can ...
  • 07:26: Positive mass causes spacetime to curve inwards – what we call positive curvature.
  • 10:18: In this case, the basic nature of the positive versus negative gravitational fields – the way the fabric of spacetime gets stretched has to be right.
  • 10:58: ... of general relativity – the paths carved into the geometry of Einstein’s spacetime – are the GR analogs of Newton’s second law and give the equations of ...

2019-01-24: The Crisis in Cosmology

  • 13:12: ...and for what it'll tell us of the origin and fate of our expanding space-time.

2018-12-20: Why String Theory is Wrong

  • 02:43: ... found that in the right sort of 5-D space-time, you can separate the resulting Einstein equations into a 4-D component ...
  • 03:08: It appeared that gravity acting in this fifth dimension looks like electromagnetism to being trapped in our 4-D space-time.
  • 15:00: ... seek an even more beautiful and ultimately more right understanding of space-time. ...
  • 15:37: ... and differential equations you can learn more at brilliant org slash space-time Now before I get to comments don't forget to check out our all new ...

2018-12-12: Quantum Physics in a Mirror Universe

  • 00:02: ... where this holds in the universe is symmetric to coordinate shifts in space-time and even the rather abstract phase of the wave function in quantum ...

2018-12-06: Did Life on Earth Come from Space?

  • 00:37: ... pleased to announce today's episode is brought to you by our brand new space-time merch store we have all new nerd tastic t-shirts mugs hats posters and ...

2018-11-07: Why String Theory is Right

  • 03:34: On a spacetime diagram, time versus one dimension of space, this is called its world line.
  • 04:32: When strings move on a spacetime diagram, they trace out sheets or columns.
  • 10:09: Turns out that in 4D spacetime it does matter whether you change the scale of space and the separation of its tracks.
  • 10:30: ... the 2D sheet traced out in spacetime by a vibrating 1D string has this symmetry that lets us redefine the ...
  • 13:30: Philosophical points to consider as we continue to follow the mathematical beauty hopefully towards an increasingly true representation of spacetime.
  • 03:34: On a spacetime diagram, time versus one dimension of space, this is called its world line.
  • 04:32: When strings move on a spacetime diagram, they trace out sheets or columns.
  • 03:34: On a spacetime diagram, time versus one dimension of space, this is called its world line.

2018-10-31: Are Virtual Particles A New Layer of Reality?

  • 12:59: That will be the family of lattice field theories in which space-time itself is defined on discrete grid.
  • 13:32: That said, for something that doesn't exist, they're surprisingly useful for describing the weird underlying machinery in our quantum space-time.

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

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2018-10-10: Computing a Universe Simulation

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2018-10-03: How to Detect Extra Dimensions

  • 00:43: ... one in particular described in a new paper, "Limits on the Number of Spacetime Dimensions from GW170817," by Pardoa, Fishbachb, Holzb, and ...
  • 02:17: Add one dimension of time to give us 4D space-time, which we'll also refer to as 3-plus-1-dimensional space-time.
  • 02:38: But before we get all hyper-dimensional, let's think a bit more about 3 plus 1D space-time and how gravity, light, and matter behave there.
  • 03:56: So in 4-plus-1-dimensional space-time, brightness should drop off more quickly than in 3D space.
  • 04:27: In general, general relativity in 3 plus 1 space-time does a great job at describing gravity in the large-scale universe.
  • 06:35: ... can imagine a three-dimensional brane, a 3-brane, embedded in a space-time with four spatial dimensions, where the extra dimension of space is ...
  • 10:42: The gravitational wave lost the right amount of intensity for a 3-plus-1-dimensional space-time.
  • 11:43: And apparently, that truth doesn't include a 3-brane embedded in an extended 4-plus-1-dimensional space-time.
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  • 13:08: But they still end up with a space-time fabric that is fragmented on its smaller scales.
  • 13:17: One thing that it's hard to do is to keep space-time continuous on the smaller scales.
  • 13:22: If space-time is indefinitely divisible, then you get hopeless conflicts with quantum theory.
  • 03:56: So in 4-plus-1-dimensional space-time, brightness should drop off more quickly than in 3D space.
  • 13:17: One thing that it's hard to do is to keep space-time continuous on the smaller scales.
  • 00:43: ... one in particular described in a new paper, "Limits on the Number of Spacetime Dimensions from GW170817," by Pardoa, Fishbachb, Holzb, and ...
  • 13:08: But they still end up with a space-time fabric that is fragmented on its smaller scales.

2018-09-20: Quantum Gravity and the Hardest Problem in Physics

  • 02:06: ... and general relativity blend them together into a combined and mutable space-time. ...
  • 07:54: Standard quantum theories treat the fabric of space-time as the underlying arena on which all the weird quantum stuff happens.
  • 08:28: The gravitational field doesn't lie on top of space-time.
  • 08:32: It is space-time.
  • 08:34: To quantize gravity, you have to quantize space-time itself.
  • 08:59: Any energy must cause space-time curvature.
  • 09:08: In quantum gravity, gravity itself becomes an excitation in our quantized space-time.
  • 09:14: The energy of those excitations should themselves precipitate more space-time curvature, represented as further excitations.
  • 11:03: We say that a quantized space-time of general relativity is non-renormalizable.
  • 11:23: And so the simplest approach to quantizing gravity and space-time must be wrong.
  • 11:54: ... gravity, or you just assume that GR and, indeed, the mutable fabric of space-time itself are emergent phenomena from a quantum theory deeper than our ...
  • 12:11: ... greatest problem in modern physics, the quest for a theory of quantum space-time. ...
  • 08:59: Any energy must cause space-time curvature.
  • 09:14: The energy of those excitations should themselves precipitate more space-time curvature, represented as further excitations.

2018-09-05: The Black Hole Entropy Enigma

  • 11:34: It might also be true, and obviously we'll be back before too long to talk about string theory and the holographic nature of spacetime.
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2018-08-30: Is There Life on Mars?

  • 13:07: ... we want to understand our own place in what so far seems an eerily empty spacetime. ...

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

  • 12:34: We'll explore these extreme futures of spacetime time in the near future of "Space Time." Before we get to comments, two things.

2018-07-04: Will A New Neutrino Change The Standard Model?

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2018-06-27: How Asteroid Mining Will Save Earth

  • 11:18: Go to audible.com/spacetime, or if you're in the US, text spacetime to 500500.
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2018-06-20: The Black Hole Information Paradox

  • 11:22: ... field of string theory, and hinted at the possible holographic nature of spacetime. ...

2018-06-13: What Survives Inside A Black Hole?

  • 03:24: In Einstein's general theory of relativity, we think of the gravitational field as curvature in the fabric of spacetime.
  • 04:12: The spacetime at the location of Earth's orbit would remain curved until the elastic fabric straightened itself out at the speed of light.
  • 04:20: ... but that mass is remembered in the gravitational field, the curvature of spacetime above the event ...

2018-05-23: Why Quantum Information is Never Destroyed

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2018-04-25: Black Hole Swarms

  • 08:24: ... in what has to be the craziest and most terrifying environment in nearby spacetime. ...

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

  • 04:57: The universe is flooded with space-time ripples.
  • 08:27: ... incredible wealth of information carried to us in the rippling fabric of space-time. ...
  • 08:56: ... gravity is also your next step toward understanding Einstein's view of space-time. ...
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  • 04:57: The universe is flooded with space-time ripples.

2018-04-11: The Physics of Life (ft. It's Okay to be Smart & PBS Eons!)

  • 10:28: ... dullness, an agent in the inexorable trend to maximize the entropy of space-time. ...

