Well-traveled astrophysicist and author Neil deGrasse Tyson offers a concise and brief history of everything, including the rapid expansion of the universe following the big bang, in this edition of minutephysics. “We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it, we are born from it,” Tyson says. “One might even say we’ve been empowered by the universe to figure itself out, and we’ve only just begun.”
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Every time you get upset about something insignificant, just sit back and think of our home–our Earth, our solar system, our universe, our Milky Way Galaxy. But that’s not where it ends. In the following 209 seconds that will make you question your existence, Buzz Feed Blue takes a mesmerizing look at our universe and beyond.
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The age-old question, “Are we alone?” may now not only pertain to alien beings but multiple universes. Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku says data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) points to a whole new set of scientific facts not previously contained in our textbooks and the possibility that we are not the lone universe in the cosmos. Kaku helps us digest what truth is lurking out there in this edition of Bore Me Science
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When you gaze at the stars, you’re actually looking at light that took years to travel to Earth. In other words, you’re seeing how stars looked in the past. This is just one of some mind-blowing facts in this edition of AsapSCIENCE.
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If the Universe is expanding, are we growing apart along with it? MinutePhysics ponders the imponderable.
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The answer to this question may depend on whether Stephen Hawking was right in his theory that describes how black holes shed mass and eventually decay.
Modern science provides a humbling perspective. Our lives, indeed even that of the human species, are just a blip compared to the Earth, at 4.5 billion years and counting, and the universe, at 13.7 billion years.
It now appears the entire cosmos is living on borrowed time. It may be a blip within a much grander sweep of time. When, we now ask, will time end?
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minutephysics often tackles the big scientific issues. This episode tackles perhaps the biggest question out there — What is the Universe?
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