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	2022-12-14: How Can Matter Be BOTH Liquid AND Gas? 13:03: ... deep below ground in geothermally active areas can reach the high temperatures and pressures needed for a supercritical state, and even, albeit rarely, ...
	2022-12-08: How Are Quasiparticles Different From Particles? 12:54: In fact at very low temperatures all of the pairs in an enormous network of flowing electrons can all occupy the lowest energy state.
	2022-10-12: The REAL Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets! 18:29: ... raising the fine structure constant.   We routinely reach temperatures where the fine structure constant changes in our   ...
	2022-07-27: How Many States Of Matter Are There? 02:06: ... shifts occur at temperatures specific to the material, for example ice melts into water when ... 02:26: Transition temperatures depend on the material, but they also depend on pressure. 02:59: ... example, at temperatures and pressures above the critical point, the line between gas and liquid ... 02:26: Transition temperatures depend on the material, but they also depend on pressure. 02:06: ... shifts occur at temperatures specific to the material, for example ice melts into water when temperature rises ...
	2022-02-23: Are Cosmic Strings Cracks in the Universe? 00:58: ... the final  phase transition. Keep heating until you hit   temperatures of the extremely early universe and a  phase transition occurs in ...
	2021-12-29: How to Find ALIEN Dyson Spheres 04:10: Dyson’s original notion was simply to search for points of light with temperatures of a few hundred Kelvin, but emitting the power of an entire star. 07:20: Each would produce its own thermal spectrum at different temperatures.
	2021-12-20: What Happens If A Black Hole Hits Earth? 06:02: ... sizable fractions of the speed of light. This generates hilariously high temperatures - much hotter than the cores of a star. This is how we “see” black holes ...
	2021-05-11: How To Know If It's Aliens 02:51: ... first nutrient injection. Hypochlorite should also be destroyed by high temperatures, explaining the non-detection in the control ...
	2021-04-21: The NEW Warp Drive Possibilities 10:19: Energy is distributed along these tracks, potentially as a plasma, in some places at some pretty insane temperatures.
	2020-11-04: Electroweak Theory and the Origin of the Fundamental Forces 10:03: ... high enough temperatures - above the Curie temperature - thermal energy causes the particles to ... 11:48: ... at low temperatures, this symmetry is spontaneously broken - leaving an independent, massless ... 10:03: ... high enough temperatures - above the Curie temperature - thermal energy causes the particles to ...
	2020-10-05: Venus May Have Life! 00:00: ... places in our solar system Venus lands pretty low, with surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead and sulphuric acid ... 09:44: ... survive crazy conditions - including the vacuum of space and the extreme temperatures and pressures of meteor impact or atmospheric ... 00:00: ... places in our solar system Venus lands pretty low, with surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead and sulphuric acid ...
	2020-09-01: How Do We Know What Stars Are Made Of? 09:56: She also developed a way to calculate the temperatures of stars just based on the absorption lines.
	2020-06-22: Building Black Holes in a Lab 09:19: ... or BECs, occur when gases are cooled to almost absolute 0. At these temperatures, quantum effects that are typically microscopic can become macroscopic. ...
	2020-06-15: What Happens After the Universe Ends? 08:46: But that only works below a certain temperature - in the extreme temperatures of the Big Bang, the Higgs field could not grant mass.
	2019-08-06: What Caused the Big Bang? 07:26: ... in flattened field has a high field strength due to the extreme temperatures of that time. As the universe cools the field loses strength and ...
	2019-07-18: Did Time Start at the Big Bang? 08:52: ... the crazy densities and temperatures of the Big Bang singularity, and just after, GR comes into terrible ...
	2019-07-01: Thorium and the Future of Nuclear Energy 02:49: ... metals or molten salts these can be liquid over a very large range of temperatures reducing the chance of accidental boiling and They allow the system to ...
	2018-12-06: Did Life on Earth Come from Space? 00:37: ... similar forces apply when it smacks down at the other end of the journey temperatures in these rocks can rise to several hundred Kelvin in the impacts and ...
	2018-08-15: Quantum Theory's Most Incredible Prediction 14:53: Just radiating it from the solar surface would lead to temperatures below 5800 Kelvin.
	2018-08-01: How Close To The Sun Can Humanity Get? 05:54: ... continuous exposure over many orbits to solar radiation and intense temperatures, upwards of 1,650 Kelvin, while keeping the instruments at room ...
	2018-04-25: Black Hole Swarms 05:09: That gas heats up to crazy temperatures. 05:12: To us, it looks like a range of heat glows-- thermal radiation at different temperatures, with the hottest glowing with extremely energetic X-rays.
	2018-02-21: The Death of the Sun 02:14: That helium is useless as a fuel, at least for now, because helium fusion requires temperatures of around 100 million Kelvin.
	2018-01-31: Kronos: Devourer Of Worlds 04:16: And elements with high condensation temperatures, like silicon and most actual metals, were in extreme over-abundance in Kronos. 05:32: Terrestrial, or rocky, planets are made of elements with high condensation temperatures. 05:45: ... they condense at core temperatures, they remain vaporized in the inner solar system, but come together ...
