Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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When the Science Museum Group acquired the contents of Stephen Hawking's desk, we noticed something odd sat on his desk. An inflatable ball. What at first might seem like an innocent toy is actually a clue to how our universe, and life itself, began.

Join Roger Highfield, Science Director at the Science Museum, and Charles Bennett, Principal Investigator of the WMAP Mission, on an extraordinary journey through space and time to discover how a beach ball holds the key to understanding the nature of the cosmos.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:21 What is the Beach Ball
01:35 The WMAP Mission
03:12 What is our Universe made of?
04:20 Inflationary Theory
06:20 Why is this so important?
07:20 What does the Beach Ball tell us about the Universe?
08:11 Like and Subscribe!

External Images and Video:
NASA
Wikimedia Commons

With huge thanks to Charles Bennett.

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