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Cosmic Queries – Alien Heist, Scimitars, & Time in a Bottle with Charles Liu

StarTalk Radio

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

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.

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