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What’s Your Brain’s Role in Creating Space & Time?

Season 9 Episode 7 | 16m 28s

Physics is the business of figuring out the structure of the world. So are our brains. But sometimes physics comes to conclusions that are in direct conflict with concepts fundamental to our minds, such as the realness of space and time. How do we tell who’s correct? Are time and space objective realities or human-invented concepts?

Aired: 03/14/23
Extras
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Why is there any matter in the universe? A new antimatter breakthrough at LHC holds clues.
There’s an extremely good chance that Earth once did have a ring system.
How is it possible to tell if a space rock will one day collide with the Earth?
Did you know that many of us have up to 4% neanderthal DNA?
What if the Big Bang was just an endless cycle?
Why are billions suddenly being pumped into fusion startups?
The universe should've collapsed after the Big Bang, but a light Higgs boson let us exist.
Maybe dark energy doesn't exist?
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Does this also explain why there are no aliens?
Quantum energy teleportation may be as close as we get to transporter beams. But how close is that?
Why is there any matter in the universe? A new antimatter breakthrough at LHC holds clues.
There’s an extremely good chance that Earth once did have a ring system.
How is it possible to tell if a space rock will one day collide with the Earth?
Did you know that many of us have up to 4% neanderthal DNA?
What if the Big Bang was just an endless cycle?
Why are billions suddenly being pumped into fusion startups?
The universe should've collapsed after the Big Bang, but a light Higgs boson let us exist.
Maybe dark energy doesn't exist?