At 12 min after describing that fluctuations should be minimal and that it is more likely that a brain would appear that thinks there is an outside universe than actually creating a real outside universe, he just asserts that's wrong.
BUT notice he does not justify why it is wrong! It very well could be that the universe just at this moment fluctuated into a brain state that had your conscious experience and memories within it. There isn't a way to prove this isn't the case!
@Promatheos He cited the Feynman quote. If the universe were a fluctuation, then we wouldn't expect to look at two different places and see similar things.
And while you can't prove that you exist, you certainly must assume it in order to gain any kind of functional knowledge.
I know very little about this but I was thinking that if black holes condense everything why dont in a reaaally long time they take EVERYTHING (including eachother) and condense all of it until they with nothing left and colapse and it all starts over with a packed in thing like he was talking about the big bang coming from? Please respond with your thoughts!
@teentitans0789 Actually it has everything to do with what you said. You asked why there is such a strong belief of the big bang. The answer is that it's currently the most useful theory (i.e. you / we don't have a better one).
why is the big bang accepted as fact. it's still a theory. i'm not a christian bashing ideas, but i mean in all reality we have no idea how it started, yet i see the big bang being used more and more like we saw it happen, when we didnt. it is dangerous to assume - especially with the origin of our universe.
@teentitans0789 it is the most accepted theory, one of the predictions of the big bang was the background radiation which was later confirmed, and that's how good theory goes, it not only explains what you want it to explain, it also predicts new things=)
@teentitans0789 wiki 'scientific theory'. It is not the colloquial use, meaning an informed proposed explanation. For that, we use the word 'hypothesis'. A theory is basically a field of science that encompasses all our observations, predictions and accepted facts that with 100.00% accuracy, explaining everything we have ever observed of a certain phenomenon under one big subtitle 'X theory'.
@teentitans0789 Scientific theories are not assumptions, they are built on evidence, observation, and predictions. Also I'm curious why you think it would be so dangerous to assume the origin of the universe? It seems utterly irrelevant to me (though interesting) in daily life etc more of curiosity than anything else.
I didn't like this guy until the part he said there's a chance the big bang may not have been the beginning of the universe. It keeps the mysteriousness mysterious. More fun space theories..yay.
The answer to the second conundrum is very simple. If three-dimensional space is infinite in all directions, then all possible combinations of these thermal fluctuations are happening somewhere at random points in space, and always have been, and always will be.
We just happened to arise in one of the larger ones.
Right now, there are entities in other systems (much smaller and much larger), at distances too vast for the human mind to comprehend, asking themselves the same questions, about us.
Every possıble formation of the molecules ın the room would occur on a long enough tımescale? Fascınatıng that ıncludes the formatıon every person there becomıng a duck and a broadway musıcal ensuıng.
@eoineoineoin Yes. It's like if you had an infinite number of monkeys sitting at typewriters for an infinite amount of time. Eventually, they'd type out the complete works of Shakespeare.
@CoNiGMa actualy lookin into infinity monkeys don't have to tipe all that, because infinity means anything that can happen will happen and will actually happen an infinite amount of times, the probability of it happening determing the distances between instances of it happening but because time is infinite, those instances althaugh far apart, are also infinite :D so in conclusion, any type of matter can and will eventually arrange itself into shakespeare writings an infinite amount of times :D
@chiciu That would also be true if looking at it through the eyes of infinity itself. I was looking at it more simplistically, but you are also correct. =)
I'm not convinced by the current dark matter theory models, what I believe is that the Universe is like a great big breathing lung, expanding after the big bang, eventually running out of momentum, gravity wins over, collapses in on itself into a point where it dies and is reborn again in a new big bang.
If an infinite Universe is your theory where everything is possible, what about the possibility of the destruction of the Universe? Then it's no longer infinite.
@Irishfreedom If that is the case, then it never actually dies. There has to be something left in order for it to be reborn. Ergo, it would still be infinite.
This really clicked for me. Infinity seems to be the key. With an infinite number in the equation an interesting viewpoint starts to emerge
I always assumed that the universe would end when all the mass was ‘stuck in time’ within black holes resulting in no time or mass, no universe. However, if dark energy remains then the universe is infinite, very interesting.
His voice has much smooth but heavy oscillation fluctuation, alternately deep diving my ear drums and spiking my pattern recognition. He is making apple pie from the apple tree in the woods that no one could hear falling.
@xjustamem0ryx That pie may contain remnants of nuts! Seriously though - its certainly a bit over my head, even though its a lifelong subject of interest. Just responding with what language I have that resonates with what I do pick up on. I wasn't willfully trying to be rude, though I can appreciate that simple layman's terms being used to respond to a scholastic talk can come across as such.
if it can continually expand forever, as described, it should surely have infinite energy also. Doesn't this break a certain foundational law of science?
We all know Zeus, Jesus and a Unicorn made everything? He obviously hasn't let them into his heart and accepted their words. To bad for him when he dies he won't spend eternity on Candy Mountain with Zeus, Jesus and the majestic Unicorn.
@ChoasTheory2000 hey CT2000 - don't be silly. This guy is very smart - but out on a limb with amazing ideas but, I must say, NO facts. He just has ideas, not even hypothesis really. Now, as a historian, I bring in your blanket "Zeus, Jesus and the majestic Unicorn (sic)"... I know some respondents are ignorant, but there's no need to BE ignorant when using hyperbole. Jesus IS a strong historical figure and there's no need to stoop to 'silly-ness' in your comment by assembling him with myths...:)
@phillnovaskill Well first of all I was just poking fun at the God hypothesis, which also has NO facts as you would put it, but alot of people buy into for some reason. And second of all your claim that Jesus is a historical figure and not myth is absurd seeing as their isn't any evidence of his existance other than hearsay and a forged sentance in a text that has been copied so many times it would be un-reliable at best. So in terms of evidence you could easily put him in the "Myth" category.
