Crystals are not alive, yet they grow, form complex structures, and even conduct electricity. Could life emerge from crystals rather than carbon-based molecules? Explore the intriguing possibility of crystal-based lifeforms, the challenges they would face, and the conditions where they might thrive. We journey to five exotic worlds—Vulcan, Ribbon World, Longenacht, Telluride, and Tempest—each offering unique environments where crystalline life might take hold. Could such life develop naturally, or might humanity one day engineer it? Join us as we dive into the cutting-edge science and speculative possibilities of crystalline biology.
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Our Universe is vast, ancient, and mysterious. It’s no surprise that in our quest to explore and explain it, many misconceptions have arisen.
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▬ Common Misconceptions ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 0:00 Intro. 2:34 Space is Huge. 3:58 Space has no gravity. 6:29 Space is not Dark. 7:57 Space is Cold. 12:14 Space is Empty. 14:49 Explosive Decompression. 16:31 No Noise in Space. 17:48 Black Holes Suck. 18:51 You can’t escape a Black Hole. 22:37 Nothing goes faster than light. 24:23 The Edge of The Universe is 13 Billion Light Years Away. 27:23 The Universe has no Edge. 29:31The Universe has no Center. 30:13 We aren’t the Center of the Universe. 32:48 Earth Orbits the Sun. 35:34 The Sun is a fiery Yellow Dwarf. 38:29 Time on Spaceships runs very slow. 40:17 The Universe ends with the last stars.
Credits: Misconceptions About Space, Time & The Universe. Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur. Episode 394, May 11, 2023 Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur.
Could light’s behavior in the double-slit experiment be explained without waves? Discover the groundbreaking “dark photon” theory that’s turning quantum physics on its head. Dive into how bright and dark photon states could rewrite our understanding of interference, measurement, and reality itself. Watch now!
Paper link: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract… 00:00 Introduction 01:17 Rethinking the Double-Slit — Not a Wave After All? 04:10 Bright vs. Dark — Redefining Reality Through Detection 07:10 Implications and Related Discoveries — From Theory to Possibility 10:04 Outro 10:26 Enjoy MUSIC TITLE : Starlight Harmonies MUSIC LINK : https://pixabay.com/music/pulses-star… Visit our website for up-to-the-minute updates: www.nasaspacenews.com Follow us Facebook: / nasaspacenews Twitter: / spacenewsnasa Join this channel to get access to these perks: / @nasaspacenewsagency #NSN #NASA #Astronomy#DarkPhoton #QuantumPhysics #DoubleSlitExperiment #QuantumMechanics #PhysicsBreakthrough #QuantumTheory #BrightPhotons #DarkPhotons #QuantumInterference #QuantumMeasurement #MaxPlanckInstitute #GerhardRempe #QuantumSuperposition #WaveParticleDuality #QuantumLight #QuantumEntanglement #QuantumReality #QuantumRevolution #ScienceNews #LightInterference #Photons #NewPhysics #PhysicsTheory #QuantumMystery #QuantumWorld #QuantumExplanation #QuantumScience #QuantumExperiments #QuantumTech #InvisibleParticles.
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Science fiction often shows us dark, grimy, dystopian mega-cities in the future, but are such planet-wide cities possible, what would they be like, and how many people could they hold?
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Credits: Hive Worlds. Episode 394a, May 14, 2023 Produced, Written & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur.
Editors: Jason Burbank. David McFarlane.
Graphics by: Aryeh Yakov Katz. Jeremy Jozwik. Katie Byrne. Ken York. Legiontech Studios. Mikael Lampiranta. Sergio Botero. Steve Bowers. The Ashdale Regiment.
By popular request we’ve begun adding playlists of the show as Podcasts on Youtube Music, I’ll try to add a new one every 2–3 days till we have most of our inventory up there, but given today’s Episode is *Cities of the Future*, a collection of all of those seemed a good idea https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIIOUpOge0LuyCbYUhy-79RQKkOXonmx4 These are the (tentatively named) upcoming playlists/podcasts list I’ll be adding, in no particular order: Megastructures & Extreme Engineering The Fermi Paradox & Alien Civilizations Space Colonization & Habitats Post-Scarcity & Future Civilizations Transhumanism & Human Evolution Propulsion & Interstellar Travel Terraforming & Planetary Engineering Mind, Machines & Alien Intelligence Future Warfare & Defense Strange Worlds & Alien Life.
In this episode, Dr. Michael Levin, Distinguished Professor of Biology at Tufts University, joins Nathan to discuss embodied minds, his research into limb regeneration and collective intelligence, cognitive light cones, and much more. Dr. Levin and the Levin Lab work at the intersection of biology, artificial life, bioengineering, synthetic morphology, and cognitive science.
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In this episode, Dr. Michael Levin, Distinguished Professor of Biology at Tufts University, joins Nathan Labenz of @CognitiveRevolutionAI Podcast to discuss embodied minds, his research into limb regeneration and collective intelligence, cognitive light cones, and much more. Dr. Levin and the Levin Lab work at the intersection of biology, artificial life, bioengineering, synthetic morphology, and cognitive science.
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A new kind of song has just been released—and it wasn’t composed the usual way. Powered by an unusual mix of quantum science and AI, this track defies the rules of music creation.
*GUEST BIO:* Janna Levin is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist specializing in black holes, cosmology of extra dimensions, topology of the universe, and gravitational waves.
What happens when intelligence escapes the bounds of flesh and bone? In this episode, we explore post-biological civilizations—entities that may trade biology for digital minds, machine bodies, or stranger forms still—and ask what becomes of identity, purpose, and humanity when the body is no longer required.
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