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- Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking.
- Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed.
- A laconic, chain-smoking barber blackmails his wife's boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning, but his plan goes terribly wrong.
- Awaiting a visit by a committee that could give his company an award for excellence, the owner of an industrial scales manufacturing business tries to resolve any problems from his workers in enough time.
- A guy tries to weasel out of his late fees at the local video store only to discover the video store's database has access to intimate details of his past - and his future.
- The EGBs investigate the mysterious disappearance of a Chinatown merchant who is possessed by an ancient bone-stealing demon.
- A pair of bank robbers are quietly taking LA by storm but Charlie delivers an equation that may predict their next location. But these bank robbers aren't as respectful as the bank videos reveal.
- At the beginning of the century, discoveries about the hidden workings of the everyday world suggest all is not as it seems. Quantum theory, relativity, nuclear power, and clues about the birth and death of the universe have rocked our deepest beliefs. Mysteries of the Universe journeys from the subatomic world of the atom to the farthest reaches of space and time, and into the laboratories of the men and women whose work has forever altered physics and astronomy.
- Man is humbled by the uncertainty of what he can know, but still has the itch to gain absolute knowledge, often with tragic consequences.
- Episode: (2020)2018– 15mTV EpisodeCreating a theory that unites the weak nuclear force and electromagnetism was the first step toward uniting all four forces of our universe. But in our everyday world these two forces appear very different. So it was a great intellectual leap involving the work of several physicists. It also required the existence of the now world famous Higgs boson.
- 2010– 13mTV EpisodeThe problem with reality at the atomic level is matter behaves like a particle and a wave. Matter travels as a wave but we tend to experience it as particles. Quantum mechanics handle this really, really well. But our minds have trouble grasping this wave-particle duality. Dominic describes some of the specific quantum behaviors we still struggle to grasp.
- The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states the more accurately you measure one variable, such as the phase of a wave, the less accurately you can measure its complementary variable, such as the amplitude of the wave. This is relevant to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory where amplitude is unimportant but phase is. So the LIGO team is preparing to use quantum entanglement to measure phase more accurately to increase the instrument's detection limit.
- Is science-fiction rooted in science? Has science caught up to science-fiction, past and present? Is there any scientific technology that has surpassed science-fiction? This episode explores these questions and more.
- The Higgs Field is unique in that its minimum energy level is not zero. And it could have more than one energy minimum. If our universe is in one of the higher energy minimum it is possible that a bubble could form at a lower minimum that expands at the speed of light into the universe. That is vacuum decay. So the question is; is out universe fortunate to be in the lowest energy minimum? Scientists don't think so.
- 2018– 17mTV EpisodeThe sun derives it's energy form the fusion of hydrogen into helium but, as Arvin explains, it doesn't occur in just one step. Fusion is only successful because the helium nucleus is more stable than the a single proton, the hydrogen nucleus. To understand why Arvin looks deep into the helium nucleus to see how the quarks that make up the protons and neutrons behave.
- In a superconductor electrons are thought to pair up into "Cooper Pairs" that behave like bosons whereas single electrons are fermions. These boson-like pairs are in their lowest energy state, known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, so they are not scattered by the protons in the superconductor and can move with no resistance.
- Andrew derives the mass of a particle from the energy of a wave in a field.
- 2007–201922mTV-PG8.0 (3.8K)TV EpisodeSheldon takes offense when Leonard wants to attend a party with Wil Wheaton, while Bernadette tries to block Howard's opportunity to go into outer space.
- As you well know only part of an iceberg is visible while most of it is invisible below the surface. In the overview of our perception of the quantum world the iceberg is used as an analogy where some concepts are well understood but most are baffling.
- Here are several classic paradoxes presented in iceberg format so the get stranger and more difficult to explain.
- In beta decay a neutron releases a W boson, the charge carrier of the weak nuclear force, to become a proton. But this only occurs if the W boson has a very low mass compared to it's 'normal' mass which is highly improbable. So the weak force appears weak. In contrast the Top quark has a mass larger than the W boson so it decays to a bottom quark almost instantly and the weak force appears strong relative to the other fundamental forces.
- Episode: (2022)2013– 14mTV EpisodeHawking's concept of black hole evaporation is explained along with an experiment of a similar physical behavior that suggested he may be correct.
- 2021– 11mTV Episode
- 2012– 10mTV EpisodeIn 1935 Hideki Yukawa postulated that the nucleus of the atom was held together by a strong force that over powered the electromagnetic repulsion of the protons. He further postulated that a particle was exchanged between the protons and neutrons to cause this force. Calculating an approximate mass for the particle of about 100 MeV he called it a meson. Twelve year later Giuseppe Occhialini discovered the pi meson with a mass of 146 MeV.