Adam Paradise, a longtime fan and first-time patron asks what happens to black holes during slash after the big rip. Gina Martin from North Carolina says she recently heard Neil explain how matter on an atomic level would eventually be ripped or stretched apart. Would that not cause nuclear fission reactions or explosions similar to Big Bang and create a whole new universe? Wendy: "I think there's nothing that we could point to in terms of evidence"
What do the early galaxies discovered by JWST tell us about the early universe? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Matt Kirshen explore the expansion of space, dark energy, and the age of the universe with astronomer, Wendy Freedman.
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