Chanda Prescod‑Weinstein

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The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh · Exploring the Edges of the Universe With Chanda Prescod-Weinstein · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

And they're basically saying that solving problems in cosmology is really a series of boundary problems.

So if you think about like, if you're in a room right now, there's a floor, there's a ceiling, you have four walls probably.

And you can think of those as boundaries of the room and any equation that we might want to solve that describes something that's happening in the room will have to take into account those boundaries, the presence of the floor, the presence of the ceiling.

So their claim is that every problem in cosmology basically comes back to a boundary condition problem and is really about what is the edge of space-time.

So this is where this phrase comes from.

And I just read that and I was like, that's so poetic.

How has nobody used it yet?

So I was like, I'm using it.

And the other piece is as a Black feminist thinker, and I think that this is in part where my identity comes in, in addition to my intellectual interests.

I was already thinking a lot about Bell Hooks' concept of margins to center and bringing people who are usually asked to exist at the margins or forced to exist at the margins to the center of our storytelling and our narration.

You know, we have to tell the story of science through metaphors.

Like, I already use, like, the lamb stew as a metaphor.

I've used the room and its physical boundaries as a metaphor for space-time.

And this idea of non-trinary transition, which is clearly, like, borrowing and inspired from conversations and discourses about non-binary gendered identities.

So part of it is putting queerness at the center of the story because that is how I see the universe.

And those are the metaphors that feel natural to me.

And that's taking queerness from the margin and putting it at the center.

There's also in my chapter on black holes, I say that they're the best laid edges in the universe.

And that's like something that if you're someone who's thought about black hair, you probably know what edges are.

Or if you're someone who wears wigs, you probably know something about laying down edges, right?

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