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The First Three Minutes A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe

Steven Weinberg

This classic of contemporary science writing by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains to general readers what happened when the universe began, and how we know.

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The Joe Rogan Experience

The book was described as a great work that outlines the early moments of the universe after the Big Bang, covering the first millionth to billionth of a second in cosmology.

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There's a great book called The First Three Minutes which has been around since the 1970s, maybe even longer, and it sort of outlines how we think that.

— Episode: #2506 - Michelle Thaller

Episode: #2506 - Michelle Thaller

The book was described as a great work that outlines the early moments of the universe after the Big Bang, covering the first millionth to billionth of a second in cosmology.

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There's a great book called The First Three Minutes which has been around since the 1970s, maybe even longer, and it sort of outlines how we think that.

The Daily Stoic

This book was mentioned as being about the first three minutes of the universe, described as very technical but incredible. The speaker read it while working on a chapter of their book.

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and then I'm moving on to pagan religions each chapter is so exciting and different and weird and human nature was like that you know rationality narcissism how can you not be excited about writing a...

— Episode: Robert Greene and Ryan Holiday on Ego an...

Episode: Robert Greene and Ryan Holiday on Ego and Power |...

This book was mentioned as being about the first three minutes of the universe, described as very technical but incredible. The speaker read it while working on a chapter of their book.

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and then I'm moving on to pagan religions each chapter is so exciting and different and weird and human nature was like that you know rationality narcissism how can you not be excited about writing a chapter about narcissism there's so much material I had so much material from myself as well you know it's fun but if I had to write one book on narcissism for five years I would kill myself I would never make it so the diversity of it and the breadth of it is the feature yeah because it allows you to get excited about the component parts but I can tell you when you're like in chapter five and you've got seven more to go and you know oh man I don't know if I can make it you just gotta have these mental strategies kind of get you past those points which I'm pretty good at

and then I'm immersed in that and then it's over after about five months and now I'm writing a book about evolution and the dinosaurs I'm going into the world of dinosaurs and animals and biology well how exciting and then that's over by the end I'm kind of drained and then I'm moving on to pagan religions each chapter is so exciting and different and weird

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