A Clock with No Hands: How India Counted Deep Time
Every morning a priest in Ujjain places his mother's illness inside a timescale of 4.32 billion years, and does it in forty seconds. A short look at India's cyclic cosmology of kalpas and yugas, and how recently the West arrived at deep time.
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The potter's wheel and the furnace: where did matter come from?
From the Golden Womb to the first three minutes - how a formless flare of energy became matter you can hold.
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A question before time: the Nasadiya Sukta meets the Big Bang
The Rigveda opens creation with a question, not an answer - and modern cosmology stops at the same wall.
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