Juno to Reveal Jupiter’s Violent Past

July 6th, 2016

What you don’t know about Jupiter can’t hurt you. Or can it? And be sure to check out ShanksFX’s “Jupiter in a Jar” Episode! https://youtu.be/mwvkQK3R2LE

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On July 4th 2016, the Juno spacecraft entered orbit around the planet Jupiter after leaving earth five years ago. The Juno probe will tell us what lies inside the mysterious gas giant and with this information we’ll better understand the formation of our solar system. In this episode, find out how Jupiter wreaked havoc through the solar system during its early formation and how without it the Earth as we know it would not exist.

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The Grand Tack Hypothesis
A low mass for Mars from Jupiter’s early gas-driven migration, Walsh et al. 2011
http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.5177

The Nice Model
Origin of the cataclysmic Late Heavy Bombardment period of the terrestrial planets. Gomes et al. 2005
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v435/n7041/full/nature03676.html

Space Time Episode – Planet X Discovered??
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Space Time Episode – Is an Ice Age Coming?
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Previous Episode – Nuclear Physics Challenge Question
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Late Heavy Bombardment Image – Fahad Sulehria – http://www.novacelestia.com

ProtoPlanetary Disc – Credit: University of Copenhagen/Lars Buchhave via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNPj7e6XJCQ


Nuclear Physics Challenge | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios

June 29th, 2016

Are you ready for some recreational nuclear physics?

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On this episode of Space Time, we dive into a Challenge Question about Nuclear Physics. This includes traveling back into the phenomenon of Quantum Tunneling and discussing the most radioactive element on the periodic table; Polonium. Let’s get started.

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Stringless Yo-Yo!

June 28th, 2016

How can you Yo-Yo without the string attached?
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How to yo-yo without a string attached… So many crazy tricks and the science that makes it possible.

Edited and animated by Daniel Joseph Files


Planck’s Constant and The Origin of Quantum Mechanics | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios

June 22nd, 2016

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Planck’s Length is the length below which the concept of length loses its meaning. What exactly does that mean and what are the incredible implications this fact has upon our reality? To find out check out this episode of Space Time where Matt digs into the early history of quantum mechanics.

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The Strange Universe of Gravitational Lensing

June 15th, 2016

Is what we see in the night sky a true representation of our universe? Find out about Gravitational Lensing in this episode and even more about it in the documentary that Matt made together with the Museum of Natural History:Distant Quasars: Shedding Light on Black Holes http://www.amnh.org/explore/science-bulletins/(watch)/astro/documentaries/distant-quasars-shedding-light-on-black-holes

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Niels Bohr, a Danish Physicist said “Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded .” Is what we see perceived to be real or is it an illusion?
In the world of our mind’s eye, light travels in a straight line. In reality, spacetime is deflected and magnified through the lens of gravity. Find out how this works and what it allows us to learn about our universe in this episode of Space Time.

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Celsius Made His Thermometer Upside Down

June 14th, 2016

Celsius never devised nor used the scale that now bears his name.

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References for this video:

A History of the Thermometer and its uses in Meteorology by W. E. Knowles Middleton

Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold by Tom Shachtman

The Science of Measurement, A Historical Survey by Herbert Arthur Klein

Lehrbuch der Chemie by Jöns Jakob Berzelius

Special Thanks to the Uppsala University Museum
I filmed this in Uppsala in the summer of 2012! So I’ve been thinking about this idea for a very long time. I’m glad to finally have it out there in the world.


New Fundamental Particle Discovered?? + Challenge Winners!

June 8th, 2016

Be sure to check out Matt’s AMA at https://www.reddit.com/r/science on Monday, June 13th. He’ll be discussing the upcoming documentary he was a part of Distant Quasars: Shedding Light on Black Holes http://www.amnh.org/explore/science-bulletins/(watch)/astro/documentaries/distant-quasars-shedding-light-on-black-holes

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Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider may have just discovered a new fundamental particle that could change the way we look at the universe. Is this Dark Energy? A giant Neutrino? The big brother of the Higgs Boson? Or could it be the mysterious Graviton? Matt also reveals the answer to the Dark Energy Challenge question and responds to comments from the Ice Age episode. We’ve got a lot going on, so check it out!

Examples from four of the major families of theoretical explanations for the 750 GeV excess: http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.150001

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Challenge Winners:
Pete Benzi astronomianova@gmail.com
Ingrid Skard ingrid.skard@gmail.com
Ryan Brown Ryan.Brown@unb.ca
Nicolai Veliki nickveliki@gmail.com
Sandra Unruh s6saunru@uni-bonn.de
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Brian Ross bross14@jhmi.edu

You can review a more in-depth explanation of the challenge answers at the link below. The first document is the main question solution described in this video, and the second is the extra credit. The third provides the details of an analytical solution to the integral. Special thanks to Pete Benzi, who is not only one of our winners but also but also generously provided the extra credit solution (incl. the integral) we link to here. His was much more clearly presented than ours!

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Is Quantum Tunneling Faster than Light? | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios

June 1st, 2016

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Hello from the other side. In this episode find out how quanta can can move through solid objects.

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Where are you right now? Until you interact with another particle you could be any number of places within a wave of probabilities. This is only one way that quantum mechanics challenges our perception of reality. Matt dives into these counter-intuitive ideas and explains the bizarre phenomenon known as quantum tunneling in this episode of Space Time.

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*Paper referenced in episode is “Measurement of the Single-Photon Tunneling Time” by Steinberg, Kwiat, & Chiao, 1993, Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 708 and can be found here: http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.708

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Is an Ice Age Coming? | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios

May 25th, 2016

Spoiler: no (and climate change has nothing to do with this).

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We’re living in a brief window of time where our planet isn’t frozen underneath a giant layer of glaciers. How much longer will the moderate climate that we’ve come to know as “normal” continue? What causes these dramatic shifts in temperature that thaw our planet and then throw it back into a state of deep freeze? This episode looks at how the changes in our planet’s orbit and rotation impacts our climate.

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Anti-gravity and the True Nature of Dark Energy | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios

May 18th, 2016

What about dark energy allows it to resist the powerful inward pull of gravity and accelerate the rate of the universe’s expansion? Find out in this episode of Space Time. And watch our previous episodes on dark energy right here:
Part 1 – Will the Universe Expand Forever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZTb6…
Part 2 – Why the Universe Needs Dark Energy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Pay…
Part 3 – What Does Dark Energy Really Do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUE_L…

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We’ve come a long way in our understanding of dark energy. In previous episodes we’ve looked at how our universe is paradoxically flat and how dark energy is exponentially accelerating the expansion of the universe. In this episode of Space Time we dive into the true nature of dark energy and how its antigravity effect and its other properties are having such bizarre effects on our universe.

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