World Science Festival | Pondering the Imponderables: The Biggest Questions of Cosmology SOLD OUT

Physicists and cosmologists are closing in on how the universe operates at its very core.

But even with powerful telescopes and particle accelerators pushed nearly to their limits, experimenters struggle to keep up as theoreticians march forward, leaving grand theories untested. Is our universe unique or one of many? What was there before the Big Bang? Why is there something rather than nothing? Some argue that if these deep questions can’t be confirmed empirically, they’re not relevant to science. Are they right? Join world-leading cosmologists, philosophers and physicists as they tackle the profound questions of existence.

Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College