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164. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Cosmic Queries: StarTalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going

The Michael Shermer Show

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What Was There Before the Big Bang?

In pinocchio's universe, which way is north has no meaning in the universe. We can tell that it has no meaning because we've already come. But if you don't know the answer in advance, you are posing questions that could have positively no meaning at all with tat melike realm to explore. Like asking, what was there before the big bang is like asking, what's north of the north pole? That's where time began. And so the multi verse predates the beginning of your big bank. Then thi's a meda clock. Why limit yourself to the clock of your universe? Who's to say yours is the clock of record? Yours is

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