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  • What are Dark Matter and Dark Energy? Part 2

    References

    Isotropy of Dark Energy - StackExchange

    https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/196729/is-dark-energy-homogeneous-and-or-isotropic

    Quantum Field Theory - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_field_theory

    Energy Density - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

    Casimir Effect - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect

    Cosmological Constant Problem - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant_problem

    Quintessence - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintessence_(physics)

    Renormalization Theory - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renormalization

    Matter-Radiation Equality - Oxford Reference

    https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100140589

    Cosmic Inflation - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_(cosmology)

    Magnetic Monopole - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_(cosmology)

    Big Bang - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang

    Dark Energy - COSMOS

    https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/d/Dark+Energy

    Heat Death - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe

    29 min
  • What are Dark Matter and Dark Energy? Part 1

    References

    Cosmological Expansion - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe

    Dark Matter - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter

    Dark Energy - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy

    Galaxy Rotation Curve - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve

    Virial Theorem - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virial_theorem

    Lambda-CDM Model - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda-CDM_model

    Scale Factor - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_factor_(cosmology)

    Annihilation (Particle Physics) - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilation

    “Dark Matter--Hot or Not?” - Phys.org

    https://phys.org/news/2016-08-dark-matterhot.html

    Hot Dark Matter - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dark_matter

    Cold Dark Matter - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_dark_matter

    30 min
  • What are the Laws of Conservation?

    References:

    Conservation Law - Britannica

    https://www.britannica.com/science/conservation-law

    Conservation Law - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_law

    Noether’s Theorem - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether%27s_theorem

    Mass-Energy Equivalence - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_mass-energy

    Law of Conservation of Energy - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_energy

    Energy-Momentum Equivalence - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%E2%80%93momentum_relation

    Law of Conservation of Mass - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_mass

    Law of Conservation of Linear Momentum - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_linear_momentum

    Angular Momentum (+ its Conservation Law) - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_angular_momentum

    Color Charge - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_charge

    SU(3) Group - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SU(3)#The_group_SU(3)

    Weak Isospin - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_isospin

    Law of Conservation of Electric Charge - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_conservation

    Color Charge - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_charge

    SU(3) Group - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SU(3)#The_group_SU(3)

    Weak Isospin - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_isospin

    Probability Current - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_current

    27 min
  • Why do Women do Remarkably Better Than Men in School? Why do Men do Remarkably Better Than Women in the Office?

    References:

    “Why Girls Beat Boys at School and Lose to Them at the Office” - The New York Times

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/opinion/sunday/girls-school-confidence.html

    “Why Girls Tend to Get Better Grades Than Boys Do” - The Atlantic

    https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/09/why-girls-get-better-grades-than-boys-do/380318/

    “Girls Make Higher Grades than Boys in All School Subjects, Analysis Finds” - Press Releases, American Psychological Association

    https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/04/girls-grades

    “Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in School Discipline among U.S. High School Students: 1991-2005” - National Institutes of Health

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2678799/

    Men are More Competitive Than Women - University of Amsterdam

    https://ase.uva.nl/content/news/2019/11/men-are-more-competitive-than-women-in-the-workplace.html?cb

    C-Suite Positions - Investopedia

    https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/c-suite.asp

    Women C-Suite Job Proportions - Korn Ferry

    https://www.kornferry.com/insights/this-week-in-leadership/women-in-leadership-2019-statistics

    LinkedIn Study Reveals Why Men are More Likely Than Women to be Noticed - CNBC

    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/08/linkedin-study-reveals-why-men-are-more-likely-to-get-noticed-by-job-recruiters-than-women.html

    LinkedIn Study Results - HRDIVE

    https://www.hrdive.com/news/women-are-more-selective-when-job-searching-but-ask-for-fewer-referrals/549962/

    Gender Inequality in the Workplace - Frontiers in Psychology

    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01400/full

    30 min
  • What is Thermodynamics? What are the Laws of Thermodynamics?

    References:

    Thermodynamics - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamics

    Laws of Thermodynamics - KhanAcademy

    https://www.khanacademy.org/science/ap-biology/cellular-energetics/cellular-energy/a/the-laws-of-thermodynamics

    Latent Heat - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_heat

    Heat Capacity - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_capacity

    Why Does a Ball Bounce Lower? - StackExchange

    https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/117091/why-does-a-ball-bounce-lower

    Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroth_law_of_thermodynamics

    First Law of Thermodynamics - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_law_of_thermodynamics

    Closed System - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_system#Closed_system

    First Law of Thermodynamics - LiveScience

    https://www.livescience.com/50881-first-law-thermodynamics.html

    Thermodynamics - LiveScience

    https://www.livescience.com/50776-thermodynamics.html

    Second Law of Thermodynamics - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics

    Third Law of Thermodynamics - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_law_of_thermodynamics

    29 min
  • What is Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)?

