PBS Space Time - Season 2016
Browse all 48 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.
Episodes
Episode 1
The True Nature of Matter and Mass
We know that mass is energy… but what is energy? And where did matter and time even come from? Matt begins to dive into these intricate topics by first examining what inertial mass is, how it relates to gravitational mass, and what it all means for mass as a fundamental property.
Episode 2
When Time Breaks Down
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Episode 3
The Photon Clock Challenge
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Episode 4
The Origin of Matter and Time
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Episode 5
Will Mars or Venus Kill You First?
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Episode 6
LIGO's First Detection of Gravitational Waves!
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Episode 7
Planet X Discovered?? + Challenge Winners!
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Episode 8
Why the Big Bang Definitely Happened
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Episode 9
What's Wrong With the Big Bang Theory?
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Episode 10
Cosmic Microwave Background Challenge
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Episode 11
Why is the Earth Round and the Milky Way Flat?
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Episode 12
How Cosmic Inflation Flattened the Universe
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Episode 13
Pulsar Starquakes Make Fast Radio Bursts? + Challenge Winners!
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Episode 14
We Are Star Stuff
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Episode 15
Will the Universe Expand Forever?
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Episode 16
Why the Universe Needs Dark Energy
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Episode 17
What Does Dark Energy Really Do?
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Episode 18
Will Starshot's Insterstellar Journey Succeed?
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Episode 19
The Cosmic Conspiracy of Dark Energy Challenge Question
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Episode 20
Anti-gravity and the True Nature of Dark Energy
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Episode 21
Is an Ice Age Coming?
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Episode 22
Is Quantum Tunneling Faster than Light?
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Episode 23
New Fundamental Particle Discovered?? + Challenge Winners!
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Episode 24
The Strange Universe of Gravitational Lensing
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Episode 25
Planck's Constant and The Origin of Quantum Mechanics
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Episode 26
Nuclear Physics Challenge
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Episode 27
Juno to Reveal Jupiter's Violent Past
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Episode 28
The Future of Gravitational Waves
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Episode 29
The Quantum Experiment that Broke Reality
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Episode 30
Can We Survive the Destruction of the Earth? ft. Neal Stephenson
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Episode 31
How the Quantum Eraser Rewrites the Past
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Episode 32
Quantum Eraser Lottery Challenge
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Episode 33
Should We Build a Dyson Sphere?
The Kepler telescope recently noticed a strange partial eclipse that some have speculated could be a Dyson Sphere. Are Dyson Sphere's possible? Are they practical? What other alternatives to futuristic energy capture do we have to choose from? Why not a kugelblitz - a swarm of black hole powered engines?
Episode 34
Is There a Fifth Fundamental Force? + Quantum Eraser Answer
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Episode 35
Self-Replicating Robots and Galactic Domination
We’ll soon be capable of building self-replicating robots. This will not only change humanity’s future but reshape the galaxy as we know it.
Episode 36
Quantum Entanglement and the Great Bohr-Einstein Debate
Albert Einstein strongly disagreed with Niels Bohr when it came to Bohr’s interpretation of quantum mechanics. Quantum entanglement settled the argument once and for all.
Episode 37
Life on Europa?
The Hubble Telescope found more evidence of vast plumes of water bursting through the icy surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa. What does this tell us about the potential for life on Europa?
Episode 38
Are We Alone? Galactic Civilization Challenge
The Drake Equation tells us the likelihood that there are other advanced technological civilizations waiting for us among the stars. In this episode of Space Time we challenge you to use the Drake Equation to help us determine how near or far these alien races may be. Links to reference material below.
Episode 39
Black Holes from the Dawn of Time
Primordial black holes may be lurking throughout our universe. How large are they, how many are out there and what would happen if they moved through our solar system?
Episode 40
The First Humans on Mars
Elon Musk’s SpaceX program proposes that 100 people could be sent to colonize Mars within 10 years. What might that colony look like?
Episode 41
The Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse
Is our universe a definitive single reality or is it merely one within an infinitely branching multiverse?
Episode 42
Quantum Vortices and Superconductivity + Challenge Answers
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Episode 43
Did Dark Energy Just Disappear?
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Episode 44
Strange Stars
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Episode 45
Pilot Wave Theory and Quantum Realism
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Episode 46
What Happens at the Event Horizon?
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Episode 47
Escape The Kugelblitz Challenge
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Episode 48
Have They Seen Us?
Are aliens watching Earth TV? We'd like to credit the SKA Organization for the image used in the thumbnail.