2018-04-04: The Unruh Effect

  • 01:19: To understand this, we don't need general relativity with its space-time curvature and conflicts with quantum mechanics.
  • 01:26: We just need a little special relativity and a space-time diagram.
  • 01:34: A space-time diagram has two axes, time and, well, space, with time on the vertical axis.
  • 02:04: On the space-time diagram, this is a line with a 45-degree angle from the vertical axis.
  • 02:26: ... our observer defines what we call the past light cone, the region of space-time that can have a causal influence on the ...
  • 03:42: Just before they reach my space-time location, that constant acceleration brings them to a halt, and they start moving back in the opposite direction.
  • 06:53: This is because that distant point of space-time is smoothly connected to the space-time near the horizon.
  • 06:58: I mean, it's all one big space-time.
  • 10:42: Right now I have to jet but not too fast, lest I combust in a Fulling-Davies-Unruh thermal bath as I accelerate to that future point in space-time.
  • 01:19: To understand this, we don't need general relativity with its space-time curvature and conflicts with quantum mechanics.
  • 01:26: We just need a little special relativity and a space-time diagram.
  • 01:34: A space-time diagram has two axes, time and, well, space, with time on the vertical axis.
  • 02:04: On the space-time diagram, this is a line with a 45-degree angle from the vertical axis.
  • 03:42: Just before they reach my space-time location, that constant acceleration brings them to a halt, and they start moving back in the opposite direction.

2018-03-15: Hawking Radiation

  • 00:50: ... could be dragged inwards to create a hole in the universe, a boundary in spacetime called an event horizon that could be entered, but from beyond which ...
  • 04:25: Stephen Hawking knew that black holes with their insane spacetime curvature would wreak havoc on quantum fields in their vicinity.
  • 04:58: He imagined a single spacetime path, a lightspeed trajectory called a null geodesic.
  • 06:23: These can be used to approximate the effect of curved spacetime on quantum fields by smoothly connecting regions of flat space.
  • 11:49: ... the brilliant mind of Stephen Hawking and a mysterious quirk of quantum spacetime. ...
  • 00:50: ... could be dragged inwards to create a hole in the universe, a boundary in spacetime called an event horizon that could be entered, but from beyond which nothing ...
  • 04:25: Stephen Hawking knew that black holes with their insane spacetime curvature would wreak havoc on quantum fields in their vicinity.
  • 04:58: He imagined a single spacetime path, a lightspeed trajectory called a null geodesic.

2018-03-07: Should Space be Privatized?

  • 09:53: ... if you sign up at CuriosityStream.com/SpaceTime and use the premier code spacetime during the sign up ...

2018-02-14: What is Energy?

  • 11:17: It's a clue to the deeper truly fundamental properties of spacetime.

2018-01-24: The End of the Habitable Zone

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2018-01-10: What Do Stars Sound Like?

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2017-12-20: Extinction by Gamma-Ray Burst

  • 09:41: Maybe we can hold out a little longer against the series of calamities flung at us, one after the other, from outer space-time.

2017-11-08: Zero-Point Energy Demystified

  • 09:35: We'll choose six correct answers to win one of our T-shirts so you can show off your mastery of the mysteries of space-time.

2017-11-02: The Vacuum Catastrophe

  • 09:04: In the meantime, the conundrum continues to perplex physicists and will do so until we reach a deeper understanding of the true nature of spacetime.

2017-10-19: The Nature of Nothing

  • 11:18: ... of nothing and what it might tell us about the underlying workings of spacetime. ...

2017-10-11: Absolute Cold

  • 07:34: ... if you sign up at curiositystream.com/spacetime and use the promo code spacetime during the sign-up ...

2017-10-04: When Quasars Collide STJC

  • 10:08: ... understanding the incredible growth of the largest black holes in all of spacetime. ...

2017-09-20: The Future of Space Telescopes

  • 11:40: They have to travel along the same space-time fabric as light waves, after all.

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

  • 03:09: This binary pair stirs up spacetime in its vicinity, creating ripples that travel outwards as gravitational waves.
  • 11:17: ... rays and by sensing the faint ripples it made in the very fabric of spacetime. ...
  • 11:58: ... if you sign up at cruiositystream.com/spacetime and use the promo code "spacetime" during the signup ...

2017-08-30: White Holes

  • 00:37: ... to take this mathematical description of an inescapable region of spacetime. ...

2017-08-24: First Detection of Life

  • 10:31: Perhaps that answer is already traveling to us in the light of a distant planet's atmosphere calling to us from across spacetime.

2017-08-16: Extraterrestrial Superstorms

  • 12:41: To prove this to yourself, try drawing a space-time diagram, time on the y-axis and space on the x-axis.

2017-08-10: The One-Electron Universe

  • 01:46: ... of anti-matter into his path integral formulation and the following spacetime interpretation of quantum mechanics, which won him the 1965 Nobel Prize ...
  • 09:00: That makes each of us a tangled knot in the one single thread weaving back and forth across the reaches of spacetime.
  • 01:46: ... of anti-matter into his path integral formulation and the following spacetime interpretation of quantum mechanics, which won him the 1965 Nobel Prize in ...

2017-08-02: Dark Flow

  • 09:40: ... region of the greater universe, beyond the horizon of observable spacetime. ...

2017-07-26: The Secrets of Feynman Diagrams

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  • 11:53: ... coming, a fun reminder in t-shirt form of the eventual cold dark end of spacetime. ...
  • 12:26: ... also, one last call for anyone wanting one of our special "Spacetime" eclipse glasses-- if you sign up on Patreon at the $5 level or above or ...
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2017-07-19: The Real Star Wars

  • 12:31: For the most part, and for the moment, saner heads have prevailed, and humanity remains committed to the peaceful use of outer space-time.
  • 13:52: Space-time remains a passion project for all of us.
  • 14:17: ... looking at the August 21st total solar eclipse, we made some Space-Time eclipse ...
  • 13:52: Space-time remains a passion project for all of us.

2017-07-12: Solving the Impossible in Quantum Field Theory

  • 12:16: ... if you sign up at curiositystream.com/spacetime and use the promo code spacetime during the sign-up ...

2017-07-07: Feynman's Infinite Quantum Paths

  • 08:10: This action quantity is a function of the particle's path through space-time.
  • 15:07: Quantum field theory describes particles as a field vibration in 4D space-time.

2017-06-21: Anti-Matter and Quantum Relativity

  • 05:45: The resulting Dirac equation describes the spacetime evolution of this weird four-component particle-wave function, represented by the symbol psi.
  • 11:17: And that's a quantum rabbit hole that we'll jump into very soon, right here on "SpaceTime." I'd like to thank Skillshare for sponsoring this episode.
  • 12:06: ... link in the description or go to skillshare.com and use the promo code SPACETIME at ...
  • 12:17: ... the last episode, we did a "Space-Time" journal club on a new paper investigating whether the cold spot in the ...
  • 14:02: ... where the vacuum energy can come to a rest in an eternally inflating spacetime, halting inflation in that ...
  • 05:45: The resulting Dirac equation describes the spacetime evolution of this weird four-component particle-wave function, represented by the symbol psi.
  • 14:02: ... where the vacuum energy can come to a rest in an eternally inflating spacetime, halting inflation in that ...
  • 12:17: ... the last episode, we did a "Space-Time" journal club on a new paper investigating whether the cold spot in the cosmic ...

2017-05-31: The Fate of the First Stars

  • 03:59: Massive stars live fast, die young, and leave beautiful space-time warping corpses.
  • 10:45: But their influence is still felt across the reaches of space-time.
  • 10:50: ... today's episode, and also for making it possible for me to research space-time while riding crowded New York ...
  • 03:59: Massive stars live fast, die young, and leave beautiful space-time warping corpses.

2017-04-19: The Oh My God Particle

  • 10:01: ... if you sign up at CuriosityStream.com/spacetime and use the promo code spacetime during the sign-up ...

