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How Vast is the Cosmos? | Episode 102 | Closer To Truth

2022-01-05 Education
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Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq Everyone knows that the universe is huge, but no one could have imagined how staggeringly immense the universe, or multiple universes, may actually be. It stops your breath. Featuring interviews with Martin Rees, Max Tegmark, Alan Guth, Andrei Linde, and Paul Davies. Season 1, Episode 2 - #CloserToTruth Archive episode. First aired in 2008. ▶Register for free at CTT.com for subscriber-only exclusives: http://bit.ly/2GXmFsP Closer To Truth host Robert Lawrence Kuhn takes viewers on an intriguing global journey into cutting-edge labs, magnificent libraries, hidden gardens, and revered sanctuaries in order to discover state-of-the-art ideas and make them real and relevant. ▶Free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN Closer to Truth presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.

Top Comments (10)

@Alpharomeo-2007 2022-01-05

It is amazing how atoms have assembled and taken human form to ponder their own existence.

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@nigelbrayshaw2709 2022-01-06

What an absolute gem this channel is! Informative, intelligent, not conspiratorial, absolutely fantastic hosts and guests. Thank you so much.

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@hemant05 2022-01-05

It has to be endless/infinite, I can't even imagine any other possibility.

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@mongoharry 2022-01-06

I feel really lucky to have these shows!

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@npc5z 2022-01-06

For some reason I half expected Robert to be in the hot springs, still wearing his clothes

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@danielwaters6001 2022-01-06

My favorite closer to truth I have seen yet.

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@kalewintermute28 2022-01-06

Thanks for continuing to put these questions to some of the world's most insightful people. It feels somehow important and worthwhile.

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@Mr.Not_Sure 2022-01-06

The idea of that big universe is still have more sense than the idea of some "walls" at the edge of the universe, and some deity looking at it outside.

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@GonzoGovi 2025-12-08

I have been following this show for over 10 years. We need more programs with valuable content like this. Thank you, Robert, for bringing human curiosity to life for everyone.

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@fredk9999 2023-04-14

It’s like the TV pitch man, “But, wait! There’s more.”

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