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Humans are strongly biased toward vision as their primary sense for exploring the universe.
“I mean, look, uh so much that we are incredibly biased towards vision, right? As as like humans, it's our our primary sense. This is the This is the way that we explore.”
The Rest Is Science · May 2026 · 2 episodes · 1.1M views on this topicEverything currently visible is perceived as it appeared in the past because light requires time to travel from the source to the observer.
“It gives you a sense of how Goodness gracious, like everything we see we're seeing in the past. We only have one way to look, and it's a go.”
The Rest Is Science · May 2026 · 2 episodes · 1.1M views on this topicIn an expanding universe, photons lose energy over time as their wavelength is stretched by the expansion of space.
“we live in an expanding universe and in an expanding universe the photon which also can be thought of as having a wavelength of light as it moves through an expanding universe that wavelength gets stretched embedded in the fabric of the stretching universe itself and when you stretch light you give ”
StarTalk · Jan 2021 · 2 episodes · 414K 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.