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Something Strange Happens When You Follow Einstein's Math

Veritasium · 3 min read

Following Einstein’s general relativity leads to a counterintuitive picture of black holes: from the outside, nothing ever truly crosses the event...

Black HolesEvent HorizonSchwarzschild Solution

What Everyone Gets Wrong About Gravity

Veritasium · 3 min read

General relativity treats gravity not as a force field but as a consequence of curved spacetime—so “weight” and “acceleration” depend on what an...

Equivalence PrincipleGeodesicsCurved Spacetime

The Misunderstood Nature of Entropy

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Entropy’s core claim is simple but far-reaching: in an isolated system, entropy tends to increase, which effectively sets the universe’s “arrow of...

EntropySecond LawStatistical Mechanics

How Quantum Entanglement Creates Entropy

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Entropy sits at the center of physics’ most stubborn puzzles—why time seems to flow one way, why macroscopic laws look so inevitable, and how black...

Von Neumann EntropyQuantum EntanglementDecoherence

What If The Universe Is Math?

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

The Mathematical Universe Hypothesis (MUH) claims not just that nature can be described by equations, but that external reality is itself a...

Mathematical Universe HypothesisWigner EffectivenessLevel 4 Multiverse

The Strange Universe of Gravitational Lensing

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Gravitational lensing turns the universe into a cosmic funhouse mirror: curved spacetime bends light, so distant objects appear magnified, shifted,...

Gravitational LensingCurved SpacetimeStrong Lensing

How Can Matter Be BOTH Liquid AND Gas?

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Supercritical fluids let matter behave like a hybrid of liquid and gas—crossing the liquid–gas “no-man’s land” at the critical point—unlocking...

Supercritical FluidsPhase DiagramsCritical Point

How Do We Know What Stars Are Made Of?

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Stars are made mostly of hydrogen and helium—and scientists figured that out by reading the “missing” colors in starlight, not the light itself. When...

Stellar SpectraAbsorption LinesQuantum Ionization