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What is a vacuum, and what makes a false one? What happened in the early universe to bring about our current physics? Will it happen again? If so, when? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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Keep those questions about space, science, astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology coming to #AskASpaceman for COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF TIME AND SPACE! Music by Jason Grady and Nick Bain.

0:00 The Quantum Vacuum
3:01 Electro-weak Unification
6:42 The Higgs and the Top Quark
9:56 True Vacuum Nucleation
13:19 The New Universe