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Seasons: 11
Total Episodes: 374
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Status: Returning Series
First Air Date: Feb 11, 2015
Recent Air Date: Apr 18, 2024
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Original Language: English
Age Rating: NR
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Episodes
Episode 1
04 January 2017 - How to See Black Holes + Kugelblitz Challenge Answer
Find out how scientists are mapping the black holes throughout the Milky Way and beyond as well as the answer to the Escape the Kugelblitz Challenge Question. Were you able to save humanity?
Episode 2
17 January 2017 - The EM Drive: Fact or Fantasy?
Because you demanded it … we break down the EM Drive!
Episode 3
19 January 2017 - The Phantom Singularity
Isaac Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation tells us that there is a singularity to be found within a black hole, but scientists and mathematicians have found a number of issues with Newton’s equations. They don’t always accurately represent reality. Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity is a more complete theory of gravity. So does using the General Theory of Relativity eliminate the singularity? No. Not only does it concur with Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation but it also reveals a second singularity, not at the center of the black hole but at the event horizon.
Episode 4
25 January 2017 - Why Quasars are so Awesome
When Quasars were first discovered the amount of light pouring out of such a tiny dot in space seemed impossible. A hysterical flurry of hypothesizing followed: swarms of neutron stars, alien civilizations harnessing their entire galaxy’s power, bright, fast-moving objects being ejected by our own galaxy’s core. But by the 1980’s we were converging on the most awesome explanation. It goes a little like this: Take a black hole of millions to billions times the mass of the sun. Where from? It turns out every decent-sized galaxy has one at its core. Now drive gas into the galactic core. One way this can happen is when galaxies merge and grow. That gas descends into the waiting black hole’s gravitational well and gains incredible speed on the way. It is swept up in a raging whirlpool around the black hole that we call an accretion disk, where its energy of motion is turned into heat. The heat-glow of the accretion disk is so bright that we can see quasars to the ends of the universe.
Episode 5
02 February 2017 - The Geometry of Causality
In this episode we dive deeper into the relationship between space and time and explore how we can geometrically map the causality of the universe and increase our understanding of how time and distance relate to one another.
Episode 6
15 February 2017 - Telescopes of Tomorrow
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Episode 7
22 February 2017 - The Eye of Sauron Reveals a Forming Solar System!
Fomalhaut is a massive young star surrounded by a ring of dust debris that can tell us a great deal about the formation of our own solar system.
Episode 8
01 March 2017 - The Treasures of Trappist-1
Can humanity survive on one of the seven earth-like Trappist-1 planets? Last week, seven earth-like planets were discovered orbiting a Red Dwarf star 39 light years away. Each one could be capable of supporting life.
Episode 9
08 March 2017 - The Race to a Habitable Exoplanet - Time Warp Challenge
You’ve discovered a habitable exoplanet, but so has an an evil interplanetary mining corporation. Can you get to the planet before they strip it bare and leave it unsuitable for life? You’re going to need a ship, the Lorentz Transformation and the Wait Equation. Hang on, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
Episode 10
15 March 2017 - Time Crystals!
In this episode of the Space Time Journal Club Matt discusses how two independent research teams created their own Time Crystals, a form of matter that breaks time translational symmetry and could be used in quantum computers.
Episode 11
22 March 2017 - Superluminal Time Travel + Time Warp Challenge Answer
Find out how traveling faster than light and traveling back in time are the same thing.
Episode 12
29 March 2017 - How Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole
Find out how time and space switch roles when we move beyond the event horizon of the black hole.
Episode 13
05 April 2017 - Telescopes on the Moon
Find out about China’s current telescope on the moon and what the future plans are for mounting larger telescopes on the lunar surface.
Episode 14
19 April 2017 - The Oh My God Particle
In 1991 a single atomic nucleus slammed into our atmosphere with the intensity of a macroscopic object. It’s been named The Oh My God Particle.
Episode 15
26 April 2017 - Are You a Boltzmann Brain?
Was an incredible drop in entropy responsible for the Big Bang? If that’s the case, this would lead us to conclude that a great many other things are possible, including the likelihood that you are a Boltzmann Brain.
Episode 16
03 May 2017 - Are We Living in an Ancestor Simulation?
Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with Matt to discuss Ancestor Simulations. And check out Matt and Neil discussing how sure we are about our map of the universe
Episode 17
10 May 2017 - The Great American Eclipse
The first total solar eclipse in over 40 years is about to hit the United States.
Episode 18
17 May 2017 - Martian Evolution
What will become of humanity after spend a few hundred years on Mars? What will happen after a few thousand? Evolution has, and still is, shaping humanity in rather drastic ways. How long will humans stop being human and become Martian?
Episode 19
31 May 2017 - The Fate of the First Stars
Soon after the Big Bang, the first generation of monstrously large stars ignited, lit up the universe, and then died. The resulting swarms of supernova explosions enriched the universe with the first heavy elements and LOTs of black holes. They shaped everything that came after. These were the stars of Population III, and they are one of the most enduring mysteries in astrophysics.
