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Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe

With observationsand mathematical theorising, we have a good sense thatabout 13.8 billion...

MAN: With observations
and mathematical theorising, we have a good sense that
about 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was incredibly dense
and it was incredibly hot

Full Transcript

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MAN: With observations and mathematical theorising,
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we have a good sense that about 13.8 billion years ago,
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the universe was incredibly dense and it was incredibly hot.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
38
Timestamp in Movie
00:05:02
Uploaded
Jul 13, 2025
Season
1
Episode
2
Genres
documentary

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Movie Summary

Professor Brian Cox on tour in Australia talks about the life of our universe to scientists and to space-loving audiences.
S01 • E02 Hot! Give me some heat! Give me some density! - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:04
Hot! Give me some heat! Give me some density!
S01 • E02 Give me some violations of the laws of particle physics. - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:05
Give me some violations of the laws of particle physics.
S01 • E02 It underwent a rapid swelling that's called the big bang. - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:05
It underwent a rapid swelling that's called the big ban...
S01 • E02 I just know what came after the big bang, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:08
I just know what came after the big bang,
S01 • E02 WOMAN: You can trace everything back and you get to a point - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:11
WOMAN: You can trace everything back and you get to a point
S01 • E02 And so that's this idea that became known as 'the hot big bang'. - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:05
And so that's this idea that became known as 'the ...
S01 • E02 It's common to think of the big bang as the start of time itself. - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:06
It's common to think of the big bang as the start of ti...
S01 • E02 The moment when everything came from nothing. - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:04
The moment when everything came from nothing.
S01 • E02 But there are cosmologists who think there may be more to it - - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:14
But there are cosmologists who think there may be more to it...
S01 • E02 How can we even dare to speak of things - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:07
How can we even dare to speak of things
S01 • E02 In 1927, the astronomer Edwin Hubble noticed - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:08
In 1927, the astronomer Edwin Hubble noticed
S01 • E02 That means that space is expanding - our universe is expanding. - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:06
That means that space is expanding - our universe is expandi...
S01 • E02 So, you run time backwards in your mind's eye, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:16
So, you run time backwards in your mind's eye,
S01 • E02 That implies that our universe had a beginning, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:11
That implies that our universe had a beginning,
S01 • E02 More than 30 years after Hubble made his observations, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:09
More than 30 years after Hubble made his observations,
S01 • E02 And it came in the 1960s, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:07
And it came in the 1960s,
S01 • E02 We call it the cosmic microwave background radiation. - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:05
We call it the cosmic microwave background radiation.
S01 • E02 It's seen as a faint glow, coming literally from everywhere in the sky, - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:12
It's seen as a faint glow, coming literally from everyw...
S01 • E02 So, this is the oldest light in the universe. - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:04
So, this is the oldest light in the universe.
S01 • E02 There are photons that have travelled 13.8 billion years from over there - Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe 00:14
There are photons that have travelled 13.8 billion years fro...