How did the significant bang condition the construction of the universe? What would occur to actuality if we tweaked the fundamental forces? Why is gravity just so peculiar?

In our new three-section movie miniseries, Scientific American contributors Jared Kaplan and Emily V. Driscoll ponder these weighty existential challenges with you through the lens of beautifully rendered explanatory animations designed by artist Lottie Kingslake. 

Think of it as your cosmic remedy session for our on-edge occasions.

Element I: What if the regulations of physics ended up different?

In the video Did the Universe Have to Be the Way That It Is? we examine what our universe—and extra precisely, our lives—might look like with some tweaks to the physics responsible for the planet as we know it.

Part II: How did the universe get its texture? 

In this movie, How the Massive Bang Governs the Texture of Our Universe, we discover the principle of cosmic inhomogeneities—using zebras as an analogy for clumps of issue scattered during the universe.

Element III: Why is gravity distinct?

In our video Why Is Gravity Distinctive? we take a look at why this pressure is so perplexing and why it continues to be tricky to understand how Einstein’s general theory of relativity (which handles gravity) fits alongside one another with quantum mechanics.