	2018-01-24: The End of the Habitable Zone 03:41: Normally we associate higher temperatures with increased CO2. 04:40: ... will hold out for a bit but not for long with the ever increasing temperatures dropping CO2 and the evaporating ...
	2017-11-02: The Vacuum Catastrophe 10:28: Temperature is just a measure of the average kinetic energy per particle, so a little bit of energy leads to very high temperatures.
	2017-10-19: The Nature of Nothing 13:06: ... and Saturn may be largely liquid hydrogen, despite the fact that the temperatures there are way higher than the atmospheric pressure evaporation point of ... 14:10: Flo Striker was wondering about the idea of negative kelvin temperatures. 14:26: ... normal positive temperatures, particle kinetic energies span a large range, but always have a ... 14:38: But at negative temperatures, most particles are excited towards the highest possible energy states. 14:26: ... normal positive temperatures, particle kinetic energies span a large range, but always have a distribution ...
	2017-10-11: Absolute Cold 00:37: But what if we reduce temperatures so much that all particle motion ceases? 05:38: At the lowest temperatures, particle motion acquires a sort of quantum buzz.
	2017-08-02: Dark Flow 03:39: ... bathed in a diffuse but searing hot plasma-- hydrogen and helium, with temperatures up to 100 million ...
	2017-04-05: Telescopes on the Moon 04:23: When exposed to the sun, temperatures rise to around 125 Celsius, well, above the boiling point of water. 04:31: But put up some shade, and temperatures drop to minus 150 Celsius or lower. 04:23: When exposed to the sun, temperatures rise to around 125 Celsius, well, above the boiling point of water.
	2017-03-01: The Treasures of Trappist-1 02:30: ... different chemicals condense at different temperatures, planets' distance from the star during formation largely determines the ... 03:48: ... with its star and the other planets could warm it to liquid water temperatures as ... 07:59: That could seriously increase temperatures and volcanic activity and make it a real surfing mecca. 02:30: ... different chemicals condense at different temperatures, planets' distance from the star during formation largely determines the planet's ...
	2017-02-02: The Geometry of Causality 14:02: Well, although quasar accretion disks can reach some pretty crazy temperatures, they aren't particularly dense.
	2017-01-04: How to See Black Holes + Kugelblitz Challenge Answer 00:50: ... gravitational well of a black hole will reach incredible speeds and temperatures, causing the region around black holes to ...
	2016-11-16: Strange Stars 04:38: ... is forged by insane pressures, not by the greater-than-a-trillion-Kelvin temperatures of the Quark Epoch or the Large Hadron ...
	2016-11-02: Quantum Vortices and Superconductivity + Drake Equation Challenge Answers 00:21: These theoretical physicists pioneered work in the understanding of phase transitions of materials at temperatures close to absolute zero. 00:44: However, at extremely cold temperatures, this thermal motion is so small that quantum effects can dominate the behavior of certain materials. 01:33: ... extremely low temperatures, the spins of a material's particles tend to line up, but you get these ... 02:00: ... how the splitting of vortex pairs destroyed superconductivity at higher temperatures. ... 00:21: These theoretical physicists pioneered work in the understanding of phase transitions of materials at temperatures close to absolute zero.
	2016-09-29: Life on Europa? 03:21: ... deep ocean where noxious gases spew out from Earth's mantle and water temperatures exceed 100 degrees ... 04:12: These critters are highly adapted to the extreme temperatures and sulfur-rich environments. 03:21: ... deep ocean where noxious gases spew out from Earth's mantle and water temperatures exceed 100 degrees ...
	2016-06-08: New Fundamental Particle Discovered?? + Challenge Winners! 01:16: The resulting collisions can produce temperatures of several trillion Kelvin. 06:30: In fact, over the past 35 years, it's decreased while temperatures continue to increase. 08:19: ... current trends, I mean the increasing temperatures, more severe droughts, shifting climate zones, reduced ice coverage, et ... 06:30: In fact, over the past 35 years, it's decreased while temperatures continue to increase.
	2016-05-25: Is an Ice Age Coming? 01:18: Temperatures rose, glaciers, and woolly mammoths migrated north, and humans thrived. 05:31: ... floor sea life, whose composition also depends sensitively on ocean temperatures and salinity, and so also on global climate and ice ... 01:18: Temperatures rose, glaciers, and woolly mammoths migrated north, and humans thrived.
	2016-03-02: What’s Wrong With the Big Bang Theory? 01:45: Well, at temperatures above 10 to the 15, or a quadrillion Kelvin, it stops doing that. 03:46: We do think that we can describe gravity and the shape of space time at these densities and temperatures.
	2016-01-06: The True Nature of Matter and Mass 09:55: At extremely high temperatures, the Higgs field takes on a value of 0 everywhere.
	2015-12-16: The Higgs Mechanism Explained 09:05: ... the core of a galaxy with merging super massive black holes should have temperatures raised by an observable amount by the gravitational ...
	2015-03-04: Should We Colonize Venus Instead of Mars? 04:21: ... equipment on Earth can withstand proximity to forest fires with temperatures that reach over 2,000 degrees ...

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