EPISODE · Dec 29, 2017 · 22 MIN
Starts With A Bang #27: The Biggest Question
from Starts With A Bang podcast · host Ethan Siegel
Ever wonder about the biggest questions that there are? You know the ones I mean: about what is the Universe, where does it come from, and what is its fate? For millennia, these were questions for poets, philosophers, and theologians. Yet, despite all the "answers" that they offered, there was no way to test or verify whether they were correct. Enter science. After countless lifetimes struggling mightily with these, we have the answers, and they're spectacular. What do we know? How do we know it? And why is science so powerful at giving these answers? Find out, on this latest edition of the Starts With A Bang podcast!
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Ever wonder about the biggest questions that there are? You know the ones I mean: about what is the Universe, where does it come from, and what is its fate? For millennia, these were questions for poets, philosophers, and theologians. Yet, despite all the "answers" that they offered, there was no way to test or verify whether they were correct. Enter science. After countless lifetimes struggling mightily with these, we have the answers, and they're spectacular. What do we know? How do we know it? And why is science so powerful at giving these answers? Find out, on this latest edition of the Starts With A Bang podcast!
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