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236 | Thomas Hertog on Quantum Cosmology and Hawking's Final Theory

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Evolution of the Milky Way

There are two scenarios for the origin of our universe. One is one much like we think is real and there was a big bang. Another might be there's sort of a galaxy kind of like the Milky Way and people like us, but the whole background space time is otherwise empty. Does your theory explain why our universe looks like the former rather than the latter? Right. I'm writing a paper on that. Hurry up. What are you doing being on podcasts when you should be writing your paper, Thomas? Okay. But then you will see a switch. You feel with feel a switch in from your second scenario to your first scenario. So if you only sort of loosely say,

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