Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "heisenberg-uncertainty-principle"

1. A Serious Man (2009)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama

Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking.

Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed

Votes: 150,332 | Gross: $9.19M

2. Repo Men (2010)

R | 111 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed.

Director: Miguel Sapochnik | Stars: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, Liev Schreiber

Votes: 110,849 | Gross: $13.79M

3. The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)

R | 116 min | Crime, Drama

A laconic, chain-smoking barber blackmails his wife's boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning, but his plan goes terribly wrong.

Director: Joel Coen | Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, James Gandolfini

Votes: 115,166 | Gross: $7.49M

4. The Good Boss (2021)

116 min | Comedy, Drama

Awaiting a visit by a committee that could give his company an award for excellence, the owner of an industrial scales manufacturing business tries to resolve any problems from his workers in enough time.

Director: Fernando León de Aranoa | Stars: Javier Bardem, Manolo Solo, Almudena Amor, Óscar de la Fuente

Votes: 13,436

5. Three-Fifty (2008)

9 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

A guy tries to weasel out of his late fees at the local video store only to discover the video store's database has access to intimate details of his past - and his future.

Director: Maurice Chauvet | Stars: Evin Grensted, Michael Angelo Stuno, Melinda Augustina, Paul McKinney

Votes: 42

6. Extreme Ghostbusters (1997)
Episode: Eyes of a Dragon (1997)

TV-Y7 | 21 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The EGBs investigate the mysterious disappearance of a Chinatown merchant who is possessed by an ancient bone-stealing demon.

Director: Sam Liu | Stars: Tara Strong, Maurice LaMarche, Jason Marsden, Pat Musick

Votes: 33

7. Numb3rs (2005–2010)
Episode: Uncertainty Principle (2005)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A pair of bank robbers are quietly taking LA by storm but Charlie delivers an equation that may predict their next location. But these bank robbers aren't as respectful as the bank videos reveal.

Director: Davis Guggenheim | Stars: Rob Morrow, David Krumholtz, Judd Hirsch, Alimi Ballard

Votes: 460

8. A Science Odyssey (1998– )
Episode: Mysteries of the Universe (1998)

History

At the beginning of the century, discoveries about the hidden workings of the everyday world suggest all is not as it seems. Quantum theory, relativity, nuclear power, and clues about the ... See full summary »

Directors: Noel Buckner, Rob Whittlesey | Stars: Charles Osgood, Sallie Baliunas, Niels Bohr, Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Votes: 12

9. The Ascent of Man (1973)
Episode: Knowledge or Certainty (1973)

Documentary, History

Man is humbled by the uncertainty of what he can know, but still has the itch to gain absolute knowledge, often with tragic consequences.

Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Stefan Bor-Grajewicz, Jacob Bronowski

Votes: 56

10. Arvin Ash (2018– )
Episode: How 2 Fundamental Forces Unite: Electromagnetism & The Weak force - Electroweak force (2020)

15 min | Documentary

Creating a theory that unites the weak nuclear force and electromagnetism was the first step toward uniting all four forces of our universe. But in our everyday world these two forces ... See full summary »

Star: Arvin Ash

11. DoS - Domain of Science (2010– )
Episode: If You Don't Understand Quantum Physics, Try This! (2019)

13 min | Documentary

The problem with reality at the atomic level is matter behaves like a particle and a wave. Matter travels as a wave but we tend to experience it as particles. Quantum mechanics handle this ... See full summary »

Star: Dominic Walliman

12. PBS Space Time (2015– )
Episode: Breaking the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (2021)

11 min | Documentary, Talk-Show

The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states the more accurately you measure one variable, such as the phase of a wave, the less accurately you can measure its complementary variable, such ... See full summary »

Director: Andrew Kornhaber | Star: Matthew O'Dowd

13. The Universe (2007–2015)
Episode: Science Fiction, Science Fact (2009)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History

Is science-fiction rooted in science? Has science caught up to science-fiction, past and present? Is there any scientific technology that has surpassed science-fiction? This episode explores these questions and more.

Director: Colin Campbell | Stars: Erik Thompson, Pamela L. Gay, André Bormanis, Alex Filippenko

Votes: 71

14. PBS Space Time (2015– )
Episode: How Vacuum Decay Would Destroy The Universe (2021)

13 min | Documentary, Talk-Show

The Higgs Field is unique in that its minimum energy level is not zero. And it could have more than one energy minimum. If our universe is in one of the higher energy minimum it is possible... See full summary »

Star: Matthew O'Dowd

15. Arvin Ash (2018– )
Episode: Why Does the Sun Shine? The Quantum Explanation for How the Sun Works (2021)

17 min | Documentary

The sun derives it's energy form the fusion of hydrogen into helium but, as Arvin explains, it doesn't occur in just one step. Fusion is only successful because the helium nucleus is more ... See full summary »

Star: Arvin Ash

16. PBS Space Time (2015– )
Episode: Can Space Be Infinitely Divided? (2021)

12 min | Documentary, Talk-Show

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Star: Matthew O'Dowd

17. Arvin Ash (2018– )
Episode: How do Superconductors work at the Quantum level? (2021)

14 min | Documentary

In a superconductor electrons are thought to pair up into "Cooper Pairs" that behave like bosons whereas single electrons are fermions. These boson-like pairs are in their lowest energy ... See full summary »

Star: Arvin Ash

18. Physics Explained (2018– )
Episode: Quantum Field Theory: What is a particle? (2021)

37 min | Documentary

Andrew derives the mass of a particle from the energy of a wave in a field.

