SciShow Space | How We Could Study the First Nanoseconds of the Universe

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SciShow Space: The oldest light we can see comes from when the universe was less than 400,000 years old, so how can we study those first few moments of history? Hosted by: Caitlin Hofmeister SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman. Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/what-are-gw https://www.universetoday.com/139032/how-to-listen-to-the-background-hum-of-gravitational-waves-from-all-the-black-holes-colliding-into-each-other/ https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/840/1/012030/pdf https://www.ligo.org/science/GW-Stochastic.php http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/328/5981/989.full.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.04268.pdf https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~cbischoff/cmb/ http://discovermagazine.com/2016/sept/14-revisiting-primordial-gravity-waves https://www.nature.com/news/polarization-detected-in-big-bang-s-echo-1.13441 https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/9803150.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.08797.pdf Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spacetime_lattice_analogy.svg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12949 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1-3eClv_TY https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ilc_9yr_moll4096.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Simplified_diagram_of_an_Advanced_LIGO_detector.png https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10127 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LISA-waves.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30093 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10426 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12656


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