The idea that our reality is ultimately that of a computer simulator is not that shocking considering that our brains function as cpu's and our "essence" of life or "energy" is similar to that of the electricity that powers our technology. Food for thought
I think Neil deGrasse Tyson is an inspiration. Everytime I see him, I want to quit my job and go back to school.
Then reality hits me and I realize I would have to spend 3 years studying all kinds of things that amuse me as much as vomiting does, before I can start specializing in the cosmological fields. So its me and my hammer, until my life ends at the bottom of a 50 ft scaffold.
then again, im studying an O.U course part time at the moment, and my tutor did not start studying for his PHD until he was 30, he is now in his late 50's. im 30 now, so you never know :-)
So.. that was exciting! Up til the end, when the bell-music started. That was some surreal oompa loompa horror-music. Suddenly I got the feeling that AMNH is keeping some Quasimodo-fellow hostage up in the attic, forcing him to play his bells.
I feel we exist in a period of great data discovery and documentation. It will take another Einstein to use this data to form the next great revelation, just as he did with the data unearthed before his time.
"Can the entire universe be explained with a single, unifying theory? This is perhaps the most fundamental question in all of science, and it may also be the most controversial."
Just finished watching Carl Sagan's Cosmos again. I'm still wiping the tears from my eyes. I must admit I have my doubts about the new Cosmos series with Tyson. Neil has a tendency to talk down to his audience and leave them there, where as Sagan always seemed to offer you his hand for support so you could step up. We'll see.
Very vibrant discussion, thanks for the upload! And for those randoms saying how Neil DeGrasse Tyson was "dumbing things down"...that's sort of his job as the mediator of this discussion, when things get too wild and scientific he has to bring it back and simplify it for the audience, hence why he told Brian Greene that his criticism of M theory was going to be "PURPOSEFULLY blunt"...because, as mediator he has to embody not just Scientists but everyone, especially the scientifically illiterate
I'm not a scientist, and maybe I am not chosing my words properly, but:
Sometimes it feels like questions about particles and fundamental forces are the "easy" questions. The other kind of questions are stuff like how and why complexity emerges. Like atoms forming from elementary particles. Or molecules from atoms. Or biological structures. And finally intelligence and consciousness. Studying these things, going towards the more complex, seems to me to be a much "harder" area of science.
@0debug So for example the creation of heavier elements in the core of stars, that's a kind of higher-level phenomena than just the subatomic particles themselves. Being able to describe and predict the higher-level phenomena given the low-level mechanism is what I mean by "harder". Is for example biology inevitable given certain chemicals? Could it be "predicted" or described mathematically? Or are some higher-level phenomena fundamentally unpredictable until they happen? (Chaos theory etc.)
"Science is not about what's true is or what might be true. Science is about what people with original diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence."
it seemed like there was just a little bit of tension between neil and brian. brian seemed to be mildly irritated at times. he was the best at explaining though. the others would get into this technical talk that no one could understand and then brian would clarify for them.
i finally got the jest of it at 1:32:45 ....... wow. where does their energy come from? to use the metaphor, what is the hand and bow that causes the vibration! today is a good day.
Neil is desperately trying to dumb the conversation down for the 99.9% of the stupid people (me included) who are watching this debate. Thanks, dude! "I know that I know nothing" in action!
@nairolfmackebrecht but thats the way carl sagan did it too, he made astrophysics sound like a universal language, he did something for the general public to understand to gain more people to head into the field and letting them know they can do it
i found this debate extremely interesting as it mentioned the discovery of new evidence to support the idea that our universe is a simulation. as a programmer and computer scientist, i have thought a good way to conceptually think of the universe is as a simulation or very elaborate video game. i think we're finding more and more evidence to support that this may in-fact be what reality really is, and that's pretty cool.
@yasirnori you know I have been watching a lot of Neil Tyson lectures recently, and this is the first time I've watched him be so annoying. He got in the way of many of their debates, and needlessly dumbed-down intellectual discussions.
I'm sad to say that this debate would've been better without Neil, even though I love the guys' other lectures and discussions.
@cottonvibes I totally agree with you my friend because after all they are wonderful people and so inspiring especially when they try so hard to explain the very reality that we live in... its amazing how we all live in this beautiful universe and yet we dont know what it is.
