Why This Universe?
Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman
Categories: Science & Medicine
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Today we visit a turning point in the history of science: the discovery that the Earth is not at the center of the cosmos.
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Previous episodes
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85 - 74 - The Copernican Revolution (Ft. Aviva Rothman)Mon, 04 Dec 2023
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84 - 73 - Life Beyond Earth (Ft. Avi Loeb and Garrett Graff at the Chicago Humanities Festival)Mon, 20 Nov 2023
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83 - 72 - The Physics Of Music (Ft. Tim Cohen)Mon, 06 Nov 2023
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82 - 71 - How the Universe Got Its StructureMon, 23 Oct 2023
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81 - 70 - WTU Live: Will Intelligent Life Persist in the Universe? (ft. Daniel Holz and Diana Powell)Tue, 10 Oct 2023
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80 - Special Announcement + ChatGPT On Unifying Quantum Mechanics and RelativityThu, 28 Sep 2023
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79 - 69 - An Update on Modified Gravity (MOND)Mon, 28 Aug 2023
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78 - 68 - The Age of the UniverseMon, 14 Aug 2023
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77 - 6 - Your Tour Through Quantum Weirdness (Rebroadcast)Mon, 31 Jul 2023
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76 - 67 - When Science Meets Spirituality (Ft. Alan Lightman)Mon, 17 Jul 2023
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75 - 66 - When Space Was Filled With MusicMon, 03 Jul 2023
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74 - 65 - Should We Build a Muon Collider? (Ft. Cari Cesarotti)Mon, 22 May 2023
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73 - 64 - The Journey to the Big BangMon, 08 May 2023
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72 - 63 - The Question of Consciousness (Ft. David Chalmers)Mon, 17 Apr 2023
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71 - 47 - Boltzmann Brains: Could Reality Be An Illusion? (Rebroadcast)Mon, 27 Mar 2023
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70 - 62 - JWST and the Earliest Galaxies in the Universe (ft. Mike Boylan-Kolchin)Mon, 13 Mar 2023
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69 - 61 - Could the Large Hadron Collider Destroy the World?Mon, 27 Feb 2023
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68 - 60 - The Search for Extra DimensionsMon, 13 Feb 2023
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67 - 59 - The End of Everything (Ft. Katie Mack)Mon, 09 Jan 2023
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66 - 58 - The Risks of Science PopulismMon, 12 Dec 2022
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65 - 57 - String Theory Part 3: DualityMon, 21 Nov 2022
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64 - 56 - An Icy Neutrino InterruptionMon, 07 Nov 2022
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63 - 55 - String Theory Part 2: The First Superstring RevolutionMon, 24 Oct 2022
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62 - 54 - String Theory Part 1: What Is It?Mon, 03 Oct 2022
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61 - 53 - Why We Need a Theory of Quantum GravityMon, 12 Sep 2022
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60 - 52 - The Large Hadron Collider and All Its GloryMon, 22 Aug 2022
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59 - 51 - Why Physicists Love Smashing Particles TogetherMon, 01 Aug 2022
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58 - 50 - The Black Hole At the Center of the Milky WayMon, 11 Jul 2022
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57 - 49 - When the Universe Changed in an InstantMon, 27 Jun 2022
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56 - 48 - A Wrong Picture Of CosmologyMon, 23 May 2022
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55 - 13 - Does Quantum Mechanics Imply a Multiverse? (Rebroadcast)Mon, 09 May 2022
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54 - 47 - Boltzmann Brains: Could Reality Be An Illusion?Mon, 25 Apr 2022
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53 - 46 - The Cosmic Rays Raining Down On UsMon, 04 Apr 2022
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52 - 25 - Do Extra Dimensions Exist? (Rebroadcast)Mon, 14 Mar 2022
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51 - 45 - The Wide World of Exoplanets (ft. Diana Powell)Mon, 28 Feb 2022
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50 - 44 - Our Deepest Theory: Quantum Field TheoryMon, 14 Feb 2022
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49 - 43 - Is Physics the Most Fundamental Subject?Mon, 31 Jan 2022
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48 - 42 - The Signal That Could Be the Dark MatterMon, 17 Jan 2022
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47 - 41 - The Hubble Tension: The Biggest Fight in Astronomy (ft. Wendy Freedman)Mon, 03 Jan 2022
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46 - 40 - How Will JWST Change Astronomy?Mon, 20 Dec 2021
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45 - 23 - Does Physics Allow for Free Will? (Rebroadcast)Mon, 29 Nov 2021
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44 - 39 - Why Do Science Communication? (ft. Daniel Whiteson and Jorge Cham)Mon, 15 Nov 2021
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43 - A Special Neutrino Update! (ft. Pedro Machado)Mon, 01 Nov 2021
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42 - 38 - The Nobel Prize's Greatest MissesMon, 18 Oct 2021
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41 - 37 - How Neutrinos Might Be Hinting at Dark MatterMon, 04 Oct 2021
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40 - 36 - The Neutrino's Quantum SuperpowerMon, 20 Sep 2021
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39 - 35 - The Chaos Underlying Everything (ft. David Grier)Mon, 06 Sep 2021
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38 - 34 - Should Beauty Guide Physicists?Mon, 23 Aug 2021
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37 - 33 - Our Love Affair With SupersymmetryMon, 09 Aug 2021
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36 - 32 - The Mystery of the Higgs Boson's MassMon, 26 Jul 2021
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