Zeeya Merali is a science writer and author of A Big Bang in a Little Room. She also edits the Foundational Questions Institute website, where she blogs and cohosts a physics podcast. A version of this interview originally appeared in season two of the Century podcast In Search Of.
Let’s start with this mind-blowing idea that scientists are trying to create a universe in a lab. What did you learn about it?
They sound like supervillains, don’t they? They’re trying to create a universe in the laboratory.