Dude.... @Opteryx's comment was just about the only thing that could make this video less cool for me... because now I wish his imagined scenario HAD happened and was filmed.
on Sagan's Cosmos show about Velikovsky, Sagan flat out lies... he says that electrical discharges do not occur between celestial bodies.... wrong... Lexel's comet proved him wrong way back hundreds of years ago... u can't tell me Sagan never knew about lexel's comet..... i dont' buy it..... and to add to this... the moon of Saturn, Enceladus... was observed having an electrical link to Saturn, just last year this was observed by NASA..... the ghost of carl sagan can kiss my ass
wow these guys are liars.. .the Dogon tribe of Mali knew about String Theory... wayyy wayy back,, ,thousands of years back... they are the real descendants of Egyptian sacred knowledge and mathematics.... heck they knew about Sirius A, B, and C.. and their orbits.... wayy before any telescopes that we know of were invented... sorry but the string theory is probably real... why else did this tribe have the same theory that they say they learned from their gods.... from outer space.... the Nomo
lol are you on crack... planet X is a metaphor for Saturn... the god of time and space.... the big secret... normal average ppl will never learn this because you don't look for it.
Despite Dr Tysons view on string theory(as hes stated in other interviews), then he does this so respectful! And i love how he is able to "re-translate" what they say into laymen terms. BIG UP for dr tyson!
I have infinitely more respect for these SCIENTISTS than I do for corrupt politicians and closed minded religious nuts. Can anyone imagine how much better our world would be if the TRILLIONS of dollars we waste on wars and "bailouts" for irresponsible and corrupt banks went towards SCIENCE??
@BadDuckIncorporated lol you are such a stupid person. We are born in this universe. We should spend our money on researches not on wars you selfish bastard ! please gtfo and dont troll on scientific videos.
I love science as much as the next guy, and I'd be rejoiced if the United States had an infinite amount of money to spend on science, but the practical issue is, of which you, apparently can't understand, is that the U.S. A: Doesn't have the money, and B: Is in an insane debt crisis. To say money should be spent on "the universe" before it is spent helping Americans is pure idiocy. Its not that I dislike science AT ALL, but its a practical issue.
@0pteryx i'm pretty sure they all would've came up, after a trippy convo, with a theory to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity to win their joint nobel prize!
Jim is often used as a pet name for people who are named James. Much like Dick instead of Richard, and Bill instead of William. Bill Clintons "real" name is William. Also, take a chill pill.
When, Brian greene is asked, "is it because you aren't smart enough".
The answer should have been, no, it's because the people who are really thinking, and trying to take us all forward in understanding, are faced with arrogant fools who, smirk, and mock, and laugh at anything that they themselves, can't comprehend, and as there are so many of those people calling themselves scientists, standing in high positions, it is very hard to make progress.
@AlkPacino You're speaking as though you dont know who Neil is... that's just how he talks, he likes to explain and ask (if hosting) questions that people who are not well versed in science or physics for that matter would understand... he's very animated and passionate about science... I didnt see how he was rude, he acted like a great moderator and drew more out from the professors on stage... he is also a vocal advocate for science in the states, he's not just 'some guy'...
What's wrong with science, why aren't the children interested? The mentality of the guy holding the microphone is what's wrong, and the children are not interested in this way of thinking because they know it is ridiculous. The children are updated, yet science keeps trying to force old software on them.
@AlkPacino What are you talking about? Neil deGrasse is a damn interesting person. He's being a host here by asking the lecturers to clarify their every word so that everyone can understand them. He's asking questions that the general population would ask.
@iz2sicc I suppose it's a matter of perspective like everything else.
You see what you see, I see a man that is far too sure of his own opinion, and far too quick to use a mocking tone, too quick to interrupt, too loud and overbearing in the discussion, and actually very rude at times.
I've watched many other videos with him, and in my opinion his way of thinking and behaving is a real problem. We don't have to agree.
@AlkPacino Yes, we do not have to agree. But this man has done more for science, astrophysics in particular, than a lot of people. He is also great at "dumbing" it down so that the general population can understand it. This is a debate and ridicule is just a part of it. They all laughed it off. Why did you not mention two of the other speakers cutting each other off and one telling the other very adamantly to let him finish? Seems you have a very biased view of Dr. Tyson's personality.
@AlkPacino Neil uses the same rhetoric on himself. "Maybe I'm not smart enough to [x]". You can see it at the end of his discussion at Cosmos Quandaries a bit. Feynman also did this.
