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Replicating the Big Bang on Ice

Season 1 Episode 4

A hockey team demonstrates how galaxies expand, with some unusual equipment.

The volunteers take to the ice to find a way to use the balloons and leaf blowers to re-create how the galaxies are moving. They recruit the help of a team of hokey players and discover that the players further away from the centre are moving away faster. What does this tell them about the expansion of the universe?

AIR DATE 5/24/16

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