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Existential Hope Podcast: Adam Brown | A Theoretical Physicist's Take on the Future

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The Singularity of the Universe

Einstein's theory of gravity is general relativity but one that Einstein missed I would say and he sort of didn't like it from a philosophical point of view so he rejected this conclusion. So in terms of cosmology that's where we're at and then in terms of or there's also thought experiments about black holes and various other topics. Okay can you say more just about the singularity that apparently occurred in our past? Yeah well this was one of the surprising discoveries. It's sort of an implication of or at least a natural consequence of Einstein’s theory of gravity are general relativity.

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