On Our Minds: The Big Bang

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Cosmology is on our minds, with the remarkable new discovery confirming the Big Bang. To get a better sense of what it all means – and how creation stories like the Big Bang have shaped our sense of ourselves – Steve Paulson turned to Adam Frank, an astrophysicist who writes for NPR’s science blog 13.7.   He’s the author of the book “About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang.”