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A Short Story Of Everything - David Christian

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Origin Story of the Universe

"I've been teaching this for 30 years now. I'd be my best shot at distilling of knowledge," he says. "And it's the story I tell in the book, origin story" The Big Bang was 13.8 billion years ago and we don't know why or how but something the size of an atom pops up somewhere in space in time. There are no other elements spread more or less evenly everywhere; everything is at the same temperature. And there's a villain to this story: entropy.

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