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We Found Galaxies Too Old for the Universe
Season 11
Episode 27
The James Webb Space Telescope found galaxies that are too ancient-looking for our young universe. You may have heard that, but it keeps finding them, and our recent efforts to solve this conundrum point in wildly different directions. Have we found galaxies older than the universe, or did we just learn something incredible about how galaxies form?
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How can we tell the difference between fermions & bosons? Statistical Mechanics!
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There’s a hard limit to humanity’s expansion in the universe. So, how big can we get?
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Let’s figure out the absolute limit of our future view of the universe!
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Physics is the business of figuring out the structure of the world. So are our brains.
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Your motion through the universe is extremely complicated, so let’s figure it out!
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If you believe the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis then yes. And so are you.
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