2017-03-29: How Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole

  • 00:30: Is this space-time dyslexia purely a mathematical quirk?
  • 00:49: First we'll think about what the flow of time looks like without black holes or even spacetime curvature.
  • 00:55: ... the geometry of causality, we saw that this quantity that we call the spacetime interval governs the flow of cause and effect, the only reliable ...
  • 01:16: The spacetime interval is defined like this, for boring old flat or Minkowski space.
  • 01:30: However all observers record the same spacetime interval.
  • 01:34: If one event causes a second event, the spacetime interval must be 0 or negative.
  • 01:47: You could say that an object at a given spacetime instant is caused by way of a version of itself existed an instant earlier.
  • 01:55: So world lines of objects have decreasing spacetime intervals.
  • 02:00: In fact forward temporal evolution requires a negative spacetime interval.
  • 02:23: Reversing causality means flipping the sign of the spacetime interval.
  • 02:37: But if we introduce a black hole, we now have a second way to flip the side of the spacetime interval.
  • 02:50: Add a non-rotating, uncharged black hole, and the spacetime interval becomes this.
  • 03:29: ... than rs, that stuff in the two brackets describes extreme warping of spacetime. ...
  • 03:48: A negative spacetime interval still means causal movement.
  • 05:19: On our ever popular spacetime diagram, we see a sharp division between the two.
  • 05:25: ... past light cone encompasses all of spacetime that could have influenced us, while that future light cone shows us the ...
  • 08:14: It's trying to swim upstream and failing against the faster than light cascade of spacetime.
  • 10:28: In fact the Schwarzschild metric really gives two separate spacetime maps in a single equation, one for above and one for below the event horizon.
  • 10:47: ... space blend together in what is perhaps the strangest place in all of spacetime. ...
  • 00:49: First we'll think about what the flow of time looks like without black holes or even spacetime curvature.
  • 05:19: On our ever popular spacetime diagram, we see a sharp division between the two.
  • 00:30: Is this space-time dyslexia purely a mathematical quirk?
  • 01:47: You could say that an object at a given spacetime instant is caused by way of a version of itself existed an instant earlier.
  • 00:55: ... the geometry of causality, we saw that this quantity that we call the spacetime interval governs the flow of cause and effect, the only reliable ordering of ...
  • 01:16: The spacetime interval is defined like this, for boring old flat or Minkowski space.
  • 01:30: However all observers record the same spacetime interval.
  • 01:34: If one event causes a second event, the spacetime interval must be 0 or negative.
  • 02:00: In fact forward temporal evolution requires a negative spacetime interval.
  • 02:23: Reversing causality means flipping the sign of the spacetime interval.
  • 02:37: But if we introduce a black hole, we now have a second way to flip the side of the spacetime interval.
  • 02:50: Add a non-rotating, uncharged black hole, and the spacetime interval becomes this.
  • 03:48: A negative spacetime interval still means causal movement.
  • 00:55: ... the geometry of causality, we saw that this quantity that we call the spacetime interval governs the flow of cause and effect, the only reliable ordering of events in a ...
  • 01:55: So world lines of objects have decreasing spacetime intervals.
  • 10:28: In fact the Schwarzschild metric really gives two separate spacetime maps in a single equation, one for above and one for below the event horizon.

2017-03-22: Superluminal Time Travel + Time Warp Challenge Answer

  • 01:23: We'll do this in flat space, so we need a flat or Minkowski spacetime diagram.
  • 01:29: We're going to add spacetime interval contours.
  • 03:13: These are contours of constant spacetime interval.
  • 03:26: ... spacetime interval is special because every traveler will agree on which contours ...
  • 03:37: ... we write the spacetime interval for flat space with a negative sign in front of the time part, ...
  • 04:43: Let's see what that looks like on the spacetime diagram.
  • 06:12: Now, add hyperbolic spacetime into our contours.
  • 06:15: These are the spacetime intervals as calculated from the zero point in space and time, the beginning of the race.
  • 06:23: ... the spacetime interval is invariant to Lorentz transformations, when we shift to the ...
  • 06:45: ... can figure out the paradox world line because we know which spacetime interval contours it's on when it departs from Earth and arrives at its ...
  • 09:39: ... that would be fine, because spacetime events marking the different stages of a sub-lightspeed journey ...
  • 10:29: Even our fantasies of time travel are just another pattern emerging from our one-way trajectory through the temporal part of spacetime.
  • 10:43: If you see your name below, we randomly selected your correct answer to win a spacetime t-shirt.
  • 11:05: ... it tell you which Disney princess you are, but it will really help both Spacetime and PBS figure out what you guys are into and what you want for the ...
  • 01:23: We'll do this in flat space, so we need a flat or Minkowski spacetime diagram.
  • 04:43: Let's see what that looks like on the spacetime diagram.
  • 09:39: ... that would be fine, because spacetime events marking the different stages of a sub-lightspeed journey transform ...
  • 01:29: We're going to add spacetime interval contours.
  • 03:13: These are contours of constant spacetime interval.
  • 03:26: ... spacetime interval is special because every traveler will agree on which contours a set of ...
  • 03:37: ... we write the spacetime interval for flat space with a negative sign in front of the time part, then ...
  • 06:23: ... the spacetime interval is invariant to Lorentz transformations, when we shift to the velocity ...
  • 06:45: ... can figure out the paradox world line because we know which spacetime interval contours it's on when it departs from Earth and arrives at its ...
  • 01:29: We're going to add spacetime interval contours.
  • 06:45: ... can figure out the paradox world line because we know which spacetime interval contours it's on when it departs from Earth and arrives at its ...
  • 06:15: These are the spacetime intervals as calculated from the zero point in space and time, the beginning of the race.
  • 10:43: If you see your name below, we randomly selected your correct answer to win a spacetime t-shirt.

2017-03-08: The Race to a Habitable Exoplanet - Time Warp Challenge

  • 00:13: Any FTL journey will appear to someone, somewhere in spacetime, as time travel.
  • 00:51: In that episode, we talked about the spacetime diagram and how it transforms between observers traveling at different speeds.
  • 01:11: It lets us figure out what spacetime looks like for every observer, no matter what his or her velocity is.
  • 01:17: If two events happen in spacetime, observers with different velocities will report different separations between them, in both space and time.
  • 01:27: We can combine those space and time intervals into the spacetime interval.
  • 01:35: ... we represent lines of constant spacetime interval with respect to x and to equal zero as contours, then we can ...
  • 01:50: To increase your spacetime interval, to cross these contours backwards uphill, you must travel faster than light.
  • 03:29: To answer this, you'll need to draw a spacetime diagram showing the world lines of the two ships.
  • 03:49: It will be helpful to draw the hyperbolic spacetime interval contours on your diagram.
  • 04:12: Note that the endpoints of the world lines stay on the same contours, because their spacetime intervals don't change.
  • 04:21: ... a spacetime trajectory that allows you to fly the Paradox all the way back to the ...
  • 04:43: Submit your answers with full explanations and spacetime diagrams within two weeks of the release of this video to be in the running.
  • 00:51: In that episode, we talked about the spacetime diagram and how it transforms between observers traveling at different speeds.
  • 01:35: ... respect to x and to equal zero as contours, then we can transform the spacetime diagram into a 3D graph, in which causality must always flow ...
  • 03:29: To answer this, you'll need to draw a spacetime diagram showing the world lines of the two ships.
  • 04:43: Submit your answers with full explanations and spacetime diagrams within two weeks of the release of this video to be in the running.
  • 01:27: We can combine those space and time intervals into the spacetime interval.
  • 01:35: ... we represent lines of constant spacetime interval with respect to x and to equal zero as contours, then we can transform ...
  • 01:50: To increase your spacetime interval, to cross these contours backwards uphill, you must travel faster than light.
  • 03:49: It will be helpful to draw the hyperbolic spacetime interval contours on your diagram.
  • 04:12: Note that the endpoints of the world lines stay on the same contours, because their spacetime intervals don't change.
  • 01:17: If two events happen in spacetime, observers with different velocities will report different separations between them, in both space and time.
  • 04:21: ... a spacetime trajectory that allows you to fly the Paradox all the way back to the beginning of ...

