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Alex Filippenko - Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe

Sun, Nov 8, 2020 ·
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Alex Filippenko is an astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at Berkeley.

Timestamps

  • 2:08 - Universe expansion
  • 3:32 - Dark energy
  • 11:00 - Scientific revolutions
  • 22:50 - Asteroid hitting Earth
  • 26:22 - Giant solar flares and the power grid
  • 33:22 - Elon Musk and space exploration
  • 38:13 - Exoplanets
  • 45:35 - Traveling close to the speed of light
  • 47:45 - Traveling faster than the speed of light
  • 56:11 - Intelligent life in the universe
  • 59:46 - Fermi Paradox
  • 1:09:24 - Finding alien life would be bad news
  • 1:14:20 - UFO sightings
  • 1:27:30 - Universe expansion speed
  • 1:32:14 - The universe is infinite
  • 1:36:30 - What happened before the Big Bang?
  • 1:40:46 - Roger Penrose
  • 1:44:20 - Nobel Prize for the accelerating universe
  • 2:05:55 - Supernova
  • 2:17:19 - The greatest story ever told
  • 2:21:16 - Richard Feynman
  • 2:28:09 - Meaning of life

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