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The Michael Shermer Show · 2025-05-27 · 94 min · 17,221 words

The Big Bang Wasn't the Beginning? Exploring Cosmic Origins

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You're listening to The Michael Shermer Show. Time for another episode of the Michael Shermer Show. I'm your host as always, Michael Shermer. We got a great show today. You can say we have a big show.

It's a Big Bang show. Here it is. It's a great new book. It's called The Battle. It's called Battle of the Big Bang.

The new tales of our cosmic origins. The authors are Naesh Eshforti and Phil Halper. Let me give him proper introductions. Nayesh Eshfordi is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo and associate faculty at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Ontario, Canada. His prize winning research focuses on competing models for the early universe, dark energy, dark matter, black holes, holography, and gravitational waves.

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