Cosmic Queries – Planck Lengths to Supermassive Black Holes with Matt O’Dowd
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Unveiling the Mysteries of Gravitational Lenses and Dark Energy
Exploring the significance of gravitational lenses in astronomy, from golden lenses to mapping distant black holes and quasars through time delays. Delving into the depths of dark energy and the potential insights through time delays, leading to predictions about its nature and behavior. The chapter concludes with a listener's intriguing question about space scales and the existence of the smallest particle, touching on the concept of the Planck length and the limits of measuring space distances.
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