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PBS Space Time

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Space Time explores the outer reaches of space, the craziness of astrophysics, the possibilities of sci-fi, and anything else you can think of beyond Planet Earth with our astrophysicist host: Matthew O’Dowd. For all business inquiries and sponsorship opportunities please reach out to: pbsspacetime@lighthouseagents.com Matt O'Dowd spends his time studying the universe, especially really far-away things like quasars, super-massive black holes, and evolving galaxies. He uses telescopes in space to do it. Matt completed his Ph.D. at NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute, followed by work at the University of Melbourne and Columbia University. He's now a professor at the City University of New York's Lehman College and an Associate at the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium. Previous host Gabe Perez-Giz is an astrophysicist who studies black hole physics. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and also hosted PBS Infinite Series. patreon.com/pbsspacetime

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• Learned relativity, quantum mechanics, and astrophysics from YouTube without complicated math; highly recommends it, favorite is PBS Space Time.

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• Does a really effective job explaining the evidence for dark matter in this episode.

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• A nice PBS Space Time episode where they invented the word "surfacism" for the idea of staying on a planet's surface.

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• PBS SpaceTime have an awesome episode on cosmic inflation

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• Check out the LIGO episode of PBS Space Time for very informative explanations about gravitational waves.

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• PBS Space Time did great episode on this subject, linked in the comment.

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• A PBS Spacetime episode covers this; the host is very talented.

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• There's a good episode of PBS SpaceTime about this, linked on YouTube.

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• PBS Space Time did an episode about the cycle, linked here as an answer to the question about Milankovitch cycles.

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• Evidence against gravity propagating through extra dimensions is explained well in this PBS Space Time episode.

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• This idea is explored in an episode of the excellent PBS Space Time. In short, Venus has many advantages over Mars.

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• PBS Space Time, probably the best layman content to understand theories in astrophysics, and Matt is awesome.

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• Don't miss the PBS Space Time episode on colonizing Venus instead of Mars; it gives good arguments and covers the basics.

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• PBS Space Time's short episode 'Should We Colonize Venus Instead of Mars?' lays out Venus's advantages over Mars for colonization.

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• PBS SpaceTime episode gives a good catch-up on whether constants vary, and how to measure that over longer scales.

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• PBS Spacetime episode from a couple years ago about private space travel, with a big focus on Branson's approach.

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• An interesting PBS Space Time episode covering this

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• A PBS Space Time episode on fuzzballs explains string theory's alternative to black hole singularities, linked for readers.

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• Zeilinger's approach derives entanglement, the uncertainty principle, and the Schrödinger equation from one bit per particle.

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• There's a PBS Spacetime episode covering this idea and they explain how it's not possible

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• PBS Spacetime covers FTL spacetime-bending models, noting they wouldn't make gravitational ripples, though a massive ship accelerating hard might.

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• PBS Space Time is one of my favorite series; episodes start gentle but get quite advanced, like a fourth-year astrophysics course.

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• PBS Space Time does a Q&A almost every episode, answering questions posted as comments on previous videos, so YouTube comments can be useful.

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• PBS Space Time just did an episode on this topic, linked for readers to watch.

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• Host Matt O'Dowd narrates ~20 minute videos exploring questions in cosmology and theoretical physics.

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• Here's a PBS Space Time episode that talks about this general topic, and then about the series of smaller telescopes approach.

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• Here's a PBS Space Time episode that talks about the proposals for building a Sun based gravity lens telescope.

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• PBS Space Time had an episode on this recently which goes into more detail.

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• Interstellar travel is hard not impossible, see a relevant episode of PBS spacetime

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• A PBS Space Time episode that compares a couple of quite different proposals for the problem; the specifics start around 7 minutes in.

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• A good episode of PBS Spacetime about Penrose diagrams, a little far into the weeds but fun nonetheless.

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