Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

The Cosmic Onion: An Hour to Make the Universe (1993x5)

Season finale

Air date: Dec 31, 1993

In his final lecture, Frank Close looks at the symmetry of the early universe and the reasons behind its current asymmetrical state. According to the leading theories, the Big Bang produced matter and anti-matter in equal proportions. How is it that the "matter" won out?

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