I think you are interpreting the rhetoric to be derogatory, when he is just trying to be honest, simple and direct.
The saddest thing about these videos on youtube, is that they house so much intellectual content, they are free, they present some of the greatest minds of our time, and yet their view count is laughable when compared to justin bieber or snooki videos. It's so sad that people care more about something like that, rather than the origins of where we come from.
This is the kind of debate I love watching, a room full of intelligent people debating on intelligent matter. A huge contrast from the politician debate in my country which makes me want to run them all down with a truck.
Great video! but what I don't understand is nobody can agree on the answer that derives quantum mechanics and relativity. But jim gates proposes the matrix and everyone laughs. Biocentric theory, and digital physics, says that reality is based on information, and that consciousness is fundamental ingredient, we live in a virtual reality. This theory does derive quantum and relativity. I just don't understand why this is not accepted as a reasonable hypothesis withing mainstream science.
why is this debate so dumbed down??? if the people who watch this video/lecture have a general grasp of what string theory is (including quantum mechanics and what mesons, hadrons, electrons and leptons are), WHY would they need to explain microwave background radiation? This must be painful for the panel hosts... Then awesome Lee Smolin elevates the discussion... awesome!
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There are white fools and there are black fools - the madness of astheism spreads its insidious blanket without regard to colour. This black fool follows white fools like dawkins hitchens and harris gleefully running toward burning forests.
we are the closest thing to a "creator" around, let's keep trying to upgrade ourselves and all will make sense eventually and i bet I will still be living to see part of that to happen.
I dont think we should be humble and disbelieve that we cannot come up with the answers for everything, that's a pathetic statement. Is Marcello aware that in just a couple of decades we will have an unthinkable amount of computational power , is he aware we will have genetically modified humans that will make us now sound like dogs?
I think we live in a megaspace (not multiverse) in witch there were many big bangs in different times and everything that came out from each one is expanding forever BUT this matter will eventually be attracted to matter from other "big bangs" in a inevitable attraction force that will culminate in new big bangs and thats all ! ;)
@SymmetricStrings Can we properly call this unkown thing "matter" if it doesn't emit light, doesn't exert gravitational pull, doesn't react atomically with ordinary matter? Calling it "matter" is a misnomer then
@MrVuHNguyen Well, "dark matter" is simply a placeholder term anyway, so it seems almost not worth it to discuss the semantics, but I'd say there's every reason to call it matter, seeing that it has mass. (Which is pretty much the only thing we know for sure about it.) That also means I'll have to correct you on the "doesn't exert gravitational pull" part, because it does. We only know it's there because we can see the gravitational effects.
A unified theory maybe THE holy grail of physics, but it is a hollow and useless one. Religious people call it GOD, theoretical physicist call it TOE, but in the end, such a theory would predict nothing about the complex world we live in. A theory like that is like a brand new deck of card, you have no way of predicting what hand you are going to get.
"Science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence." I have to write that down somewhere.
Before Newton, the motion of planets & motion of falling apples were considered two independent phenomena as described by copernicus and by galileo. newton demonstrated these two things to be truly one thing being gravity. I understand this as an achievement.
Maxwell, I think, discovered how electricity and magnetism combine to form light, but I don't get why we should view electric force and magnetic force as one force not two. or why we should expect all forces to be one force.
why should electric force and magnetic force be considered as one force together. they may be linked by the speed of light but these are still two distinct things. If two theories conflict, then there is an error that needs two be fixed. but if two theories do not conflict, if they describe distinct phenomena, what good is it to claim that two distinct things are really one.
I look forward to the day when we can have such discussions about anything with anyone..where you can be in your face and where nobody will take things personally
1:01:33 WTF? This guy could be considered a genius in a few decades and I'm in no position at all to judge that. Anyway if I had to guess, I'd say it seems more likely that people will say that something went terribly wrong in the world of physics in the last decades that allowed this kind of research to flourish.
I find most interesting here is the notion that "equations" are embedded in the substructure of the universe. The very idea of an equation is a very very powerful and yes philosophical idea. It is perhaps the best example of the intersection between science, mathematics and philosophy. That one statement is entirely EQUAL to another one. Such a fundamental notion. Now consider that reading an "equation" in one direction may be true, but in the other false depending on the observer's state = FTW
@0pteryx Because nobody wants to hear the voice of a six year old, emotionless robot boy describing string theory, regardless of how brilliant and adult he may actually be...
