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Original program date: June 13, 2009
MODERATOR: Robert Krulwich
PARTICIPANTS: Alan Guth, Brian Greene, Andrei Linde, Paul D. Miller, Nick Bostrom
Introduction with Brian Greene 00:00
Musical interlude 25:15
Participant presentations 33:49
How do we know there was a Big Bang 35:50
How to go from a single universe to a multiverse. 47:14
Is the universe expanding and at what speed? 01:00:25
What does six-dimensional space look like? 01:08:00
How do we know there is a multiverse? 01:13:48
Bryce DeWitt on the concept of the multiverse 01:24:40
What if we assume that the universe is the hypothesis of the simulation? 01:37:14
This program is part of The Big Idea series, made possible with the support of the John Templeton Foundation.
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