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Cosmology Doesn't Prove a Beginning | #15 Dr. Daniel Linford
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Cosmology Doesn't Prove a Beginning | #15 Dr. Daniel Linford

Philosopher of science Dan Linford explains why cosmology does not tell us whether the universe had a beginning.

Dan Linford, philosopher of physics at Old Dominion University, joins me to discuss the Malament-Manchak theorem and its implications for debates about the origin of the universe, the limitations confronting cosmology, what it means to say that space and time "emerge" from a non-spatiotemporal structure, and much else besides.

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