Stephen Hawking on Science in the 21st Century - Part 6 (1998)

[91Tribual]

my thesis is this: instead of arguing about the existence of God,one should ask himself "what is the definition of God"?

[FuchsiaFF00FF]

I don't hate Schrodinger's Cat because it's inaccurate. I don't care. It's a helpful illustrative device. What I hate is that most people have no idea what it means, but think they're smart for saying it.

It's not literally true. It's a thought experiment. It was supposed to stimulate thought, not be an actual experiment.

If you're knowledgeable on the subject, feel free to talk about whatever cat you damn well please. Just don't spout gibberish to make yourself sound smart.

[RaidenGear15]

i actually feel so sorry for hawkings. i hope he's happy.

[YawnGod]

The 90s.

[HappyHunter252]

hes getting laid tonight

[AndroidDeviceFan]

Science and god DOESN'T MIX!!!!!!!!

[nursk11]

@AndroidDeviceFan Albert Einstein the German man who made e-MC says "religion without science is blind science without religion is lame"

[FuchsiaFF00FF]

@nursk11

Science and religion aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, but science has no need for religion. It can explain everything religion can without religion.

I'm an atheist, but I don't think believing in God means you can't believe in science. I think religion is unnecessary. I don't think there is a God, and I don't see any need to believe in one.

If you believe in God, I can respect that. However, science is independent of religion. Religion needs science, not the other way around.

[FuchsiaFF00FF]

@nursk11

TL;DR: Religion is fine as long as it's about the spiritual, but as soon as it tries to trump science I'll be out there with a protest sign and megaphone.

[imnotdiddy]

Hey Hilary looks like a MILF there

[faridjabba]

thanks, can someon pls explain how he talks[ ? she hot

[vivek3000]

hillary hasn't aged well at all.

[zupels007]

is that Hillary??

[MasterTuxie]

He has a google translator voice.

[andrehellm13]

awesome human being.

[Ginandpop2]

Damn those computers are so DARN old!

[BoyznGirlz09]

One question, how does he eat?

[pokekiller5swords]

@BoyznGirlz09 probably the same way people in coma do

[pokekiller5swords]

@pokekiller5swords a coma not coma damnit typo

[fukingreality]

poor man... so smart, and so unfortunate

[lennic95]

@fukingreality Actually he's been very fortunate! Given he has ALS (an illness which is often fatal within 5- 10 years of diagnosis), he's been very lucky! He is now almost 70 and has lived with this progressive illness since he was about 20.

[chadheck96]

He has the absolute best smile in the world.

[TheAntiestablishment]

why do they ask so stupid questions?

[JokeAt9]

how can he speak so fast with that computer?

[HiVxN3G4TiiV3]

@JokeAt9 if you had a computer to you for the last 15 or so years, i think you would get use to it.

[chadheck96]

@JokeAt9 Theres a sensor on his glasses that kinda detects where he looks with his cheek muscles and he selects phrases either from scratch or common phrases from a list.

[Dannyd2134]

Is it me or does the first person speaking in this video actually sound like stephen hawkings computer voice???

No offence but americans sounds like robot computers.

[Dendiol]

@Dannyd2134 Totally agree! Sounds like Microsoft Sam

[MarkArandjus]

"I set the popular stereotype of a mad scientist or a disabled genius." there, he said it himself and made a lil joke about it too, and people get mad when I point out that he looks like a bond villain =)

[iPojCoNr]

lol it's funny to see how fascinated they are with the internet

[brdbrch]

Be ready Asian women online #lushfmlk.info#

[micshaz]

Bill Clinton is so close to sleeping

[Freethinker12341]

francis collins is an idiot

[Computerdisplay]

Clinton´s face looks like "I was elected to lead....not to read" hahahaha

[TheTravisChannel]

Like Clinton is really interested in this

[aquagrl63]

@TheTravisChannel Seriously. I mean Barack Obama is the first President in recent history that I can envision finding this interesting (Obama is a total geek; what other President has been compared to Spock). But can't Clinton at least try to pretend he's interested?

[YoungJackassStar1]

@8shotbarrel i skim through the vid and i know he cant talk i mean the lil machine he have im sorry i dont pay that much attention in science class

[DarknessKingCoH]

Some people say the sky's the limit, no, god is the limit, if there is no god there is no limit, humans have unlimited potential and we all should embrace this fact. Now who's with me.

[YoungJackassStar1]

i only watch this cause i wanted to hear him talk?!!

[8shotbarrel]

@YoungJackassStar1 then you wasted like 3 minutes of your life. and youre a fucking idiot, he CANT talk.

[0engima0]

@YoungJackassStar1 OMG absolutely right oracle ..

[ZachariasClub]

@YoungJackassStar1 Why the question mark?

[p1t3n6]

@YoungJackassStar1 sounds like one of my electronic dictionaries.

