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PBS Space Time

Season 2022 · Episode 31

Are there Undiscovered Elements Beyond The Periodic Table?

0.021mNovember 16, 2022

Adamantium, bolognium, dilithium. Element Zero, Kryptonite. Mythril, Netherite, Orichalcum, Unobtanium. We love the idea of fictional elements with miraculous properties that science has yet to discover. But is it really possible that new elements exist beyond the periodic table?

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Episodes

Episode 1How To Simulate The Universe With DFT
Episode 2How To Build The Universe in a Computer
Episode 3How Does Gravity Escape A Black Hole?
Episode 4Is The Wave Function The Building Block of Reality?
Episode 5Are Cosmic Strings Cracks in the Universe?
Episode 6Is the Proxima System Our Best Hope For Another Earth?
Episode 7What If Charge is NOT Fundamental?
Episode 8Where Is The Center of The Universe?
Episode 9Could The Universe Be Inside A Black Hole?
Episode 10Does the Universe Create Itself?
Episode 11How the Higgs Mechanism Give Things Mass
Episode 12Space DOES NOT Expand Everywhere
Episode 13What If the Galactic Habitable Zone LIMITS Intelligent Life?
Episode 14The Evolution of the Modern Milky Way Galaxy
Episode 15What If Physics IS NOT Describing Reality?
Episode 16Have We SOLVED The Black Hole Information Paradox with Wormholes?
Episode 17Is Interstellar Travel Impossible?
Episode 18Could We Decode Alien Physics?
Episode 19What If We Live in a Superdeterministic Universe?
Episode 20How Many States Of Matter Are There?
Episode 21What Happens Inside a Proton?
Episode 22What If Dark Energy is a New Quantum Field?
Episode 23What Makes The Strong Force Strong?
Episode 24Could the Higgs Boson Lead Us to Dark Matter?
Episode 25Science of the James Webb Telescope Explained!
Episode 26Why Is 1/137 One of the Greatest Unsolved Problems In Physics?
Episode 27The REAL Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets!
Episode 28The Equation That Explains (Nearly) Everything!
Episode 29Why Did Quantum Entanglement Win the Nobel Prize in Physics?
Episode 30What If Humanity Is Among The First Spacefaring Civilizations?
Episode 31Are there Undiscovered Elements Beyond The Periodic Table?
Episode 32How To See Black Holes By Catching Neutrinos
Episode 33How Are Quasiparticles Different From Particles?
Episode 34How Can Matter Be BOTH Liquid AND Gas?