World Science Festival
The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Their mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future.
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Seasons
Collection of Live events from the 2016 and earlier World Science Festivals in New York
- Ep 1
1.Infinite Worlds: A Journey through Parallel Universes
05-06-2016The multiverse hypothesis, suggesting that our universe is but one of perhaps infinitely many, speaks to the very nature of reality. Join physicist Brian Greene, cosmologists Alan...
- Ep 2
2.Quantum Reality: Space, Time, and Entanglement
05-06-2016Ninety years after the historic double-slit experiment, the quantum revolution shows no sign of slowing. Join a vibrant conversation with renowned leaders in theoretical physics, q...
- Ep 3
3.A Thin Sheet of Reality: The Universe as a Hologram
05-06-2016What we touch. What we smell. What we feel. They’re all part of our reality. But what if life as we know it reflects only one side of the full story? Some of the world’s leading ph...
- Ep 4
4.Beyond Beauty: The Predictive Power of Symmetry
05-06-2016From a bee’s hexagonal honeycomb to the elliptical paths of planets, symmetry has long been recognized as a vital quality of nature. Einstein saw symmetry hidden in the fabric of s...
- Ep 5
5.Engineering the Brain: Deploying a New Neural Toolkit
05-06-2016A new generation of technology is revolutionizing neuroscience, allowing a closer study of the brain than had ever seemed possible. The techniques are hybrids of optics, genetics,...
- Ep 6
6.Gravitational Waves: A New Era of Astronomy Begins
05-06-2016On September 14th, 2015, a ripple in the fabric of space, created by the violent collision of two distant black holes over a billion years ago, washed across the Earth. As it did,...
- Ep 7
7.Hidden Dimensions: Exploring Hyperspace
05-06-2016Extra dimensions of space — the idea that we are immersed in hyperspace — may be key to explaining the fundamental nature of the universe. Relativity introduced time as the fourth...
- Ep 8
8.Neutrinos, Matter, and Antimatter: The Yin Yang of the Big Bang
05-06-2016What happened to all of the universe's antimatter? Can a particle be its own anti-particle? And how do you build an experiment to find out? In this program, particle physicists rev...
- Ep 9
9.How Music Affects Your Brain: Notes on the Folds
05-06-2016Scientists are now finally discovering what thinkers, musicians, or even any of us with a Spotify account and a set of headphones could have told you on instinct: music lights up m...
- Ep 10
10.Measure for Measure: Quantum Physics and Reality
05-06-2016When no one is looking, a particle has near limitless potential: it can be nearly anywhere. But measure it, and the particle snaps to one position. How do subatomic objects shed th...
- Ep 11
11.The Illusion of Certainty: Risk, Probability, and Chance
05-06-2016Stuff happens. The weather forecast says it’s sunny, but you just got drenched. You got a flu shot—but you’re sick in bed with the flu. Your best friend from Boston met your other...
- Ep 12
12.The Matter of Antimatter: Answering the Cosmic Riddle of Existence
05-06-2016You exist. You shouldn’t. Stars and galaxies and planets exist. They shouldn’t. The nascent universe contained equal parts matter and antimatter that should have instantly oblitera...
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