2017-02-15: Telescopes of Tomorrow

  • 11:10: So last time, I showed you how you can visualize the effects of special relativity on spacetime using geometry.
  • 11:39: ... wondered about the relationship between the geometry I depicted on the space-time diagram and the geometry that comes from mass and energy-curving ...
  • 11:49: The space-time diagram I showed is for flat or Minkowski space.
  • 11:57: The hyperbolic geometry is just what you did when you map the space-time interval to a third dimension.
  • 12:02: So you have time, space, and space-time interval.
  • 12:14: ... the way, a lot of people express the space-time interval with a minus sign in front of the delta X and a plus for the ...
  • 11:39: ... wondered about the relationship between the geometry I depicted on the space-time diagram and the geometry that comes from mass and energy-curving ...
  • 11:49: The space-time diagram I showed is for flat or Minkowski space.
  • 11:57: The hyperbolic geometry is just what you did when you map the space-time interval to a third dimension.
  • 12:02: So you have time, space, and space-time interval.
  • 12:14: ... the way, a lot of people express the space-time interval with a minus sign in front of the delta X and a plus for the delta T. ...

2017-02-02: The Geometry of Causality

  • 00:15: ... of cause and effect emerges when we discover the causal geography of spacetime. ...
  • 00:32: Recently, we've been talking about the weirdness of spacetime in the vicinity of a black hole's event horizon.
  • 00:54: Today, we're going to look at the amazing geometric structure that time, or more accurately causality, imprints on the fabric of spacetime.
  • 02:00: ... counting those clock ticks isn't the best way for everyone to agree on spacetime ...
  • 02:13: ... this thing called the spacetime interval that relates observer dependent perspectives on the length and ...
  • 02:35: But we want that intuition because, more than proper time, the spacetime interval defines the flow of causality.
  • 02:42: In relativity, 3D space and 1D time become a 4D entity called spacetime.
  • 02:49: To preserve our sanity, we represent this on a spacetime diagram plotting time and only one dimension of space.
  • 03:03: There is no standing still on a spacetime diagram.
  • 03:25: Now, let's say we have a group of spacetime travelers.
  • 03:43: The path they cut through spacetime is called their world line.
  • 04:11: Accounting for this, we find that our spacetime travelers are arranged on a curve that looks like this.
  • 04:29: ... the gradient of causality down which time flows, and etched into spacetime by the equations of special ...
  • 04:40: To understand why, we need to see how these proper time contours appear to other spacetime travelers.
  • 04:51: First, we need to draw the spacetime diagram from the perspective of one of the other travelers.
  • 05:15: ... from my stationary point of view, I define my x-axis as a long string of spacetime events at different distances, but that all occur simultaneously at time ...
  • 06:27: That comes from insisting that we all see the same speed of light, 45 degrees on the spacetime diagram.
  • 07:21: Those intersections represent locations of spacetime events relative to the origin.
  • 07:33: ... time count, but more generally, each represents a single value for the spacetime ...
  • 07:45: ... on who is watching, but the hyperbolic contour that they landed on, the spacetime interval, will ...
  • 07:59: ... is because the spacetime interval itself comes directly from the Lorentz transformation, as the ...
  • 08:20: ... in both space and time can be separated from that origin by the same spacetime interval as an event that is very distant in both space and ...
  • 08:59: The spacetime interval tracks this causal proximity.
  • 09:08: ... way I define the spacetime interval, it becomes increasingly negative in the forward time ...
  • 09:40: In fact, the nearest downhill contour defines the forward light cone for anyone anywhere on the spacetime diagram.
  • 09:59: To reverse the direction of your changing spacetime interval is to reverse the direction of causality, to travel backwards in time.
  • 10:08: ... spacetime diagram we looked at today was for a flat or Minkowski space, in which ...
  • 10:23: ... predictions when we try to calculate the sub event horizon interval of spacetime. ...
  • 10:37: ... today's episode, and also for making it possible for me to research spacetime while riding crowded New York ...
  • 12:07: ... string theory, which proposes that particles that we see in regular 4D spacetime result from oscillations within many more coiled dimensions, so-called ...
  • 02:49: To preserve our sanity, we represent this on a spacetime diagram plotting time and only one dimension of space.
  • 03:03: There is no standing still on a spacetime diagram.
  • 04:51: First, we need to draw the spacetime diagram from the perspective of one of the other travelers.
  • 06:27: That comes from insisting that we all see the same speed of light, 45 degrees on the spacetime diagram.
  • 09:40: In fact, the nearest downhill contour defines the forward light cone for anyone anywhere on the spacetime diagram.
  • 10:08: ... spacetime diagram we looked at today was for a flat or Minkowski space, in which faster ...
  • 02:49: To preserve our sanity, we represent this on a spacetime diagram plotting time and only one dimension of space.
  • 05:15: ... from my stationary point of view, I define my x-axis as a long string of spacetime events at different distances, but that all occur simultaneously at time t ...
  • 07:21: Those intersections represent locations of spacetime events relative to the origin.
  • 02:13: ... this thing called the spacetime interval that relates observer dependent perspectives on the length and duration ...
  • 02:35: But we want that intuition because, more than proper time, the spacetime interval defines the flow of causality.
  • 07:33: ... time count, but more generally, each represents a single value for the spacetime interval. ...
  • 07:45: ... on who is watching, but the hyperbolic contour that they landed on, the spacetime interval, will ...
  • 07:59: ... is because the spacetime interval itself comes directly from the Lorentz transformation, as the only ...
  • 08:20: ... in both space and time can be separated from that origin by the same spacetime interval as an event that is very distant in both space and ...
  • 08:59: The spacetime interval tracks this causal proximity.
  • 09:08: ... way I define the spacetime interval, it becomes increasingly negative in the forward time direction, so we ...
  • 09:59: To reverse the direction of your changing spacetime interval is to reverse the direction of causality, to travel backwards in time.
  • 02:35: But we want that intuition because, more than proper time, the spacetime interval defines the flow of causality.
  • 08:59: The spacetime interval tracks this causal proximity.
  • 02:00: ... counting those clock ticks isn't the best way for everyone to agree on spacetime relationships. ...
  • 12:07: ... string theory, which proposes that particles that we see in regular 4D spacetime result from oscillations within many more coiled dimensions, so-called ...
  • 07:59: ... directly from the Lorentz transformation, as the only measurement of spacetime separation that is unchanging or invariant under that ...
  • 03:25: Now, let's say we have a group of spacetime travelers.
  • 04:11: Accounting for this, we find that our spacetime travelers are arranged on a curve that looks like this.
  • 04:40: To understand why, we need to see how these proper time contours appear to other spacetime travelers.

2017-01-25: Why Quasars are so Awesome

  • 09:45: ... and a new quasar will shine forth, illuminating this little patch of spacetime. ...
  • 11:18: Tambe, your own personal spacetime quasar is in the mail.

2017-01-04: How to See Black Holes + Kugelblitz Challenge Answer

  • 06:59: ... triangle above the collapsing star's surface actually has the crazy spacetime behavior of the interior of a black ...
  • 07:25: ... smaller than its own Swarzschild radius, an event horizon forms as spacetime flows faster than the speed of light towards that superdense region of ...
  • 07:53: Even after the true event horizon forms, there remains this shrinking patch of normal flat spacetime.
  • 08:28: ... below that shell remains comfortably flat, but above the shell, spacetime is cascading behind the shell towards the soon to be formed ...
  • 08:38: ... it is indeed perfectly reflected, straight back into a region of spacetime that will carry even that light inexorably downwards to form the ...
  • 09:39: Just above the sphere, which is only a bit larger than that event horizon that was going to form, the spacetime curvature is pretty insane.
  • 10:36: In Einsteinian terms, spacetime is flat within the sphere.
  • 10:53: Maybe we can just build a mini sun inside after we blast the aliens and save spacetime.
  • 06:59: ... triangle above the collapsing star's surface actually has the crazy spacetime behavior of the interior of a black ...
  • 09:39: Just above the sphere, which is only a bit larger than that event horizon that was going to form, the spacetime curvature is pretty insane.
  • 07:25: ... smaller than its own Swarzschild radius, an event horizon forms as spacetime flows faster than the speed of light towards that superdense region of ...

