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The Best Episodes of PBS Space Time Season 2018

Every episode of PBS Space Time Season 2018 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of PBS Space Time Season 2018!

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Season 2018 Ratings Summary

"What Do Stars Sound Like?" is the best rated episode of "PBS Space Time" season 2018. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/10/2018. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Horizon Radiation".

  • What Do Stars Sound Like?
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    #1 - What Do Stars Sound Like?

    Season 2018 Episode 1 - Aired 1/10/2018

    We can now map the interiors of stars by “listening” to their harmonies as they vibrate with seismic waves.

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  • Horizon Radiation
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    #2 - Horizon Radiation

    Season 2018 Episode 2 - Aired 1/17/2018

    Learn about Horizon radiation and why it's essential for us to understand as we continue our journey towards the Unruh Effect and Hawking Radiation.

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  • The End of the Habitable Zone
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    #3 - The End of the Habitable Zone

    Season 2018 Episode 3 - Aired 1/24/2018

    The Sun is slowly burning through its fuel. Hydrogen is fused into helium in the Sun’s core, producing energy that keeps it shining, and keeping the Earth warm and hospitable to life. But that fuel WILL run out, after which the Sun will swell into a red giant and flash-fry the Earth. But in fact that frying – well, slow-roasting – will begin much earlier. See, the Sun is getting brighter even now. This has complex, and for the most part terrible implications for life. The end of the world will come sooner than you think.

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  • Kronos: Devourer Of Worlds
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    #4 - Kronos: Devourer Of Worlds

    Season 2018 Episode 4 - Aired 1/31/2018

    What happens when a star eats its planets? Find out on today’s Space Time Journal Club.

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  • What is Energy?
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    #5 - What is Energy?

    Season 2018 Episode 5 - Aired 2/14/2018

    Energy is the most powerful and useful concept in all of physics, but what exactly is it?

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  • The Death of the Sun
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    #6 - The Death of the Sun

    Season 2018 Episode 6 - Aired 2/21/2018

    What exactly will happen when the sun dies?

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  • The Trebuchet Challenge
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    #7 - The Trebuchet Challenge

    Season 2018 Episode 7 - Aired 2/28/2018

    Do you have what it takes to calculate the awesome power of the trebuchet?

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  • Should Space be Privatized?
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    #8 - Should Space be Privatized?

    Season 2018 Episode 8 - Aired 3/7/2018

    Will the future of space exploration be guided by public or private entities? Which is better?

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  • Hawking Radiation
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    #9 - Hawking Radiation

    Season 2018 Episode 9 - Aired 3/15/2018

    It’s the most famous prediction of perhaps the most famous genius of our time ... Stephen Hawking's theory of Hawking Radiation

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  • Scientists Have Detected the First Stars
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    #10 - Scientists Have Detected the First Stars

    Season 2018 Episode 10 - Aired 3/21/2018

    What do the first stars in the universe, dark matter, and superior siege engines have in common?

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  • The Andromeda-Milky Way Collision
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    #11 - The Andromeda-Milky Way Collision

    Season 2018 Episode 11 - Aired 3/28/2018

    The Andromeda galaxy is heading straight toward our own Milky Way. The two galaxies will inevitably collide. Will that be the very last night sky our solar system witnesses?

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  • The Unruh Effect
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    #12 - The Unruh Effect

    Season 2018 Episode 12 - Aired 4/4/2018

    Worried about black holes? Consider this: Every time you accelerate - you generate an event horizon behind you. The more you accelerate away from it the closer it gets. Don’t worry, it can never catch up to you, but the Unruh radiation it generates sure can.

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  • Physics of Life
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    #13 - Physics of Life

    Season 2018 Episode 13 - Aired 4/11/2018

    Our universe is prone to increasing disorder and chaos. So how did it generate the extreme complexity we see in life? Actually, the laws of physics themselves may demand it.

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  • Using Stars to See Gravitational Waves
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    #14 - Using Stars to See Gravitational Waves

    Season 2018 Episode 14 - Aired 4/18/2018

    Now that gravitational waves are definitely a thing, it’s time to think about some of the crazy things we can figure out with them. In some cases we’re going to need a gravitational wave observatory - in fact, we've already built one.

