Bryan: The 19 twenties must have been the greatest watershed decade in physics of any decade there ever has been, or perhaps will be. Alexander freedman came up a hundred years ago with the initial framework for what would later become known as the freedman equations. In fact, einstein said famouslya your your mathematics is exquisitea lam and freedman, but your physics is atrocious.
What happened before The Big Bang? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Matt Kirshen answer questions about inflation theory, multiverses, the cosmic microwave background, and the possible end of the scientific method with cosmologist Brian Keating
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