Do Black Holes Have to Be Black?
S10 E17 - 15m 32s
It turns out there is a way to make a coloured black hole—as long as by colour you mean quantum chromodynamic charge.
S10 E17 - 15m 32s
It turns out there is a way to make a coloured black hole—as long as by colour you mean quantum chromodynamic charge.
S10 E16 - 18m 26s
Nobel laureate Roger Penrose is widely held to be one of the most brilliant living physicists for his wide-ranging work from black holes to cosmology. And then there’s his idea about how consciousness is caused by quantum processes. Most scientists have dismissed this as a cute eccentricity—a guy like Roger gets to have at least one crazy theory without being demoted from the smartypants club.
S10 E15 - 16m 28s
Warp drives may or may not be possible, but if they are then could a distant alien civilization’s warp fields produce gravitational waves that we could see here on Earth? According to a recent study.. Actually maybe, at least eventually. And we now know just what to look for and how to look for it.
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