MinutePhysics

  • Premiered: Jun 2011
  • Episodes: 247
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Season 2016
2016x1
How To Discover Weird New Particles - Emergent Quantum Quasiparticles
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Feb 01, 2016
This video is about weird condensed matter systems, aka materials that have bizarre emergent particles in them that are unlike most other particles in the universe.
2016x2
Concrete Does Not Dry Out
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Feb 10, 2016
Concrete doesn’t dry - it sets!
2016x3
How Do We Know What Air is Like on Other Planets?
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Feb 24, 2016
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2016x4
The Limb of the Sun
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Mar 11, 2016
Also, why do some flames look hollow?
2016x5
Transporters and Quantum Teleportation
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Mar 15, 2016
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2016x6
Aliens - Are We Looking in the Wrong Place?
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Mar 24, 2016
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2016x7
Why You Should Care About Nukes
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Mar 29, 2016
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2016x8
Why Are Airplane Engines So Big?
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Apr 11, 2016
The physics behind the perfect size of a jet engine.
2016x9
Solution to the Grandfather Paradox
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May 13, 2016
What if you went back in time and killed your own grandfather? Would you still be born? Or would you have thus killed yourself?
2016x10
How Long To Fall Through The Earth?
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May 23, 2016
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2016x11
Where Do Galaxies Come From?
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Jun 28, 2016
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2016x12
Gravitational Waves Explained Using Stick Figures
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Jul 08, 2016
This video is about gravitational waves in the weak field limit as discovered by the LIGO collaboration, explained by parallels to electromagnetic radiation, sound waves, water waves, etc. I want to see Cat LIGO ASAP!
2016x13
Hitting the Sun is HARD
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Jul 19, 2016
This video is about the orbital mechanics of why it’s so hard to crash into the sun – the energy it takes to get there is astoundingly high, compared with leaving the solar system.
2016x14
How Long Is A Day On The Sun?
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Aug 04, 2016
This video is about the definition of a day, and how it applies (or not) on the sun. Solar day, sidereal day, universal coordinated time (UTC) day, etc. Length of a day.
2016x15
The Twins Paradox Primer (Rotating TIME!)
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Aug 19, 2016
This video is about the famous “Twin paradox” of special relativity, and how time can appear to be faster for two different observers at the same time.
2016x16
Complete Solution To The Twins Paradox
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Aug 26, 2016
One of the most famous paradoxes of all of physics – who's older? Who's younger? and WHY?
2016x17
Why Doesn't Time Flow Backwards?
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Sep 29, 2016
This video is about why entropy gives rise to the arrow of time, and also how the initial low-entropy condition of the universe is responsible for the fact that we experience time right .. show full overview
2016x18
Do Cause and Effect Really Exist?
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Oct 06, 2016
This video is about why there's no such thing as cause and effect at the level of fundamental particle physics, and how our everyday experience of cause and effect arises due to entropy, .. show full overview
2016x19
Where Does Complexity Come From?
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Oct 12, 2016
This video is about the difference between complexity and entropy, and how we can see complex things like life, planets, galaxies, humans, intelligence, consciousness, etc arising in our .. show full overview
2016x20
How Entropy Powers The Earth (Big Picture Ep. 4)
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Oct 21, 2016
This video is about how we don't just need energy to power our lives, we need *low entropy* energy!
2016x21
What is the Purpose of Life?
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Oct 26, 2016
This video is about how life arose and what its main function or purpose in the universe seems to be.
2016x22
Is The Moon Held Up By A Spring? How Perspective Shapes Reality
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Nov 17, 2016
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2016x23 Season finale
No Cloning
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Dec 27, 2016
Why you can’t clone Schrödinger’s cat: this video presents the full proof of the “No Cloning” Theorem in Quantum Mechanics – without any fancy math! (stereotypical qubit has been .. show full overview

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