What Happened At The Beginning Of Time? - with Dan Hooper

I respect their knowledge but I cannot resist calling them high priests of the Church of the Big Bang . They speak with a fervor that reminds me of charged up TV evangelists and old Catholic foreign missionaries preaching " The Second Coming of Christ ". But when ? After GOD PARTICLE II is discovered -Son of God Particle I ? I recall the French existentialist writer Albert Camus saying that our astronomers have been " reduced to poetry ". Of what relevance are beautiful fireworks in the sky , galaxies nearly as old as the Big Bang ( and perhaps no longer in existence ) to HUMAN life on THIS planet ? Get us all excited for " MUCH ADO ABOUT ' NOTHING ' ( or call it QUANTUM FOAM ) ? Should young scientists lecturing the public begin to sound like prescription drug advertising during TV news ?