67 - When Science Meets Spirituality (Ft. Alan Lightman)
Special guest Alan Lightman takes us through a fascinating discussion of consciousness, and tells us how he reconciles spirituality with his materialist views. Todays episode is sponsored by the Inter...
17 Jul 202342min
66 - When Space Was Filled With Music
Shortly after the Big Bang, space was densely packed with enough stuff for sound to travel through it. What was producing sound in this era, and how can we hear it today? Todays episode is sponsored ...
3 Jul 202325min
65 - Should We Build a Muon Collider? (Ft. Cari Cesarotti)
Special guest Cari Cesarotti tells us why so many particle physicists are itching to build a whole new type of particle collider. Support the show
22 Mai 202342min
64 - The Journey to the Big Bang
The Big Bang is well accepted today as the leading theory of how our universe evolved over time - but in today's episode, we talk through all the very wrong theories that came before it. To get ad-fre...
8 Mai 202330min
63 - The Question of Consciousness (Ft. David Chalmers)
Can consciousness be explained by physics, or does it appeal to something beyond materialism? Philosopher guest star David Chalmers talks to us about how we can think about consciousness from a philos...
17 Apr 202350min
47 - Boltzmann Brains: Could Reality Be An Illusion? (Rebroadcast)
A whirlwind of questions brings us to an odd conclusion: could reality be an illusion created by a quantum fluctuation of a brain? This is a rebroadcast of a past favorite. For ad-free episodes and o...
27 Mar 202328min
62 - JWST and the Earliest Galaxies in the Universe (ft. Mike Boylan-Kolchin)
Astronomers' newest telescope, JWST, just discovered galaxies that formed earlier than previously thought possible. What does this discovery mean for our understanding of the early universe? To suppo...
13 Mar 202324min
61 - Could the Large Hadron Collider Destroy the World?
Before the LHC turned on in 2008, many feared that it would create a dangerous black hole that would destroy the world. Were any of those fears well-founded, and how seriously did scientists take thes...
27 Feb 202323min
