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A Brief History of the End of Everything: 1: Eternity

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The astronomer Brother Guy Consolmagno presents a beginner's guide to ideas, both ancient and modern, about how the universe will end.

Scientists in the 1950s did not like the idea that the universe actually had a beginning - they were trying to get away from the biblical Creation story, a universe that went on forever was much more comforting. But the Big Bang theory forced thinkers into coming to terms with the idea that, if there was a beginning, presumably there must also be an end.

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Presenter:
Brother Guy Consolmagno
Producer:
John Byrne
Source: Radio Times

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