NaN/100 votes#1 - How to See Black Holes + Kugelblitz Challenge Answer
Season 2017 Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/2017
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 - The EM Drive: Fact or Fantasy?
Season 2017 Episode 2 - Aired 1/17/2017
Because you demanded it … we break down the EM Drive!
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#3 - The Phantom Singularity
Season 2017 Episode 3 - Aired 1/19/2017
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 - Why Quasars are so Awesome
Season 2017 Episode 4 - Aired 1/25/2017
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 - The Geometry of Causality
Season 2017 Episode 5 - Aired 2/2/2017
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 - Telescopes of Tomorrow
Season 2017 Episode 6 - Aired 2/15/2017
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#7 - The Eye of Sauron Reveals a Forming Solar System!
Season 2017 Episode 7 - Aired 2/22/2017
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 - The Treasures of Trappist-1
Season 2017 Episode 8 - Aired 3/1/2017
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 - The Race to a Habitable Exoplanet - Time Warp Challenge
Season 2017 Episode 9 - Aired 3/8/2017
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 - Time Crystals!
Season 2017 Episode 10 - Aired 3/15/2017
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 - Superluminal Time Travel + Time Warp Challenge Answer
Season 2017 Episode 11 - Aired 3/22/2017
Find out how traveling faster than light and traveling back in time are the same thing.
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#12 - How Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole
Season 2017 Episode 12 - Aired 3/29/2017
Find out how time and space switch roles when we move beyond the event horizon of the black hole.
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#13 - Telescopes on the Moon
Season 2017 Episode 13 - Aired 4/5/2017
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 - The Oh My God Particle
Season 2017 Episode 14 - Aired 4/19/2017
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 - Are You a Boltzmann Brain?
Season 2017 Episode 15 - Aired 4/26/2017
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 - Are We Living in an Ancestor Simulation?
Season 2017 Episode 16 - Aired 5/3/2017
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 - The Great American Eclipse
Season 2017 Episode 17 - Aired 5/10/2017
The first total solar eclipse in over 40 years is about to hit the United States.
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#18 - Martian Evolution
Season 2017 Episode 18 - Aired 5/17/2017
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 - The Fate of the First Stars
Season 2017 Episode 19 - Aired 5/31/2017
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 - Supervoids vs Colliding Universes!
Season 2017 Episode 20 - Aired 6/7/2017
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 - Anti-Matter and Quantum Relativity
Season 2017 Episode 21 - Aired 6/21/2017
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 - The First Quantum Field Theory
Season 2017 Episode 22 - Aired 6/28/2017
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 - Feynman's Infinite Quantum Paths
Season 2017 Episode 23 - Aired 7/7/2017
How to predict the path of a quantum particle. Part 3 in our Quantum Field Theory Series.
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#24 - Solving the Impossible in Quantum Field Theory
Season 2017 Episode 24 - Aired 7/12/2017
How do you calculate infinite quantum outcomes? Feynman Diagrams.
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#25 - The Real Star Wars
Season 2017 Episode 25 - Aired 7/19/2017
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 N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/4/2017. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "The EM Drive: Fact or Fantasy?".