Star: Andrew Low

19. The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019)
Episode: The Russian Rocket Reaction (2011)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

Sheldon takes offense when Leonard wants to attend a party with Wil Wheaton, while Bernadette tries to block Howard's opportunity to go into outer space.

Director: Mark Cendrowski | Stars: Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg

Votes: 3,748

20. Sciencephile the AI (2016– )
Episode: The Iceberg of Quantum Physics Explained (2021)

11 min | Documentary

As you well know only part of an iceberg is visible while most of it is invisible below the surface. In the overview of our perception of the quantum world the iceberg is used as an analogy... See full summary »

Star: Sciencephile

21. Sciencephile the AI (2016– )
Episode: The Iceberg of Paradoxes Explained (2021)

12 min | Documentary

Here are several classic paradoxes presented in iceberg format so the get stranger and more difficult to explain.

Star: Sciencephile

22. Fermilab (2009– )
Episode: Why is the Weak Force weak? (2017)

11 min | Documentary

In beta decay a neutron releases a W boson, the charge carrier of the weak nuclear force, to become a proton. But this only occurs if the W boson has a very low mass compared to it's '... See full summary »

Director: Ian Krass | Star: Don Lincoln

23. Astrum (2013– )
Episode: 97,000 Sonic Black Hole Experiments Revealed Something "Impossible": Black Holes Part 2 (2022)

14 min | Documentary

Hawking's concept of black hole evaporation is explained along with an experiment of a similar physical behavior that suggested he may be correct.

Star: Alex McColgan

24. Physics with Elliot (2021– )
Episode: Before You Start on Quantum Mechanics, Learn This (2021)

11 min | Documentary

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Star: Elliot Schneider

25. Michel van Biezen (2012– )
Episode: Particle Physics (4 of 41) The Pion: What Is It? (2014)

10 min

In 1935 Hideki Yukawa postulated that the nucleus of the atom was held together by a strong force that over powered the electromagnetic repulsion of the protons. He further postulated that ... See full summary »

Star: Michel van Biezen

26. Sixty Symbols (2009– )
Episode: Casimir Effect & Black Holes - Sixty Symbols (2014)

11 min | Documentary

Dr. Merrifield explains how to convert a virtual particle that doesn't really exist, at least not for long, into a real particle that lasts forever.

Director: Brady Haran | Stars: Brady Haran, Mike Merrifield

27. Sixty Symbols (2009– )
Episode: Heisenberg's Microscope - Sixty Symbols (2014)

9 min | Documentary

Dr. Merrifield explains the Heisnberg Uncertainty Principle from three difference perspectives but still can't persuade Brady. So, he'll try again in the next episode.

Director: Brady Haran | Stars: Brady Haran, Mike Merrifield

28. Sixty Symbols (2009– )
Episode: Weak Measurement (cont. from Heisenberg's Microscope) - Sixty Symbols (2014)

6 min | Documentary

Physicist are working on thwarting the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle by using a technique term Weak Measurement to subtle probe a system many many times.

Director: Brady Haran | Star: Mike Merrifield

29. PBS Space Time (2015– )
Episode: Did AI Prove Our Proton Model WRONG? (2023)

17 min | Documentary, Talk-Show

Now that you've finally come to grips with the quantum chromdynamics explanation of the proton comprised of an up, up and a down quark it's time to be confused again. Because sometimes it ... See full summary »

Star: Matthew O'Dowd

30. The Science Asylum (2013– )
Episode: How Entanglement Breaks the Universe (2022)

11 min | Documentary

How physicists developed and demonstrated the existence to quantum entanglement.

Star: Nick Lucid

31. Silicon Valley (2014–2019)
Episode: Binding Arbitration (2015)

TV-MA | 28 min | Comedy

Erlich demands to be put on stand as Pied Piper and Hooli enter Arbitration. Richard faces a moral dilemma now that he realizes that Hooli's claim may have successful potential. Meanwhile ... See full summary »

Director: Mike Judge | Stars: Thomas Middleditch, T.J. Miller, Josh Brener, Martin Starr

Votes: 1,899

32. PBS Space Time (2015– )
Episode: The Vacuum Catastrophe (2017)

12 min | Documentary, Talk-Show

Quantum Feidl Theory posits that every infinitesimal is imbued with a bit of energy, actually a great deal of energy, called the zero point energy. That is ok since its the difference in ... See full summary »

Star: Matthew O'Dowd