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The origin of the Universe, with Prof Thomas Hertog

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The Origin of Time

The idea of this singularity, which I believe came from studying black holes. So now we go back to the early universe and it's very hot and we have that radiation. Now you're really asking, well, what if we go even further back? And then we come to what we were saying a few minutes ago,. Then we come to the origin of time. And what you call what the Einstein's theory would be a singularity. In fact, there was a key inside of howking in the 60s. He was using the techniques that Roger Penrose had been developing for in the context of black holes.Penrose had shown that inside black holes, time comes to an

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