Starts With A Bang #131 - The Baryon Life Cycle

Starts With A Bang podcast by Ethan Siegel

Jul 11, 202601:41:20Science & Medicine

In order for stars to form, you need the right ingredients to make it happen: gravity, mass, time, and of course the right type of matter in the form of baryons. Shortly after the Big Bang, the Universe had plenty of the...

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