2016-12-21: Have They Seen Us?

  • 12:51: ... doubt carry only the best wishes for their noisiest neighbors in nearby spacetime. ...
  • 13:48: It's trying to walk upwards on a downward escalator of spacetime.
  • 16:59: The correct way to get this number is by using general relativity to find the point where the flow of spacetime reaches the speed of light.

2016-12-14: Escape The Kugelblitz Challenge

  • 00:00: ... we looked at an extremely powerful tool for understanding the strange space-time both in and around black ...
  • 00:14: ... time, allowing us to fit onto the one diagram the infinitely stretched space-time in the vicinity of a black hole's event ...
  • 02:21: Below that horizon, but above the still-shrinking surface of the star, space-time takes on the mad properties of the black hole interior.
  • 02:47: The shape of space-time outside the horizon warps to make this diagonal line, a line of constant radius, the radius of the new black hole.
  • 02:21: Below that horizon, but above the still-shrinking surface of the star, space-time takes on the mad properties of the black hole interior.

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

  • 02:08: It's a special type of space-time diagram designed to clarify the nature of horizons.
  • 02:15: But first, a quick refresher on basic space-time diagrams.
  • 02:30: With the right choice of space and time units, the speed of light becomes a diagonal line on the space-time diagram.
  • 02:37: ... by the so-called light-like paths defines all future events or space-time locations that we could potentially travel to or influence constrained ...
  • 03:01: Let's drop a black hole onto our space-time diagram.
  • 03:16: ... crawl out of the vicinity of the event horizon before escaping to flat space-time, no longer following 45 degree ...
  • 03:48: The problem with the regular space-time diagram is that the path of light and the shape of the light cone changes as space-time becomes warped.
  • 04:10: It transforms the regular space-time diagram to give it two powerful features.
  • 04:15: It crunches together, or compactifies, the grid lines to fit infinite space-time on one graph-- very useful for black holes.
  • 04:42: This is the Penrose diagram for flat space-time with no black holes.
  • 04:48: ... as with a regular space-time diagram, blue verticalish lines represent fixed locations in one ...
  • 05:01: Now, those lines get closer and closer together towards the edge of the plot to encompass more and more space-time.
  • 05:38: Let's drop a black hole into this space-time.
  • 06:03: The compactified grid lines there now represent the stretched space-time near the event horizon.
  • 07:14: ... rays have further and further to travel through increasingly curved space-time and so the interval between receiving signals also ...
  • 07:35: It's trying to travel at the speed of light against light speed cascade of space-time.
  • 08:07: It will, nonetheless, have experienced far less time than us when it emerges into flat space-time in our far future.
  • 08:32: ... these diagonal lines because it has to contend with the same stretched space-time as the ...
  • 10:00: All space-time within the black hole is flowing toward the singularity faster than the speed of light.
  • 11:19: Then our Penrose diagram blooms outwards to include potentially infinite parallel regions of space-time.
  • 02:08: It's a special type of space-time diagram designed to clarify the nature of horizons.
  • 02:30: With the right choice of space and time units, the speed of light becomes a diagonal line on the space-time diagram.
  • 03:01: Let's drop a black hole onto our space-time diagram.
  • 03:48: The problem with the regular space-time diagram is that the path of light and the shape of the light cone changes as space-time becomes warped.
  • 04:10: It transforms the regular space-time diagram to give it two powerful features.
  • 04:48: ... as with a regular space-time diagram, blue verticalish lines represent fixed locations in one dimension of ...
  • 02:08: It's a special type of space-time diagram designed to clarify the nature of horizons.
  • 02:15: But first, a quick refresher on basic space-time diagrams.
  • 02:37: ... by the so-called light-like paths defines all future events or space-time locations that we could potentially travel to or influence constrained by the ...

2016-11-30: Pilot Wave Theory and Quantum Realism

  • 12:10: Maybe something like pilot-waves really do drive the microscopic mechanics of spacetime.

2016-11-16: Strange Stars

  • 09:43: And who knows which are actually out there, waiting to be discovered in the expanse of spacetime?

2016-11-09: Did Dark Energy Just Disappear?

  • 12:07: ... look at the evidence for dark energy, and its effect on the expansion of spacetime. ...

2016-10-26: The Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse

  • 11:00: Think of it as a choose your own adventure, and steer this version of you towards one of the more awesome many world branches of space-time.

2016-10-19: The First Humans on Mars

  • 08:30: Be sure to help us out by using the promo code spacetime.

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

  • 09:58: I mean, how long can the universe expect to hide vast numbers of holes punched in the fabric of spacetime?

2016-09-14: Self-Replicating Robots and Galactic Domination

  • 09:45: Perhaps that's us, preparing to explore the young and still untamed reaches of this space-time.

2016-09-07: Is There a Fifth Fundamental Force? + Quantum Eraser Answer

  • 06:51: For the rest of you, you can still grab a "SpaceTime" t-shirt of your very own via the link in the description.
  • 08:04: Nonetheless, there is a clue somewhere in all this weirdness to the fundamental workings of spacetime.
  • 06:51: For the rest of you, you can still grab a "SpaceTime" t-shirt of your very own via the link in the description.

2016-08-03: Can We Survive the Destruction of the Earth? ft. Neal Stephenson

  • 01:58: Finding the answer is a big responsibility, possibly even too big for spacetime alone to handle.

2016-07-20: The Future of Gravitational Waves

  • 04:14: We now have more confidence in our understanding of the space-time around black holes.

2016-06-15: The Strange Universe of Gravitational Lensing

  • 00:00: [MUSIC PLAYING] The curvature of spacetime plays tricks on our eyes.
  • 01:21: Here's our playlist on curved spacetime, time, if you want to go deep into this idea.
  • 03:46: The illusion results from our mind's eye projecting straight lines onto a curved spacetime.
  • 05:07: You can see the nearby spiral galaxy, whose gravitational field bends spacetime to create these paths.
  • 08:00: The lightspeed flow of spacetime at the event horizon results in old light paths pointing inwards.
  • 09:23: But look through a telescope at very distant galaxies, and all are brightened, shifted and warped by the weird lens of a curved spacetime.
  • 00:00: [MUSIC PLAYING] The curvature of spacetime plays tricks on our eyes.
  • 01:21: Here's our playlist on curved spacetime, time, if you want to go deep into this idea.
  • 03:58: Their spacetimes can curve any way we choose.

2016-05-25: Is an Ice Age Coming?

  • 13:58: ... as we learned when we studied Newtonian mechanics, is a feature of flat spacetime. ...
  • 14:10: Curved spacetime changes things.

2016-05-18: Anti-gravity and the True Nature of Dark Energy

  • 11:48: Energy can be forever lost or gained from nothing within an expanding curved spacetime.

2016-04-20: Why the Universe Needs Dark Energy

  • 02:46: Spacetime will be curved, no matter what.
  • 08:46: ... the insight we need to understand dark energy's effect on the future of spacetime. ...
  • 09:43: Within these regions, the shape of spacetime is dominated by the gravitational field of the densely packed matter.
  • 09:53: ... field of the Milky Way and Andromeda to not dominate the shape of local spacetime. ...

2016-04-13: Will the Universe Expand Forever?

  • 01:50: And it defines the shape, the curvature, of spacetime.
  • 01:57: And it describes all of the energy, the pressure, the momentum, and more-- all of the stuff within that spacetime.
  • 02:16: ... Archibald Wheeler put it more simply-- "Spacetime tells matter how to move, while matter tells spacetime how to curve." ...
  • 08:50: After all, matter tells spacetime how to curve.
  • 09:36: It'll shatter our intuitions about energy conservation and gravity on the largest scales of spacetime.
  • 02:16: ... from a Newtonian perspective-- as a force, rather than as an Einsteinian spacetime curvature. ...

