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#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize

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What Happened at the Beginning of Our Universe?

The first cosmology in history was not a singular universe, by the way. But there are now flourishing alternatives that say you can actually go back and find out what happened at the beginning of our universe. The actual fusion and production of the lightest elements on the periodic table occurred in a time period shorter than the TV show, the Big Bang Theory. And I brought some samples for us to discuss and how those came from a very different type of process called aDifferent type of fusion reactor and a different type of explosion as well called a supernova.

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