I don't like this guy. He talks about a bunch of theories like they're fact. Time could result from any number of different things. Entropy is not necessarily the governing factor. Hawking radiation has never been observed... its just a mathematical deduction based on existing unproven theories. Dark Energy is actually sciencese for "we have no clue but I made this thing up and it makes the math work, so we're going with it".
Its irresponsible for him to go on like these are facts.
@DurexDurpaneu2 Consciousness is an abstraction of the processes that occur inside our brains. In order to be consciousness there must be matter, to form a brain; and energy to make it work.
I think that the Omniverse (totality of existence) has always existed. It is eternal.
And I would say that the number is zero... infinite posibilities to the left and to the right of that number....
to say "the future is much longer than the past" is an absurd statement on any level.
and the talk makes a lot of sense if you have faith in such non-facts, because then you probably also believe that new energy is created as empty space increases at an accelerating rate due to a big bang, where a tiny bit of something turned into everything and that it will eventually all be gobbled up by black holes which we can't really see, and all proven by math we're all to stupid to understand of course.
what if...like...we're all just dreams. dreams of ourselves, dreaming each night. and then we like..wake up and get on with our lives which are exactly the same as our dreams...
woow duuude. im like a physiciatrist or something!
So, as Stephen Hawkings believed, the universe started from an infinitely small and infinitely dense point into the Big Bang. Black holes condense everything into an infinitely small and infinitely dense point. If there is a multiverse as I'd like to believe, what if a black hole in another universe is just the birth of a new universe (ie. a new Big Bang)?
@CoNiGMa That's a good theory, especially since Stephen Hawking change dhis original black hole theory and said that the black holes hold their contents for eons but themselves eventually deteriorate and die. As the black hole disintegrates, they send their transformed contents back out into the infinite universal horizons from whence they came.
@CoNiGMa I've always wondered if that was the origin of the big bang. It doesn't answer the question though of where DID we come from - but it is an interesting and completely plausible possibility as far as I am aware.
@YourBrainOnReligion The only thing is, it still would not explain where the original universe came from. So, we'd still be stuck with the same questions, only more stretched out.
@tvswnet Not sure if you were joking or what, but if your question was serious:
Infinite regress is counter-intuitive *to* progress, which is why it's unacceptable. There would still have to be a beginning somewhere, somehow, which is what we all ultimately want to know more about. It's also intellectually stifling because one must logically conclude that we can't ever know - and that's just antithetical to science and intellectual progress altogether :)
@charliemeon As the guy in the video said, when you squeeze things together, the temperature goes up. So, if you have an infinitely dense and infinitely small point, it could explode because of the massive amount of heat generated from it being so compressed.
@charliemeon Why wouldn't it? :-) Perhaps it's really part of the infinite macro/micro universal birth-death-birth cycle...the role of the black hole might be to "destroy" in order to create...sort of like a really great cosmic recycling factory...
@CoNiGMa Very sensible conclusion. Are you familiar with Nassim Haramein? If you want a sort of extreme but interesting theory along those lines, check out his work (Schwarzchild proton, crossing the event horizon). He has some other ideas about our human history that are a little harder for me to fully take on, but I do enjoy his physics theories.
@CoNiGMa Ive thought about the same thing. Tautological argument, like the chicken and the egg. Dont say matter auto-propogation, bc then where did the propagator come from? bam.
@majestic93 See my previous response about the typo. Stephen Hawking is how it was meant. If you still don't know who that is, you need to move out from that rock you are living under.
@newhorizons1970 I recall Arthur C. Clarke once writing that, aside from being the number of stars in our galaxy, 100 billion is also the approximate number of all humans who has ever lived on Earth. Thus there is essentially a star for each one of us.
Even more mind boggling is the idea of each galaxy holding 100G stars. Hence the number of stars in the universe is around 10^22.
And the next step is to think about what that means for the number of planets in our universe.
I pity western science and theoretical physics in particular. CERN, Hubble etc..built on the concept that the universe is made only of matter. They ignore consciousness which is the ground of time, space, energy and matter. Study Hinduism. Also the big bang is not the "age" of the universe.
Yes, let's replace the theoretical work based off physical observations collected over the last 50+ years and the collective thinking of thousands of top minds so we can accept... Hinduism... Which we all -know- has no flaws or holes in it's "explanations".
@atheistchaos Your sarcasm notwithstanding, you got it mostly right. It is as perfect as human knowledge can get. This is why every science that has spun out of Hinduisms basic concepts - Yoga, Ayurveda, Astronomy, Vedanta don't contradict each other. Theoretical physics has its place but it has been stuck since the laws of Quantum Mechanics. Hinduism has been around 10,000 yrs. The "Top minds" of today have a lot of catching up to do - we know the human brain hasn't evolved much since then.
We've gained more knowledge in the past 100 years than we have in the last 1000, there's no catching up to do. As stupid as the average person is today, they've still got more basic knowledge than the most intelligent people even 200 years ago.
It hasn't been stuck either. New concepts and information come in frequently.
@atheistchaos "We've gained more knowledge in the past 100 years than we have in the last 1000". By knowledge do you mean destruction of the environment, pollution, global warming, land fills, wars, radiation, cancers, extinction of species, pesticides, bio-technology... Don't confuse science with Atheism. Science seeks the truth and is OPEN to exploration, but Atheism is a belief system which relies on the absence of objective information.
If objects that are farther away seem to move faster away from us than the objects that are closer, then shouldn't that mean that the universe was expanding faster in the past than it is today?