    References:

    Quantum Chromodynamics - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_chromodynamics

    Strong CP (charge-parity) Problem - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_CP_problem

    Quark - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark

    Origin of the Word “Quark” - ScienceFriday

    https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/the-origin-of-the-word-quark/

    Eightfold Way (Physics) - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eightfold_way_(physics)

    Color Charge - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_charge

    Non-Abelian Gauge Theory - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-abelian_gauge_theory

    Lagrangian Function - Britannica

    https://www.britannica.com/science/Lagrangian-function

    Yang-Mills Theory - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang%E2%80%93Mills_theory

    Special Unitary Triplet - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_unitary_group#The_group_SU(3)

    Asymptotic Freedom - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptotic_freedom

    Color Confinement - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_confinement

    Direct Photon Production - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_photons

    Jet (Physics) and Hadronization - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_(particle_physics)

    Peccei-Quinn Theory - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peccei%E2%80%93Quinn_theory

    Axion - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axion

    35 min
  • What is the Hierarchy Problem in Particle Physics?
    Edit: in the episode, the Higgs field is referred to as having a “mass of 250 GeV.” This is NOT correct; 250 GeV refers specifically to the energy of an object, as GeV is an energy, not a mass, scale. References:
    Hierarchy Problem - Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy_problem
    Hierarchy Problem - Of Particular Significance
    https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-physics-basics/the-hierarchy-problem/
    Planck Mass - COSMOS
    https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/P/Planck+Mass
    Special Unitary Group - Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_unitary_group
    Doublet State (Quantum Mechanics) - Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublet_state
    Determinant - Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinant
    Unitary Group - Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_group
    Circle Group - Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_group
    Q/A on SU(2) to U(1) Symmetry Breaking - StackExchange
    https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/370573/su2-to-u1-symmetry-breaking
    Higgs Mechanism - Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_mechanism
    Coupling Constant - Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling_constant
    Coupling Constants of the Fundamental Forces
    http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Forces/couple.html
    Fermi’s Constant - Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_constant
    Supersymmetry - Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersymmetry
    Electroweak Interaction Theory - Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroweak_interaction
    Coleman-Weinberg Mechanism - Scholarpedia
    http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Coleman-Weinberg_mechanism
    36 min
  • What is the Relativistic Doppler Effect? Why do Distant Galaxies Appear “Redshifted?”

    When gazing into the deep expanse of the universe and finding the distant quasars and galaxies, we notice a particular feature that is commonplace no matter where we look: the further away the galaxy or deep sky object is, the redder, or the longer wavelength, the object appears; it seems that a galaxy like the Andromeda Galaxy is far less red than a comparable galaxy that is 1.6 billion light years away. This feature was once noticed by the astrophysicist Edwin Hubble, a physicist that will be spoken of frequently in this chapter, who found that this reddening paradigm was more profound the further one looked out into the universe (a galaxy 100 million light years away will appear less “redshifted” than a galaxy 2 billion light years away, even if the two galaxies have the same compositions). This redshifting determined for Hubble that the universe was expanding, and he proved his findings through what is known as the Doppler Effect, which is the phenomenon that creates the redshifting Hubble used to determine that the universe was expanding. In this chapter, we will discuss the Doppler Effect, how it occurs, and what it represents.

    References

    Classical Doppler Effect - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_effect

    Relativistic Doppler Effect - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_Doppler_effect

    Cosmological Redshift - COSMOS

    https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/c/cosmological+redshift

    Cosmological Expansion - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe

    Comoving and Proper Distance in Cosmology - David W. Hogg

    https://cds.cern.ch/record/387177/files/9905116.pdf

    Future of Cosmological Expansion - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_an_expanding_universe

    Heat Death - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe

    Fate of the Universe - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe

    Entropy - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy

    Thermodynamic Free Energy - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_free_energy

    33 min
  • What is the Speed of Light? What can Travel at the Speed of Light?

    As we, being objects with mass, approach relativistic speeds, our masses continue to increase, and the energy required to propel us continues to increase; once we are near enough to the speed of light, a major mathematical and physical conflict occurs: not only are we now composed of infinite mass, but we also require infinite energy to propel ourselves. Considering the fact that there is not an infinite amount of energy, or mass, for that matter, in the universe, it is reasonable to believe that the speed of light is unattainable for us massive beings. Our travels are limited to short, interstellar neighborhood voyages. Even so, our failure in breaking physics, at least now, raises the question: what does actually travel at the speed of light, or for that matter, what even is the speed of light? In this chapter, we are to discuss the speed of light and the objects it is restricted to.


    References:

    Speed of Light - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light

    Parallax Angle (Seconds of Arc) - NASA JPL

    https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/teachers/attachments/parallax.html

    Luminiferous Aether - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether

    Lorentz Transformation - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_transformation

    Caesium Standard - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium_standard

    History of Light - Photon terrace

    https://photonterrace.net/en/photon/history/

    A Very Brief History of Light - M. Suhail Zubairy

    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-31903-2_1

    Refractive Index - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refractive_index

    Lorentz Factor - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_factor

    Massless Particle - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massless_particle

    32 min
  • How is a Proton Positive and a Neutron Neutral? What are Quarks?

    The atom is most definitely not the smallest particle and most definitely can be broken down into smaller pieces; even the protons and the neutrons that we considered to be fundamental particles in and of themselves can be broken down into smaller particles. In an attempt to open your minds beyond the delusion that the atom cannot be broken down, this chapter is to convey and communicate the building blocks of the building blocks of atoms, which we have alluded to oftentimes in previous chapters but have not covered in-depth. Welcome to the wondrous world of quarks.

    References

    Fifty Years of Quarks - CERN

    https://home.cern/news/news/physics/fifty-years-quarks

    Quark - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark

    Particle Zoo (1960s) - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_zoo

    Flavour (Particle Physics) - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavour_(particle_physics)

    Quark Model - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_model

    Pauli Exclusion Principle

    http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/pauli.html#c2

    Spin Classification of Elementary Particles

    http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Particles/spinc.html

    Up Quark - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_quark

    Down Quark - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_quark

    Strange Quark - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_quark

    Charm Quark - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charm_quark

    Bottom Quark - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_quark

    CP Violation - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP_violation

    Top Quark - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_quark

    36 min

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