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Season 2017 · Episode 43

Understanding the Uncertainty Principle with Quantum Fourier Series

0.015mDecember 6, 2017

Sometimes intuitive, large-scale phenomena can give us incredible insights into the extremely unintuitive world of quantum mechanics.

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Episode 1How to See Black Holes + Kugelblitz Challenge Answer
Episode 2The EM Drive: Fact or Fantasy?
Episode 3The Phantom Singularity
Episode 4Why Quasars are so Awesome
Episode 5The Geometry of Causality
Episode 6Telescopes of Tomorrow
Episode 7The Eye of Sauron Reveals a Forming Solar System!
Episode 8The Treasures of Trappist-1

Episode 9The Race to a Habitable Exoplanet - Time Warp Challenge

Episode 10Time Crystals!

Episode 11Superluminal Time Travel + Time Warp Challenge Answer

Episode 12How Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole

Episode 13Telescopes on the Moon

Episode 14The Oh My God Particle

Episode 15Are You a Boltzmann Brain?

Episode 16Are We Living in an Ancestor Simulation?

Episode 17The Great American Eclipse

Episode 18Martian Evolution

Episode 19The Fate of the First Stars

Episode 20Supervoids vs Colliding Universes!

Episode 21Anti-Matter and Quantum Relativity

Episode 22The First Quantum Field Theory

Episode 23Feynman's Infinite Quantum Paths

Episode 24Solving the Impossible in Quantum Field Theory

Episode 25The Real Star Wars

Episode 26The Secrets of Feynman Diagrams

Episode 27Dark Flow

Episode 28The One-Electron Universe

Episode 29Extraterrestrial Superstorms

Episode 30First Detection of Life

Episode 31White Holes

Episode 32Neutron Stars Collide in New LIGO Signal?

Episode 33The Future of Space Telescope

Episode 34Are the Fundamental Constants Changing?

Episode 35When Quasars Collide STJC

Episode 36Absolute Cold

Episode 37The Nature of Nothing

Episode 38The Missing Mass Mystery

Episode 39The Vacuum Catastrophe

Episode 40Zero-Point Energy Demystified

Episode 41Suicide Space Robots

Episode 42Citizen Science + Zero-Point Challenge Answer

Episode 43Understanding the Uncertainty Principle with Quantum Fourier Series

Episode 44The Origin of Our First Interstellar Visitor

Episode 45Extinction by Gamma-Ray Burst