1.5 Hours of Calm Space Facts to Fall Asleep To | The First Three Minutes of the Universe

Drift back 13.8 billion years to the birth of everything, told slowly and calmly like a bedtime story: a priest's primeval atom, an ever-expanding universe, a scalding quark soup cooling into hydrogen and helium, and ancient light finally set free. Along the way we'll meet Lemaitre, Hubble, Guth, and Weinberg, and linger on one quiet, open question -- how did stillness and silence ever give way to stars, and to us? CHAPTERS 0:00 The Night Sky Is Whispering to You 7:32 A Priest, a Telescope, and a Universe That Grows 17:29 The Strange Stretch Before the Bang 27:35 A Sea of Melted Light 36:36 Three Minutes That Built Every Atom You'll Ever Meet 48:54 Gamow's Joke and Weinberg's Careful Book 55:15 The Fog Finally Lifts 1:04:58 Maps of the Oldest Light 1:13:12 Waiting in the Dark for the First Stars 1:23:21 You Are Made of the First Three Minutes Sources: Wikipedia -- Big Bang; Georges Lemaître; Hubble's law; Edwin Hubble; Cosmic inflation; Alan Guth; Quark–gluon plasma; Big Bang nucleosynthesis; Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper; The First Three Minutes; Recombination (cosmology); Cosmic microwave background; Cobe; Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Stock footage: Pexels, Pixabay. #bigbangsleepstory #sleepdocumentary #historyoftheuniverse #cosmologyforsleep #georgeslemaitre