Building Black Holes in a Lab

PBS Space Time Season 2020 Episode 22

Overview:
Black holes are about the worst subjects for direct study in the universe. But at this stage, it’s all we can do to convince ourselves of their existence. Actually studying the physics of real black holes is much, much harder. I mean, we could try to make one - but that’s way beyond our current tech level, and also potentially humanity-destroying. Well it turns out we don’t need to make real black holes to at least get started with the lab work. We can instead study analog black holes - and by analog, I don’t mean old fashioned clockwork black holes - I mean analogies. Physical systems that aren’t black holes but that behave in similar ways - and may reveal the real behaviours of real black holes.

Genre : Documentary, Talk

Actors : Matthew O’Dowd

Release Date : 2020-06-22

Duration : 14 menit

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Other Episodes (Season 2020)

How To Detect a Neutrino
1. How To Detect a Neutrino
How To Capture Black Holes
2. How To Capture Black Holes
Solutions to the Three Body Problem
3. Solutions to the Three Body Problem
Hacking the Nature of Reality
4. Hacking the Nature of Reality
Are there Infinite Versions of You?
5. Are there Infinite Versions of You?
Are Axions Dark Matter?
6. Are Axions Dark Matter?
Does Consciousness Influence Quantum Mechanics?
7. Does Consciousness Influence Quantum Mechanics?
How Decoherence Splits The Quantum Multiverse
8. How Decoherence Splits The Quantum Multiverse
Does Quantum Immortality Save Schrödinger's Cat?
9. Does Quantum Immortality Save Schrödinger's Cat?
How Do Quantum States Manifest In The Classical World?
10. How Do Quantum States Manifest In The Classical World?
How Black Holes Spin Space Time
11. How Black Holes Spin Space Time
What’s On The Other Side Of A Black Hole?
12. What’s On The Other Side Of A Black Hole?
How We Know The Earth Is Ancient
13. How We Know The Earth Is Ancient
Was the Milky Way a Quasar?
14. Was the Milky Way a Quasar?
Will Wormholes Allow Fast Interstellar Travel?
15. Will Wormholes Allow Fast Interstellar Travel?
How We Know The Universe is Ancient
16. How We Know The Universe is Ancient
How Luminiferous Aether Led to Relativity
17. How Luminiferous Aether Led to Relativity
Mapping the Multiverse
18. Mapping the Multiverse
Does Gravity Require Extra Dimensions?
19. Does Gravity Require Extra Dimensions?
Can Viruses Travel Between Planets?
20. Can Viruses Travel Between Planets?
What Happens After the Universe Ends?
21. What Happens After the Universe Ends?
Building Black Holes in a Lab
22. Building Black Holes in a Lab
Dissolving an Event Horizon
23. Dissolving an Event Horizon
Does Antimatter Explain Why There's Something Rather Than Nothing?
24. Does Antimatter Explain Why There's Something Rather Than Nothing?
The Boundary Between Black Holes & Neutron Stars
25. The Boundary Between Black Holes & Neutron Stars
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26. How Stars Destroy Each Other
Can Future Colliders Break the Standard Model?
27. Can Future Colliders Break the Standard Model?
How Do We Know What Stars Are Made Of?
28. How Do We Know What Stars Are Made Of?
The Truth About Beauty in Physics
29. The Truth About Beauty in Physics
Could Life Evolve Inside Stars?
30. Could Life Evolve Inside Stars?
Solving Quantum Cryptography
31. Solving Quantum Cryptography
Venus May Have Life!
32. Venus May Have Life!
Do the Past and Future Exist?
33. Do the Past and Future Exist?
Is The Future Predetermined By Quantum Mechanics?
34. Is The Future Predetermined By Quantum Mechanics?
How The Penrose Singularity Theorem Predicts The End of Space Time
35. How The Penrose Singularity Theorem Predicts The End of Space Time
Electroweak Theory and the Origin of the Fundamental Forces
36. Electroweak Theory and the Origin of the Fundamental Forces
Can Free Will be Saved in a Deterministic Universe?
37. Can Free Will be Saved in a Deterministic Universe?
The Arrow of Time and How to Reverse It
38. The Arrow of Time and How to Reverse It
Why Do You Remember The Past But Not The Future?
39. Why Do You Remember The Past But Not The Future?
The Supernovas At The End of The Universe
40. The Supernovas At The End of The Universe
Navigating with Quantum Entanglement
41. Navigating with Quantum Entanglement

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