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SAND18 US — Can a Computer become Conscious?

With Federico Faggin

How can there be intelligence without consciousness?

The End of Quantum Reality

With Wolfgang Smith

There is a mystery that has confounded scientists for a century.

A Solar Model

With Kristen Bobst

Every solar system model you've seen is wrong.

1:16:00 – FREE

Mathematics as a Unifying Field

With Edward Frenkel

In this inspiring talk, the mathematician Edward Frenkel speaks about the beauty and elegance of mathematics

Who's Not Looking Through The Telescope Now?

With David Lorimer

Reversing history from Galileo's time, it is now the scientists who refuse to look through the telescope.

Chaos Theory

Ever wonder how we try to predict the unpredictable? Supercomputers use the power of chaos theory.

Bell's Theorem: The Quantum Venn Diagram Paradox

This video is about Bell's Theorem, one of the most fascinating results in 20th century physics.

SAND18 US — The Mystery of Free Will

With Donald Hoffman

Donald Hoffman reminds us that we can predict people's choices up to seven seconds before they are conscious of making that choice.

SAND18 US — Soul Tech

With Federico Faggin, Kate Stockly, Carole Griggs, Vincent Horn, and Mikey Siegel

An Unpanel discussion facilitated by Mikey Siegel

White holes

The other side of black holes. Do they exist?

Exclusive interview with Dr. Alan Wallace

With Science and Nonduality

In this exclusive interview with Dr. Alan Wallace we discuss consciousness, mathematics, practicing deep sleep states and meditation as preparation for dying consciously.

Real-Life Schrödinger’s Cats Probe the Boundary of the Quantum World

By Philip Ball

Recent experiments have put relatively large objects into quantum states, illuminating the processes by which the ordinary world emerges out of the quantum one.

Neutrinos Lead to Unexpected Discovery in Basic Math

By Natalie Wolchover

Three physicists wanted to calculate how neutrinos change. They ended up discovering an unexpected relationship between some of the most ubiquitous objects in math.

What are intermediate-mass black holes?

By Jake Parks

We've detected puny, stellar-mass black holes. And we've detected giant, supermassive black holes. But what about those in the middle?

The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Expected

By Shawn Radcliffe

Discrepancies in measures of expansion may point to new physics

Even Large Molecules Can Behave Like Waves

By Shawn Radcliffe

You wouldn’t find baseballs entangled in such a way that hitting one affects another miles away.

Quantum Gravity Could Reverse Cause and Effect

By Stephanie Pappas

Any theory of quantum gravity is going to have to grapple with some weird time stuff.

The Tragedy of Science and a Way Out

By David Paul Gontar

Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks Available Online

By Shawn Radcliffe

The true extent of da Vinci’s Renaissance mind is captured in the surviving notebooks...

Adventures in Frequency

By Peta Morton

Multi-dimensional Cymatics with David Schiermeyer

No Dark Energy?

By Yonsei University

New evidence shows that the key assumption made in the discovery of dark energy is in error

The First-Ever Photo of Quantum Entanglement!

By Fiona MacDonald

In an incredible first, scientists have captured the world's first actual photo of quantum entanglement

4,000 Exoplanets Mapped in NASA Stunning Video

In less than 30 years, humanity has discovered more than 4,000 exoplanets

Multiple Realities Can Happily Co-Exist, Suggests Study

By Shawn Radcliffe

Two realities can exist at the same time, at least in the quantum world, suggests a new study.

Physics is Pointing Inexorably to Mind

By Bernardo Kastrup

So-called “information realism” has some surprising implications

The Cosmic Web

By Becky Ferreira

Galaxies can move with each other across huge distances, and against the predictions of basic cosmological models.

Solving the Vacuum Catastrophe

By Shawn Radcliffe

Quantum field theory has made some incredibly accurate predictions about the universe, but it has also made some of the worst.

Could the Universe be Curved, not Flat?

By Eleonora Di Valentino

In a curved universe, no matter which direction you travel in, you will end up at the starting point