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  • Black Hole Swarms
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    #15 - Black Hole Swarms

    Season 2018 Episode 15 - Aired 4/25/2018

    It’s been conjectured that the center of the Milky Way is swarming with tens of thousands of black holes. And now we’ve actually seen them.

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  • The Star at the End of Time
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    #16 - The Star at the End of Time

    Season 2018 Episode 16 - Aired 5/2/2018

    If we, or any conscious being is around to witness the very distant future our galaxy, what will they see? How long will life persist as the stars begin to die?

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  • How Gaia Changed Astronomy Forever
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    #17 - How Gaia Changed Astronomy Forever

    Season 2018 Episode 17 - Aired 5/9/2018

    The great advances in any science tend to come in sudden leaps. April 25th of 2018 marks the beginning of just such a leap for much of astronomy. In the early hours of the morning, the Gaia mission’s second data release dropped. Our understanding of our own galaxy will never be the same again.

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  • Noether's Theorem and The Symmetries of Reality
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    #18 - Noether's Theorem and The Symmetries of Reality

    Season 2018 Episode 18 - Aired 5/16/2018

    Conservation laws are among the most important tools in physics. They feel as fundamental as you can get. And yet they’re wrong - or at least they’re only right sometimes. These laws are consequences of a much deeper, more fundamental principle: Noether’s theorem.

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  • Why Quantum Information is Never Destroyed
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    #19 - Why Quantum Information is Never Destroyed

    Season 2018 Episode 19 - Aired 5/23/2018

    If you have perfect knowledge of every single particle in the universe, can you use the laws of physics to rewind all the way back to the Big Bang? Is the entire history of the universe perfectly knowable? Or has information somehow lost along the way?

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  • What Survives Inside A Black Hole?
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    #20 - What Survives Inside A Black Hole?

    Season 2018 Episode 20 - Aired 6/13/2018

    We’ve established by now that black holes are weird. The result of absolute gravitational collapse of a massive body: a point of hypothetical infinite density surrounded by an event horizon. At that horizon time is frozen and the fabric of space itself cascades inwards at the speed of light. Nothing can travel faster than light, and so nothing can escape from below the event horizon- not matter, not light, not even information.

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  • The Black Hole Information Paradox
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    #21 - The Black Hole Information Paradox

    Season 2018 Episode 21 - Aired 6/20/2018

    We’ve established by now that black holes are weird. The result of absolute gravitational collapse of a massive body: a point of hypothetical infinite density surrounded by an event horizon. At that horizon time is frozen and the fabric of space itself cascades inwards at the speed of light. Nothing can travel faster than light, and so nothing can escape from below the event horizon- not matter, not light, not even information.

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  • How Asteroid Mining Will Save Earth
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    #22 - How Asteroid Mining Will Save Earth

    Season 2018 Episode 22 - Aired 6/27/2018

    The days of oil may be numbered, but there’s another natural resource that’s never been touched, Asteroids.

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  • Will A New Neutrino Change The Standard Model?
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    #23 - Will A New Neutrino Change The Standard Model?

    Season 2018 Episode 23 - Aired 7/4/2018

    Since the discovery of the Higgs boson, physicists have searched and searched for any hint of new particles. That search has been fruitless. Until, perhaps, now. Today on Space Time Journal Club we’ll look at a paper that reports a compelling hint of a new particle outside the standard model: the sterile neutrino.

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  • Quantum Invariance & The Origin of The Standard Model
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    #24 - Quantum Invariance & The Origin of The Standard Model

    Season 2018 Episode 24 - Aired 7/11/2018

    In simple terms a gauge theory is one that has mathematical parameters, or “degrees of freedom” that can be changed without affecting the predictions of the theory.

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  • The Misunderstood Nature of Entropy
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    #25 - The Misunderstood Nature of Entropy

    Season 2018 Episode 25 - Aired 7/18/2018

    Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics has been credited with defining the arrow of time.

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