World Science Festival (2016)
The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Their mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future.
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Episodes
- 1 1. Infinite Worlds: A Journey through Parallel Universes2016-06-05The multiverse hypothesis, suggesting that our universe is but one of perhaps infinitely many, speaks to the very nature of reality. Join physicist Brian Greene, cosmologists Alan
- 2 2. Quantum Reality: Space, Time, and Entanglement2016-06-05Ninety years after the historic double-slit experiment, the quantum revolution shows no sign of slowing. Join a vibrant conversation with renowned leaders in theoretical physics, q
- 3 3. A Thin Sheet of Reality: The Universe as a Hologram2016-06-05What we touch. What we smell. What we feel. They’re all part of our reality. But what if life as we know it reflects only one side of the full story? Some of the world’s leading ph
- 4 4. Beyond Beauty: The Predictive Power of Symmetry2016-06-05From a bee’s hexagonal honeycomb to the elliptical paths of planets, symmetry has long been recognized as a vital quality of nature. Einstein saw symmetry hidden in the fabric of s
- 5 5. Engineering the Brain: Deploying a New Neural Toolkit2016-06-05A new generation of technology is revolutionizing neuroscience, allowing a closer study of the brain than had ever seemed possible. The techniques are hybrids of optics, genetics,
- 6 6. Gravitational Waves: A New Era of Astronomy Begins2016-06-05On September 14th, 2015, a ripple in the fabric of space, created by the violent collision of two distant black holes over a billion years ago, washed across the Earth. As it did,
- 7 7. Hidden Dimensions: Exploring Hyperspace2016-06-05Extra dimensions of space — the idea that we are immersed in hyperspace — may be key to explaining the fundamental nature of the universe. Relativity introduced time as the fourth
- 8 8. Neutrinos, Matter, and Antimatter: The Yin Yang of the Big Bang2016-06-05What happened to all of the universe's antimatter? Can a particle be its own anti-particle? And how do you build an experiment to find out? In this program, particle physicists rev
- 9 9. How Music Affects Your Brain: Notes on the Folds2016-06-05Scientists are now finally discovering what thinkers, musicians, or even any of us with a Spotify account and a set of headphones could have told you on instinct: music lights up m
- 10 10. Measure for Measure: Quantum Physics and Reality2016-06-05When no one is looking, a particle has near limitless potential: it can be nearly anywhere. But measure it, and the particle snaps to one position. How do subatomic objects shed th
- 11 11. The Illusion of Certainty: Risk, Probability, and Chance2016-06-05Stuff happens. The weather forecast says it’s sunny, but you just got drenched. You got a flu shot—but you’re sick in bed with the flu. Your best friend from Boston met your other
- 12 12. The Matter of Antimatter: Answering the Cosmic Riddle of Existence2016-06-05You exist. You shouldn’t. Stars and galaxies and planets exist. They shouldn’t. The nascent universe contained equal parts matter and antimatter that should have instantly oblitera
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