@SheHasALovelyMinge Its theoretical physics but if we knew what dark energy and dark matter was maybe a testable theory can be made. To say it cannot be tested you would need a lot more information. At one point in time almost everything in science today couldn't be tested.
Douglas Adams and Sean Carroll would have gotten along famously... I couldn't help but think about the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series multiple times throughout this. ^.^
@SheHasALovelyMinge No, because, you see, where science's experiements can be tested and verified or rebuked, the bible's "facts" and "theories" are constantly proven false or not in accordance with testable theories.
I always thought that the ultimate end of the universe (total entrophy - literally a universe of nothing) would go on to produce a singularity out of nothing, and the whole scenario repeats itself. If that is so, then 'existence' or 'reality' is eternal.
@TehNewV I find it hard to believe that all the brilliant cosmologists and physicists that have struggled to uncover the mysteries of the universe through empirical evidence have made a simple mistake in inventing a whole new form of energy which is accepted by the majority in the scientific community. Also, I find it very hard to believe that some schmuck on youtube posting a comment without any evidence has any brilliant insights about the phenomenon.
Actually, we didn't invent a whole new form of energy; "dark energy" is really just an admission of our ignorance as to what is causing the universe's expansion. It seems to be related to Einstein's "biggest blunder," which is the cosmological constant or vacuum energy. This is why we believe it has something to do with an inherent energy of space-time, rather than a misapplication of gravity. In fact, I don't think I've ever heard that a flawed understanding of gravity is suspect.
@ultramerton Well if at first there was no dark energy, then scientists postulated its existence... obviously we invented a new form of energy - that of empty space. That is simple logic.
What is ultramerton's explanation of why the universe is expanding anyways?? It seems to me dark energy is a very reasonable idea.
Sorry, perhaps I didn't make myself clear: I meant there is no new energy in the conventional sense (i.e. electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces). This new "energy" is something of which we have an incredibly meager understanding. We know it's a repulsive pressure (for now) and we know its magnitude (that of the cosmological constant), but no more.
Also, I absolutely accept the existence of dark energy; I'm not sure why you're requesting an alternative explanation.
@chessfan6 Look, it's not hard to understand, dark matter was just made up to fill the hole left by our old newtonian way of portraying gravity. Your arrogance and conformity to old ideas reminds me of the numerous other times the entire scientific community agreed on something but was later proven wrong. There are 6+ different HiggsBosons that account for the two "schools" of gravity, near and far field, if you plug the math in you'l find it's the most elegant solution. :]
@chessfan6 Furthermore, of all the tests to detect dark matter (WIMPs) with germanium crystals there have only been 2 interactions and they cant even justify the existence of D.M. since they could be pretty much anything else..... Wheres the fucking proof for DM eh?
Apparently he had no need of a god in his scenario of where the universe came from. Echoes of Laplace's defense of his universe to Napoleon. It's about time we outgrew mankind's foolishness and primitive ignorance on gods.
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i dont beleive ithat the universe is hold by some power it is what should naturally should happen and we are just trying to undrestand why not very smart person this one
so from this I'm to believe that it's easier for the universe to create a god, who will eventually create the universe, than it is for the universe to create the conditions where man evolves to the point, where he creates a story about a god creating a universe.
The emperor has no cloths folks!
If you believe everything presented to you by anyone in the name of science, then yes, wow, this talk was enlightening.
Matter and energy are made up of the electrical and chemical reactions of the "universe brain". Dark energy and dark matter are the "universe brain tissue" (aka empty space). The big bang was the sperm entering the ova and starting "universal fertilization". The space between galaxies is accelerating because the universe hasn't reached maturity yet (universal adolescence). Eventually the acceleration will end and we'll hit equilibrium for a while until "universal cell death". Done deal :)
@Nyocurio My point was that we really don't know anything, we're making wild yet educated guesses from our tiny viewpoint. I was speculating that the universe may be developing in a similar fashion to the brain. So even though it is accelerating at the moment, I was jesting that it would eventually reach a full-grown size and come to a more static/stable state. So in answer to your question... no, I don't know what will happen to the universe, and neither does anyone.
So this is based on my crude understanding of the subject matter... Is there a reason why these configurations not repeat? Is there a reason why during that time of Empty Space that a another configuration can mimic our own and the universe as we know it can be birthed again?
@MobiusCoin Eventually, it would. And if the fabric of space really is infinite, then another universe on our scale is probably happening right-now, somewhere so far away that it can't even be measured in light-years. And in between, there are a whole lot of less-complex systems getting blipped into existence.
Heck, over infinite space and a few quintillion millennia, sheer random chance would cause this exact universe to repeat itself. So I'm typing this exact sentence again, and again, and...
"Heck, over infinite space and a few quintillion millennia, sheer random chance would cause this exact universe to repeat itself. So I'm typing this exact sentence again, and again, and..."
like a cosmic treadmill? this current existence could be one of many prior repetitions?
but why shouldn't merely nothing happen over and over, even after a few quintillion millennia?
thumbs up minute physics brought you here
ThixWhix 3 months ago
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I just realized how small, special and one of a kind I am
Bluemann 4 months ago
I just realized how small special and one of a kind I am
Bluemann 4 months ago
@Bluemann being one of a kind and being special are mutually exclusive.
JohnF30Music 3 months ago
@JohnF30Music Why? If you are one of a kind that might make you special in 50% of circumstances I would think?
whysers 1 month ago
"you could be a random fluctuation out of the nothingness" -what a punch line, it honestly rocks*.
scanningpiranhas 4 months ago
@scanningpiranhas s, so my entire life is just a random jumble of accidental stuff, tears will be shed tonight :(
gravesy107 3 months ago
At 12 min after describing that fluctuations should be minimal and that it is more likely that a brain would appear that thinks there is an outside universe than actually creating a real outside universe, he just asserts that's wrong.
