Understanding The Big Bang Theory By Candice Bergen

The video understanding the universe, narrated by actress Candice Bergen, truly captured my attention. I found it very interesting because it explained very hard topics that were easy for me to understand. All the experts on the movie, used great examples to depict the unbelievable dimensions of the universe and its fascinating nature. I was able to look at the biggest telescopes on Earth, including the Hubble Space Telescope. Besides, I learned about stars, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, about light years and the interesting history of early astronomy as well. Moreover, I heard the idea of a growing universe, which introduces the concept of the Big Bang Theory. I even listened to the hissing sound of the universe, which the video calls “The echo of the Big Bang”. (Understanding the universe,2012). In addition, I heard about the concepts of black holes and supernovas. …show more content…
According to the video the universe is so vast that researches use special notation to write out distances. A fact that really surprised me was that the nearest star, Proxima Centauri is 25 trillion miles away from us and its light, the fastest thing in the universe, takes 4.24 light years to reach us! One among the many interesting things I learned in the video is that the sun is bright only because it is closer to us than other stars. It is explained, how the sun is one of the billions stars in the milky way galaxy, and a more surprising fact is that this is just one of some fifty billion galaxies! The narration describes the sun as a pot of nuclear reactions boiling beneath its surface. Sadly, one day it will die…. just like us (Understanding the