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How Big Bang Theory Works, with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Stuff You Should Know

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The Inflation Theory

Inflation theory comes in and suggests how that happened, how that expansion happened. And it fills in a lot of blanks that we'll also talk about. Einstein had some issues because it conflicted somewhat with his general relativity theories. He subscribed to his own theory that the universe was static. It's not expanding. There is no center to the universe. There's no central point. Some people posit that the Earth is the center of the universe. But that's wrong, right? I mean, it hasn't been disproven, but it's just extremely unlikely.

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