What if the Big Bang wasn't the beginning?
We're joined by theoretical physicist Niayesh Afshordi—professor at the University of Waterloo and associate faculty at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics—and science communicator Phil Halper, a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society whose stunning astronomy images have appeared in The Washington Post, BBC, and The Guardian.
Together, they've co-authored
Battle of the Big Bang New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins
, a book that challenges the boundaries of what we think we know about the origins of the Universe.
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