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How Big Bang Theory Works, with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Stuff You Should Know

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Is the Big Bang Theory a Good Theory?

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Trying to explain time before timing existed is futile. The Big Bang Theory violates the first law of thermodynamics that you can't create or destroy matter or energy, he says. But inflation theory does satisfy it by saying that universe appears flat to us because we're looking at it strictly on a very local level - but it's really curved one way or the other.

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