Michelle Thaller
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first heard May 2026
last heard 28 May
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A lot of my friends are – the Catholic Church, the Jesuits have had an active astronomy program for a thousand years.
And so the Vatican Observatory still has an excellent program.
But the question you're asking about what came before the Big Bang – I mean, again, what happens inside a black hole –
It's wonderful that there are these things right over the horizon from us.
We know the universe is expanding.
What was it like before?
What a great, simple, elegant question.
We have no idea yet.
There's some interesting evidence about that.
And once again...
It's not so much that the entire universe was small.
There's compelling evidence that everything we can see was once in a very small volume.
Let me just sort of say that.
We're limited by this time factor.
You look out as far as you can, and eventually you get to the time of the Big Bang.
You can't see any further.
The universe to us is only as big as light has had time to travel to us.
That's not the whole universe.
If you're on a galaxy billions of light years away from us, that galaxy sees its own observable universe.
I mean, we basically see in a sphere around us how far we're able to see, given the time.
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