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Note: this program was broadcast on WGBH ‘s sister stations WCAI & WNAN , on Sept. 9, 2007, and picked up by KPVL , a Pacifica station, on July 2, 2013!
Want to know how the world is going to end? Just ask Russian cosmologist Alex Vilenkin . If it’s our own universe you’re talking about, well, it’s called the big crunch , and it’s going to be hot hot hot! But if it’s the multiverse , that infinitely expanding, infinitely varied and infinitely populated sea of universes, well, guess what — there is no end. Isn’t that reassuring?? Vilenkin is Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute of Cosmology at Tufts University , and also the author of a new boo
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