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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 5 hours 11 minutes
Why the solar system can exist
If gravity is so attractive, why doesn't the earth just crash into the sun? Or the moon into the earth? The answer: Stable Orbits
Ye Olde Debunking
Have you ever wondered where "Ye Olde" spelling comes from? Today we unravel this thorny linguistic issue.
There is no "Fourth" dimension
Just because there are four dimensions doesn't mean there's a "fourth dimension".
How far is a second?
The moon may be 1.3 light-seconds away, but why on earth do we measure distances using time?
Einstein and The Special Theory of Relativity
How Einstein (& others) discovered Special Relativity.
Albert Einstein- The Size and Existence of Atoms
How do we know atoms exist? And just how big are they?
Albert Einstein- Why Light is Quantum
Pi day (3.14) is Albert Einstein's Birthday! To celebrate, we'll explain 4 of his most groundbreaking papers from 1905, when he was just 26 years old
What are years... and the galactic supermassive black hole!
It's leap year time... so what are years, anyway?
Theory of Everything (intro)
A brief intro to the current theory of (almost) everything - the Standard Model of particle physics.