S8 Ep692: 3. Headline: From the Big Bang to Non-Baryonic Riddles Guest Author: Govert Schilling Summary: Schilling explains how the Big Bang transitioned from a smooth state to the current clumpy universe through gravity. Because known baryonic matter (atoms) is in
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3. Headline: From the Big Bang to Non-Baryonic Riddles Guest Author:Govert Schilling Summary: Schilling explains how the Big Bang transitioned from a smooth state to the current clumpy universe through gravity. Because known baryonic matter(atoms) is insufficient to explain this evolution, scientists search for non-baryonic particles. Albert Bosma’sradio astronomy further validated these findings by observing hydrogen gas far beyond visible galactic edges. (3)
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| 0:36.9 | I'm John Batchel with Govert Schilling, his wonderful new book, The Elephant in the Universe, |
| 0:41.1 | 100-year search for dark matter. |
| 0:43.5 | And also his travels and his conversations with astronomers and researchers in deep minds, |
| 0:51.2 | in the beautiful Chile, high desert of Chile, and also back in time, |
| 0:57.1 | Govert's going to take us to the Big Bang and why it is that that's important to make |
| 1:02.7 | part of the search for dark matter. What happened in the first moments? How can we imagine it, |
| 1:09.1 | covert? It's an extremely complicated topic, but we see now that space is expanding because all the |
| 1:15.6 | galaxies get farther and farther away from each other. |
| 1:18.7 | So the empty space between galaxies is expanding. |
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