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The New Meta-Materials for Invisibility Cloaks and Earthquake Protection

Meta is the Greek prefix for “after” and Aristotle used the phrase “metaphysics” for the stuff in his writing that came literally “after” he was done with the physics. Metaphysics is co...

Coming up on Sep 17

This is a video that was requested by a lot of people. On Saturday we will talk about metamaterials and what we can do with them: superlenses, invisibility cloaks, earthquake protection, and also c...

The Multiverse: Science, Religion, or Pseudoscience?

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Why do physicists believe there are universes besides our own? I get a lot of questions about the idea that we live in this “multiverse”. Is ...

Coming up on Sep 10

Why do physicists think that our universe isn't the only one? And should you believe them? On Saturday, I explain what the multiverse is and what the problem is with it. I have talked about this be...

The Trouble With 5G

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Did you know that ther...

Coming up on Sep 3

You'd think that technology and science make a good team, and most often that's true, but every once in a while they get into a big fight. One such case is the 5th generation of wireless networks, ...

We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know. Here's why.

Did the universe come out of a black hole? Will the big bang repeat? Was the universe created from strings? Physicists have a lot of ideas about how the universe began, and I am constantly asked to...

Coming up on August 27

Every once in a while some speculative idea in physics makes headlines and I get a lot of requests to talk about this. The problem is that if I did, no one would care about the topic by the time th...

No Sun, No Wind, Now What? Renewable Energy Storage

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Solar panels and wind turbines are great – so long as the sun shines and the wind blows. What if they don’t? You could try swearing at the sk...

Coming up on August 20

The war in Ukraine has been a sudden wake-up call for countries in Europe to break their dependence on Russian gas. A lot of countries put their hope on solar power and wind turbines, but these wil...

Science With The Gobbledygook

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Today we’re celebrating 500 thousand subscribers. That’s right, we made it to half a million! Thanks everyone for being here. YouTube has ...

Coming up on August 13

Our recent video about whether the past still exists went through the roof! By now, it's attracted more than 1.3 mio views. That's pretty crazy. It's also attracted a lot of new subscribers, so thi...

Counterfactual Quantum Computation

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Thanks for clicking on this video, by which you’ve ruled out a possible world in which you never watched it. This alternative world has becom...

Coming up on August 6

Two months ago, I read several papers about counterfactual quantum computation and thought to myself: This is SO cool, why aren't there any good video about it? Well, I figured that out when I was ...

Is the brain a computer?

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My grandmother was a computer, and I don’t mean there was a keypad on her chest. My grandmother calculated orbits of stars, with logarithmic ...

Coming up on July 30

Can computers one day become conscious? It's an interesting question, but I'm afraid the answer is quite boringly that we don't know, so there isn't much to talk about. However, we can look at what...

Signed Copy of my New Book

I have gotten a lot of question about where you can get a signed copy of my new book "Existential Physics" that will be published in the USA on August 9th. It doesn't make sense to ship the books t...

Does the past still exist?

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One of the biggest mysteries of our existence is also one of the biggest mysteries of physics: time. We experience time as passing, with a specia...

Coming up on July 23

Albert Einstein taught us that space and time belong together to a common entity: space-time. This means that time becomes a dimension, similar to space, and has profound consequences for the natur...

How do Painkillers work?

Have you ever taken an Aspirin? Advil? Paracetamol, or Tylenol for the Americans. Most of you probably have. But do you know what’s the difference between them? What’s pain to begin with, where...

Coming up on July 16

The next video has been in planning, I kid you not, for a year. The major reason is that I've been afraid of having to pronounce the names of all kinds of medications. But, hey, I eventually did it...

Quantum Games -- Really!

It’s difficult to explain quantum mechanics with words. We just talked about this the other day. The issue is, we simply don’t have the words to describe something that we don’t experience. B...

Coming up on July 9

The next video is different! I have discovered that in the past years quite a few  games have appeared that illustrate quantum effects, and of course I had to try them out. They're all free, s...

Are we too many people or too few?

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There’s too many men, too many people, making too many problems. That’s how Genesis put it. Elon Musk, on the other hand, thinks there are to...

Coming up on July 2

Does anyone remember the 1972 Club of Rome report about the "Limits to Growth"? How good were those predictions and what are we to make of Elon Musk's claim that we should worry about not having en...

Whatever happened to the Bee Apocalypse?

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15 years ago, dying bees were all over the news. Scientists called it the “colony collapse disorder”, headlines 2022-06-25 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Coming up on June 25

Some videos almost produce themselves, others take months to get anywhere near production. The next one that's coming up is in the latter category. 

I mean to make a video about biodiver...

Why does Science News Suck so much?

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I read a lot of news about science and science policies. This probably doesn’t surprise you. But it may surprise you that most of the time I ...

Coming up on June 18

I read a lot of science news. This probably won't surprise you. But maybe it will surprise you to hear that really can't say I enjoy it. I find it both frustrating and annoying because often the in...

Can particles really be in two places at once?

Today I want to talk to you about what happened when I wrote an opinion piece for ...