What light can teach us about the universe - Pete Edwards
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Let’s Begin…
Humanity has long been looking at the universe and
asking the big questions: How did it begin? How will it end?
Cosmologists are searching hard for the answers, but where do they even
start? The answer is light. Pete Edwards
outlines the six unique messages that light carries which, when put
together, disclose a stunning amount of information to astronomers.
An important prediction of the Big Bang Theory is that our universe began as two gases. What other predictions does the Big Bang Theory make and how have we tested them?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Pete Edwards
- Animator Bevan Lynch
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Narrator Michelle Snow