BUT notice he does not justify why it is wrong! It very well could be that the universe just at this moment fluctuated into a brain state that had your conscious experience and memories within it. There isn't a way to prove this isn't the case!
Promatheos 6 months ago
@Promatheos He cited the Feynman quote. If the universe were a fluctuation, then we wouldn't expect to look at two different places and see similar things.
And while you can't prove that you exist, you certainly must assume it in order to gain any kind of functional knowledge.
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God made the universe
mookie9439 6 months ago
God made the universe
mookie9439 6 months ago
@mookie9439 God IS the universe.
CoNiGMa 6 months ago
@mookie9439 lol troll
quidproquo2004 4 months ago
I know very little about this but I was thinking that if black holes condense everything why dont in a reaaally long time they take EVERYTHING (including eachother) and condense all of it until they with nothing left and colapse and it all starts over with a packed in thing like he was talking about the big bang coming from? Please respond with your thoughts!
RainDancer98 7 months ago
@coolguyinblack LOL no. what kind of a question is that....has nothing to do with what i just said. -_- zzzzzz
teentitans0789 7 months ago
@teentitans0789 Actually it has everything to do with what you said. You asked why there is such a strong belief of the big bang. The answer is that it's currently the most useful theory (i.e. you / we don't have a better one).
LegendLength 7 months ago
why is the big bang accepted as fact. it's still a theory. i'm not a christian bashing ideas, but i mean in all reality we have no idea how it started, yet i see the big bang being used more and more like we saw it happen, when we didnt. it is dangerous to assume - especially with the origin of our universe.
teentitans0789 8 months ago
@teentitans0789 it is the most accepted theory, one of the predictions of the big bang was the background radiation which was later confirmed, and that's how good theory goes, it not only explains what you want it to explain, it also predicts new things=)
Fawcs 7 months ago
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@teentitans0789 wiki 'scientific theory'. It is not the colloquial use, meaning an informed proposed explanation. For that, we use the word 'hypothesis'. A theory is basically a field of science that encompasses all our observations, predictions and accepted facts that with 100.00% accuracy, explaining everything we have ever observed of a certain phenomenon under one big subtitle 'X theory'.
JaySmith91 7 months ago
@teentitans0789 Scientific theories are not assumptions, they are built on evidence, observation, and predictions. Also I'm curious why you think it would be so dangerous to assume the origin of the universe? It seems utterly irrelevant to me (though interesting) in daily life etc more of curiosity than anything else.
DSBrekus 3 weeks ago
@DSBrekus *more of a
DSBrekus 3 weeks ago
I didn't like this guy until the part he said there's a chance the big bang may not have been the beginning of the universe. It keeps the mysteriousness mysterious. More fun space theories..yay.
TheJovanist 8 months ago
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TheJovanist 8 months ago
The answer to the second conundrum is very simple. If three-dimensional space is infinite in all directions, then all possible combinations of these thermal fluctuations are happening somewhere at random points in space, and always have been, and always will be.
We just happened to arise in one of the larger ones.
Right now, there are entities in other systems (much smaller and much larger), at distances too vast for the human mind to comprehend, asking themselves the same questions, about us.
Sylocat 8 months ago
all hail the great mother chicken!
OpakeArawra2 8 months ago
Every possıble formation of the molecules ın the room would occur on a long enough tımescale? Fascınatıng that ıncludes the formatıon every person there becomıng a duck and a broadway musıcal ensuıng.
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@eoineoineoin Yes. It's like if you had an infinite number of monkeys sitting at typewriters for an infinite amount of time. Eventually, they'd type out the complete works of Shakespeare.
CoNiGMa 9 months ago
@CoNiGMa actualy lookin into infinity monkeys don't have to tipe all that, because infinity means anything that can happen will happen and will actually happen an infinite amount of times, the probability of it happening determing the distances between instances of it happening but because time is infinite, those instances althaugh far apart, are also infinite :D so in conclusion, any type of matter can and will eventually arrange itself into shakespeare writings an infinite amount of times :D
chiciu 9 months ago
@chiciu That would also be true if looking at it through the eyes of infinity itself. I was looking at it more simplistically, but you are also correct. =)
CoNiGMa 9 months ago
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xjustamem0ryx 9 months ago
I'm not convinced by the current dark matter theory models, what I believe is that the Universe is like a great big breathing lung, expanding after the big bang, eventually running out of momentum, gravity wins over, collapses in on itself into a point where it dies and is reborn again in a new big bang.
If an infinite Universe is your theory where everything is possible, what about the possibility of the destruction of the Universe? Then it's no longer infinite.
Irishfreedom 9 months ago
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xjustamem0ryx 9 months ago
@Irishfreedom If that is the case, then it never actually dies. There has to be something left in order for it to be reborn. Ergo, it would still be infinite.
CoNiGMa 9 months ago
@Irishfreedom If thats how you choose to view the universe at its' largest scale, well more power to you.
xKlondikex 8 months ago
This really clicked for me. Infinity seems to be the key. With an infinite number in the equation an interesting viewpoint starts to emerge
I always assumed that the universe would end when all the mass was ‘stuck in time’ within black holes resulting in no time or mass, no universe. However, if dark energy remains then the universe is infinite, very interesting.
