What is making the Universe explode?

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What is making the Universe explode?

FromDaniel and Jorge Explain the Universe

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Oct 30, 2018

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How we learned that something is tearing the Universe apart, and what it might mean. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

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Oct 30, 2018

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A fun-filled discussion of the big, mind-blowing, unanswered questions about the Universe. In each episode, Daniel Whiteson (a Physicist who works at CERN) and Jorge Cham (a popular online cartoonist) discuss some of the simple but profound questions that people have been wondering about for thousands of years, explaining the science in a fun, shorts-wearing and jargon-free way.

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