Theoretical physicist Charles Seife and cosmologists Lisa Randall and Matthew Hertoe discuss the universe’s beginnings and the search for the theory of everything in this preview of the Wide Angle podcast “The Joy of Why.”
Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking worked with Hertoe on trying to explain the Big Bang and the origin of the universe alongside its compatibility with the existence of life.
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Hawking argued that the origin of the universe might not have a cause and that the origin of the universe is intrinsically linked to the origin of time.
There is a chance that our understanding of fundamental laws might not have existed prior to the Big Bang, and that what we consider to be fundamental laws are the result of evolution and may have been different had the universe taken a different path.
Our ability to understand everything might be limited by science, which is a difficult concept to grapple with.
Seife wonders if our whole approach to science and the universe needs to be reassessed in light of these ideas.
