Closer To Truth’s Best of Big Questions

Science & Philosophy
Producer: Getzels Gordon Productions & The Kuhn Foundation
Rights: Unlimited, 6/19/2025 to 6/30/2027 (Live Linear Streaming available)
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101  Time at Sea 

Is time the ultimate stage on which all events play? Some physicists and philosophers say No — time is an Illusion; time is not real. How can that be?

102  What is Time? 

To appreciate Time is to touch the texture of reality. Does Time differ from our common perceptions of it? Is Time fixed or flexible?

103  Does Information Create the Cosmos? 

Of what is reality made? What are the most basic building blocks from which the cosmos is constructed? Particles? Mass-Energy? Forces? Fields? A new candidate is ‘Information’—‘IT from BIT’.

104  Does the Cosmos have a Reason? 

How breathtakingly vast the universe. How majestic. Is there meaning, purpose—a reason? Some scientists say no; we create our own purpose. Others look to God, while some seek meaning in the search for aliens.  All see beauty.

105.  Can the Cosmos have a Reason? 

Perhaps we cannot know the reason for the universe, if there is any. But is it even possible for the universe to have a reason? If yes, how would natural regularities and rules compare with some kind of goal or God?

106  Implications of Cosmology? 

The universe is strange and wondrous—dauntingly vast, menacingly violent, infinitely complex. There are explanations, but is there a final explanation?

107  Why Philosophy of Physics & Cosmology?

The observable universe may contain two trillion galaxies and there may be innumerable universes. Is there ultimate unification, a final theory? Search for deep harmony. Discern deep meaning.

108  Do General Principles Govern All Science? 

Are there “general principles” that encompass all sciences, that explain even beyond the sciences? What would that mean about our world and about us?