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Great Mysteries of Physics

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About the show

Host Miriam Frankel delves into some of the great mysteries still puzzling the world's top physicists in this new series from The Conversation. This podcast will take you on a mind-blowing journey from the smallest to the largest conundrums, exploring curled-up dimensions, consciousness and parallel universes on the way.

Latest episodes

  • Theory of everything: do we really need one?

    April 12, 2023 · 57 min

    The quest for a theory of everything – explaining all the forces and particles in the universe – is arguably the holy grail of physics. While each of our main theories of physics works extraordinarily well, they also clash with each other…

  • Will we ever have a fundamental theory of life and consciousness?

    April 5, 2023 · 48 min

    What’s the difference between a living collection of matter, such as a tortoise, and an inanimate lump of it, such as a rock? They are, after all, both just made up of non-living atoms. The truth is, we don’t really know yet. Life seems to…

  • Quantum mechanics: does objective reality exist?

    March 29, 2023 · 53 min

    It is hard to shake the intuition that there's a real and objective physical world out there. If I see an umbrella on top of a shelf, I assume you do too. And if I don't look at the umbrella, I expect it to remain there as long as nobody…

  • Is there a multiverse?

    March 22, 2023 · 41 min

    Interest in the multiverse theory, suggesting that our universe is just one of many, has spiked since the movie Everything Everywhere All At Once was released. The film follows Evelyn Wang on her journey to connect with versions of herself…

  • Fundamental constants: is the universe fine tuned for life to exist?

    March 15, 2023 · 42 min

    Imagine a universe with extremely strong gravity. Stars would be able to form from very little material. They would be smaller than in our universe and live for a much shorter amount of time. But could life evolve there? It after all took…

  • Is time an illusion?

    March 8, 2023 · 44 min

    Without a sense of time, leading us from cradle to grave, our lives would make little sense. But on the most fundamental level, physicists aren't sure whether the sort of time we experience exists at all. We talk to three experts and find…

  • Great Mysteries of Physics - trailer

    February 13, 2023 · 3 min

    "There is nothing new to discover in physics", declared the British physicist Lord Kelvin in 1900. That is no longer true. Today it is becoming increasingly clear that there are problems that physics, as we know it, doesn't seem to be able…