Could a planet orbiting a black hole sustain life? We dive into the challenges and wonders of living in such an extreme cosmic environment. Discover what it might be like to live near a black hole, where time slows, gravity warps, and the universe takes on a truly alien form.

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Black Sun Rising: Living On A Planet Around A Black Hole
Episode 487; February 20, 2025
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
Editor:  Briana Brownell
Graphics: Jeremy Jozwik, Ken York YD Visual, Udo Scroeter
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Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator
Phase Shift, "Forest Night"
Chris Zabriskie, "Unfoldment, Revealment", "A New Day in a New Sector", "Oxygen Garden"
Stellardrone, "Red Giant", "Billions and Billions"

Black Sun Rising: Living On A Planet Around A Black Hole (Narration Only)

Is there a hidden dimension beyond space and time, a cosmic shortcut that could let us defy the speed of light? From warp drives to wormholes, science fiction has long dreamed of hyperspace travel—but could it ever be real? 

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What Is Hyperspace? Exploring the Science Behind FTL
Episode 492; March 27, 2025
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur 
Edited by: Merv Johnson II
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What Is Hyperspace? Exploring the Science Behind FTL (Narration Only)

Just how I felt, a paradoxical serendipity in the cosmos.

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Supernovae

Out there in the Universe, each star represents an opportunity: a chance for a stellar system to develop that just might possess something remarkable. While we normally think about life, and intelligent life at that, as the grand prize the Universe has to offer, there are a wide variety of fascinating phenomena that are out there to consider. Whereas Mercury, for example, is the closest world to our Sun in our own Solar System, it still takes 88 days to make a complete revolution. In other systems, however, exoplanets can be so hot that they orbit their parent star in less than a single Earth day.

In fact, we've discovered a few systems that are so extreme, the planets that orbit them are in the process of disintegrating: where the heat, winds, and radiation from the parent star actually blows part of the planet itself away. This doesn't just include a planet's atmosphere, which is what we see for giant worlds, but even the surfaces and interiors of rocky planets in the most extreme cases. At temperatures of around 2000 degrees and upwards, these exoplanets can lose their crusts, mantles, and even their cores over long enough timescales.

Believe it or not, we've actually caught a few exoplanets doing exactly this, and we've got the JWST spectra in hand for one of them now, teaching us, for the first time, what a planetary interior is made of outside of our own Solar System. I'm so pleased to have the first author from that 2025 study, soon-to-be Dr. Nick Tusay, as our guest on this edition of the Starts With A Bang podcast, as we take a look at the most extreme exoplanetary systems ever discovered!

(This image shows an illustration of an evaporating, rocky exoplanet, with an enormous dust tail arising from the material blown off of the planet from its interaction with the nearby star. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Starts With A Bang #116 - Disintegrating exoplanets

"The Cosmological argument is a family of arguments that seek to demonstrate the existence of a Sufficient Reason or First Cause of the existence of the cosmos... The kalam cosmological argument traces its roots to the efforts of early Christian theologians who, out of their commitment to the biblical teaching of creation ex nihilo, sought to rebut the Aristotelian doctrine of the eternity of the universe." The argument is extremely simple:

1. Everything that begins to exist has a cause.
2. The universe began to exist.
3. Therefore, the universe has a cause.

This is part 2 of our apologetics study as we work through "The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology." James Sinclair, co-author of the chapter on the kalam cosmological argument with William Lane Craig, joins the show to discuss the scientific evidence in support of premise 2. We look at the FRW mode, astronomical evidence for the Big Bang, the Hawking-Penrose singularity theorems, the BVG theorem, quantum gravity approaches, and the exceptions to each of these approaches. Come join the conversation and bring your questions!

James D. Sinclair (MS Physics Texas A&M, BS Physics Carnegie-Mellon) is a senior anti-air warfare analyst for the United States Navy with a specialty in the constructive (digital only) modeling of air-to-air combat. Some career accomplishments include analytical support for the fielding of the AIM-9X Sidewinder missile, combat utility evaluation of the F-35 Lighting II, and presentations at public symposia such as the Military Operations Research Society (MORS) and the Combat Identification Systems Conference (CISC). He began to interview cosmologists in the early 2000s on the topic of the beginnings of the universe, bringing Navy knowledge integration methods to the formulation known as the Kalam Cosmological Argument. This ultimately led to a collaboration with philosopher William Lane Craig and two co-authored articles: “The Kalam Cosmological Argument,” in The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology and “On Non-Singular Spacetimes and the Beginning of the Universe,” in Scientific Approaches to the Philosophy of Religion. He also co-authored the article "Fine-Tuning and Indications of Transcendent Intelligence" with Robert Spitzer.