4QFiles 9 months ago
Alan Alda.... (:
archaedemos 9 months ago
His voice has much smooth but heavy oscillation fluctuation, alternately deep diving my ear drums and spiking my pattern recognition. He is making apple pie from the apple tree in the woods that no one could hear falling.
sverr0r 9 months ago
@sverr0r
and here we are rejecting the pie he's trying to give us...how rude!
xjustamem0ryx 9 months ago
@xjustamem0ryx That pie may contain remnants of nuts! Seriously though - its certainly a bit over my head, even though its a lifelong subject of interest. Just responding with what language I have that resonates with what I do pick up on. I wasn't willfully trying to be rude, though I can appreciate that simple layman's terms being used to respond to a scholastic talk can come across as such.
sverr0r 9 months ago
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xjustamem0ryx 9 months ago
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heh I was just having fun. to be honest, I've never understood anything more clearly than in terms of metaphor (laymen or otherwise) :P
xjustamem0ryx 9 months ago
So dark energy had limitless energy?
if it can continually expand forever, as described, it should surely have infinite energy also. Doesn't this break a certain foundational law of science?
06stephend 9 months ago
I got to 7:00 before my cerebellum began to bleed.... profusely...
phulan32 9 months ago
We all know Zeus, Jesus and a Unicorn made everything? He obviously hasn't let them into his heart and accepted their words. To bad for him when he dies he won't spend eternity on Candy Mountain with Zeus, Jesus and the majestic Unicorn.
ChoasTheory2000 9 months ago
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theyz b h8in!
xjustamem0ryx 9 months ago
@ChoasTheory2000 hey CT2000 - don't be silly. This guy is very smart - but out on a limb with amazing ideas but, I must say, NO facts. He just has ideas, not even hypothesis really. Now, as a historian, I bring in your blanket "Zeus, Jesus and the majestic Unicorn (sic)"... I know some respondents are ignorant, but there's no need to BE ignorant when using hyperbole. Jesus IS a strong historical figure and there's no need to stoop to 'silly-ness' in your comment by assembling him with myths...:)
phillnovaskill 9 months ago
@phillnovaskill Well first of all I was just poking fun at the God hypothesis, which also has NO facts as you would put it, but alot of people buy into for some reason. And second of all your claim that Jesus is a historical figure and not myth is absurd seeing as their isn't any evidence of his existance other than hearsay and a forged sentance in a text that has been copied so many times it would be un-reliable at best. So in terms of evidence you could easily put him in the "Myth" category.
ChoasTheory2000 9 months ago
@Jaspian I guess you didn't get what I was meaning. "nothing(ness) is infinite".
Panyc333 9 months ago
I don't like this guy. He talks about a bunch of theories like they're fact. Time could result from any number of different things. Entropy is not necessarily the governing factor. Hawking radiation has never been observed... its just a mathematical deduction based on existing unproven theories. Dark Energy is actually sciencese for "we have no clue but I made this thing up and it makes the math work, so we're going with it".
Its irresponsible for him to go on like these are facts.
Jaspian 9 months ago 2
Nothing is infinite. That is to say that nothingness has no end. Conversely, the shape of everything is all that exists outside a dot...
And if you stare at that dot long enough, you will see a chicken.
Panyc333 9 months ago
@Panyc333 Something is infinite, otherwise we couldn't be here.
Jaspian 9 months ago
@Jaspian
or just immensely finite?
xjustamem0ryx 9 months ago
@Panyc333
baby's got chicken tonite!
xjustamem0ryx 9 months ago
you can listen to him.... or you can live your life with no such questions in your mind
sasuke6751 9 months ago
he's a man of great faith
phillnovaskill 9 months ago
@phillnovaskill He's an outspoken atheist...
TheKulaffle606 9 months ago
@TheKulaffle606
n yer an outspoken Utoobr!
xjustamem0ryx 9 months ago
I hate the fact that my english is too poor to understand this properly. Makes me sad :(
Ertrunken 9 months ago
@suffocatejav90 the divinity of numbers ;)
Got to love philosophy!
DurexDurpaneu2 9 months ago
@xjustamem0ryx dark energy perhaps? Or the combination of both (dark and light energy)? ;)
DurexDurpaneu2 9 months ago
Way too much speculation!
RoGeorgeRoGeorge 9 months ago
so in other words, dark energy is just the lack of zero pressure. well duh.
omnipotentbeing 9 months ago
My theory of everything starts with : one and ends in one.
If one can explain his own existence, one can explain the universe IMO.
To be more precise : consciousness.
We're all made of the same stuff, what is it(consciousness)that allows the "stuff" to reflect on it's own existence.
DurexDurpaneu2 9 months ago
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@DurexDurpaneu2
"We're all made of the same stuff, what is it(consciousness)that allows the "stuff" to reflect on it's own existence."
maybe consciousness is a reflection of light that absorbs its surroundings (instead of merely bouncing off of them)?
xjustamem0ryx 9 months ago
@DurexDurpaneu2 Consciousness is an abstraction of the processes that occur inside our brains. In order to be consciousness there must be matter, to form a brain; and energy to make it work.
I think that the Omniverse (totality of existence) has always existed. It is eternal.
And I would say that the number is zero... infinite posibilities to the left and to the right of that number....
peace man!
SuffocateJav90 9 months ago in playlist Science and Technology
@SuffocateJav90
are we just holograms? ;(
xjustamem0ryx 9 months ago
He looks like the weird guy in role models.
TheDemorphium 9 months ago
@TheDemorphium YES! thats exactly what i was thinking! hahaha that guy is in forgeting sarah marshal too!
natedejuggla 9 months ago
Lovely to see some nice educated guess work in motion.
ehpl 9 months ago
to say "the future is much longer than the past" is an absurd statement on any level.
and the talk makes a lot of sense if you have faith in such non-facts, because then you probably also believe that new energy is created as empty space increases at an accelerating rate due to a big bang, where a tiny bit of something turned into everything and that it will eventually all be gobbled up by black holes which we can't really see, and all proven by math we're all to stupid to understand of course.
waysworth 9 months ago
what if...like...we're all just dreams. dreams of ourselves, dreaming each night. and then we like..wake up and get on with our lives which are exactly the same as our dreams...
woow duuude. im like a physiciatrist or something!
