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Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe

As we often find with science, when you answer one set of questions,new ones arise

As we often find with science, when you answer one set of questions,
new ones arise

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As we often find with science,
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when you answer one set of questions, new ones arise.
Duration
8 seconds
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33
Timestamp in Movie
00:10:17
Uploaded
Jul 13, 2025
Season
1
Episode
2
Genres
documentary

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Professor Brian Cox on tour in Australia talks about the life of our universe to scientists and to space-loving audiences.
S01 • E02 This idea that the universe had a beginning in the big bang - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:08
This idea that the universe had a beginning in the big bang
S01 • E02 It raises a series of childlike questions. - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:04
It raises a series of childlike questions.
S01 • E02 Like, if the universe had a beginning, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:05
Like, if the universe had a beginning,
S01 • E02 If time emerged at the big bang, then was there a time before time? - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:06
If time emerged at the big bang, then was there a time befor...
S01 • E02 How can the universe appear spontaneously out of nothing at all? - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:06
How can the universe appear spontaneously out of nothing at ...
S01 • E02 Well, that is a philosophical question, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:09
Well, that is a philosophical question,
S01 • E02 The clues which point the way to a theory - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:10
The clues which point the way to a theory
S01 • E02 There are two problems with the standard big bang model. - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:05
There are two problems with the standard big bang model.
S01 • E02 They're called the horizon problem and the flatness problem. - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:04
They're called the horizon problem and the flatness pro...
S01 • E02 You can picture the horizon problem as follows. - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:06
You can picture the horizon problem as follows.
S01 • E02 If you look at the universe as far as the eye can see in that direction, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:22
If you look at the universe as far as the eye can see in tha...
S01 • E02 But those two points on the sky are separated today - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:09
But those two points on the sky are separated today
S01 • E02 That means if you've got a universe that's been expanding sedately - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:12
That means if you've got a universe that's been ex...
S01 • E02 Which means there's no explanation - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:07
Which means there's no explanation
S01 • E02 When you look at our universe, it appears to be completely flat. - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:06
When you look at our universe, it appears to be completely f...
S01 • E02 Which seems very strange, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:10
Which seems very strange,
S01 • E02 A solution can be found in a theory known as inflation, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:17
A solution can be found in a theory known as inflation,
S01 • E02 By "fast", I mean that it was doubling in size - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:08
By "fast", I mean that it was doubling in size
S01 • E02 That's one ten-million-million- million-million-million-millionths - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:07
That's one ten-million-million- million-million-million...
S01 • E02 Why does that solve the horizon and flatness problems? - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:05
Why does that solve the horizon and flatness problems?