On a serious note, I think they did a great job selecting panelists that can relate this material to the "average" listener. (I put average in quotations because I'm sure that most people interested in this topic are above average, but in comparison to the panelists are certainly average at best)
@0pteryx Because nobody wants to hear the voice of a six year old, emotionless robot boy describing string theory, regardless of how brilliant and adult he may actually be...
On a serious note, I think they did a great job selecting panelists that can relate this material to the "average" listener. (I put average in quotations because I'm sure that most people interested in this topic are above average, but in comparison to the panelists are certainly average at best)
Lastly (I'll stop after this) No phenomenon yet seen in the measurable universe occurs outside of time. So to say that an equation begins and ends outside of that same aspect of the fabric/sub-fabric of our universe is sort of shocking. According to current theory there is nothing in the universe that is faster than, or exceeds the speed of light. Yet the speed of light is not infinite, nor instantaneous and can be measured.
I am really happy that this sort of lecture gets 50,000+ views. Freaking amazing.
RibakTB 3 days ago
The idea that our reality is ultimately that of a computer simulator is not that shocking considering that our brains function as cpu's and our "essence" of life or "energy" is similar to that of the electricity that powers our technology. Food for thought
avukinightmare 4 days ago
This discussion is so interesting... I'm glad these people are working their asses off trying to figure out what this expansive reality really is
MrPsychedelic11 4 days ago
Dr. Gates heard the monkey at 1:00:31
energysage 6 days ago
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dam this is boring as shit
MrJudas666666 1 week ago
@MrJudas666666 like your mom in bed
downwiththemaster 5 days ago
If Neil wasn’t there I think this would be almost impenetrable for me.
azb0111 1 week ago
I think Neil deGrasse Tyson is an inspiration. Everytime I see him, I want to quit my job and go back to school.
Then reality hits me and I realize I would have to spend 3 years studying all kinds of things that amuse me as much as vomiting does, before I can start specializing in the cosmological fields. So its me and my hammer, until my life ends at the bottom of a 50 ft scaffold.
820423 1 week ago 3
@820423 me too, im a roofer :-(
then again, im studying an O.U course part time at the moment, and my tutor did not start studying for his PHD until he was 30, he is now in his late 50's. im 30 now, so you never know :-)
azb0111 1 week ago
So.. that was exciting! Up til the end, when the bell-music started. That was some surreal oompa loompa horror-music. Suddenly I got the feeling that AMNH is keeping some Quasimodo-fellow hostage up in the attic, forcing him to play his bells.
Are you?
820423 1 week ago
Theory of everything, lol, a pseudoscientific fantasy.
DJockovic1 1 week ago
50:22 Even the loftiest scientific discussion eventually turns into philosophy.
driskilla 1 week ago
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Anyone know if Tyson and Greene have ever had a dialogue together?
Roaddogg666 2 weeks ago
Anyone know if Tyson and Greene have ever had a dialogue together?
Roaddogg666 2 weeks ago
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, trolling scientist like a BOSS!!
nachoijp 3 weeks ago 20
I feel we exist in a period of great data discovery and documentation. It will take another Einstein to use this data to form the next great revelation, just as he did with the data unearthed before his time.
saganemc2 3 weeks ago 2
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"Can the entire universe be explained with a single, unifying theory? This is perhaps the most fundamental question in all of science, and it may also be the most controversial."
Yea, sure: God.
M3PanoS 3 weeks ago
fascinating debate! *claps*
Thanks to everyone who participated and worked diligently to put this event on... Even Neil! ;c)
4micaman 3 weeks ago
SHIT, MATRIX IS REAL :D ;)
MrEndogen 3 weeks ago
Just finished watching Carl Sagan's Cosmos again. I'm still wiping the tears from my eyes. I must admit I have my doubts about the new Cosmos series with Tyson. Neil has a tendency to talk down to his audience and leave them there, where as Sagan always seemed to offer you his hand for support so you could step up. We'll see.
