If the Buts Were Candy and Nuts, Every Day Would Be Christmas

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If the expansion rate of the universe were different, then it would not affect us as much during the lifetime of human beings on the Earth. I worry that if the Hubble constant were too high, then in the early universe, the matter would not have coalesced. So your answer is, if it's if some buts were candies and nuts, every day would be Christmas.

What if the laws of physics were different? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly answer grab bag questions with astrophysicist Charles Liu about alien heists, gravity, and space exploration.

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Photo Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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