359 | Solo: Theories of Dark Energy
The cosmological constant, as discussed last episode, provides a perfectly good (thus far) explanation for why we observe the universe […]
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358 | Solo: Vacuum Energy and the Cosmological Constant
The most surprising discovery in fundamental physics during my career as a scientist was undoubtedly the acceleration of the universe,
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355 | Solo: Looking Quantum Mechanics in the Eyeball
One of the major obstacles to understanding quantum mechanics is the difficulty we have in simply accepting what the theory
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349 | Daniel Harlow on What Quantum Gravity Teaches Us About Quantum Mechanics
There is something special about gravity. After decades of effort, there is still no convergence on the right way to
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340 | Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on What Matters and Why It Matters
At any given moment, an uncountable number of events are happening, but only some of them matter to us. What
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338 | Ryan Patterson on the Physics of Neutrinos
The story goes that Wolfgang Pauli, who first proposed the existence of neutrinos, was embarrassed to have done so, as
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335 | Andrew Jaffe on Models, Probability, and the Universe
Science has an incredibly impressive track record of uncovering nonintuitive ideas about the universe that turn out to be surprisingly
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334 | Daniel Whiteson on the Physics of and by Aliens
The universe as revealed by physics is objective: it’s out there, existing and behaving in ways that are completely independent
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331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse
Certain features of our universe seem unnatural to us. These include “constants of nature” such as the cosmological constant and
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323 | Jacob Barandes on Indivisible Stochastic Quantum Mechanics
The search for a foundational theory of quantum mechanics that all physicists can agree on remains active. Over the last
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