In the original cosmos, they took time and put it into time. Why did they do that? Because we have words for those time units. It became very helpful to represent it in that fashion. So it is things like the james web telescope, will that make us think about the celebration of time and the universe in a different way or just it literally enlighten us? Sa, excellent question.
How far back in the universe’s timeline can the JWST see? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore the Coriolis Effect, hurricanes, the gridiron timeline of the universe, the physics of spinning objects, and much more!
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