Paradox

Jim Al-Khalili is about to untangle the world''s greatest science conundrums...
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How does the fact that it gets dark at night prove the Universe must have started with a big bang?

Where are all the aliens?

Why does the length of a piece of string vary depending on how fast it is moving?

Our subject is ''perceived paradoxes'' - questions or thought-experiments that on first encounter seem i...