Video: Why Does The Universe Look Like This?

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Researched and Written by Jon Farrow

Narrated and Edited by David Kelly

Animations by the superb Jero Squartini https://www.fiverr.com/share/0v7Kjv using Manim - MIT License, (c) 2020-2023 3Blue1Brown LLC

Laniakea animation by Alperaym

Incredible thumbnail art by Ettore Mazza, the GOAT: https://www.instagram.com/ettore.mazza/?hl=en

Huge thanks to Daniel Pomarède for the use of his images of Laniakea and our local cosmological neighborhood: https://twitter.com/danielpomarede

Thank to Pablo Carlos Budassi for his wonderful images of the KBC Void, Shapley Supercluster and Bootes Void.

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:

Visualisations of the QCD Vacuum

Derek D Leinweber CSSM University of Adelaide

Observable Universe by Andrew Z Colvin

KBC Void, Shapley Supercluster and Bootes Void by Pablo Carlos Budassi, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

UK from space European Space Agency, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/deed.en, via Wikimedia Commons

KBC Void, Shapley Supercluster and Bootes Void by Pablo Carlos Budassi, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Galactic Filament by Andrew Pontzen and Fabio Governato, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

SDSS Plates by EdPost, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Jim Peebles Juan Diego Soler, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Zeldovich By A. T. Service - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15963198

Martin Rees By Festival della Scienza, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18609295

Richard Gott By A. T. Service - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15490353

George Smoot By Nomo michael hoefner http://www.zwo5.de - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7131137

John C Mather By Christopher Michel - John Mather, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39209520

LHC By Maximilien Brice, CERN - CERN Document Server, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29068932

00:00 Introduction

05:41 Mapping The Cosmos

16:40 Meatball Honeycomb Sponge (Structure of the Universe)

21:55 Cosmic Seeds (Origin of Structure)

39:36 Problems With Copernicus

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