ole9421 3 weeks ago 2
Very vibrant discussion, thanks for the upload! And for those randoms saying how Neil DeGrasse Tyson was "dumbing things down"...that's sort of his job as the mediator of this discussion, when things get too wild and scientific he has to bring it back and simplify it for the audience, hence why he told Brian Greene that his criticism of M theory was going to be "PURPOSEFULLY blunt"...because, as mediator he has to embody not just Scientists but everyone, especially the scientifically illiterate
MrPsychedelic11 3 weeks ago
1:14:30
detahdomo 4 weeks ago
ahh sag chin
thedarkshitstain 4 weeks ago
I'm not a scientist, and maybe I am not chosing my words properly, but:
Sometimes it feels like questions about particles and fundamental forces are the "easy" questions. The other kind of questions are stuff like how and why complexity emerges. Like atoms forming from elementary particles. Or molecules from atoms. Or biological structures. And finally intelligence and consciousness. Studying these things, going towards the more complex, seems to me to be a much "harder" area of science.
0debug 1 month ago
@0debug So for example the creation of heavier elements in the core of stars, that's a kind of higher-level phenomena than just the subatomic particles themselves. Being able to describe and predict the higher-level phenomena given the low-level mechanism is what I mean by "harder". Is for example biology inevitable given certain chemicals? Could it be "predicted" or described mathematically? Or are some higher-level phenomena fundamentally unpredictable until they happen? (Chaos theory etc.)
0debug 1 month ago
Good watch. I want to have Janna's babies. Except I'm a guy.
stylz1 1 month ago
Hahaha, Brian Greene delivered the most epic reply at the end! That was so funny! :)
martinbondesson 1 month ago
1:00:00.... oh no, they figured it out. I shouldn't have scripted them to be so curious...
Callirgos1 1 month ago
"Science is not about what's true is or what might be true. Science is about what people with original diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence."
-Lee
CrescentFreshAtBest 1 month ago
Welcome BACK director of Fredick P. Rose planetarium.
crawhip827 1 month ago
it seemed like there was just a little bit of tension between neil and brian. brian seemed to be mildly irritated at times. he was the best at explaining though. the others would get into this technical talk that no one could understand and then brian would clarify for them.
BlackJacketJones 1 month ago
i finally got the jest of it at 1:32:45 ....... wow. where does their energy come from? to use the metaphor, what is the hand and bow that causes the vibration! today is a good day.
robthefirefly 1 month ago
:) : )
adamasdiamandis 1 month ago
Why isn't Michio Kaku there? doesn't he work in New York and focuses on string theory? strange.
HDaviator 1 month ago
...never mind. My hearing aid battery was low. ( :
gkulsrud1 1 month ago
@gkulsrud1 I wear aids also & used the CC option (Google translate audio). While not perfect, greatly helped.
ReneeMonica 1 week ago
The notion of 'tensor chirality ' near Planck distance sounds promising...
gkulsrud1 1 month ago
The dislike bar is the width of a proton.
Chaodynamics 2 months ago 3
"Nature doesn't care what I believe" that's the essence of science in a nutshell! Thank You!!
From now on that's my response to religious people challenging science.
"Yes, but, you know the Bible says God created the world in 7 days and that's what I believe!"
"Nature doesn't care what you believe, asshole!" or "Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione".
nairolfmackebrecht 2 months ago 4
Neil is desperately trying to dumb the conversation down for the 99.9% of the stupid people (me included) who are watching this debate. Thanks, dude! "I know that I know nothing" in action!
nairolfmackebrecht 2 months ago 37
@nairolfmackebrecht but thats the way carl sagan did it too, he made astrophysics sound like a universal language, he did something for the general public to understand to gain more people to head into the field and letting them know they can do it
fixitluis 1 week ago
@fixitluis Absolutely. I believe Carl Sagan was somewhat of a mentor for Tyson.
nairolfmackebrecht 1 week ago
i found this debate extremely interesting as it mentioned the discovery of new evidence to support the idea that our universe is a simulation. as a programmer and computer scientist, i have thought a good way to conceptually think of the universe is as a simulation or very elaborate video game. i think we're finding more and more evidence to support that this may in-fact be what reality really is, and that's pretty cool.
cottonvibes 2 months ago in playlist Isaac Asimov 3
with all do respect but i found Neil Tyson annoying
yasirnori 2 months ago
@yasirnori you know I have been watching a lot of Neil Tyson lectures recently, and this is the first time I've watched him be so annoying. He got in the way of many of their debates, and needlessly dumbed-down intellectual discussions.
