Michelle Thaller
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1,835 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 28 May
Michelle Thaller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's not the whole universe.
That's centered on us.
That's an effect of we look in every direction in the sky.
We can only look back as far as there's been time for light to actually travel to us.
And you see some incredible things.
I mean, one of the things that one of my friends has the Nobel Prize for is if you look so far away, the farthest away we can see now, we're looking back to a time about 400,000 years after the Big Bang.
And this is something where we are actually able to see so far away.
We're looking back to a time when the whole universe was hot and bright.
It actually was glowing like the surface of the sun, the whole universe.
The entire universe was so bright.
It was like looking at the surface of the sun.
And this radiation has traveled a long time to get to us.
It's now lost energy because it's traveling through the expanding universe.
And as the universe expands, the wavelength of light gets stretched out by the expansion of space.
This is what we call the microwave background radiation.
So there's a microwave, very low energy signal.
It comes from every direction on the sky.
And it's coming from a time.
It's coming from a distance so far away that the whole universe was as bright as the surface of the sun.
And that's as far as we can see because any farther away from that, the universe is opaque.
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