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How Big Bang Theory Works, with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Stuff You Should Know

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Is the Universe Just Breathing?

There's a debate over whether or not it's ever going to stop and all of it comes down to how much matters in the universe, which we don't quite know yet. It would suggest that the early universe was so finely tuned that we're only slightly off of center. And something from studying this that they figured out is that really, it doesn't seem like it has a positive or a negative curvature. So does that mean that the astrophysicists areoff with their own fine tuning? Or is there a little kid who set the snake off? That's one thing that's just very well explained but can't explain everything. We'll be back next week for another episode

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