One Damned Thing After Another

We all know the story: at the beginning of time a singularity exploded with an unimaginable force to give birth to the universe, but what exactly was the Big Bang? Or, more importantly, what wasn’t it? This episode will examine three very common misconceptions about that exploding dot at the beginning of time, to see why we no longer think the universe began as a single dot, to understand that there wasn’t really an explosion, and to explore the reasons that, for all we've learned, we still have no idea when time truly began.