Podcast Episodes

Andrew Long on Early Universe Cosmology

Season 2 Episode 12

Have you ever wondered what the universe was like in its very first moments? Why did matter win over antimatter? What is dark matter made of? What is…

14 hours ago

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Ashmeet Singh on a Quantum-First Approach to Space, Time, Gravity, and Cosmology

Season 2 Episode 11

In the 1920s, physicists like Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Einstein, Planck—and many others—realized something deeply unsettling and beautiful: the unive…

1 month, 1 week ago

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Piotr Sułkowski on Mathematical aspects of Theoretical Physics

Season 2 Episode 10

Recently, I came across a definition of a good theory: it should explain as much as possible, with as few ingredients as possible, and with as much a…

2 months, 1 week ago

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Niko Šarčević on Modern Cosmology

Season 2 Episode 9

Most of what we know about the universe actually comes from what we can’t see.
Only a tiny fraction of the cosmos is made of “normal” matter—the stuff…

3 months ago

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Marine De Clerck on Quantum Chaos

Season 2 Episode 8

Hello Everyone, welcome to The Knowmads Podcast. I'm your co-host Prachi, and I'm your co-host Bhavay. `Chaos' is one of those words that has escaped…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

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Daniel Whiteson on Do Aliens Speak Physics?

Season 2 Episode 7

Imagine: it’s a lazy Sunday morning, you’re sipping your raspberry-flavored iced latte, and an interstellar traveler lands in your backyard. It start…

7 months, 1 week ago

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Eve M. Vavagiakis on What goes into Cosmological Observations

Season 2 Episode 6

The universe is about 14 billion years old. Ever wondered—how do we even know the age of the universe? How can we look up at the sky and read time it…

8 months ago

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Ramakrishna V. Hosur on when Science Meets Spirituality

Season 2 Episode 5

Science and philosophy have always been woven together. Some of history’s greatest minds—Aristotle, Galileo, Aryabhata and even Einstein—were as much…

9 months, 1 week ago

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Pavan Hosur on Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis

Season 2 Episode 4

Imagine walking deep into a dense forest without a map or GPS. Initially, you kind of know where you started. But as you wander further, eventually, …

10 months, 2 weeks ago

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Andreas Karch on the Stringy Nature of the Universe

Season 2 Episode 3

Modern physics rests on two foundational frameworks that describe our universe at different scales. The first is General Relativity, Einstein’s theor…

11 months, 1 week ago

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