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Q&A: How did we outpace the big bang?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

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How Can We Still See the Big Bang?

Weetabix is a stringy molecule and threading tendrils of starch into the rough surface of ceramic in the same way as wallpaper paste. It's electrical attraction to make it simple. We actually did go faster than the speed of light but if it's a tricky question there's a lot of caveats to that. Rosemi one for you from Peter who says if everything started in the Big Bang how can we still see it? I think he's referring here to what we dub the afterglow of the Big Bang or the cosmic micro background radiation.

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