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How Scientists Made the Hottest Thing Ever

Join Joe Hanson as he explores curiosity and illuminates the science behind… well, everything.

How Scientists Made the Hottest Thing Ever

Season 11 Episode 21 | 13m 38s | CC

At CERN, physicists are searching for answers to some of the biggest questions ever — like how the universe started and where everything comes from. To get one step closer to an answer, CERN scientists recreated the first moment after the Big Bang… making extreme temperatures that hadn’t existed anywhere in the universe in 13.8 billion years. Join us to see how they did it.

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