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PBS Space Time
Season 2025 · Episode 13
The Crisis In Physics: Are We Missing 17 Layers of Reality?
0.021mJune 12, 2025
Big things are made of smaller things, and those smaller things are made of smaller things still. That’s reductionism in a nutshell, and digging our way to the smallest layer has been one of the primary goals of physics for ever. But what if, just before we reach the bottom, we find out that reductionism fails?
Episodes
- Episode 1How Many Black Holes Are In The Solar System?
- Episode 2Does Timescapes DISPROVE Dark Energy?
- Episode 3The Crisis in Physics: Why the Higgs Boson Should NOT Exist!
- Episode 4The Final Barrier to (Nearly) Infinite Energy
- Episode 5Will The Big Bang Happen AGAIN (and Again)?
- Episode 6Your DNA Is (Almost Certainly) From Outer Space
- Episode 7How Astrophysics Can (LITERALLY) Save the World
- Episode 8NEW EVIDENCE: Earth Had Rings (and Might Regain Them)
- Episode 9Why Didn’t Antimatter Destroy The Universe? | LHC Breakthrough
- Episode 10Quantum Energy Teleportation is REAL!
- Episode 11Is There A Simple Solution To The Fermi Paradox?
- Episode 12Is Our Model of Dark Energy WRONG? | New 4.2σ Results
- Episode 13The Crisis In Physics: Are We Missing 17 Layers of Reality?
- Episode 14Are The Fundamental Constants Finely Tuned? | The Naturalness Problem
- Episode 15How Did SPACE Shape Your DNA?
- Episode 16Why The Multiverse Could Be Real
- Episode 17Is There Evidence For a Vast Multiverse?
- Episode 18The Most Important Satellite You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of
- Episode 19At What Point Does Spacetime Become Quantum?
- Episode 20Why Life on Mars Will DOOM Humanity
- Episode 21We Were WRONG About the Quantum Eraser!
- Episode 22Why Antimatter Engines Could Launch In Your Lifetime
- Episode 23The Gravity Particle Should Exist. So Where Is It?
- Episode 24The Biggest Planet Discovery in History Is About to Begin! (Next Year)
- Episode 25Heisenberg Made a Discovery in 1925. We Still Can't Explain It