Is Mathematics Part of Reality? Chetan Prakash

Strange Dark Matter Findings

By Carly Minsky

Scientists believe that mysterious dark matter is key to forming galaxies in the cosmos. Now, a recent series of bizarre findings threatens to undermine everything we think we know.

28:00 – FREE

The Rainbow World, A New Physics for a New Self

With Riccardo Manzotti

Neuroscience and psychology have been unable to address the hard problem of consciousness

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

A Math Limerick

By Science and Nonduality

Today we let go and be nerds...

Time Flow and Infinite Precision Numbers

By Natalie Wolchover

The laws of physics imply that the passage of time is an illusion. To avoid this conclusion, we might have to rethink the reality of infinitely precise numbers.

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.

Quantum physics study suggests objective reality doesn’t exist

By Alessandro Fedrizzi and Massimiliano Proietti

Observers are powerful players in the quantum world.

20:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Can a Computer become Conscious?

With Federico Faggin

How can there be intelligence without consciousness?

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.

7:00 – FREE

A Solar Model

With Kristen Bobst

Every solar system model you've seen is wrong.

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?

What is Quantum Cognition?

By Nicoletta Lanese

Physics theory could predict human behavior

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.

What Happened Before the Big Bang?

By Paul Sutter

The Big Bounce theory was once thought impossible. But two physicists have just resurrected it.

Does Time Really Flow?

By Natalie Wolchover

New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math.

Dark Energy: Why Tinker with Gravity?

By Ethan Siegel

Of the 2 trillion galaxies contained within our observable Universe, 94% are already forever beyond our reach

Physics is Pointing Inexorably to Mind

So-called “information realism” has some surprising implications

Have We Solved the Black Hole Information Paradox?

By Yasunori Nomura

We may soon have a new understanding of nature

No Dark Energy?

By Yonsei University

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

The Tragedy of Science and a Way Out

By David Paul Gontar