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348. Black Holes, Time Travel, and the Origin of the Universe | Dr. Brian Keating

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Einstein's Hypothesis of Dark Energy

Einstein was trying to figure out why the universe wasn't collapsing onto itself. He proposed a constant which you equated to something like an anti-gravity energy. The problem turned out to be even worse than it seemed, he says. Instead of just expanding linearly, smoothly as Hubble would envision us doing, actually the universe starts to accelerate. These galaxies are not only moving apart, but tomorrow they'll be moving apart even faster at a given distance.

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