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Cosmology PART 2 with Katie Mack

Dec 19, 2017
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INSIGHT

Cosmic Vertigo Names

  • Cosmic vertigo is called Cosmic Brudigo or Cosmophobia, naming the feeling of disorientation when contemplating the vast universe.
  • This feeling arises due to the overwhelming scale and forces like black holes and universal expansion accelerating.
INSIGHT

Seeing the Big Bang's Fireball

  • We can actually observe the primordial fireball radiation from the Big Bang as it comes from all directions.
  • This cosmic microwave background radiation is evidence of the universe once being hot, dense, and smaller.
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Vacuum Decay: A Universe End

  • Vacuum decay could cause the universe's end via a bubble expanding at light speed, destroying everything without warning.
  • It's a quantum probabilistic event, possible anytime but extremely unlikely to occur soon or be avoidable.
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