Does Science Prove the Universe Had a Beginning? Apologetics Study Part 2 (James Sinclair)

"Conceptual analysis of what it is to be a cause of the universe enables us to recover a number of striking properties which this ultramundane cause must possess and which are of theological significance." - William Lane Craig

In part 1 on the Kalam, I discussed the scientific evidence in support of premise 2 with James Sinclair. Today's show will begin with a quick look at the philosophical arguments for premise 2, and then will focus on how Christians arrive at God based on the Kalam Cosmological argument. Here's the argument:

1. Everything that begins to exist has a cause.
2. The universe began to exist.
3. Therefore, the universe has a cause.
4. If the universe has a cause, then an uncaused, personal Creator of the universe exists, who sans the universe is beginningless, changeless, immaterial, timeless, spaceless, and enormously powerful.

From (3) and (4), it follows that:

5. Therefore, an uncaused, personal Creator of the universe exists, who sans the universe is beginningless, changeless, immaterial, timeless, spaceless, and enormously powerful.

Come join the conversation and bring your questions!

Content Discussed:
0:00 Intro
4:09 Upcoming shows
7:15 The argument from the impossibility of an actual infinite
15:26 The impossibility of the formation of an actual infinite by successive addition
21:21 Whatever begins to exist has a cause
30:25 Live Question: What did God do before he did the first thing?
31:19 Live Question: Infinite regress is something you have been through.
33:00 Live Question: Must all things have a cause?
34:15 The theological implications of the Kalam Cosmological argument
47:18 Live Question: There's no logical reason why you can't have an infinite regress
49:51 Caller: Abstract objects, a personal God, God and time, defining supernatural, and if we can choose our thoughts
1:18:05 Caller: Is an infinite regress possible?

The Universe Had a Beginning... So What? Apologetics Study Part 3

Apologetics - The failures of naturalism (aka atheism, evolutionary naturalism, scientism)  - 11/12th Grade Coptic Youth Meeting.

Naturalism Fails - Science & Faith Series 2

Originally broadcast on The Dream Machine channel on www.intergalactic.fm on 28th July 2024.

BIOSPHERE - The Self-Inflating Camp
PHOENECIA - How Long Is Forever
COIL - Higher Beings Command
VANGELIS - Thermo Vision
TANGERINE DREAM - Nebulous Dawn
AUTECHRE - Outh9X

4-D TRAVELLER - The Eternal Unfolding

This week, The Twilight Tonic ventures into the heart of the unknown. DeeDee Moonflyer interviews Ella LeBain, ET experiencer, UFO researcher, and author of "Who’s Who In The Cosmic Zoo?". Drawing on a lifetime of personal encounters and deep research into ancient texts, astronomy, and the paranormal, Ella discusses the discerning disclosure of alien life and its profound implications for humanity's future. Are we prepared for the truth about the interdimensional beings among us and the ancient prophecies now unfolding? Tune in for a discussion that will challenge your reality.

The Alien Endgame: A Conversation with Ella LeBain

From quantum tunneling to cosmic inflation, we journey through the theories behind the Big Bang and beyond — and ask the big question: could another Big Bang be in our cosmic future?

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Could We See a Second Big Bang?
Episode 724.1; June 10, 2025
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
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0:00 Intro
1:59 Why Did the Big Bang Happen?
3:01 Quantum Fluctuations
5:20 Inflation and False Vacuum Decay
7:56 Cyclic Models and the Ekpyrotic Universe
9:43 Big Bounce Cosmology 
12:35 Tunneling from Nothing 
14:04 Beginnings, Endings, and Echoes

Could We See a Second Big Bang?

Training Christians to THINK WELL by curating conversations with Christian thinkers and giving a framework for engaging the culture with a biblical worldview.

Ryan Pauly has been working with students for over a decade as a high school teacher, missionary, and apologist. He is the Founder and President of Think Well, an organization focused on training Christians to engage the culture with a biblical worldview, and the Director of Immersive Experiences at MAVEN. Ryan holds a B.A. in theology and youth leadership from Vanguard University, an M.A. in Christian apologetics from Biola University, and is pursuing a doctorate in cultural engagement from Talbot School of Theology. Ryan lives in Southern California with his wife and two sons. He enjoys watching hockey, roasting coffee, and playing with his boys.

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