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The Best Episodes of PBS Space Time Season 2017

Every episode of PBS Space Time Season 2017 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of PBS Space Time Season 2017!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    PBS Space Time Season 2017 Episode 1 - How to See Black Holes + Kugelblitz Challenge Answer
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    #1 - How to See Black Holes + Kugelblitz Challenge Answer

    S2017:E1

    Find out how scientists are mapping the black holes throughout the Milky Way and beyond as well as the answer to the Escape the Kugelblitz Challenge Question. Were you able to save humanity?

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  2. PBS Space Time Season 2017 Episode 2 - The EM Drive: Fact or Fantasy?
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    #2 - The EM Drive: Fact or Fantasy?

    S2017:E2

    Because you demanded it … we break down the EM Drive!

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  3. PBS Space Time Season 2017 Episode 3 - The Phantom Singularity
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    #3 - The Phantom Singularity

    S2017:E3

    Isaac Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation tells us that there is a singularity to be found within a black hole, but scientists and mathematicians have found a number of issues with Newton’s equations. They don’t always accurately represent reality. Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity is a more complete theory of gravity. So does using the General Theory of Relativity eliminate the singularity? No. Not only does it concur with Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation but it also reveals a second singularity, not at the center of the black hole but at the event horizon.

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  4. PBS Space Time Season 2017 Episode 4 - Why Quasars are so Awesome
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    #4 - Why Quasars are so Awesome

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    When Quasars were first discovered the amount of light pouring out of such a tiny dot in space seemed impossible. A hysterical flurry of hypothesizing followed: swarms of neutron stars, alien civilizations harnessing their entire galaxy’s power, bright, fast-moving objects being ejected by our own galaxy’s core. But by the 1980’s we were converging on the most awesome explanation. It goes a little like this: Take a black hole of millions to billions times the mass of the sun. Where from? It turns out every decent-sized galaxy has one at its core. Now drive gas into the galactic core. One way this can happen is when galaxies merge and grow. That gas descends into the waiting black hole’s gravitational well and gains incredible speed on the way. It is swept up in a raging whirlpool around the black hole that we call an accretion disk, where its energy of motion is turned into heat. The heat-glow of the accretion disk is so bright that we can see quasars to the ends of the universe.

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  5. PBS Space Time Season 2017 Episode 5 - The Geometry of Causality
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    #5 - The Geometry of Causality

    S2017:E5

    In this episode we dive deeper into the relationship between space and time and explore how we can geometrically map the causality of the universe and increase our understanding of how time and distance relate to one another.

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  6. PBS Space Time Season 2017 Episode 6 - Telescopes of Tomorrow
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    #6 - Telescopes of Tomorrow

    S2017:E6

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  7. PBS Space Time Season 2017 Episode 7 - The Eye of Sauron Reveals a Forming Solar System!
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    #7 - The Eye of Sauron Reveals a Forming Solar System!

    S2017:E7

    Fomalhaut is a massive young star surrounded by a ring of dust debris that can tell us a great deal about the formation of our own solar system.

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  8. PBS Space Time Season 2017 Episode 8 - The Treasures of Trappist-1
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    #8 - The Treasures of Trappist-1

    S2017:E8

    Can humanity survive on one of the seven earth-like Trappist-1 planets? Last week, seven earth-like planets were discovered orbiting a Red Dwarf star 39 light years away. Each one could be capable of supporting life.

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  9. PBS Space Time Season 2017 Episode 9 - The Race to a Habitable Exoplanet - Time Warp Challenge
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    #9 - The Race to a Habitable Exoplanet - Time Warp Challenge

    S2017:E9

    You’ve discovered a habitable exoplanet, but so has an an evil interplanetary mining corporation. Can you get to the planet before they strip it bare and leave it unsuitable for life? You’re going to need a ship, the Lorentz Transformation and the Wait Equation. Hang on, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

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  10. PBS Space Time Season 2017 Episode 10 - Time Crystals!
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    #10 - Time Crystals!

    S2017:E10

    In this episode of the Space Time Journal Club Matt discusses how two independent research teams created their own Time Crystals, a form of matter that breaks time translational symmetry and could be used in quantum computers.

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  11. PBS Space Time Season 2017 Episode 11 - Superluminal Time Travel + Time Warp Challenge Answer
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    #11 - Superluminal Time Travel + Time Warp Challenge Answer

    S2017:E11

    Find out how traveling faster than light and traveling back in time are the same thing.

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  12. PBS Space Time Season 2017 Episode 12 - How Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole
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    #12 - How Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole

    S2017:E12

    Find out how time and space switch roles when we move beyond the event horizon of the black hole.

