PBS Space Time — Best Videos According to Hacker News
PBS Space Time videos on HackerTube, ranked by how often Hacker News commenters recommended them. HN mostly shares this channel in threads about cosmology & astrophysics, fundamental physics, quantum physics and space exploration & spaceflight.
- videos on HackerTube
- 35
- best all-time rank
- #289
- recommended on HN
- 2016–2026
Most recommended PBS Space Time videos
Each card shows the HN comment that sums it up best.
explainerThe Speed of Light is NOT About Light
PBS Space Time
“The video about “the speed of causality” is the one that caused me to level up”
8 HN recommenders · 2017–2023
explainerThe REAL Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets!
PBS Space Time
“Pretty good explanation of the technique and challenges involved”
4 HN recommenders · 2023–2024
explainerNoether's Theorem and The Symmetries of Reality
PBS Space Time
“It's such an aha moment.”
5 HN recommenders · 2018–2026
explainerHow Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole | Space Time
PBS Space Time
“I think this is the cleanest explanation with actual visual representation.”
4 HN recommenders · 2018–2025
explainerHow the Quantum Eraser Rewrites the Past | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
PBS Space Time
“a quick video from space time for those being first introduced”
4 HN recommenders · 2017–2025
explainerPilot Wave Theory and Quantum Realism | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
PBS Space Time
“Here's another great video from PBS Spacetime on this topic”
4 HN recommenders · 2016–2022
explainerShould We Colonize Venus Instead of Mars?
PBS Space Time
“Don't miss the PBS Space Time episode suggesting we should colonize Venus instead of Mars which gives some good arguments and goes through the basics.”
4 HN recommenders · 2016–2022
explainerThe True Nature of Matter and Mass | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
PBS Space Time
“The YouTube channel PBS SpaceTime gives an excellent overview of these same ideas.”
3 HN recommenders · 2016–2022
explainerThe Crisis in Cosmology
PBS Space Time
“PBS Space time has an excellent video on the topic”
3 HN recommenders · 2019–2021
explainerIs The Alcubierre Warp Drive Possible? | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
PBS Space Time
“For a shorter 10 minute video, see this PBS Spacetime video”
3 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
explainerHow the Higgs Mechanism Give Things Mass
PBS Space Time
“about as deep as a lay audience can hope to surmount”
4 HN recommenders · 2022–2024
explainerAre Space and Time An Illusion?
PBS Space Time
“they have an episode that would be a good place to start on warp drives”
3 HN recommenders · 2016–2020
explainerWhat Happens at the Event Horizon? | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
PBS Space Time
“I think this is the cleanest explanation with actual visual representation.”
3 HN recommenders · 2019–2025
explainerHawking Radiation
PBS Space Time
“explains it really well while keeping it accessible for non-physicists”
3 HN recommenders · 2019–2024
explainerDo Events Inside Black Holes Happen?
PBS Space Time
“This is mind blowing...shatters my misconception of blackholes”
5 HN recommenders · 2016–2021
explainer'Oumuamua Is Not Aliens
PBS Space Time
“And I really recommend this PBS Space Time Video”
3 HN recommenders · 2018–2021
explainerThe Higgs Mechanism Explained | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
PBS Space Time
“I think this video does a good job explaining it, much better than I could”
3 HN recommenders · 2018–2022
explainerThe Holographic Universe Explained
PBS Space Time
“Here's a video that made me feel like I almost half-way understood one of the main underlying principles (AdS/CFT correspondence)”
2 HN recommenders · 2019–2022
explainerQuantum Entanglement and the Great Bohr-Einstein Debate | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
PBS Space Time
“there is a great video by the PBS space time channel explaining quantum entanglement”
3 HN recommenders · 2016–2022
explainerThe Geometry of Causality
PBS Space Time
2 HN recommenders · 2017–2022
explainerThe Black Hole Information Paradox
PBS Space Time
“There's a great PBS Space Time youtube video on this concept”
2 HN recommenders · 2018–2021
explainerThe Physics of Life (ft. It's Okay to be Smart & PBS Eons!)
PBS Space Time
“it's a very good video on this topic by PBS”
2 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
explainerWhy Quantum Information is Never Destroyed
PBS Space Time
“I have to recommend the relevant PBS Space Time on the subject”
2 HN recommenders · 2019–2021
explainerSuperluminal Time Travel + Time Warp Challenge Answer
PBS Space Time
“One video with no maths required.”
2 HN recommenders · 2018–2022
explainerWhy the Muon g-2 Results Are So Exciting!
PBS Space Time
“PBS Spacetime is YouTube channel hosted by astrophysics Ph.D Matt O'Dowd, aimed at casual physics enthusiasts without oversimplifying underlying physics too much.”
2 HN recommenders · 2021–2022
explainerWhat Happens After the Universe Ends?
PBS Space Time
“It's explained in this PBS Space Time episode much better”
2 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
explainerThe Equation That Explains (Nearly) Everything!
PBS Space Time
“PBS Spacetime has a very good video[0] that helps visualize what's going on in the equation, recent too!”
2 HN recommenders · 2022–2024
explainerWas Penrose Right? NEW EVIDENCE For Quantum Effects In The Brain
PBS Space Time
“check especially the ending summary where they calculate more or less how much would be necessary”
2 HN recommenders · 2024–2026
explainerDid Time Start at the Big Bang?
PBS Space Time
1 HN recommenders · 2020–2024
explainerDoes Time Cause Gravity?
PBS Space Time
“Here's a really good explanation of what's actually going on when gravity influences an object.”
1 HN recommenders · 2021–2023
explainerAre Black Holes Actually Fuzzballs?
PBS Space Time
“PBS space time goes into a few of them”
1 HN recommenders · 2022–2023
explainerHow to Detect Extra Dimensions
PBS Space Time
“Youtube video that explains this in depth”
3 HN recommenders · 2018–2020
explainerWhat If Alien Life Were Silicon-Based?
PBS Space Time
“PBS Space Time has a very good & informative episode covering this.”
1 HN recommenders · 2023–2025
explainerCould The Universe Be Inside A Black Hole?
PBS Space Time
“was a huge relief and interesting dive into the q”
1 HN recommenders · 2022–2023
explainerWhat if Humans Are NOT Earth's First Civilization? | Silurian Hypothesis
PBS Space Time
“This youtube video addresses the situation pretty well”
1 HN recommenders · 2023–2024
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