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romanpr1nce 9 months ago
@romanpr1nce
I don't see why not. dreams are holograms of past, present and future.
xjustamem0ryx 9 months ago
So, as Stephen Hawkings believed, the universe started from an infinitely small and infinitely dense point into the Big Bang. Black holes condense everything into an infinitely small and infinitely dense point. If there is a multiverse as I'd like to believe, what if a black hole in another universe is just the birth of a new universe (ie. a new Big Bang)?
CoNiGMa 9 months ago 20
@CoNiGMa Put that into a coherent theory and work on the math!
HypnoticSuggestion 9 months ago
@CoNiGMa That's a good theory, especially since Stephen Hawking change dhis original black hole theory and said that the black holes hold their contents for eons but themselves eventually deteriorate and die. As the black hole disintegrates, they send their transformed contents back out into the infinite universal horizons from whence they came.
EyeInTriangle1 9 months ago
@CoNiGMa a very plausible theory. even in this he hints at that idea in "that space appears finite, there is a horizon beyond which we cannot see."
RaymondeDuffielle 9 months ago
@CoNiGMa I've always wondered if that was the origin of the big bang. It doesn't answer the question though of where DID we come from - but it is an interesting and completely plausible possibility as far as I am aware.
YourBrainOnReligion 9 months ago
@YourBrainOnReligion The only thing is, it still would not explain where the original universe came from. So, we'd still be stuck with the same questions, only more stretched out.
CoNiGMa 9 months ago
@CoNiGMa Precisely; and worse, opens the door to infinite regress. :\
YourBrainOnReligion 9 months ago
@YourBrainOnReligion Aw...why the door to infinite regress instead of progress?
tvswnet 8 months ago
@tvswnet Not sure if you were joking or what, but if your question was serious:
Infinite regress is counter-intuitive *to* progress, which is why it's unacceptable. There would still have to be a beginning somewhere, somehow, which is what we all ultimately want to know more about. It's also intellectually stifling because one must logically conclude that we can't ever know - and that's just antithetical to science and intellectual progress altogether :)
YourBrainOnReligion 8 months ago
@CoNiGMa it is....;)
i69tobigbeaver 8 months ago
@CoNiGMa but why would the black hole suddenly burst?
charliemeon 8 months ago
@charliemeon As the guy in the video said, when you squeeze things together, the temperature goes up. So, if you have an infinitely dense and infinitely small point, it could explode because of the massive amount of heat generated from it being so compressed.
CoNiGMa 8 months ago
@CoNiGMa guess so...
charliemeon 8 months ago
@charliemeon Why wouldn't it? :-) Perhaps it's really part of the infinite macro/micro universal birth-death-birth cycle...the role of the black hole might be to "destroy" in order to create...sort of like a really great cosmic recycling factory...
tvswnet 8 months ago
@CoNiGMa It's Stephen Hawking not Hawkings
scotttuohy 8 months ago
@scotttuohy Yes. It was a typo that I realized after posting my comment and didn't feel like removing and retyping it.
CoNiGMa 8 months ago
@CoNiGMa Very sensible conclusion. Are you familiar with Nassim Haramein? If you want a sort of extreme but interesting theory along those lines, check out his work (Schwarzchild proton, crossing the event horizon). He has some other ideas about our human history that are a little harder for me to fully take on, but I do enjoy his physics theories.
tvswnet 8 months ago
@CoNiGMa Ive thought about the same thing. Tautological argument, like the chicken and the egg. Dont say matter auto-propogation, bc then where did the propagator come from? bam.
tullywacker 7 months ago
@CoNiGMa exactly what i think, our universe is the inside of a black hole in another universe and so on and so forth! :-)
drtydawg73 7 months ago
@drtydawg73 Univerception?
CoNiGMa 7 months ago
@CoNiGMa Who is Stephen Hawkings?
majestic93 7 months ago
@majestic93 See my previous response about the typo. Stephen Hawking is how it was meant. If you still don't know who that is, you need to move out from that rock you are living under.
CoNiGMa 7 months ago
@CoNiGMa Sorry bro.
I just really hate it when people write it incorrectly. Hope you understand.
majestic93 7 months ago
i listened. i was riveted. i also had no idea what he was talking about...
DCPartyKid 9 months ago 2
Homework??? Nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...
BlazeTheFireFox 9 months ago
fire up the millenium falcon already, earth is so last year.
let's hunt for life in parallel universes in shat.
how long is it going to take to be able to safely traverse inter-galaxies etc?
xjustamem0ryx 9 months ago
@xjustamem0ryx
Too long for you.
sdrawkcabgnipytmi 9 months ago
@sdrawkcabgnipytmi
well that blows lol
wish I was born 3000 year from now
xjustamem0ryx 9 months ago
infinite universe.....lady gaga said that in her video "born this way" lol copy cat!
Alistarb25 9 months ago
there should be a long pause after have stated hundred bilion, as if we were counting, just to grasp the idea of how much that really is.
newhorizons1970 9 months ago
@newhorizons1970 I recall Arthur C. Clarke once writing that, aside from being the number of stars in our galaxy, 100 billion is also the approximate number of all humans who has ever lived on Earth. Thus there is essentially a star for each one of us.
Even more mind boggling is the idea of each galaxy holding 100G stars. Hence the number of stars in the universe is around 10^22.
And the next step is to think about what that means for the number of planets in our universe.
