Follow the Quest
An honest, ongoing look at how a theory meets the world: the people, the process and what is learned along the way. Told as a video series, with a written companion here for every episode.
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Every episode is published on the institute's YouTube channel. Subscribe there to see each one as it comes out.
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A short note when a new episode is out, with a link to the video and its written companion. Nothing else, and you can leave at any time.
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The Series So Far
A new episode every two months, and a short special edition soon after anything significant: a data release, a submission and its answer, a funding decision, or a correction.
Setting Out
In production. Where the story starts, and the correction we made before anyone asked.
Every episode
The Same Chapters, Every Time
So that anyone can join partway through and know where the story stands.
- Previously on the QuestWhere the story stands, in a minute.
- Where we standThe four routes and what changed on each.
- The main storyThe one thing that moved the Quest since last time.
- FeatureA story from science, or a contribution from a viewer.
- PeopleSomeone on the road with us, with their consent.
- From viewersYour questions answered and your corrections made.
- What we are waiting forThe next dates.
- What we learnedNew entries in a running list of things we know now that we did not know at the start.
The process is the drama
Nothing needs to be dressed up. How an idea is questioned, funded, turned away or tested is a story in itself.
Learning, not winning
A prediction that holds, one that has to change and one that fails are all reported the same way: as what was learned.
People as they are
Careers, credit and conflict are part of science. We report what is documented, first-hand or public, and offer a reply.
The rules the series follows are set out in the Open Science Policy. Want to help test predictions yourself? Testing volunteers apply through the Members page.