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Galaxies and clusters of galaxies, untold billions of them, adorn the cosmos. How did such large-scale structure of the universe come about?
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Episode 02
Season 06
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The expanding universe is humanity’s monumental discovery. Beginning infinitesimally small, the universe has become majestically large. How could this happen? What...
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The very early universe likely underwent a period of enormous expansion called “inflation.” The theory stunned cosmology. Here’s the story of its discovery.
Episode 06
Season 09
What to make of an expanding universe? For one thing, roll the ‘movie’ in reverse and we have all the matter concentrated in what seems to be a single point,...
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Some scientists claim that the universe did not have a beginning. Some theologians contend that the universe did not need a beginning.
Episode 01
Season 12
26:45
How things start helps reveal what things are. How can we conceive the beginning of the universe? What are latest theories? Are they all speculation? What’s the recent...
Episode 11
Season 17
26:48
The early universe was a superhot plasma of particles all running seemingly at random as if in a gigantic cauldron. How then the structure we see today with galaxies, stars,...
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To most physicists, mindless laws generated the universe. A few believe that a supreme being is the creator. But don’t the discoveries of cosmology eliminate the need for...
Episode 05
Season 18
Galaxies and clusters of galaxies, untold billions of them, adorn the cosmos. How did such large-scale structure of the universe come about? The universe started as a hot...
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