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Why Didn’t Antimatter Destroy The Universe?
Season 11
Episode 2
At one-one-thousandth of a second after the Big Bang, the great annihilation event should have wiped out all matter, leaving a universe of only radiation. Why still don't know why any matter survived. Well, a new finding from the LHC brings us one step closer to understanding why there's something rather than nothing.
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18:19
What if, just before we reach the bottom, we find out that reductionism fails?

19:03
The biggest news in cosmology in recent years is that dark energy may be fading away.

18:50
Does this also explain why there are no aliens?

16:58
Quantum energy teleportation may be as close as we get to transporter beams. But how close is that?

16:30
There’s an extremely good chance that Earth once did have a ring system.

17:23
How is it possible to tell if a space rock will one day collide with the Earth?

15:58
Did you know that many of us have up to 4% neanderthal DNA?

16:35
What if the Big Bang was just an endless cycle?

19:39
Why are billions suddenly being pumped into fusion startups?

16:36
The universe should've collapsed after the Big Bang, but a light Higgs boson let us exist.

14:30
Maybe dark energy doesn't exist?

18:32
Dark matter has eluded us for many decades but we may be able to discover more now.