I'm sad to say that this debate would've been better without Neil, even though I love the guys' other lectures and discussions.
cottonvibes 2 months ago in playlist Isaac Asimov
@cottonvibes I totally agree with you my friend because after all they are wonderful people and so inspiring especially when they try so hard to explain the very reality that we live in... its amazing how we all live in this beautiful universe and yet we dont know what it is.
yasirnori 2 months ago
@funkkyzenei, I'm thinking the same thing, bro! :D
hollowtipholster187 2 months ago
The guy on the right sounds exactly like Filbert from Rocko's Modern Life.
pacifiedfools 2 months ago
The theme this year was beating down String Theory, lmao-.-
dmix09 2 months ago in playlist More videos from AMNHorg
Green pantyhose über alles!
MrWhooy 2 months ago 6
Fascinating debate! Thanks a lot!
BreachedWall 2 months ago
dr. Green! 2021 ftw!
0CitizenOfTheWorl 2 months ago 2
Dude.... @Opteryx's comment was just about the only thing that could make this video less cool for me... because now I wish his imagined scenario HAD happened and was filmed.
DorkKnight99 3 months ago
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DorkKnight99 3 months ago
Intelligent woman are SO hot... Im looking at you Dr. Janna Levin! ;)
funkkyzenzei 3 months ago 4
@funkkyzenzei
I agree.Haha!
crawhip827 1 month ago
@funkkyzenzei
What i don't understand is how school dropouts like herself worked their way around the system and became real scientists.
crawhip827 1 month ago
Woooo! Brian Greene! Brian Greene! Brian Greene!
Moshikashitenai 3 months ago 3
So Carl Sagan lied? Why would he lie. Are you trying to say that lied alot? What is the point you are trying to make?
jeffreydebra1 3 months ago
Nassim Harramein!
stickerlickertomo 3 months ago
Neil is the new Carl Sagan! Thanks for explaining science in a language we can understand!
jeffreydebra1 3 months ago
@jeffreydebra1
on Sagan's Cosmos show about Velikovsky, Sagan flat out lies... he says that electrical discharges do not occur between celestial bodies.... wrong... Lexel's comet proved him wrong way back hundreds of years ago... u can't tell me Sagan never knew about lexel's comet..... i dont' buy it..... and to add to this... the moon of Saturn, Enceladus... was observed having an electrical link to Saturn, just last year this was observed by NASA..... the ghost of carl sagan can kiss my ass
420protoman 3 months ago
Matrix reality ... check out what philip K dick said in 1977 about Matrix reality... the guy is saying the same thing at around 1:03:00
420protoman 3 months ago
@420protoman
fibonacci sequence bitches haha.
420protoman 3 months ago
@420protoman
Yes we ARE the mathematics... everything is... tha's the fibonacci sequence .
420protoman 3 months ago
wow these guys are liars.. .the Dogon tribe of Mali knew about String Theory... wayyy wayy back,, ,thousands of years back... they are the real descendants of Egyptian sacred knowledge and mathematics.... heck they knew about Sirius A, B, and C.. and their orbits.... wayy before any telescopes that we know of were invented... sorry but the string theory is probably real... why else did this tribe have the same theory that they say they learned from their gods.... from outer space.... the Nomo
420protoman 3 months ago
@420protoman right, and the summerians knew about planet nibiri and the annunaki are coming back to harvest our blood.
kelbykross1 3 months ago
@kelbykross1
lol are you on crack... planet X is a metaphor for Saturn... the god of time and space.... the big secret... normal average ppl will never learn this because you don't look for it.
420protoman 3 months ago
@420protoman oh! saturn was cronos, right? Our eyes are open.
kelbykross1 3 months ago
well
how can someone NOT like this vid ???
Brgds
GSO
GermanStraight1 3 months ago
Neil Tyson is a little bit rude here. He's supposed to be a moderator not the star.
Just sayin'
leston4life 3 months ago
@leston4life Says who?
stylz1 1 month ago
Despite Dr Tysons view on string theory(as hes stated in other interviews), then he does this so respectful! And i love how he is able to "re-translate" what they say into laymen terms. BIG UP for dr tyson!
kifferd 4 months ago 2
@kifferd Well he kind of hams it up and is a bit brutish at times, but overall it is a healthy skepticism he offers.
doctorcilantro 3 months ago
I have infinitely more respect for these SCIENTISTS than I do for corrupt politicians and closed minded religious nuts. Can anyone imagine how much better our world would be if the TRILLIONS of dollars we waste on wars and "bailouts" for irresponsible and corrupt banks went towards SCIENCE??
