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World Service,15 May 2001,24 mins

The Living Universe and the Big Bang

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Exploration of the universe and the big bang theory. How everything we see in the night sky is effectively an imprint of life billions of years ago. The dawn of our universe can now be examined with very powerful telescopes.

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