Charles Liu

And so we're always pushing in that direction.

If you could tell a story that can be falsified, that can be shown to be untrue based on observations or experiments or something like that,

then you are trying to do science.

We have forever thought that, oh, we would never be able to see like the origins of our earth.

And yet here we are able to understand planets because we kept asking questions and finding ways to look further and further back in history.

We used to think we could never understand how our solar system was formed.

It must've been supernatural, must've been divine.

But no, now we know because we looked and we found ways to find a hypothesis that we could test.

Now we're going further and further back.

How can we find the formation of galaxies?

How can we find the birth of black holes?

And now to the point of the Big Bang itself.

The recent results from the DESI group, Dark Energy Survey Group, are remarkable.

They are looking at echoes of the imprints of matter and energy in the large-scale structure of our current universe that were put in there

Very, very close to the Big Bang, before even the cosmic microwave background was established.

We're talking about like ripples in a pond that have been imprinted in the galaxy distributions of our universe for the past 13 and almost 14 billion years.

And we're seeing that imprint everywhere.

Which itself is long past the beginning of the universe, but maybe that's fossilized information that could tell us about things like the Big Bang, which we just can't see anymore.

Damn.

So it's a philosophical point.