Starts With A Bang — December 29, 2017

The Biggest Question

What does science have to say about the biggest questions about existence of all? Find out on our new Starts With A Bang podcast.

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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