The Light Hidden Within Reality

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I want to talk about a mind-blowing scientific discovery that was hiding right in our living rooms. >> [music] >> If you remember the old bulky televisions with antennas on top, you probably remember what happened when there was no signal. The screen filled with gray flickering snow, and the speakers produced that annoying white noise. Where did that snow come from? The antenna was simply picking up random radio waves from space. In 1964, scientists made a [music] In 1964, scientists made a [music] discovery that later earned a Nobel Prize. About 1% of that flickering snow was actually [music] light from the Big Bang. The very first light of creation never disappeared. As the universe [music] expanded, it cooled, stretched, and became invisible waves that still fill our universe today. The light is always there. But because our devices cannot decode it, we experience it only as static. Science discovered this in the 1960s.

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1. 0:00I want to talk about a mind-blowing scientific discovery that was hiding right in our living…
2. 0:30In 1964, scientists made a [music] discovery that later earned a Nobel Prize. About 1% of…
3. 1:00Science discovered this in the 1960s. [music] But Jewish mystical tradition described a similar idea thousands…
4. 1:32>> how could we experience it today? About 300 years ago, the Baal Shem Tov, founder…
5. 2:03bad news, and people who frustrate us. We become convinced the world is dark. >> [music]…
6. 2:35clarity. We experience divine providence. The world is the same, >> [music] >> but the static…

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