Episode 20
07 June 2017 - Supervoids vs Colliding Universes!
If you study a map of the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB, you may notice a large, deep blue splotch on the lower right. This area, creatively named the Cold Spot. Is this feature a statistical fluke, the signature of vast supervoids, or even the imprint of another universe?
Episode 21
21 June 2017 - Anti-Matter and Quantum Relativity
Paul Dirac’s insights into the nature of Quantum Mechanics laid the foundation for Quantum Field Theory and predicted the existence of anti-matter.
Episode 22
28 June 2017 - The First Quantum Field Theory
Quantum mechanics is perhaps the most unintuitive theory ever devised. And yet it’s also the most successful, in terms of sheer predictive power. Simply by following the math of quantum mechanics, incredible discoveries have been made. Its wild success tells us that the mathematical description provided by quantum mechanics reflects deep truths about reality. And by far the most successful, most predictive formulation of quantum mechanics is quantum field theory. It is our best description we have of the fundamental workings of reality. And the first part of quantum field theory that was derived – quantum electrodynamics – is the most precise, most accurate of all.
Episode 23
07 July 2017 - Feynman's Infinite Quantum Paths
How to predict the path of a quantum particle. Part 3 in our Quantum Field Theory Series.
Episode 24
12 July 2017 - Solving the Impossible in Quantum Field Theory
How do you calculate infinite quantum outcomes? Feynman Diagrams.
Episode 25
19 July 2017 - The Real Star Wars
Anti-Satellite weaponry, giant X-ray lasers and kinetic impact missiles nicknamed the “Rods from God.” Find out about the history of the real star wars that have been waged over the past 50 years.
Episode 26
26 July 2017 - The Secrets of Feynman Diagrams
Unlock the secrets of Feynman Diagrams. Part 5 in our Quantum Field Theory series. And if you're submitting an answer to our challenge question email your answer by August 2nd to [email protected] with the subject line "Feynman Diagram Challenge."
Episode 27
02 August 2017 - Dark Flow
Why does the universe seem to be moving in one particular direction?
Episode 28
10 August 2017 - The One-Electron Universe
Could it be that all the electrons in the universe are simply one, single electron moving back and forth through time?
Episode 29
16 August 2017 - Extraterrestrial Superstorms
Earth has its share of monster storms, but even our most powerful hurricanes are a breeze compared to the great, planet-sized tempests of the gas giants.
Episode 30
24 August 2017 - First Detection of Life
What does life look like from space?
Episode 31
30 August 2017 - White Holes
Black holes are very well known but... What is a White Hole?
Episode 32
13 September 2017 - Neutron Stars Collide in New LIGO Signal?
LIGO may have just detected gravitational waves from the collision of two Neutron Stars.
Episode 33
20 September 2017 - The Future of Space Telescope
The mysteries of our universe seem limitless. However to unlock them, we’re going to need some incredible technologies to peer deeper and more sharply into space time.
Episode 34
28 September 2017 - Are the Fundamental Constants Changing?
The laws of physics are the same everywhere in the universe. At least we astrophysicists hope so. After all, it’s hard to unravel the complexities of distant parts of the universe if we don’t know the basic rules. But what if this is wrong? There is a hint of evidence that the fundamental constants that govern our universe may evolve over time, and even from one location to another.
Episode 35
04 October 2017 - When Quasars Collide STJC
So what happens when two Super Massive Black Holes collide? We may be about to find out, because astronomers have spotted a pair of them in a close binary orbit for the very first time.
Episode 36
11 October 2017 - Absolute Cold
Can we ever achieve absolute cold?
Episode 37
19 October 2017 - The Nature of Nothing
It turns out that "nothing" is one of the most interesting somethings in all of physics.
Episode 38
25 October 2017 - The Missing Mass Mystery
For years, astronomers have been unable to find up to half of the matter in the universe. We may just have solved this problem. Fingers crossed.
Episode 39
03 November 2017 - The Vacuum Catastrophe
If vacuum energy really does have the enormous value predicted by quantum field theory then our gently expanding, geometrically flat universe shouldn’t exist. This is the vacuum catastrophe.
Episode 40
08 November 2017 - Zero-Point Energy Demystified
Let’s talk about the mysterious zero-point energy and what it really can, and really can’t do.
Episode 41
22 November 2017 - Suicide Space Robots
Let’s take a moment to remember the selfless sacrifices made by some amazing robotic explorers. And be sure to learn more about your personal DNA story by going to 23andMe.com/spacetime and taking advantage of their special holiday offer.
Episode 42
29 November 2017 - Citizen Science + Zero-Point Challenge Answer
The future of science is you.
Episode 43
06 December 2017 - Understanding the Uncertainty Principle with Quantum Fourier Series
Sometimes intuitive, large-scale phenomena can give us incredible insights into the extremely unintuitive world of quantum mechanics.
Episode 44
13 December 2017 - The Origin of Our First Interstellar Visitor
We were recently visited by a traveler from outside our solar system. This is the first time we’ve ever seen an object that came to us from interstellar space. It's name is 'Oumuamua.
Episode 45
20 December 2017 - Extinction by Gamma-Ray Burst
Find out about the last time and the next time the Earth will be hit by a Gamma-ray Burst.
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