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Does the universe go on forever?

Astronomer Heather Couper considers the idea of infinity and its history, and looks beyond the known universe to try to measure whether it has a beginning and end.

This is a programme from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive and was originally broadcast in 2006.

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