2016-04-06: We Are Star Stuff

  • 10:13: We are "starstuff." But more, we our universe stuff, the most complex component that has risen from a beautiful and chaotic spacetime.
  • 11:10: So constant time spatial curvature, which is different to the curvature of spacetime.

2016-03-23: How Cosmic Inflation Flattened the Universe

  • 01:29: We can use the apparent size of the very subtle fluctuations in the CMB to measure the flatness of the fabric of the universe, of spacetime.
  • 07:30: The cosmological constant represents something that can happen to our spacetime.

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

  • 04:11: The best way to illustrate this is with a spacetime diagram.
  • 04:21: So a photon clock that stationary on the spacetime diagram moves straight up.
  • 07:30: We chose three random entries from those to get brand new "SpaceTime" t-shirts.
  • 08:16: So don't be shy about supporting the show by clicking on the link below for your very own "SpaceTime" t-shirt.
  • 08:23: And I hope you'll join us next week for a brand new episode of "SpaceTime."
  • 04:11: The best way to illustrate this is with a spacetime diagram.
  • 04:21: So a photon clock that stationary on the spacetime diagram moves straight up.
  • 08:16: So don't be shy about supporting the show by clicking on the link below for your very own "SpaceTime" t-shirt.
  • 07:30: We chose three random entries from those to get brand new "SpaceTime" t-shirts.

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

  • 00:10: The Advanced LIGO Observatory has seen the spacetime ripples caused by black holes at the moment of merger.
  • 00:49: ... detect the passage of gravitational waves, of ripples in the fabric of spacetime caused by extreme gravitational events in the distant ...
  • 01:35: Since then, ripples from mergers of black hole pairs in distant galaxies have changed the shape of spacetime here on Earth.
  • 03:22: ... holes or neutron stars produce such strong ripples in the fabric of spacetime that LIGO can see them out through vast ...
  • 04:26: Spacetime is stretched and squeezed as the wave passes by.
  • 00:49: ... detect the passage of gravitational waves, of ripples in the fabric of spacetime caused by extreme gravitational events in the distant ...
  • 00:10: The Advanced LIGO Observatory has seen the spacetime ripples caused by black holes at the moment of merger.

2016-01-06: The True Nature of Matter and Mass

  • 06:23: ... we accept Einstein's description of space-time as described by general relativity, it's not so surprising that the ...
  • 07:23: The presence in the flow of energy and momentum as well as pressure all have their quite different effects on the curvature of space-time.
  • 07:31: Individual photons affect space-time.

2015-11-25: 100 Years of Relativity + Challenge Winners!

  • 00:10: [THEME MUSIC] November 25, 2015 is the hundredth birthday of space-time.

2015-11-11: Challenge: Can you save Earth from a Killer Asteroid?

  • 02:15: ... release some clues over the "SpaceTime" Twitter if you need help, but submit your answers to "PBS SpaceTime" at ...
  • 02:49: Next week, we'll be back with a killer episode of "SpaceTime." [MUSIC PLAYING]
  • 02:15: ... to "PBS SpaceTime" at gmail.com by November 20 and use the subject line, Spacetime Killer Asteroid ...

2015-10-28: Is The Alcubierre Warp Drive Possible?

  • 01:34: However, according to general relativity, there's no limit on the relative speeds of two separate patches of spacetime.
  • 01:51: ... below the event horizon of a black hole, spacetime cascades towards the central singularity faster than light, carrying ...
  • 02:03: ... the spacetime around and within a black hole is predicted by solving Einstein's field ...
  • 02:24: ... developed a spacetime description, a metric tensor, that describes a volume of nice, flat ...
  • 02:42: As a result, the bubble is pushed and pulled by spacetime itself, moving at speeds only limited by the intensity of the warp.
  • 02:55: It's sort of like building a conveyor belt out of spacetime.
  • 03:05: ... you just make up a spacetime description and then essentially solve the Einstein equations backwards ...
  • 03:34: That means our ship looks something like this in order to produce a spacetime curvature like this.
  • 04:21: One possible quantum disaster is that the extreme spacetime curvature of the warp bubble walls would roast the interior with crazy Hawking radiation.
  • 01:51: ... below the event horizon of a black hole, spacetime cascades towards the central singularity faster than light, carrying light, ...
  • 03:34: That means our ship looks something like this in order to produce a spacetime curvature like this.
  • 04:21: One possible quantum disaster is that the extreme spacetime curvature of the warp bubble walls would roast the interior with crazy Hawking radiation.
  • 02:24: ... developed a spacetime description, a metric tensor, that describes a volume of nice, flat spacetime ...
  • 03:05: ... you just make up a spacetime description and then essentially solve the Einstein equations backwards to figure ...
  • 02:24: ... description, a metric tensor, that describes a volume of nice, flat spacetime enclosed in a bubble of extreme curvature, a pinching or warping of spacetime in ...

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

  • 00:29: Instead, mass warps the fabric of 4-D spacetime, leading to what we see as gravitational motion.
  • 00:48: There's the dragging of spacetime by spinning masses.
  • 01:09: The idea of gravity not as a force, but as warped spacetime is often depicted in analogy as a flexible rubber sheet being depressed by a heavy ball.
  • 01:39: ... ripples-- an outflowing fluctuation of expanding and contracting spacetime. ...
  • 02:08: ... and indeed, gravity itself-- propagate according to the stiffness of spacetime-- in other words, at the speed of ...
  • 02:34: It's worth pointing out that this speed limit is really the speed of causality-- the speed at which spacetime talks to itself.
  • 00:29: Instead, mass warps the fabric of 4-D spacetime, leading to what we see as gravitational motion.
  • 02:34: It's worth pointing out that this speed limit is really the speed of causality-- the speed at which spacetime talks to itself.

2015-10-07: The Speed of Light is NOT About Light

  • 00:36: In fact, spacetime couldn't care less about light.
  • 00:46: In a previous episode, we talked about causality by way of the spacetime interval.
  • 04:17: This transformation thing, it's like a mathy magic wand that you wave at your description of spacetime or your physical laws.
  • 05:31: As an example, there's a link to the derivation via the spacetime interval in the description.
  • 10:29: ... we want a universe so I can see you back here on the next episode of "SpaceTime." Last time on "SpaceTime," we talked about the edge of the universe and ...
  • 00:46: In a previous episode, we talked about causality by way of the spacetime interval.
  • 05:31: As an example, there's a link to the derivation via the spacetime interval in the description.

2015-09-30: What Happens At The Edge Of The Universe?

  • 00:54: This is "SpaceTime." OK.
  • 02:19: That's not how spacetime works.
  • 02:21: The shortest path in spacetime is defined by the geodesic, the path of light between two points.
  • 05:07: On the largest scales, the geometry of spacetime is very flat.
  • 05:26: If spacetime really is perfectly flat, then, with the most simplistic application of Einstein's equations, we get that the universe is infinite.
  • 07:36: ... cross that edge into the multiverse in another episode of "SpaceTime." Squishina and others ask whether it's contradictory or circular to use ...
  • 09:11: No monkeys were harmed in the making of "SpaceTime" and any events that can be consistently assigned to our clocks at PBS.
  • 07:36: ... cross that edge into the multiverse in another episode of "SpaceTime." Squishina and others ask whether it's contradictory or circular to use Einstein's ...
  • 02:19: That's not how spacetime works.

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

  • 00:09: My name is Matt and this is "SpaceTime." Physics has a problem.
  • 07:36: ... any previously undiscovered dark matter particles on the next episode of "SpaceTime." Last time on "SpaceTime," we talked about black ...
  • 08:30: ... the monkey because that light has to contend with the same crazy-curved space-time that the monkey ...
  • 00:09: My name is Matt and this is "SpaceTime." Physics has a problem.

