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Gravity, with Marcus Chown

Instant Genius

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Generalativity and Quanton Theory

Generalativity doesn't tell us what happens at the centre of a blank hole, because generallactivity predicts something which is nonsense. And we do know that there is another theory. The two towering achievements of twentieth century physics, or general lativity, our theory of gravity, mins no theor ity, and quanton theory. So how you unite a theory of certainty with a theory of uncertainty has really buckled the brains ofopecpysses. We think t the big bang n the entire universe was smaller than the latter.

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