Michelle Thaller
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first heard May 2026
last heard 28 May
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There's a great book called The First Three Minutes, which has been around since the 1970s, maybe even longer.
And it sort of outlines how we think that, you know, the universe in the first three minutes basically went from the Big Bang to just sort of all the hydrogen and helium that we have.
And in the first three minutes, pretty much everything was done.
The whole sort of process of the Big Bang was done in those first three minutes.
The actual Big Bang itself goes back to something called the Planck epoch, which you see there, 10 to the minus 33rd seconds, 10 to the minus 43rd seconds.
So take a decimal point.
Draw 42 zeros and then a 43.
Absolutely.
Again, again, big, big chunk of salt there.
Yeah.
I mean, so this is not bullshit.
This is the best model given our understanding of modern physics.
Do I think this is right, literally?
No.
I think we've got a lot to understand about how gravity works in high-density situations.
When gravity and quantum mechanics come together, those two theories, they don't work well together.
And in order to understand how things were like right before the Big Bang or even right after, I think you need to understand that a lot better.
All this stuff that we think may be dark matter and dark energy, none of that is in the current theory of how the Big Bang started.
We don't know if it's important or not.
That's a good first step.
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