Episodes

  • Seminar 18 -- The Vurdalak Conjecture

    Seminar 18 -- The Vurdalak Conjecture
    Dec 14 2008
    The Tunguska Mystery -- it's a wrap!
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    26 mins
  • Seminar 17 -- What're the Odds of That?!?

    Seminar 17 -- What're the Odds of That?!?
    Nov 26 2008
    The Tunguska impactor as magnetically-charged primordial black hole -- million-to-one longshot, or ... even money?
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    16 mins
  • Seminar 16 -- Black Monopoles?!?

    Seminar 16 -- Black Monopoles?!?
    Nov 17 2008
    Magnetically-charged black holes as the final missing piece of the Tunguska mystery?
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    16 mins
  • Seminar 15 -- Hot Enough for You?

    Seminar 15 -- Hot Enough for You?
    Nov 10 2008
    Black holes exploding with the force of a thousand all-out nuclear wars??? Jack’s kidding, right?
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    18 mins
  • Seminar 14 -- From Russia With Love

    Seminar 14 -- From Russia With Love
    Oct 27 2008
    How a Mission to Moscow and a tip from Kip (Thorne, that is) finally turned Stephen Hawking's head around as regards black hole thermodynamics.
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    14 mins
  • Seminar 13 -- Hot Potato

    Seminar 13 -- Hot Potato
    Oct 21 2008
    What Stephen Hawking didn't want you to know about black-hole entropy. (With special thanks to Jacob Bekenstein, for sharing his reminiscences.)
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    18 mins
  • Seminar 12 -- Can't Win, Can't Break Even ...

    Seminar 12 -- Can't Win, Can't Break Even ...
    Oct 13 2008
    Can't Get Out of the Game. Black holes meet the Heat Death of the Universe!
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    17 mins
  • Seminar 11 -- Where Do Baby Black Holes Come From?

    Seminar 11 -- Where Do Baby Black Holes Come From?
    Oct 6 2008
    Not from under a cabbage leaf, that's for sure!
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    19 mins