PBS SpaceTime @PBSSpaceTime

A PBS show about the universe! Written and hosted by astrophysicist Matt O'Dowd @matt_of_earth youtube.com/pbsspacetime SPAAAAAAAAACE Joined February 2015

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PBS SpaceTime @PBSSpaceTime

2 years ago

For a fun conversation between @matt_of_earth and @neiltyson, check out @StarTalkRadio's latest episode! We go from black hole entropy all the way to the solar gravitational lens telescope youtu.be/OcX7xpxOC2U

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PBS SpaceTime @PBSSpaceTime

3 years ago

Join @matt_of_earth as he chats with @TOEwithCurt about our quest for a theory of everything, the nature of reality, and obv the obligatory free will question! youtu.be/T6xLFRHW-IY

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PBS SpaceTime @PBSSpaceTime

3 years ago

Question time has started for Matt's Reddit AMA. Answers will begin in a little bit, but now's the best time to ask yours (& upvote pls!) reddit.com/r/askscience/c…

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PBS SpaceTime @PBSSpaceTime

3 years ago

Every answer in physics generates more questions. Time to contribute to the exponential growth of questions by trying to answer a few! Please join me for TWO AMAs - today (12/19, 4pm EST) on youtube.com/PBSSpaceTime and tomorrow (12/20) on Reddit.com/r/AskScience

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PBS SpaceTime @PBSSpaceTime

3 years ago

If you can see the lunar eclipse right now, you're watching all sunrises and sunsets across the world, reflected back to us by the moon. (Images from NASA/GSFC)

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4 years ago

The quantum uncertainty we experience at @PBSSpaceTime : Will the cat ruin or not ruin the take?

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PBS SpaceTime @PBSSpaceTime

5 years ago

Arecibo helped form so much of our modern understanding of the universe. It will be missed, but the knowledge it gave us will last forever. We were lucky enough to visit last year. We made this VR 180 tour so you can still explore its dizzying glory youtu.be/-5j98wi_M2w

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PBS SpaceTime @PBSSpaceTime

5 years ago

In case you missed it: youtu.be/iozCwyjxhyY @matt_of_earth and @DrBrianKeating are bringing together leading physicists to discuss our long quest for the deepest layers of reality. Part 1 of 2 tomorrow! (July 28 4pm EDT) with @lirarandall, @stephstem, @tegmark, @jbbeacham

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PBS SpaceTime @PBSSpaceTime

6 years ago

This was such a fun conversation with @rezaaslan and @rainnwilson. Check it out!

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PBS SpaceTime @PBSSpaceTime

6 years ago

Fighting quantum weirdness with quantum weirdness. Quantum cryptography may be our only defence against the encryption-cracking threat of quantum computers youtu.be/pi7YwxxZQ5A

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PBS SpaceTime @PBSSpaceTime

6 years ago

Second interstellar rock possibly discovered by Amir Siraj and Avi Loeb in @NASA's CNEOS catalog of past meteors. It vaporized in our atmosphere in 2014, but came in fast enough that it may have come from beyond the solar system. 'Oumuamua has friends! arxiv.org/abs/1904.07224

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PBS SpaceTime @PBSSpaceTime

6 years ago

Join us this week for practical DIY instructions on how to enclose an infinite universe into a finite boundary. A conformally compactified hyperbolic cosmos makes great wall art or a special gift for someone who already has everything! youtu.be/tJevBNQsKtU

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PBS SpaceTime @PBSSpaceTime

7 years ago

The most spectacular possible end of the universe has got to be The Big Rip. Happily there's only a *little* bit of evidence that it could happen. youtu.be/gEyXTQ9do-c

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PBS SpaceTime @PBSSpaceTime

7 years ago

"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as 6 impossible things before breakfast." I feel just like the Queen of <3s - the 6 winners of our perpetual motion challenge are the most believable impossible things ever youtu.be/rckrnYw5sOA Full winning entries on Insta @matt_of_earth

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PBS SpaceTime @PBSSpaceTime

7 years ago

The measure of all matter and energy in the universe is inscribed in the fiery speckles of the cosmic microwave background. It's crazy that we've learned how to read this secret language. You can too. youtu.be/C4CKtEQJGMY

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PBS SpaceTime @PBSSpaceTime

7 years ago

Galaxies also fall into constellations - rings on the sky that are echoes of the first sound waves to reverberate through the universe youtu.be/PPpUxoeooZk

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Matt O'Dowd @matt_of_earth

7 years ago

What does the near future of human space travel look like? @richardbranson shared some surprising insights with me at his beautiful island home. Soon on @PBSSpaceTime! Thanks for the warm welcome, Richard

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PBS SpaceTime @PBSSpaceTime

7 years ago

Reflect our universe in the mirror, flip it to antimatter, OR reverse the direction of time and you break physics. But do all three and you get back to where you started. CPT symmetry is weird. youtu.be/L2idut9tkeQ

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PBS SpaceTime @PBSSpaceTime

7 years ago

With the bizarreness of string dualities, is it possible for string theory to be at the same time both right and wrong? Our followup to Why String Theory is Right explores the other option. youtu.be/IhpGdumLRqs

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PBS SpaceTime @PBSSpaceTime

7 years ago

Slight delay on today's release - it'll be out tomorrow! In the meantime, here's a graphics mockup I (Matt) put together for next week's episode, in which we show that the looking-glass universe is as strange as the stories tell us.