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Singularities Are Hard to Kill
Season 1 · Episode 6

Singularities Are Hard to Kill

Our universe may contain points where space-time becomes unrecognizable.

The Quanta Podcast

June 10, 202523m 38s

Show Notes

Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists must go to the ends of space and time to find a fix.

This is the fourth episode of The Quanta Podcast. In each episode, Quanta Magazine editor in chief Samir Patel speaks with the minds behind the award-winning publication to navigate through some of the most important and mind-expanding questions in science and math.