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  13. PBS Space Time Season 2017 Episode 13 - Telescopes on the Moon
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    #13 - Telescopes on the Moon

    S2017:E13

    Find out about China’s current telescope on the moon and what the future plans are for mounting larger telescopes on the lunar surface.

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  14. PBS Space Time Season 2017 Episode 14 - The Oh My God Particle
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    #14 - The Oh My God Particle

    S2017:E14

    In 1991 a single atomic nucleus slammed into our atmosphere with the intensity of a macroscopic object. It’s been named The Oh My God Particle.

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  15. PBS Space Time Season 2017 Episode 15 - Are You a Boltzmann Brain?
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    #15 - Are You a Boltzmann Brain?

    S2017:E15

    Was an incredible drop in entropy responsible for the Big Bang? If that’s the case, this would lead us to conclude that a great many other things are possible, including the likelihood that you are a Boltzmann Brain.

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  16. PBS Space Time Season 2017 Episode 16 - Are We Living in an Ancestor Simulation?
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    #16 - Are We Living in an Ancestor Simulation?

    S2017:E16

    Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with Matt to discuss Ancestor Simulations. And check out Matt and Neil discussing how sure we are about our map of the universe

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  17. PBS Space Time Season 2017 Episode 17 - The Great American Eclipse
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    #17 - The Great American Eclipse

    S2017:E17

    The first total solar eclipse in over 40 years is about to hit the United States.

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  18. PBS Space Time Season 2017 Episode 18 - Martian Evolution
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    #18 - Martian Evolution

    S2017:E18

    What will become of humanity after spend a few hundred years on Mars? What will happen after a few thousand? Evolution has, and still is, shaping humanity in rather drastic ways. How long will humans stop being human and become Martian?

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  19. PBS Space Time Season 2017 Episode 19 - The Fate of the First Stars
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    #19 - The Fate of the First Stars

    S2017:E19

    Soon after the Big Bang, the first generation of monstrously large stars ignited, lit up the universe, and then died. The resulting swarms of supernova explosions enriched the universe with the first heavy elements and LOTs of black holes. They shaped everything that came after. These were the stars of Population III, and they are one of the most enduring mysteries in astrophysics.

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  20. PBS Space Time Season 2017 Episode 20 - Supervoids vs Colliding Universes!
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    #20 - Supervoids vs Colliding Universes!

    S2017:E20

    If you study a map of the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB, you may notice a large, deep blue splotch on the lower right. This area, creatively named the Cold Spot. Is this feature a statistical fluke, the signature of vast supervoids, or even the imprint of another universe?

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  21. PBS Space Time Season 2017 Episode 21 - Anti-Matter and Quantum Relativity
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    #21 - Anti-Matter and Quantum Relativity

    S2017:E21

    Paul Dirac’s insights into the nature of Quantum Mechanics laid the foundation for Quantum Field Theory and predicted the existence of anti-matter.

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  22. PBS Space Time Season 2017 Episode 22 - The First Quantum Field Theory
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    #22 - The First Quantum Field Theory

    S2017:E22

    Quantum mechanics is perhaps the most unintuitive theory ever devised. And yet it’s also the most successful, in terms of sheer predictive power. Simply by following the math of quantum mechanics, incredible discoveries have been made. Its wild success tells us that the mathematical description provided by quantum mechanics reflects deep truths about reality. And by far the most successful, most predictive formulation of quantum mechanics is quantum field theory. It is our best description we have of the fundamental workings of reality. And the first part of quantum field theory that was derived – quantum electrodynamics – is the most precise, most accurate of all.

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  23. PBS Space Time Season 2017 Episode 23 - Feynman's Infinite Quantum Paths
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    #23 - Feynman's Infinite Quantum Paths

    S2017:E23

    How to predict the path of a quantum particle. Part 3 in our Quantum Field Theory Series.

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  24. PBS Space Time Season 2017 Episode 24 - Solving the Impossible in Quantum Field Theory
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    #24 - Solving the Impossible in Quantum Field Theory

    S2017:E24

    How do you calculate infinite quantum outcomes? Feynman Diagrams.

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  25. PBS Space Time Season 2017 Episode 25 - The Real Star Wars
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    #25 - The Real Star Wars

    S2017:E25

    Anti-Satellite weaponry, giant X-ray lasers and kinetic impact missiles nicknamed the “Rods from God.” Find out about the history of the real star wars that have been waged over the past 50 years.

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Season 2017 Ratings Summary

"How to See Black Holes + Kugelblitz Challenge Answer" is the best rated episode of "PBS Space Time" season 2017. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/4/2017. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The EM Drive: Fact or Fantasy?".