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Time- The Vastness of Time
For more, visit http://science.discovery.com/videos | Physicist Michio Kaku hits the open road to illustrate the vastness of time.
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Albert Einstein | The Humorous Humanitarian | Biography
Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein is one of the most influential and well-known physicists in history. Learn more about his life and work in this mini biography. #Biography Subscribe for more Biography: http://aetv.us/2AsWMPH Delve...
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Beyond Einstein
Albert Einstein spent his last thirty years unsuccessfully searching for a 'unified theory' - a single master principle to describe everything in the universe, from tiny subatomic particles to immense clusters of galaxies. In the decades...
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Lawrence Krauss on the Universes "Baby Pictures"
Cosmologist and theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss takes us on a tour of the early universe—mere moments after the Big Bang. Find out what the universe was like back then, and how scientists today are studying its cosmological...
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Can You Define the Immeasurable?
What is infinity? Can you define something that, by definition, has no boundaries? A subject extensively studied by philosophers, mathematicians, and more recently, physicists and cosmologists, infinity still stands as an enigma of the...
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Multiverse: In the Beginning
What if the big bang that produced our universe wasn't the only one? Is it possible that universes are being created all the time? Some scientists suspect a theory supposing a collection of universes—dubbed the multiverse—could answer...
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A Woman of Genius
Get a glimpse into the life of the famed physicist and chemist, born Marie Sklodowska on November 7, 1867. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (eventually two), and her work isolating the two radioactive elements, Polonium and...
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The Moth: Chasing My Memories - Lucy Hawking
Lucy Hawking, daughter of Stephen Hawking, reminisces about her family and discovers the limitations of physics. The Moth and World Science Festival team up to bring you poignant, hilarious and unpredictable stories of science....
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The Moth: The Singing Janitor - Leon Lederman
LEON LEDERMAN - Physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics Leon Lederman was the Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, and Pritzker Professor of Science at Illinois Institute of Technology in...
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What happens when Black Holes Collide
When two black holes spiral towards each other and collide, they produce powerful gravitational waves. Scientists do not know much about these waves right now, but within about a decade, they will have collected pictures of the waveforms...
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The Advantages of A Finite Universe
Physicist Andreas Albrecht wants to leave behind the infinite pocket universes suggested by multiverse theory, and create a theory of a finite universe—one that's not fraught with all the probability, counting, and measurement problems...
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Multiverse: Living in the Black
Einstein's long-sought "theory of everything" ultimately eluded him, and physicist Andrei Linde wonders if Einstein wanted something more than we can actually give him. Maybe the answer hinges on boldly tossing out the ultimate...
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A Deep Dive Into Infinity
A subject extensively studied by philosophers, mathematicians, and now recently, physicists, infinity is a uniquely universal enigma within the academic world. Thinkers clash over questions such as: Does infinity exist? What types of...
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Infinity: The Science of Endless
"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man," said David Hilbert, one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th century. A subject extensively studied by philosophers, mathematicians, and more...
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The Nano Robots Inside You
Inside of you, at all times, there are trillions of natural nano robots walking around, taking out the trash, and packaging strands of DNA. Below the calm, ordered exterior of a living organism lies a complex collection of molecular...
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Debate of Current Theories in Quantum Mechanics
At Measure for Measure, physicist and World Science Festival co-founder Brian Greene moderates a debate of the current theories of quantum physics. David Z. Albert, Sean Carroll, Sheldon Goldstein, and Ruedlger Schack join the...
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Beyond Einstein: In Search of the Ultimate Explanation
Albert Einstein spent his last thirty years unsuccessfully searching for a ‘unified theory’ — a single master principle to describe everything in the universe, from tiny subatomic particles to immense clusters of galaxies. In the decades...
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Science and Story: The Write Angle
Whether it’s a literary classic like Frankenstein or the blog posts of a renowned physicist, isn’t all successful science writing, at its core, the result of a compelling narrative? Join these award winning writers in conversation about...
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NOTHING: The Science of Emptiness
Why is there something rather than nothing? And what does ‘nothing’ really mean? More than a philosophical musing, understanding nothing may be the key to unlocking deep mysteries of the universe, from dark energy to why particles have...
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A Matter of Time
The nature of time is an age-old conundrum for physicists, philosophers, biologists and theologians. The Newtonian picture of time—a kind of cosmic clock that ticks off time in a manner that applies identically to everyone and...
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The Moth: Life on a Mobius Strip by Janna Levin
Physicist and WSF alum Janna Levin is accustomed to the mind-bending turns that the theoretical far reaches of the universe can take. But for all the unpredictability of space-time, it was life here on Earth that threw her for a loop....
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What Do Neutrino Oscillations Tell Us?
During The Elusive Neutrino and the Nature of the Cosmos, physicist Janet Conrad used a pair of tuning forks to demonstrate the ability waves have to cancel each other out. In her research, she has has found neutrinos to be doing the...
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What is Cherenkov Light?
Physicist Janet Conrad explains the phenomena of Cherenkov light, the eerie blue glow often associated with nuclear reactors. Cherenkov light is emitted when charged particles travelling through a medium move faster than light—which has...
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Finding New Physics in Quiet Particles
In a room full of subatomic particles, neutrinos keep to themselves, and physicist Janet Conrad admires their independence. At The Elusive Neutrino and the Nature of the Cosmos, she explains that their tendency to not interact with...