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Origins, a tale of light
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Origins, a tale of light

2025-12-14 · 10 min / episode · ★ 8.0

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Since the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, light has sculpted the cosmos. It traverses the void, interacts with matter, and dances with shadows. It multiplies and proliferates, offering the world ever more complex and luminous structures. If it could speak, what would it tell us?

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Audrey StupovskiNarrator (voice)

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