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The beginning of the universe, for beginners - Tom Whyntie

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Beyond our solar system The physics of the universe

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How did the universe begin -- and how is it expanding? CERN physicist Tom Whyntie shows how cosmologists and particle physicists explore these questions by replicating the heat, energy, and activity of the first few seconds of our universe, from right after the Big Bang.

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How do we know that all of the fundamental forces of nature will simplify into one force at a very high energy?

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All of the experimental evidence we have obtained so far suggests that some of the different forces we know about are actually the same force if you go to high enough energies, and we expect this trend to continue.

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The physics of the universe must be described by a simple, elegant mathematical equation – and one force is simpler than four forces.

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We don’t know this at all – if we want to test this hypothesis, we’ll have to build bigger particle accelerators to further our understanding of the universe.

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Meet The Creators

Narrator Tom Whyntie
Director Dan Abdo, Jason Patterson
Animator Mike Luzzi, Joey Mccormick
Compositor Connie Chan
Editor R.J. Glass
Producer Cathy Kwan

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