TroyOi 9 months ago
I pity western science and theoretical physics in particular. CERN, Hubble etc..built on the concept that the universe is made only of matter. They ignore consciousness which is the ground of time, space, energy and matter. Study Hinduism. Also the big bang is not the "age" of the universe.
acidcrashguy 9 months ago
@acidcrashguy
Yes, let's replace the theoretical work based off physical observations collected over the last 50+ years and the collective thinking of thousands of top minds so we can accept... Hinduism... Which we all -know- has no flaws or holes in it's "explanations".
atheistchaos 9 months ago
@atheistchaos Your sarcasm notwithstanding, you got it mostly right. It is as perfect as human knowledge can get. This is why every science that has spun out of Hinduisms basic concepts - Yoga, Ayurveda, Astronomy, Vedanta don't contradict each other. Theoretical physics has its place but it has been stuck since the laws of Quantum Mechanics. Hinduism has been around 10,000 yrs. The "Top minds" of today have a lot of catching up to do - we know the human brain hasn't evolved much since then.
acidcrashguy 9 months ago
@acidcrashguy
We've gained more knowledge in the past 100 years than we have in the last 1000, there's no catching up to do. As stupid as the average person is today, they've still got more basic knowledge than the most intelligent people even 200 years ago.
It hasn't been stuck either. New concepts and information come in frequently.
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@atheistchaos "We've gained more knowledge in the past 100 years than we have in the last 1000". By knowledge do you mean destruction of the environment, pollution, global warming, land fills, wars, radiation, cancers, extinction of species, pesticides, bio-technology... Don't confuse science with Atheism. Science seeks the truth and is OPEN to exploration, but Atheism is a belief system which relies on the absence of objective information.
acidcrashguy 9 months ago
sound = light, dark matter is lower Entropy particles of sound, not admitting light radiation.
b29349 9 months ago
If objects that are farther away seem to move faster away from us than the objects that are closer, then shouldn't that mean that the universe was expanding faster in the past than it is today?
khatack 9 months ago
mind = blown
whydizz 9 months ago
Mein Vortrag. Ich bin total platt. Er hat es erkannt. Ich bin nicht alleine ...
Parmenides111 9 months ago
Are bluish dress shirts mandatory or highly recommended when giving a TED lecture?
qigong1001 10 months ago
@SheHasALovelyMinge Its theoretical physics but if we knew what dark energy and dark matter was maybe a testable theory can be made. To say it cannot be tested you would need a lot more information. At one point in time almost everything in science today couldn't be tested.
buckinfitches 10 months ago
Douglas Adams and Sean Carroll would have gotten along famously... I couldn't help but think about the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series multiple times throughout this. ^.^
Truthiness231 10 months ago
My universe didn't come out of no cosmic chicken, it was a cosmic platypus!
Kargoneth 10 months ago
My brain just exploded.
nightmathzombieethan 10 months ago
@SheHasALovelyMinge No, because, you see, where science's experiements can be tested and verified or rebuked, the bible's "facts" and "theories" are constantly proven false or not in accordance with testable theories.
purv989 10 months ago
HE DISCOVERED THE SECRET OF IMORTALITY 9:57
we need to figure out how to make life live independent of time.
profjaykay 10 months ago
Love the hopefully intentional Douglas Adams reference at 0:00
quackerzdb 10 months ago
First TEDTalk that i don't understand anything
ilotitto 10 months ago
Is SO easy to imagine Sheldon Cooper doing this TEDTalk
ilotitto 10 months ago 44
I think the cosmos continually experiences bangs/crunches, and that each cycle would be considered a parallel universe. My brain hurts.
soovara 10 months ago
I always thought that the ultimate end of the universe (total entrophy - literally a universe of nothing) would go on to produce a singularity out of nothing, and the whole scenario repeats itself. If that is so, then 'existence' or 'reality' is eternal.
neil73 10 months ago
Thank goodness there wasn't a pointless and stupid ad at the end of this TED video! What a dumb idea.
Teleprompter4Life 10 months ago
Which leads to the idea that intelligent design could also exist.
poopdude 10 months ago
@poopdude yes, agnosticism is the word!
Coloneljesus 10 months ago
@poopdude Could exist, yes. Get to testing it. Make sure it's not the work of the FSM!
indyguy101 10 months ago
Phew. Another TEDTalk without a nonsensical ad at the end.
srav953 10 months ago
dark energy? Phaha. Dark energy is just Humanity's misunderstanding of gravity.
TehNewV 10 months ago
@TehNewV I find it hard to believe that all the brilliant cosmologists and physicists that have struggled to uncover the mysteries of the universe through empirical evidence have made a simple mistake in inventing a whole new form of energy which is accepted by the majority in the scientific community. Also, I find it very hard to believe that some schmuck on youtube posting a comment without any evidence has any brilliant insights about the phenomenon.
chessfan6 10 months ago
@chessfan6
Actually, we didn't invent a whole new form of energy; "dark energy" is really just an admission of our ignorance as to what is causing the universe's expansion. It seems to be related to Einstein's "biggest blunder," which is the cosmological constant or vacuum energy. This is why we believe it has something to do with an inherent energy of space-time, rather than a misapplication of gravity. In fact, I don't think I've ever heard that a flawed understanding of gravity is suspect.
ultramerton 10 months ago
@ultramerton Well if at first there was no dark energy, then scientists postulated its existence... obviously we invented a new form of energy - that of empty space. That is simple logic.
What is ultramerton's explanation of why the universe is expanding anyways?? It seems to me dark energy is a very reasonable idea.
chessfan6 10 months ago
@chessfan6
Sorry, perhaps I didn't make myself clear: I meant there is no new energy in the conventional sense (i.e. electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces). This new "energy" is something of which we have an incredibly meager understanding. We know it's a repulsive pressure (for now) and we know its magnitude (that of the cosmological constant), but no more.
