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Speaker 1: Professor Brian Green is a world renowned theoretical physicist, and

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Speaker 1: you can catch his show The Twilight of Time at

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Speaker 1: the ASTA Theater at the end of the month March

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Speaker 1: thirty tickets through ticketek and he's joining us this morning.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Professor Green, good to see you. Tell us

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Speaker 1: about your show. How does it work?

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Speaker 2: Well, I take the audience from the beginning of time

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Speaker 2: through all the developments that lead to stars and galaxies

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Speaker 2: and planets and people, and then we turn our attention

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Speaker 2: to the future and we see what science tells us

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Speaker 2: about our best guess for how it all ends. So

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Speaker 2: it's from the beginning of time to the end of time.

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Speaker 3: It sounds like a long shown.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, it's about one hundred ten of the one

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Speaker 2: hundred years or so we'll cover.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll compress it. I'll compress it. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like I'm sure you do it dinner parties.

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Speaker 5: I'm sure people ask you very profound questions and you've

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Speaker 5: tried to abbreviate and put them in Layman's terones.

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Speaker 2: That's the goal, you know, I mean, these questions are

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Speaker 2: are questions that people care about because we all want

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Speaker 2: to know where we came from. We all want to

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Speaker 2: know how all things are going to end up. We

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Speaker 2: want to know whether the things that we do are

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Speaker 2: going to last or they all going to just disintegrate

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Speaker 2: into oblivion.

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Speaker 4: Does anything matter?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: What is the one question that people ask you most

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Speaker 1: at dinner parties lately?

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Speaker 4: It's been, for whatever reason, what happened before the Big Bang?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Okay, you know?

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Speaker 4: And the answer is, I don't know. My guess is good,

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Speaker 4: but we have some ideas. But we have some ideas.

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Speaker 2: It could be that there's no conception before the Big Bang,

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Speaker 2: because maybe time itself begins at the Big Bang, and

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Speaker 2: so the very notion of before is meaningless as one possibility.

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Speaker 2: Or perhaps our universe is one of many universes. Maybe

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Speaker 2: there are other Big Bangs that happen at distant and

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Speaker 2: bar flown locations, And maybe the universe has been around,

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Speaker 2: maybe forever, and it's only our part of it that

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Speaker 2: began with the Big Bang.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there is a chance for people to ask questions

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Speaker 1: at the show. Have you what have you ever been

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Speaker 1: asked a question that just really threw you? You thought,

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Speaker 1: where did that one come from?

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Speaker 4: It's never ever happened.

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Speaker 1: You can't throw Professor Gray, no way.

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Speaker 2: You know, if you ask me like why why did

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Speaker 2: you two you know, when whatever the nineteen eighty seven

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Speaker 2: grammy everything, that would be tough for me to answer. No,

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Speaker 2: I mean they're great, that's the answer.

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Speaker 4: That's the answer to that question.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, what about the state of the planet right now

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Speaker 5: and its inhabitants? So we selfish to go off and

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Speaker 5: find our little pockets of joy, you know, because that's

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Speaker 5: what we often do these days.

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Speaker 2: It's what we often do, and I think that's what

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Speaker 2: evolution has certainly propelled us to do. It's one of

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Speaker 2: the things that motivates us to go forward, that there

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Speaker 2: are moments of joy and happiness and love at the

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Speaker 2: same time.

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Speaker 4: We need to have a larger perspective, at least a

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Speaker 4: global perspective. But the point of my show is to

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Speaker 4: give us a.

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Speaker 2: Cosmic perspective, the largest view. And when you do take

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Speaker 2: that perspective, I think he can have an impact on

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Speaker 2: how you behaved because you thinks you see things in

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Speaker 2: a larger landscape and that changes your value system.

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Speaker 1: We were really over overly curious kid. I mean, did

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Speaker 1: little Brian ever take it face value anything his teachers

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Speaker 1: or parents told him, or was he like, yeah, Bob.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well I try not to be too irritating, but

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Speaker 2: curious that I was, Yeah, I was curious. Actually, mathematics

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Speaker 2: is what really fascinated me as a kid, that you

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Speaker 2: can learn a little bit of these operations and then

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Speaker 2: do calculations that nobody has ever done before. So I

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Speaker 2: was the kind of kid who would spend a Saturday

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Speaker 4: So yeah, there were some odd things perhaps that.

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Speaker 5: I did, but it chose. We've seen a couple of

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Speaker 5: comedians be heckled lately here. Have you ever had someone

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Speaker 5: Maybe not, you've had questions that haven't thrown you, But

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Speaker 5: I have been heckled from an order it's members that

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Speaker 5: happened to the show.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah for sure, Yeah, oh absolutely, yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean they're those who say, like I believe that

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Speaker 2: all we are are collections of particles governed by laws

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Speaker 2: of physics that every so often come together into an

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Speaker 2: organized pattern that we call a human being that happens

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Speaker 2: to have a human brain.

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Speaker 4: But that's all that we are. There's nothing beyond that.

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Speaker 4: And there are many people who find that.

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Speaker 2: Perspective either hard to accept or downright, you know, sacrilegious.

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Speaker 2: And my point is to try to integrate this perspective

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Speaker 2: with the things that give us meaning, that give us purpose.

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Speaker 2: This doesn't mean the universe is purposeless. It just means

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Speaker 2: you need to look at it in a different way

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Speaker 2: than perhaps our ancestors did a few thousand years ago.

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Speaker 1: Right at what stage in your life does one think,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I think, I'm going to be a

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Speaker 1: theoretical physicist.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like for me, it's yeah, definitely, Yeah, I was.

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Speaker 2: I was. I was in twelfth grade, and again I

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Speaker 2: said I was a math kid. But then in twelfth

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Speaker 2: grade I realized from taking physics that math could tell

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Speaker 2: you about the world. I mean, imagine the power of

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Speaker 2: sitting down and doing a calculation and looking at your

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Speaker 2: window and like verifying that the math was true by

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Speaker 2: what you see out there in the world that way.

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Speaker 3: And what about downtime for your professor?

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Speaker 5: Is it do you hang out with other physicists or

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Speaker 5: mathematicians or is it time with family and just to

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Speaker 5: chill out and get away from these big thoughts.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny downtime. I'm not even sure what it

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Speaker 2: means any longer. I'm either writing articles or writing books,

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Speaker 2: or doing calculations or going on lecture tours.

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Speaker 4: It seems to never end.

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Speaker 2: But for me, I don't really draw a sharp distinction

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Speaker 2: between work and life. To me, they're all blended together,

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Speaker 2: and certainly in there my family is the top most

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Speaker 2: thing that really I put my energy into, so that

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Speaker 2: certainly is distinct, but otherwise it's all part of one

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Speaker 2: big mass.

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Speaker 1: I think that's an awesome attitude.

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Speaker 5: I like that.

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Speaker 1: I think everyone should do that. You can catch Professor

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Speaker 1: Brian Green the Twilight of Time at the ASTA Theater

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Speaker 1: on March thirty. Get your tickets through ticket Tech. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us this morning, Brian, Professor.

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Speaker 5: Posy, thank you, Thanks bub We've got to get you

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Speaker 5: to stick around for a you two quiz, but we've

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Speaker 5: played that one for out of time.

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Speaker 1: All of this.

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Speaker 3: Thanks