2015-08-27: Watch THIS! (New Host + Challenge Winners)

  • 00:00: Hey, Spacetimers, two weeks ago we issued a challenge question.
  • 05:20: These are the Spacetimers.
  • 05:21: Spacetimers, this is Matt O'Dowd.

2015-08-19: Do Events Inside Black Holes Happen?

  • 00:37: ... help a lot if I can rely on technical terms like "geodesic" or "flat spacetime" and if I can draw a spacetime diagram or ...
  • 04:39: It's a surface in spacetime.
  • 04:56: ... determines the spacetime geometry in its neighborhood, the resulting geodesics of which ...
  • 05:19: So as far as Earth is concerned, that black hole generates the same spacetime geometry out here that the Sun does.
  • 05:36: ... this special radius, called the Schwarzschild radius, will leave the spacetime that's originally external to that object ...
  • 06:26: See, spacetime geometry in this region is very foreign.
  • 10:05: ... that has an eternal black hole that didn't form from anything, a spacetime that has an event horizon even though there's no stuff anywhere, ...
  • 10:46: It's like a hole that's been punched out of spacetime.
  • 10:53: Is it associated with the curvature of spacetime, with all of spacetime?
  • 00:37: ... technical terms like "geodesic" or "flat spacetime" and if I can draw a spacetime diagram or ...
  • 04:56: ... determines the spacetime geometry in its neighborhood, the resulting geodesics of which correspond to ...
  • 05:19: So as far as Earth is concerned, that black hole generates the same spacetime geometry out here that the Sun does.
  • 06:26: See, spacetime geometry in this region is very foreign.

2015-08-12: Challenge: Which Particle Wins This Race?

  • 00:30: No space-time, no relativity.

2015-08-05: What Physics Teachers Get Wrong About Tides!

  • 02:07: But curved spacetime will only add complexity without actually making things clearer.
  • 08:59: ... be more important than the stretching, even in the craziest regions of spacetime. ...
  • 09:10: Last week, we finished our series on general relativity and curved spacetime.
  • 10:18: So if gravity is not a force and it's considered spacetime curvature, then why do people talk about gravitons?
  • 10:28: Thinking about things in terms of gravitons and thinking about spacetime curvature are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
  • 12:13: There's really only spacetime curvature.
  • 13:35: In the four-dimensional curved spacetime sense, you need to give something some kind of inherent, absolute 4D geometric meaning.
  • 14:27: In other words, Einstein says the standard of non-acceleration can only be defined locally in small spacetime patches.
  • 10:18: So if gravity is not a force and it's considered spacetime curvature, then why do people talk about gravitons?
  • 10:28: Thinking about things in terms of gravitons and thinking about spacetime curvature are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
  • 12:13: There's really only spacetime curvature.
  • 14:27: In other words, Einstein says the standard of non-acceleration can only be defined locally in small spacetime patches.
  • 13:35: In the four-dimensional curved spacetime sense, you need to give something some kind of inherent, absolute 4D geometric meaning.

2015-07-29: General Relativity & Curved Spacetime Explained!

  • 00:08: If you haven't seen them then pause me now, go watch them in order, and meet me back here after the music to hear about curved spacetime.
  • 01:11: Today we're finally going to show how curved spacetime makes Einstein's model of the world just as self consistent as Newton's.
  • 01:18: ... one is to express both Newton's and Einstein's viewpoints in geometric spacetime terms, since that's the only way to compare them in a reliably objective ...
  • 01:39: ... into tense-less statements about static geometric objects in 4D spacetime. ...
  • 01:52: He says that spacetime is flat.
  • 01:54: ... think about it, on the flat spacetime diagrams of inertia observers, the world lines of other inertial ...
  • 03:22: Inertial frames, that means axes plus clocks, are the spacetime equivalent of the ant's xy grid.
  • 03:27: If spacetime is curved, then those frames are only valid over tiny spacetime patches.
  • 03:39: In other words, global inertial frames don't exist in spacetime.
  • 03:47: ... frames, provided that we think of them as being reset in each successive spacetime ...
  • 04:09: Remember, no one can really see or draw spacetime.
  • 04:32: ... because the apples are on initially parallel geodesics that, since spacetime is curved, can and do cross just like on the ...
  • 04:52: In order to compare distant parts of the Earth, you'd need a single frame that extends across spacetime patches.
  • 05:09: But then again, so does Newton's flat spacetime picture that has gravity injected as a kicker.
  • 05:44: On a flat spacetime diagram the world lines of those photons should be parallel and congruent.
  • 05:59: Now if spacetime is flat, then clocks on the ground and on the roof should run at the same rate.
  • 06:24: And that's geometrically impossible if spacetime is flat.
  • 06:27: Thus, the very existence of gravitational time dilation, regardless of its degree, requires that spacetime be curved.
  • 07:02: And around Earth, spacetime curvature manifests itself in clocks much more than in rulers.
  • 07:18: So why is spacetime curved in the first place?
  • 07:27: Consider a region of spacetime.
  • 07:46: What comes out is a map of the geodesics in the sun's spacetime neighborhood.
  • 08:17: As far as I know, most of us have no special ability to visualize or directly experience 4D spacetime.
  • 08:32: ... easier to say the word gravity than say curvature of four dimensional spacetime. ...
  • 07:02: And around Earth, spacetime curvature manifests itself in clocks much more than in rulers.
  • 07:18: So why is spacetime curved in the first place?
  • 05:44: On a flat spacetime diagram the world lines of those photons should be parallel and congruent.
  • 01:54: ... think about it, on the flat spacetime diagrams of inertia observers, the world lines of other inertial observers are ...
  • 03:22: Inertial frames, that means axes plus clocks, are the spacetime equivalent of the ant's xy grid.
  • 07:46: What comes out is a map of the geodesics in the sun's spacetime neighborhood.
  • 03:47: ... frames, provided that we think of them as being reset in each successive spacetime patch. ...
  • 03:27: If spacetime is curved, then those frames are only valid over tiny spacetime patches.
  • 04:52: In order to compare distant parts of the Earth, you'd need a single frame that extends across spacetime patches.
  • 05:09: But then again, so does Newton's flat spacetime picture that has gravity injected as a kicker.
  • 01:18: ... one is to express both Newton's and Einstein's viewpoints in geometric spacetime terms, since that's the only way to compare them in a reliably objective ...

2015-07-15: Can You Trust Your Eyes in Spacetime?

