Gresham College Lectures
Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597, making us London's oldest higher education institution. This podcast offers our recorded lectures that are free to access from the Gresham College website, or our YouTube channel.
Gresham College Lectures
The Early History of the Universe
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What was the universe like during its early history? Described were the sequence of events that cosmologists believe unfolded during the first quarter of a million years of the universes's expansion: the lightest chemical elements were formed, the imbalance between matter and antimatter was established, and the small irregularities that eventually formed galaxies were seeded and began to grow. The first few minutes of the universe's history leave traces that we can detect today.