Phil Halper - What Physicists REALLY Think About the Big Bang
Phil Halper is a science communicator, astrophotographer, creator of the Before the Big Bang series, co-author of the acclaimed book Before the Big Bang, interviewer of many of the world's leading cosmologists, and co-author of one of the largest surveys ever conducted of physicists' views on cosmology.
In this conversation we discuss what physicists actually mean by "the Big Bang," why many scientists reject the popular idea that the Big Bang represents the beginning of the universe, competing theories of cosmic origins, inflation, string theory, loop quantum gravity, dark matter, dark…
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