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It's Okay to Be Smart

Why Is The Universe So Empty? (ft. PHD Comics!)

Season 5 Episode 34

Why is the universe organized the way it is? And why is it so empty? From planets and stars to superclusters and galactic filaments, the universe’s largest structures formed because of its smallest. In this special collaboration with PHD Comics, we’ll learn how the earliest, quantumest blips seeded the structure of everything everywhere.

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