Can humans have knowledge of God? Between humans and God, between finite and infinite, there seems an unbridgeable gap. So what can it mean to “know God”? There are...
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Episode 08
Season 19
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Thomas Hertog discusses his book on the origin of time and Stephen Hawking.
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Mathematician Manil Suri talks about about his insightful new book, The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math. He explores if math describes the...
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Beginnings are momentous, the beginning of the universe especially so. How did the beginning of our universe happen? Cosmic inflation is the theory that an exponential...
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Dark matter, though it cannot be seen, may account for roughly one quarter of all the mass-energy of the universe. If it were not for the gravity of dark matter, galaxies...
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The expanding universe is humanity’s monumental discovery. Beginning with something infinitesimally small, the universe has become something majestically large. How...
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Season 04
26:46
Black holes warp space and time, squeeze matter to a vanishing point, and trap light so that it cannot escape. Black holes, with masses millions or billions times that of our...
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Everything in the universe has a beginning, but how can the universe as a whole have a start date? Does a universal commencement make sense? What would it possibly mean?
Episode 04
Season 01
Visit the ‘dark side’ of the universe. Black holes cannot be seen because gravity is so strong that not even light can escape. Dark matter cannot be seen because...
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They warp space and time, squeeze matter to a vanishing point, and trap light so that it cannot escape. How can black holes perform such stupendous tricks, and what can we...
Episode 09
Season 02
Dark energy, the repulsive energy of empty space, was one of the most unexpected and astonishing discoveries in recent science. Most scientists had expected that the...
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