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PBS Space Time

Is It Impossible To Cross The Event Horizon? | Black Hole Firewall Paradox

Season 10 Episode 12 | 17m 25s

So you’ve decided to jump into a black hole. Good news: as long as the black hole is big enough you can sail through the event horizon without harm.

Aired: 06/12/24
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It may be that our very DNA inherited its twist from the underlying handedness of reality.
Episode: S11 E8 | 18:56
Watch • 17:21
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Are The Fundamental Constants Finely Tuned? | The Naturalness Problem
Did God have any choice in creating the world? So asked Albert Einstein
Episode: S11 E7 | 17:21
Watch • 18:19
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What if, just before we reach the bottom, we find out that reductionism fails?
Episode: S11 E6 | 18:19
Watch • 19:03
PBS Space Time
Is Our Model of Dark Energy Wrong? | New 4.2σ Results
The biggest news in cosmology in recent years is that dark energy may be fading away.
Episode: S11 E5 | 19:03
Watch • 18:50
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Does this also explain why there are no aliens?
Episode: S11 E4 | 18:50
Watch • 16:58
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Quantum energy teleportation may be as close as we get to transporter beams. But how close is that?
Episode: S11 E3 | 16:58
Watch • 14:50
PBS Space Time
Why Didn’t Antimatter Destroy The Universe?
Why is there any matter in the universe? A new antimatter breakthrough at LHC holds clues.
Episode: S11 E2 | 14:50
Watch • 16:30
PBS Space Time
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There’s an extremely good chance that Earth once did have a ring system.
Episode: S11 E1 | 16:30