What can we learn when people deceive? There are all kinds of deception: from lying, duplicity, and disguises, to propaganda, disinformation, and deep fakes. Self-deception,...
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Episode 10
Season 21
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It’s among the oldest questions because we humans are rightly obsessed by ultimate origins. Cosmologists can now explain back to the first 10-36 second of our universe...
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“Quantum” is the theory of the utterly small. “Cosmology” is the study of the utterly large. They combine, remarkably, when in the very early universe the entire...
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Although many physicists, astronomers, cosmologists do not believe in God, many do. Why the stark division — divided both by what they believe and by how they interpret the...
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What is life and how did it arise from non-life? Is it as simple as the random organization of complex chemicals on the early Earth? What are the pathways whereby chemicals...
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Of all human knowledge, the most stunning may be multiple universes—very many universes, perhaps an infinite number of universes. Are multiple universes—the...
Episode 08
Season 14
Science and religion each claims dominion over deep reality. But science and religion are not parallel. All should believe science, humanity’s common language, while...
Episode 05
Season 16
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Lots of things exist. But what’s truly fundamental? The challenge is to discern the minimum number of basic categories that explains the entirety of existence.
Season 17
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Lots of things exist. But what is so absolutely fundamental in that it cannot be further reduced into anything more fundamental, but other things that exist can be reduced to...
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How things start helps reveal what things are. How can we conceive the beginning of the universe? What are latest theories? Are they all speculation? What’s the recent...
Episode 11
Closer To Truth is excited to partner with HowtheLightGetsIn for another year of their annual Hay festival. This playlist features speakers who will appear at Hay between May...
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Scientists split on whether the universe confirms or denies God. Though most leading scientists do not believe in God, some do. What can we learn from the dispute?
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