The Beginning of the Universe with Brian Keating

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🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Could the Higgs field vary across space and time? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice answer fan questions on cosmic inflation, quantum fluctuations, and the earliest moments after the Big Bang with cosmologist Brian Keating.

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0:00.0	Chuck, love me some cosmology.
0:01.7	Oh, yes, without a doubt.
0:03.1	It makes me look good every day.
0:06.8	Motology?
0:07.5	Oh, that's right.
0:09.7	We're talking about cosmology on this show.
0:12.1	Yeah, it's a good one too.
0:13.5	Yeah, I mean, it's one thing to just look at how people used to think of the universe.
0:17.6	I want to know what's going on right now.
0:19.4	And that's what we did.
0:20.7	Oh, we got it all.
0:21.3	In that episode, coming up on StarTalk.
0:25.9	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:28.4	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:34.4	StarTalk begins right now.
0:38.6	This is StarTalk.
0:40.7	Neil DeGrasse Tyson here, your personal astrophysicist.
0:43.6	We're doing cosmic queries today, and guess who brought them all?
0:47.4	Chuck, nice, Chuck, ma'am.
0:48.6	Hey, that's right.
0:50.1	I bought the goods.
0:51.6	You brought the goods.
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