  • 00:00: We've talked before about flat spacetime here.
  • 00:02: But before we can graduate to the curves version and general relativity, we need a stronger foundation in spacetime geometry.
  • 00:08: So today, on "Space Time," it's spacetime.
  • 00:45: Eventually, we want to do the same thing in curved spacetime.
  • 00:47: However, tiny patches of curved spacetime don't look Euclidean.
  • 00:51: They look like flat spacetime, which although not curved, still has a geometry that doesn't always agree with our visual intuitions.
  • 00:57: So we won't know what to do in each tiny patch unless we first understand what straight line, tangent vector, and parallel mean in flat spacetime.
  • 01:07: Now, we're not going to do a complete treatment of special relativity or all aspects of flat spacetime geometry.
  • 01:22: Our principle tool for exploring flat spacetime geometry will be something called a spacetime diagram for representing physical events.
  • 01:38: This gravity-free world is what flat spacetime describes.
  • 02:21: Now recall from our earlier flat spacetime episode that points on this blackboard are not locations in a two-dimensional physical space.
  • 04:34: ... spacetime diagrams are great for visualizing cool phenomena like time dilation, or ...
  • 04:45: Instead, I just want to use these diagrams to establish how parallel transport works in flat spacetime.
  • 04:51: Because here's the thing, the answer is not clear a priori since you can't trust your eyes in spacetime diagrams.
  • 05:04: And thus, these are the same line segments in spacetime.
  • 05:19: ... spacetime diagrams preserve the spacetime interval between points with its weird ...
  • 05:30: So while these diagrams help quasi-visualize things, spacetime doesn't really look like this.
  • 06:07: For starters, this spacetime really is flat.
  • 06:44: But in spacetime, we can also distinguish those classes of observers geometrically.
  • 06:53: And that's kind of the whole point of talking about spacetime in the first place.
  • 07:25: But that interpretation doesn't work on a spacetime diagram.
  • 07:34: So ordinary velocity would not be a frame invariant geometric vector in spacetime.
  • 07:39: Also, things don't move through spacetime.
  • 08:17: It's called the monkey's 4-velocity, even though that's a bit of a misnomer since there's no motion through spacetime.
  • 08:23: And more interestingly, the length of that vector, at least in the sense of spacetime interval length, is minus the speed of light squared.
  • 08:37: ... if we call the spacetime length of a 4-velocity vector a spacetime speed, then the world line of ...
  • 08:54: Chew on all that because it's our departure point for talking about curved spacetime in the next episode.
  • 09:03: I know it's a lot to take in, but you've got a week to mull it over before we plunge head-first into curved spacetime.
  • 01:38: This gravity-free world is what flat spacetime describes.
  • 01:22: Our principle tool for exploring flat spacetime geometry will be something called a spacetime diagram for representing physical events.
  • 07:25: But that interpretation doesn't work on a spacetime diagram.
  • 04:34: ... spacetime diagrams are great for visualizing cool phenomena like time dilation, or length ...
  • 04:51: Because here's the thing, the answer is not clear a priori since you can't trust your eyes in spacetime diagrams.
  • 05:19: ... spacetime diagrams preserve the spacetime interval between points with its weird minus ...
  • 05:30: So while these diagrams help quasi-visualize things, spacetime doesn't really look like this.
  • 00:47: However, tiny patches of curved spacetime don't look Euclidean.
  • 02:21: Now recall from our earlier flat spacetime episode that points on this blackboard are not locations in a two-dimensional physical space.
  • 00:02: But before we can graduate to the curves version and general relativity, we need a stronger foundation in spacetime geometry.
  • 01:07: Now, we're not going to do a complete treatment of special relativity or all aspects of flat spacetime geometry.
  • 01:22: Our principle tool for exploring flat spacetime geometry will be something called a spacetime diagram for representing physical events.
  • 05:19: ... spacetime diagrams preserve the spacetime interval between points with its weird minus sign, not the Pythagorean Euclidean ...
  • 08:23: And more interestingly, the length of that vector, at least in the sense of spacetime interval length, is minus the speed of light squared.
  • 08:37: ... if we call the spacetime length of a 4-velocity vector a spacetime speed, then the world line of every ...

2015-07-08: Curvature Demonstrated + Comments

  • 06:29: I wanted to make sure this was on better footing before we moved on to flat spacetime geometry in the next episode.

2015-07-02: Can a Circle Be a Straight Line?

  • 00:05: Instead, he said, it's a manifestation of spacetime curvature.
  • 00:16: ... they're simply following straight line constant speed paths in a curved spacetime. ...
  • 01:02: ... way around those objections is to realize that if the world is a curved spacetime, then the familiar meanings of terms like a constant velocity straight ...
  • 01:42: In part two we'll acquaint ourselves with the specific geometry of 4D flat spacetime, which is already weird, even without curvature present.
  • 01:50: ... finally, in part three we'll put curvature and spacetime together to tie up all the loose ends that we raised at the end of our ...
  • 01:57: We'll end up seeing that all the supposedly gravitational effects on motion can be accounted for just by the geometry of spacetime.
  • 04:56: ... B. In fact, in some spaces that have weird distance formulas, like flat spacetime, geodesics are sometimes the longest curves between two ...
  • 07:24: And 3D curved space isn't what explains away gravity, it's four dimensional curved spacetime.
  • 07:29: Why is the spacetime part so critical?
  • 07:31: To understand that, we need to get a better grip on how geometry works in flat spacetime.
  • 07:40: In flat spacetime that line has a length of zero, and these two lines are perpendicular.
  • 07:49: Flat spacetime geometry is part two, which is next week.
  • 08:12: ... do my best to address them during the week and on the next episode of "Spacetime." Last week we asked whether Australia would ever get a White Christmas in ...
  • 00:05: Instead, he said, it's a manifestation of spacetime curvature.
  • 04:56: ... B. In fact, in some spaces that have weird distance formulas, like flat spacetime, geodesics are sometimes the longest curves between two ...
  • 07:49: Flat spacetime geometry is part two, which is next week.

2015-06-03: Is Gravity An Illusion?

  • 09:00: ... instead the world is a non-Euclidean and curved spacetime, then straight line at constant speed doesn't mean what you think it ...
  • 09:26: And one of the central precepts of general relativity is that we inhabit the curved spacetime.
  • 09:30: And in that curved spacetime, the orbit of the ISS is a constant-speed straight line.
  • 10:03: We'll reconvene next time our accelerated paths cross in curved spacetime.

2015-05-20: The Real Meaning of E=mc²

  • 02:59: ... that rest mass is a property all observers agree about, much like the space-time interval that we discussed in a previous ...

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

  • 06:41: We might shout you out on the next episode of "Spacetime." Last week we asked whether the first Mars mission should be all women.
  • 06:50: ... below and let us know the kind of material that you'd like to see on "Spacetime." Second, in next week's episode I'll be explaining some more relativity ...

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

  • 00:25: What is spacetime, exactly?
  • 00:46: Spacetime refers to whichever external reality underlies our collective experiences of the space between things and the time between events.
  • 00:57: Why add spacetime as an extra concept?
  • 02:46: It's called the spacetime interval, or spacetime separation between two events.
  • 02:52: ... elapsed times between the same two events, they always agree about the spacetime interval between those ...
  • 03:05: Now if everyone agrees about spacetime intervals, they must signify something.
  • 03:12: We'll notice that since it involves subtraction, a spacetime interval can be positive, zero, or negative.
  • 03:34: ... it appears that the spacetime interval between events A and B tells you whether A can influence B. In ...
  • 04:07: So what does causality have to do with spacetime?
  • 04:13: ... math professor of Einstein's named Hermann Minkowski noticed that the spacetime interval resembles a weird version of a distance formula in what's ...
  • 04:42: That 4D mathematical space is spacetime.
  • 05:01: They correspond to spacetime intervals, which are geometric relations, a non-Euclidean version of the distances between points.
  • 05:31: ... the events of which you were present, then you are a geometric object in spacetime, a line segment joining the points representing the events of your birth ...
  • 05:47: There's no motion through spacetime.
  • 05:57: There's some zen in trying to express what spacetime is without misleading you, but I think the following gets the flavor right.
  • 06:39: So have I told you all there is to know about spacetime?
  • 06:43: All of this has just been a loose introduction to what's called a flat spacetime.
  • 07:05: I'll do my best to answer them at the next causally-connected point of spacetime.
  • 02:46: It's called the spacetime interval, or spacetime separation between two events.
  • 02:52: ... elapsed times between the same two events, they always agree about the spacetime interval between those ...
  • 03:12: We'll notice that since it involves subtraction, a spacetime interval can be positive, zero, or negative.
  • 03:34: ... it appears that the spacetime interval between events A and B tells you whether A can influence B. In other ...
  • 04:13: ... math professor of Einstein's named Hermann Minkowski noticed that the spacetime interval resembles a weird version of a distance formula in what's called a ...
  • 03:05: Now if everyone agrees about spacetime intervals, they must signify something.
  • 05:01: They correspond to spacetime intervals, which are geometric relations, a non-Euclidean version of the distances between points.
  • 00:46: Spacetime refers to whichever external reality underlies our collective experiences of the space between things and the time between events.
  • 02:46: It's called the spacetime interval, or spacetime separation between two events.
  • 06:47: ... relativity entered the mix, we'll find that there are many possible spacetimes with different geometries, making it hard to ascertain which one this ...

2015-04-01: Is the Moon in Majora’s Mask a Black Hole?

  • 06:54: If I did, I'm sure you Space-Timers will let me know.
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