Also, I absolutely accept the existence of dark energy; I'm not sure why you're requesting an alternative explanation.
ultramerton 10 months ago
@chessfan6 Look, it's not hard to understand, dark matter was just made up to fill the hole left by our old newtonian way of portraying gravity. Your arrogance and conformity to old ideas reminds me of the numerous other times the entire scientific community agreed on something but was later proven wrong. There are 6+ different HiggsBosons that account for the two "schools" of gravity, near and far field, if you plug the math in you'l find it's the most elegant solution. :]
TehNewV 10 months ago
@chessfan6 Furthermore, of all the tests to detect dark matter (WIMPs) with germanium crystals there have only been 2 interactions and they cant even justify the existence of D.M. since they could be pretty much anything else..... Wheres the fucking proof for DM eh?
TehNewV 10 months ago
BRAINPORN!!!!! I want more!!
kimkjederseg 10 months ago 2
I laughed at the apple pie part. xD
EllaABo 10 months ago
This guy is full of crap....basically one can disprove his theory if one can predict the future or that one can prove that another dimension exist.
Well, I know we can predict the future.
dannywizz 10 months ago
this is crap
jdaniel602 10 months ago
Enlightening video!
IriquoisPliskinn 10 months ago
My brain just exploded.....
ChowZeb 10 months ago
@ChowZeb holy crap! ...mine too!?!
gaiagale 10 months ago
"the universe is really big" - understatement of the century...
232noname 10 months ago 2
Funny how his name is very similar to Carl Sagan. Entropy in action?
elfedemedina 10 months ago
Apparently he had no need of a god in his scenario of where the universe came from. Echoes of Laplace's defense of his universe to Napoleon. It's about time we outgrew mankind's foolishness and primitive ignorance on gods.
emaildoctor 10 months ago 3
@emaildoctor He did mention god, in form of a universe-chicken that crapped our universe out
Nyocurio 10 months ago
"the universe is really big"
love the intro
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TheENTERRAPTURE17 10 months ago
hades from hercules (disney movie)?
revmull 10 months ago
loved it :D
saadlulu 10 months ago
The intro sucks!!! Stop making it so loud!
Tnat1on 10 months ago 53
i dont beleive ithat the universe is hold by some power it is what should naturally should happen and we are just trying to undrestand why not very smart person this one
jimakosgian26 10 months ago
so from this I'm to believe that it's easier for the universe to create a god, who will eventually create the universe, than it is for the universe to create the conditions where man evolves to the point, where he creates a story about a god creating a universe.
The emperor has no cloths folks!
If you believe everything presented to you by anyone in the name of science, then yes, wow, this talk was enlightening.
Otherwise, just science fiction without a plot.
waysworth 10 months ago
@waysworth But then that 'god' would be within the laws of physics. Not the same as the nebulous, undefinable 'god' people normally think of.
LegendLength 7 months ago
Feynman is the man!!
wulf8121 10 months ago
Matter and energy are made up of the electrical and chemical reactions of the "universe brain". Dark energy and dark matter are the "universe brain tissue" (aka empty space). The big bang was the sperm entering the ova and starting "universal fertilization". The space between galaxies is accelerating because the universe hasn't reached maturity yet (universal adolescence). Eventually the acceleration will end and we'll hit equilibrium for a while until "universal cell death". Done deal :)
manofaction2828 10 months ago
@manofaction2828 you do know that once acceleration ends, it will still expand?
Nyocurio 10 months ago
@Nyocurio My point was that we really don't know anything, we're making wild yet educated guesses from our tiny viewpoint. I was speculating that the universe may be developing in a similar fashion to the brain. So even though it is accelerating at the moment, I was jesting that it would eventually reach a full-grown size and come to a more static/stable state. So in answer to your question... no, I don't know what will happen to the universe, and neither does anyone.
manofaction2828 10 months ago
what was the primal imperative for the existence of natural laws? is their 'necessary truth' sufficient to secure their existence?
was the universe constipated? could the quanta not keep from dancing? why should they have danced at all!?
do souls count as something out of nothing or are they recycled for equilibrium like mass and energy?
is existence just a complex series of fractals?
xjustamem0ryx 10 months ago
@xjustamem0ryx
The universe is likely one single complex fractal :o
manofaction2828 10 months ago
@manofaction2828 That can be proven if you're able to find the right formula. I'm not joking.
LegendLength 7 months ago
This was fantastically educational.
kindofbluelove 10 months ago
So this is based on my crude understanding of the subject matter... Is there a reason why these configurations not repeat? Is there a reason why during that time of Empty Space that a another configuration can mimic our own and the universe as we know it can be birthed again?
MobiusCoin 10 months ago
@MobiusCoin Eventually, it would. And if the fabric of space really is infinite, then another universe on our scale is probably happening right-now, somewhere so far away that it can't even be measured in light-years. And in between, there are a whole lot of less-complex systems getting blipped into existence.
Heck, over infinite space and a few quintillion millennia, sheer random chance would cause this exact universe to repeat itself. So I'm typing this exact sentence again, and again, and...
Sylocat 10 months ago
@Sylocat
"Heck, over infinite space and a few quintillion millennia, sheer random chance would cause this exact universe to repeat itself. So I'm typing this exact sentence again, and again, and..."
like a cosmic treadmill? this current existence could be one of many prior repetitions?
but why shouldn't merely nothing happen over and over, even after a few quintillion millennia?
xjustamem0ryx 10 months ago
@xjustamem0ryx I believe the video explained that part for you.
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