# We Still Do Not Know What Caused the Big Bang by Martin Rees > “We still don’t know what banged and why it banged.” > **— Martin Rees**, *Is this our final century?, TED, 2005* ## Sources and Context - **Direct publication and full context:** [Is this our final century?](https://www.ted.com/talks/martin_rees_is_this_our_final_century) — The linked publication contains the quoted passage and its surrounding argument. - **Master research record:** [[research/Martin Rees on Machine Succession, Post-Human Intelligence, and the Cosmic Future|Martin Rees on Machine Succession, Post-Human Intelligence, and the Cosmic Future]] — preserves this object inside the open Martin Rees source dossier. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/MARS|MARS]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Article:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Deep Time|Deep Time]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Big Bang|Big Bang]] - [[wiki/Scientific Inference|Scientific Inference]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “We still don’t know what banged and why it banged.” — Martin Rees, Is this our final century?, TED, 2005 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-martin-rees-we-still-do-not-know ```