Woodward: The universe. I have to write up the universe by tonight.
Bernstein: Hmm, big subject. What’s in it besides you and me?
Woodward: Dark energy, dark matter, particles like neutrinos
and atoms. Need a metaphor.
Bernstein: Quite a mix. Write it like a recipe. The particles
are ingredients, apply a big bang to stir it up, it becomes a soup of dark
energy, dark matter and neutrinos. Mix in atomic particles to become stars and
planets to taste.
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Voice-over
Would that
astrophysics be as easy as cooking. Though some scientists might wish that
cooking were as simple as astrophysics.
For CERN’s recipe
go here
“Take a massive
explosion to create plenty of stardust and a raging heat. Simmer for an
eternity in a background of cosmic microwaves. Let the ingredients congeal and
leave to cool and serve cold with cultures of tiny organisms 13.7 billion years
later.”
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