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How Will the Universe End?

We live in an unusual age – the age when the stars still shine. We should count ourselves lucky – nearly all of future history will be dark. But events will still unfold in that long, cooling darkness, and civilizations may endure. So how will the universe and its far-future denizens spend eternity?
Season 4 Episode 36 Length 12:37 Premiere: 08/23/18

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Supersymmetric Particle Found?
S4 E45 Length 12:07 Premiere Date 10/31/18

Will We Ever Find Alien Life?
S4 E44 Length 12:44 Premiere Date 10/25/18

What are the Strings in String Theory?
S4 E43 Length 13:20 Premiere Date 10/18/18

Computing a Universe Simulation
S4 E42 Length 12:04 Premiere Date 10/10/18

How to Detect Extra Dimensions
S4 E41 Length 11:46 Premiere Date 10/03/18

Quantum Gravity and the Hardest Problem in Physics
S4 E40 Length 12:20 Premiere Date 09/20/18

How Much Information is in the Universe?
S4 E39 Length 09:28 Premiere Date 09/12/18

The Black Hole Entropy Enigma
S4 E38 Length 11:41 Premiere Date 09/05/18

Is There Life on Mars?
S4 E37 Length 13:41 Premiere Date 08/30/18

How Will the Universe End?
S4 E36 Length 12:37 Premiere Date 08/23/18

Quantum Theory's Most Incredible Prediction
S4 E35 Length 12:36 Premiere Date 08/15/18

How Close To The Sun Can Humanity Get?
S4 E34 Length 08:51 Premiere Date 08/01/18

Reversing Entropy with Maxwell's Demon
S4 E33 Length 11:36 Premiere Date 07/25/18

The Misunderstood Nature of Entropy
S4 E32 Length 10:58 Premiere Date 07/18/18

Quantum Invariance & The Origin of The Standard Model
S4 E31 Length 11:10 Premiere Date 07/11/18

Will A New Neutrino Change The Standard Model?
S4 E30 Length 10:36 Premiere Date 07/04/18

How Asteroid Mining Will Save Earth
S4 E29 Length 10:38 Premiere Date 06/27/18

Have We SolvedThe Black Hole Information Paradox
S4 E28 Length 11:37 Premiere Date 06/15/18

What Survives Inside A Black Hole?
S4 E27 Length 11:03 Premiere Date 06/13/18

Why Quantum Information is Never Destroyed
S4 E26 Length 10:06 Premiere Date 05/23/18

Noether's Theorem and The Symmetries of Reality
S4 E25 Length 09:38 Premiere Date 05/16/18

How Gaia Changed Astronomy Forever
S4 E24 Length 08:47 Premiere Date 05/09/18

The Star at the End of Time
S4 E23 Length 08:55 Premiere Date 05/02/18

Black Hole Swarms
S4 E22 Length 08:33 Premiere Date 04/25/18

Using Stars to See Gravitational Waves
S4 E21 Length 08:36 Premiere Date 04/18/18

The Physics of Life (ft. It's Okay to be Smart & PBS Eons!)
S4 E20 Length 10:44 Premiere Date 04/11/18

The Unruh Effect
S4 E19 Length 10:52 Premiere Date 04/04/18

The Andromeda-Milky Way Collision
S4 E18 Length 09:15 Premiere Date 03/28/18

Scientists Have Detected the First Stars
S4 E17 Length 09:03 Premiere Date 03/21/18

Hawking Radiation
S4 E16 Length 12:00 Premiere Date 03/07/18

Should Space be Privatized?
S4 E15 Length 09:16 Premiere Date 03/07/18

The Trebuchet Challenge
S4 E14 Length 08:25 Premiere Date 02/28/18

The Death of the Sun
S4 E13 Length 09:01 Premiere Date 02/21/18

What is Energy?
S4 E12 Length 11:20 Premiere Date 02/14/18

Kronos: Devourer Of Worlds
S4 E11 Length 07:42 Premiere Date 01/31/18

The End of the Habitable Zone
S4 E10 Length 09:55 Premiere Date 01/24/18

Horizon Radiation
S4 E9 Length 12:03 Premiere Date 01/17/18

What Do Stars Sound Like?
S4 E8 Length 09:14 Premiere Date 01/10/18

Extinction by Gamma-Ray Burst
S4 E7 Length 09:48 Premiere Date 12/20/17

The Origin of Our First Interstellar Visitor
S4 E6 Length 09:06 Premiere Date 12/13/17

Understanding the Uncertainty Principle
S4 E5 Length 11:19 Premiere Date 12/06/17

Citizen Science
S4 E4 Length 10:02 Premiere Date 11/29/17

Suicide Space Robots
S4 E3 Length 06:00 Premiere Date 11/22/17

Zero-Point Energy Demystified
S4 E2 Length 09:45 Premiere Date 11/08/17

The Vacuum Catastrophe
S4 E1 Length 09:17 Premiere Date 11/02/17

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