The Most Relaxing Facts About Science Questions to Fall Asleep To

In this calm and sleepy facts episode, we explore the biggest unsolved mysteries in all of science, the questions that have kept the greatest minds in history searching for answers and that remain open to this day. We ask why there is something rather than nothing, how the universe came into existence, and why the laws of physics seem so perfectly arranged for stars, planets, and life to exist at all. We wander through the hard problem of consciousness, the invisible 95 percent of the universe made of dark matter and dark energy, the mystery of how non living chemistry became the first living cell, and the haunting silence of a cosmos that seems like it should be full of life but has offered no reply. From the nature of time to what lies inside a black hole to the strange question of whether mathematics was invented or discovered, this episode will carry you gently through the deepest questions humanity has ever asked.