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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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The Cosmic Microwave Background

The cosmic microwave background is the leftover heat from the fusion of the very first elements on the periodic table. We can't look all the way to the Big Bang itself but we can look some fractions of seconds after the Big Bang when the laws of physics spring into existence. Most people assume that the universe with the universe is origin, with the Big Bang came the beginning of time. That raises all sorts of hairy paradoxes that are really quite difficult to approach both from a laws of physics perspective and even from metaphysical perspectives.

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