Why Is Everything Made Of Atoms?

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Researched and Written by Colin Stuart
Check out his superb Astrophysics for Beginners course here: https://www.colinstuart.net/astrophysics-course-for-beginners-introduction-online/

Narrated and Edited by David Kelly
Animations by Manuel Rubio
Incredible thumbnail art by Ettore Mazza, the GOAT: https://www.instagram.com/ettore.mazza/?hl=en

Proton visualization courtesy of MIT, Jefferson Labs, and Sputnik Animation, Copyright © MIT and Jefferson Lab, 2021, All Rights Reserved

Stock footage taken from Videoblocks and Artgrid, music from Epidemic Sound, Artlist and Silver Maple. Space imagery also used from NASA and ESO.

Image Credits:

Heavy Ion Collider By Z22 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61544972

Dark Energy Survey By Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURAAcknowledgments: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab) & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab) - https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2118a/, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=106681491

00:00 Introduction
05:06 The First Light In The Universe
12:17 The Weirdest Object In The Universe
25:59 Seeing The Big Bang
35:55 Why Atoms?

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