Galaxies and clusters of galaxies, untold billions of them, adorn the cosmos. How did such large-scale structure of the universe come about?
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Episode 02
Season 06
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It’s called “The Big Bang”—that inexplicable moment when an infinitesimally small point expanded majestically, and cooked up space, time, energy and...
Roundtable
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Science and religion—each pursues large truths and offers total solutions. Science works; that’s for sure. Religion? Not so sure. What are the thought processes, the...
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Cosmology is the study of the structure, beginning and end of the universe, and it has been transformed from mostly metaphysical speculation to a precision observational...
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44:07
‘Eternity’—time that goes on and on and does not end—used to be the province of philosophy, even theology, with no real evidence. But now cosmologists are...
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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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Cosmology is the study of the universe, via theory and observation, of its beginning, evolution, large-scale structure, and far future. A philosophy of cosmology seeks to...
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To do good theology, religion must speak with science if only to avoid the embarrassment of supernatural explanations when natural explanations are doing just fine. If...
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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.
Episode 10
Season 17
26:48
Everything in the universe has a beginning, but how can the universe as a whole have a beginning? Does the cosmos come with a start date? Does a universal commencement make...
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Does God exist or not exist? How can so many people be so absolutely sure-either way? But maybe that’s the point! Maybe “God” and “No God” are...
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Season 10
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...
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