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Did Our Universe Have a Beginning? | Episode 104 | Closer To Truth

2022-01-19 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 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? Featuring interviews with Martin Rees, Wendy Freedman, Alan Guth, George Smoot, and Alexander Vilenkin. Season 1, Episode 4 - #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)

@synseer8484 2022-01-20

I have a feeling we might be in for a big surprise now that the james webb telescope is soon to be up and running. Time travel boys.

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@OPTHolisticServices 2022-01-30

Thank you for your genuine quest to get closer to truth 💗🍃...and still the mystery remains...

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@TheCrossroads533 2024-10-30

I certainly don't consider the multiverse a "discovery" per se as it's hypothetical and unobservable, at least for the foreseeable future.

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@flappoid 2022-01-20

Please date the interview segments.

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@MrGodofcar 2022-01-24

Best channel on YouTube

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@maggs131 2023-05-02

A much more mid boggling and fascinating question that has haunted scholars since time immemorial is why kids love the taste of cinnamon toast crunch

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@fcmiller3 2025-04-21

The other question of “Why” stops my mind from pursuing such a question. There’s nothing for me to grasp or even begin pondering it.

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@rational_tripathi 2022-08-16

"Sometimes only Silence gets us closer to truth" Wow!

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@sedrickbosh6132 2022-01-20

This channel just keeps re-hashing the same old videos from years ago.

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@g.sakhijaan1051 2022-01-28

Well , if it had a beginning , then it must end , what a fun !

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