215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld
The founders of statistical mechanics in the 19th century faced an uphill battle to convince their fellow physicists that the laws of thermodynamics could be derived from the random motions of microsc...
24 Okt 20221h 34min
214 | Antonio Padilla on Large Numbers and the Scope of the Universe
It's a big universe we live in, so it comes as no surprise that big numbers are needed to describe it. There are roughly 10^22 stars in the observable universe, and about 10^88 particles altogether. B...
17 Okt 20221h 15min
AMA | October 2022
Welcome to the October 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Pat...
10 Okt 20223h 1min
213 | Timiebi Aganaba on Law and Governance in Space
With communication satellites, weather satellites, GPS, and much more, what happens in space is already important to our lives here on Earth. And the importance of space is only going to grow as we in...
3 Okt 20221h 16min
212 | Chiara Mingarelli on Searching for Black Holes with Pulsars
The detection of gravitational waves from inspiraling black holes by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations was rightly celebrated as a landmark achievement in physics and astronomy. But ultra-precise grou...
26 Sep 20221h 26min
211 | Solo: Secrets of Einstein's Equation
My little pandemic-lockdown contribution to the world was a series of videos called The Biggest Ideas in the Universe. The idea was to explain physics in a pedagogical way, concentrating on establishe...
19 Sep 20221h 51min
210 | Randall Munroe on Imagining What If...?
What's the fastest way to get a human being around a racetrack, if we ignore all the rules of racing? How many pages would you have to read to absorb all of the government laws that apply to you? It's...
12 Sep 20221h 8min
209 | Brad DeLong on Why the 20th Century Fell Short of Utopia
People throughout history have imagined ideal societies of various sorts. As the twentieth century dawned, advances in manufacturing and communication arguably brought the idea of utopia within our pr...
5 Sep 20221h 24min
