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But what if inflation doesn't stop all at once
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Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe

But what if inflationdoesn't stop all at once - it just stops in patches?

But what if inflation
doesn't stop all at once - it just stops in patches?

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But what if inflation doesn't stop all at once -
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it just stops in patches?
Duration
7 seconds
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24
Timestamp in Movie
00:41:13
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 So then our big bang would just be a little event - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:08
So then our big bang would just be a little event
S01 • E02 And there'll be other patches that stop and you get a universe, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:08
And there'll be other patches that stop and you get a u...
S01 • E02 And that process could go on forever. - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:06
And that process could go on forever.
S01 • E02 So, although our universe dies, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:08
So, although our universe dies,
S01 • E02 This is called the inflationary multiverse. - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:04
This is called the inflationary multiverse.
S01 • E02 BRIAN GREENE: So you get this wonderful process - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:09
BRIAN GREENE: So you get this wonderful process
S01 • E02 Are we to picture our universe riding on the back - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:09
Are we to picture our universe riding on the back
S01 • E02 I've got a more down-to-earth way, which is, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:07
I've got a more down-to-earth way, which is,
S01 • E02 Each of the openings is like a universe, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:11
Each of the openings is like a universe,
S01 • E02 And as this cheese expands, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:08
And as this cheese expands,
S01 • E02 And our universe is simply one opening - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:06
And our universe is simply one opening
S01 • E02 MAN: This is where we keep... the cream of the crop. - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:05
MAN: This is where we keep... the cream of the crop.
S01 • E02 But I'm hoping a glass of Aussie shiraz - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:06
But I'm hoping a glass of Aussie shiraz
S01 • E02 I'm tempted to draw the analogy with inflationary cosmology... - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:04
I'm tempted to draw the analogy with inflationary cosmo...
S01 • E02 ..and say that each one of these is like a different universe - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:05
..and say that each one of these is like a different univers...
S01 • E02 Each barrel in this warehouse - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:10
Each barrel in this warehouse
S01 • E02 (CHUCKLES) So, in that analogy, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:16
(CHUCKLES) So, in that analogy,
S01 • E02 Physicists refer to each different possibility as a different vacuum, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:10
Physicists refer to each different possibility as a differen...
S01 • E02 My favourite way to destroy the universe is vacuum decay, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:12
My favourite way to destroy the universe is vacuum decay,
S01 • E02 The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, on the French-Swiss border, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:08
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, on the French-Swiss borde...