Cosmically Curious podcast

Does the universe remember

10/5/2026

Cosmically Curious

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In this segment of Cosmically Curious, host Patrick McNamee speaks with astronomer John Gianforte from the University of New Hampshire about whether the cosmos preserves a record of everything that has ever happened—and what the physics of our own sun reveals about the vastness of that question.

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