Reality
Here you'll find an exploration of the very nature of the physical world as we know it: fundamental laws of nature, theoretical physics, everyday physics. How does gravity work and how does it explain the existence of black holes? Could the universe as we see it simply be a hologram of another reality? Are we living among multiple dimensions of the universe beyond our perception? What's the mathematical language of the universe? How will quantum computing transform the Information Age? What are the physical properties of a successful baseball swing? What is string theory and how might it elegantly reconcile quantum theory and classical model of the universe?
Shorts
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The Higgs Boson: What Are We Looking For?
Monica Dunford -
Unifiers in History: James Maxwell
Jim Gates -
Digital Physics: The Pioneering Konrad Zuse
Edward Fredkin, Jürgen Schmidhuber -
Testing from Inside the Maze
Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara -
From a Simple Code Emerges Complexity
Jürgen Schmidhuber -
Is the Universe Analog or Digital?
Jürgen Schmidhuber, Edward Fredkin, Seth Lloyd -
How Many Bits Are in the Universe?
Seth Lloyd, Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara -
Where Is the Computer, Who Is the Programmer?
Edward Fredkin
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Is the Universe Digital?
John Hockenberry, Brian Greene -
The Problem of Being Almost Consistent
Leonard Susskind, Gerard ’t Hooft, John Hockenberry -
How Do Holograms Work?
Leonard Susskind -
Good Physicists Are as Variable as Snowflakes
Leonard Susskind, John Hockenberry -
What Is Information?
Gerard ’t Hooft -
The Cost of 2-D Coding
Leonard Susskind, John Hockenberry -
What Is the Holographic Principle?
Peter Galison, Brian Greene, Cumrun Vafa -
Is Warp Drive Possible?
Lawrence M. Krauss
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Are We Living in a Simulation?
Robert Krulwich, Nick Bostrom -
The Best Tickers are Atoms
William Phillips -
Magnetic Magic
William Phillips -
Can We Reach Absolute Zero?
William Phillips -
Why Extra Dimensions Make Sense
Brian Greene -
General Relativity
Brian Greene -
Moth: The Randomness of Concentration Camps
Leonard Mlodinow -
Moth: Suffering for Science
Frank Wilczek
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Mental Math
Arthur Benjamin -
Incompleteness and Complexity
Gregory Chaitin -
Quick: What’s 37 x 37?
Arthur Benjamin -
Gödel’s Lasting Legacy
Gregory Chaitin, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Mario Livio -
Sudoku on Steroids
Arthur Benjamin -
Platonism vs. Formalism
Mario Livio -
How Real is Star Trek?
Lawrence M. Krauss -
Quick: Multiply by 11
Arthur Benjamin
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Mathematics: Invented or Discovered?
Mario Livio, Gregory Chaitin -
Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein -
Quick: What’s 78,269 x 78,269?
Arthur Benjamin -
Tomorrow Is Yesterday
Lawrence M. Krauss -
Introducing the Real-Life Holodeck
Eric Horvitz -
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics
Mario Livio, Marvin Minsky -
Five Years, One Experiment
Frank Wilczek, Monica Dunford -
Will the LHC Kill Us?
Jennifer Klay, Frank Wilczek
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The Standard Model and Supersymmetry
Frank Wilczek -
Unknown Pleasures: The Search for New Particles
Monica Dunford, John Hockenberry -
Cool Job: The Roboticist
Dennis Hong -
The History of Gravity
Laura Danly -
The Graviton and Superstring Theory
Shamit Kachru, Lawrence M. Krauss, Brian Greene -
A Tree Is to the Universe…
Shamit Kachru, Brian Greene, John Hockenberry -
World Science Festival: Highlight Reel
World Science Festival
Full Programs
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Mysteries of the Mathematical Universe
Keith Devlin, Jonathan Borwein, Robert Krulwich, Marcus du Sautoy, Simon Singh -
Rebooting the Cosmos: Is the Universe the Ultimate Computer?
John Hockenberry, Edward Fredkin, Seth Lloyd, Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara, Jürgen Schmidhuber -
A Thin Sheet of Reality: The Universe as a Hologram
John Hockenberry, Gerard ’t Hooft, Leonard Susskind, Herman Verlinde, Raphael Bousso -
The Unbearable Lightness of Memory
Dan Harris, Daniel L. Schacter, Elizabeth Phelps, Lynn Nadel, Todd Sacktor -
The Illusion of Certainty: Risk, Probability, and Chance
Marcus du Sautoy, Gerd Gigerenzer, Leonard Mlodinow, Josh Tenenbaum, Amir Aczel -
The Limits of Understanding
Mario Livio, Gregory Chaitin, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Marvin Minsky, Sir Paul Nurse -
Mind and Machine: The Future of Thinking
John Donoghue, Gary Small, Luciano Floridi, Rosalind Picard, John Hockenberry -
The Mathemagician
Arthur Benjamin
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Black Holes and Holographic Worlds
Alan Alda, Raphael Bousso, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Andrew Hamilton, Kip Thorne -
Astronomy’s New Messengers
Laura Danly, Andrea Lommen, Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss -
Back to the Big Bang: Inside the Large Hadron Collider
Frank Wilczek, Jennifer Klay, Marcela Carena, Monica Dunford, John Hockenberry -
Good Vibrations: The Science of Sound
Jamshed Bharucha, Jacob Kirkegaard, Christopher Shera, Mark Whittle, Polygraph Lounge, John Schaefer -
Hidden Dimensions: Exploring Hyperspace
Brian Greene, Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Shamit Kachru, Lawrence M. Krauss, John Hockenberry, Escher String Quartet -
Infinite Worlds: A Journey through Parallel Universes
Brian Greene, Nick Bostrom, Alan Guth, Andrei Linde, Paul D. Miller, Robert Krulwich
