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Before the Big Bang

Before the Big Bang

FromBig Picture Science


Before the Big Bang

FromBig Picture Science

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Length:
54 minutes
Released:
Feb 24, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

ENCORE It’s one of the biggest questions you can ask: has the universe existed forever? The Big Bang is supposedly the moment it all began. But now scientists wonder if there isn’t an earlier chapter to our origin story. And maybe chapters before that! What happened before the Big Bang? It’s the ultimate prequel.
Plus – the Big Bang as scientific story: nail biter or snoozer?
Guests

Roger Penrose – Cosmologist, Oxford University
Sean Carroll – Theoretical physicist, Caltech, author of The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
Simon Steel – Astronomer, Tufts University
Andrei Linde – Physicist, Stanford University
Jonathan Gottschall – Writer, author of The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
Marcus Chown – Science writer and cosmology consultant for New Scientist magazine
Descripción en español
First released December 17, 2012
Released:
Feb 24, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode

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