The Big Bang Theory being that the universe began those 13 odd billion years ago with high temperatures and high density. So note, if you Google Big Bang Theory, all roads lead to Sheldon. And so I would read about that stuff and Stephen Hawking was a big figure in those areas as well. But we were in the same like research group basically. He was one of them and I was a grad student visiting.
Stars. Black holes. THE GAWDANG UNIVERSE. Astrophysicist and cosmologist Katie Mack (@astrokatie) joins to tell us her most embarrassing moments as a cosmologist, to debunk some physicist myths and give the nuts + bolts of everything form particle physics to gravitational waves and existential mysteries. Walk away with cocktail party comprehension of everything from the itty-bitty quarks that make you to the neutron stars banging together across the cosmos. More than anything, get perspective about your life on this, our little pale blue dot.
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