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The hunt for the secret ingredients of the universe. The mysterious invisible forces that control the fate of the cosmos … What’s the universe made of? Nova: What’s the Universe Made Of? PBS 2018
What if the cosmos and all its grandeur is not what it seems? Could our universe be an illusion? A sophisticated facade veiled by the complex laws of physics. The Universe Isn’t Real, Youtube 1.10.14, 2023
Most recently a trio of scientists who shared the Nobel Prize, John Clauser, Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger, were able to prove that the universe is not real locally. This of course does not mean that the universe as we know it does not actually exist. Physics distinguishes between the principles of reality and locality. ibid.
Locality in turn can be explained by the fact that objects can affect each other only if they’re in contact with each other. ibid.
Perhaps our four-dimensional universe could be a holographic projection. ibid.
Discovery have joined forces with Stephen Hawking’s fellow researchers in Cambridge … Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e1: Asking the Big Questions (short), DiscoveryPlus 2020
‘I want to know why the universe exists.’ ibid. Hawking to colleague
‘5 questions he helped solve: 1) Did the universe have a beginning in time? 2) Are black holes unique? 3) What happens when black holes collide? 4) Do black holes live for ever? 5) Do we know where galaxies come from?’ ibid.
David Scott, Apollo 15: With that hammer and the feather he was about to prove a prediction that was made 400 years earlier by this man: Galileo Galilei … They landed at exactly the same time. Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e2: Relativity: Newton’s Law (short)
F = G Mm/r2 … Newton’s Law of Gravitation is simple but it’s hugely effective.
Our understanding of Gravity fundamentally changed with the radical theories of one world-famous scientist: Einstein. Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e3: Einstein’s Very Special Theory (short)
14th September 2015: The first ever proof that black holes existed … The merger of a black-hole binary … generated gravitational waves. Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e4: What are Gravitational Waves? (short)
These waves are very difficult to detect. ibid.
We’ll be discovering the science behind the amazing machines that allowed us to detect these waves, and how we can identify where they come from. Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e5: Gravitational Waves (short)
Neutron stars: What happens when the collide? And what we learned when we detected the first neutron star collision. Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e6: What Have We Observed So Far? (short)
We now have a brand-new wave of measuring the evolution of the universe: the Hubble Constant. ibid.
When large stars die … 20x more massive that our sun = Not even light can escape the gravitational pull … Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e7: What Exactly is a Black Hole? (short)
How we can see a black hole and what we can learn from observations … April 2019: An actual picture of a black hole for the first time ever. The image agrees with the predictions made by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity … Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e8: How Can We See a Black Hole? (short)
The entire universe is nothing but a gigantic knot from which there is no escape. Dark s2e6: An Endless Cycle, old man Jonas to Jonas, Netflix 2019
We probably do not live in a curved finite universe. ibid.
We probably have some evidence to support the simulation hypothesis. It’s the speed of light. ibid.
Time may just be a figment of our imagination. ibid.
I’m Tim Peake and on 15th December 2015 I climbed about the Russian-built Soyuz rocket and I became 1 of about 600 people to leave the Earth. Secrets of the Universe with Tim Peake s1e1: The Planets, Channel 5 2023
The universe is made up of hundreds of billions of galaxies. ibid.
Venus is about 61 million kilometres from Earth. One day here is equivalent to 243 Earth days. ibid.
Mars: We have sent almost fifty uncrewed missions there revealing evidence of a wet past. ibid.
Thousands of pin-pricks of light twinkle back at me from the darkness, each one a vast ball of gas burning in space. Secrets of the Universe with Tim Peake s1e2: Stars & Black Holes
A black hole is stranger than anything dreamed up by science fiction writers. A region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape. Once over the edge there’s no way back. Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know, Hawking, Netflix 2021
The goal of the Event Horizon Telescope is … [to] take the first picture of a black hole. ibid. scientist
And as they radiate they lose mass and eventually disappear. ibid.
We set up telescopes around the earth that can talk to each other, that can record data in tandem … an array of eight dishes around the world. ibid.
Black holes were the best explanation for what we observed. ibid.
We’ve shown that the soft hair can account for all of the information that’s stored in a black hole. ibid.
A picture of a black hole is revealed for the first time. ibid. The New York Times
Discovery have joined forces with Stephen Hawking’s fellow researchers in Cambridge … Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e1: Asking the Big Questions (short), DiscoveryPlus 2020
‘I want to know why the universe exists.’ ibid. Hawking to colleague
‘5 questions he helped solve: 1) Did the universe have a beginning in time? 2) Are black holes unique? 3) What happens when black holes collide? 4) Do black holes live for ever? 5) Do we know where galaxies come from?’ ibid.
David Scott, Apollo 15: With that hammer and the feather he was about to prove a prediction that was made 400 years earlier by this man: Galileo Galilei … They landed at exactly the same time. Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e2: Relativity: Newton’s Law (short)
F = G Mm/r2 … Newton’s Law of Gravitation is simple but it’s hugely effective. ibid.
Our understanding of Gravity fundamentally changed with the radical theories of one world-famous scientist: Einstein. Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e3: Einstein’s Very Special Theory (short)
14th September 2015: The first ever proof that black holes existed … The merger of a black-hole binary … generated gravitational waves. Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e4: What are Gravitational Waves? (short)
These waves are very difficult to detect. ibid.
We’ll be discovering the science behind the amazing machines that allowed us to detect these waves, and how we can identify where they come from. Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e5: Gravitational Waves (short)
Neutron stars: What happens when the collide? And what we learned when we detected the first neutron star collision. Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e6: What Have We Observed So Far? (short)
We now have a brand-new wave of measuring the evolution of the universe: the Hubble Constant. ibid.
When large stars die … 20x more massive that our sun = Not even light can escape the gravitational pull … Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e7: What Exactly is a Black Hole? (short)
How we can see a black hole and what we can learn from observations … April 2019: An actual picture of a black hole for the first time ever. The image agrees with the predictions made by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity … Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e8: How Can We See a Black Hole? (short)
They can be described just by their mass and their spin. Universe Unravelled with the Stephen Hawking Centre s1e9: Do Black Holes Live Forever (short)
They emit what is called Hawking radiation. ibid.