Monthly episodes discussing this topic, 2019-06 to 2025-12.
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There is strong empirical evidence that the universe's expansion is accelerating rather than slowing down as previously predicted.
“I mean, we could say the universe is accelerating. There's no question about that.”
StarTalk · Dec 2025 · 1 episode · 567K views on this topicThere is currently no confirmed physical evidence that suction from outside our universe is causing its expansion.
“there's nothing that we know of uh in terms of the mechanics of the cosmology that we understand that could cause that in that scenario”
StarTalk · Sep 2023 · 1 episode · 401K views on this topicThe universe is currently expanding and the cosmological constant acts to accelerate this expansion.
“and we find out that not only is the universe expanding it's accelerating by the power of this term in Einstein's equation so in fact the term does exist crazy”
StarTalk · Nov 2023 · 1 episode · 244K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.