[worrowindXVI]

2:06

(God, Im so bored.... Oh yeah, this hawking guys doesnt beleive in God, lol. Man, I can barely keep my eyes open right now. Monica just kept demanding more and more crazy shit from me last night. 'say this to me'. 'ooooh so good, do it again'. 'stick THIS thing up my butt now.' I wonder if Stephen here ever had good romps in the sack-) *Schnicker* (Man that thought was so funny i almost cracked up on live TV. Ah, Who gives a shit? Noone watches C Span anyway. Wait, whats he sayin?)

[DoomNoMore]

@worrowindXVI Stephen has been married twice, so the answer probably is yeah

[StraightUppJeff]

lol god wanted us to evolve into careless violent human beings that have no sense of self preservation, hence the violence?

yeah no im not buy that whole god wanted to us to evolve like this line..

nope.

[worrowindXVI]

@StraightUppJeff

both sides have their issues with logic. God who loves us should not allow evil, but the scientific explanation for everything is that it was spontaneous creation. in other words, it happened cause it just happened. how illogical does that get after all our search for laws and reason?

[AndrewDeLong]

@worrowindXVI

The same is assumed from the religious side as well, that everything came from nothing (well, from God, but then rules of causality set in and one has to ask where God came from, which ultimately is nothing).

In terms of logic, as you so quaintly said, neither side can address it at the core.

[RuinSonic]

@AndrewDeLong I can address it. Something always existed and matter came to be from this existence. Could be sort of like god as a first cause or some kind of energy or whatever. No poof out of nothing or out of nothing required. The difficulty for me is how can something exist or change from something that always existed or never didn't exist.

[AndrewDeLong]

@RuinSonic

Never didn't exist? Either you intended to use a double negative, or meant to say "never existed." I'll assume the latter, and answer as best I can.

Something can come from nothing, simply put, because it can. There need not be a reason or cause. If the laws of the universe didn't exist prior to it forming, then that also bodes true for the law of causality (that all things need a cause). Basically, if the universe didn't exist, then causality didn't either, & no laws are broken.

[RuinSonic]

@AndrewDeLong No i meant double negative. Something cannot come from nothing. That's illogical. Causality isn't necessarily a scientific concept either. It is a metaphysical idea. Don't confuse all of non supernatural existence, the universe, with our universe that came into be. We could be a bubble that came from a foam. You can't say that just because time exists within our universe that our universe is independent of any other existence.

[AndrewDeLong]

@RuinSonic

Well, as much as I like to engage in thought experiments like that, I simply, in all serious cases, must abide by the logic of this universe. That logic says that all observable laws ONLY came into effect when the universe began, and not before that point. Causality is one of these laws. If this is the case, then it, nor any other law, existed before the universe did, and thus it is allowable and reasonable to say that we can get something from nothing.

[RuinSonic]

@AndrewDeLong Laws of logic apply nomatter what universe exists or doesn't exist. Second, we didn't observe or can scientifically talk about the universe actually coming into existence. We can talk about it's formation over time. Hume would strongly object to your claim about causality. How does observing things in relation to eachother scientifically show that causality occurs? You assume causality before you do science. Also our current universe state began to exist not existence itself.

[RuinSonic]

@AndrewDeLong I might otherwise agree that your position is possible or could be true other than the fact that you word it in an illogical way. If what you mean by the universe came from nothing is that it is all that exists and is eternal with a finite past than fine. If your saying there was nothing and there was this universe springing into action then no. I talk about causality in the sense that if we have a multiverse there can't be independent universes that just are.

[RuinSonic]

@RuinSonic Well, we could but that would severely violate occams razor. There must be a source to a bunch of universes. Maybe there isn't a bunch of universes but it seems strange that the only thing that exists is something that has constants that allow for any formations such as planets or life or whatever when it is tons more likely that it had not. Not to say the TOE is out of the question as a good explanation. But I don't want this issue to distract what we were talking about.

[AndrewDeLong]

@RuinSonic

Well, in terms of a multiverse, one must ask what is the originator of that hierarchical structure. Ultimately, the conclusions (excluding a higher intelligence) are drawn to only two possibilities, that 1) The multiverse simply always existed, or 2) it all came from nothing. In either case, the law of causality is ignored or violated, as neither explains what caused the multiverse to occur in the first place. In light of that, I side with the "nothing" argument as the most logical

[GOSUPitZ]

@AndrewDeLong /watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo

[xxxxfatcatxxxx]

2:11 he looks like an asshole to me for some reason.

[velcroboy60000]

Who are these boring people talking about their God? I WANNA HEAR DR. HAWKING!

3:58 OMG! Awesomesauce! He's so smart! :D

[suravthevoid]

can someone slap the first retard for me thx n hugs

[CoomShot]

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[lunaticz0r]

lol at the first guy...god wants a lot doesn't he? omg

[EnchancedHuman]

utter BS