Zurround100 4 months ago 190
@Zurround100 that would be nice but a complete disregard for human affairs would fuck any country up
machine7elves 2 months ago
The GODDAMN particle! rotflmao, literally!
nairolfmackebrecht 2 months ago
@Zurround100 No, of course not. Scientist could never be corrupt, political or close minded. HAHA.
benthemiester 1 month ago
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@Zurround100
You want trillions of dollars going to Sience? That...that's just retarded.
BadDuckIncorporated 1 week ago
@BadDuckIncorporated lol you are such a stupid person. We are born in this universe. We should spend our money on researches not on wars you selfish bastard ! please gtfo and dont troll on scientific videos.
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@Atheist961
I love science as much as the next guy, and I'd be rejoiced if the United States had an infinite amount of money to spend on science, but the practical issue is, of which you, apparently can't understand, is that the U.S. A: Doesn't have the money, and B: Is in an insane debt crisis. To say money should be spent on "the universe" before it is spent helping Americans is pure idiocy. Its not that I dislike science AT ALL, but its a practical issue.
BadDuckIncorporated 1 week ago
Not sure if my brain cells are dying or replicating.
TalicZealot 4 months ago
collections of great minds ...worth watching!
yahuichiu 4 months ago
neil walkin around whole 2 hours worht watchin
georgianpornostyle 4 months ago
I like how Niel has a bit of a young Einstein thing going on with his 'stache and hair.
cuallito 4 months ago
1:18:45 WTF?
MurdocLC 4 months ago
Imagine is someone had spiked their water with LSD, and watching it gradually kick in as they discuss the quandaries of the cosmos.
0pteryx 4 months ago 71
@0pteryx i'm pretty sure they all would've came up, after a trippy convo, with a theory to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity to win their joint nobel prize!
andyx1205 3 months ago
@0pteryx I suspect a LOT would actually get accomplished.
squirreljester2 3 months ago
@0pteryx One day when I am a famous physicist, I will remember this comment and arrange this.
Jakeshark 2 months ago
@0pteryx Well, that's basically how the double-helix structure of DNA was discovered...
Hrazorness 2 months ago
no Michio Kaku no deal
laesphanie 4 months ago
very good
croftandi 5 months ago
Neil Degrasse Tyson needs to man up and become president.
GutterSweatHavoc508 5 months ago
HIS NAME IS NOT JIM GATES, ITS JAMES GATES WTF !!!!!!!!!
DerMacDuff 5 months ago
@DerMacDuff
Jim is often used as a pet name for people who are named James. Much like Dick instead of Richard, and Bill instead of William. Bill Clintons "real" name is William. Also, take a chill pill.
matszz 4 months ago
@matszz may i have one from you ? :)
DerMacDuff 4 months ago
@DerMacDuff
You betcha, but seing how you seem to be from Holland, I think you have enough as it is =)
matszz 4 months ago
@matszz ^.^
DerMacDuff 4 months ago
Where is Michio?
iz2sicc 5 months ago
@iz2sicc he was getting high on shrooms with lawrence krauss
andyx1205 3 months ago
When, Brian greene is asked, "is it because you aren't smart enough".
The answer should have been, no, it's because the people who are really thinking, and trying to take us all forward in understanding, are faced with arrogant fools who, smirk, and mock, and laugh at anything that they themselves, can't comprehend, and as there are so many of those people calling themselves scientists, standing in high positions, it is very hard to make progress.
AlkPacino 5 months ago
@AlkPacino You're speaking as though you dont know who Neil is... that's just how he talks, he likes to explain and ask (if hosting) questions that people who are not well versed in science or physics for that matter would understand... he's very animated and passionate about science... I didnt see how he was rude, he acted like a great moderator and drew more out from the professors on stage... he is also a vocal advocate for science in the states, he's not just 'some guy'...
ripdoggie 5 months ago
@AlkPacino calm down he was just messing around.
stylz1 1 month ago
What's wrong with science, why aren't the children interested? The mentality of the guy holding the microphone is what's wrong, and the children are not interested in this way of thinking because they know it is ridiculous. The children are updated, yet science keeps trying to force old software on them.
AlkPacino 5 months ago
@AlkPacino What are you talking about? Neil deGrasse is a damn interesting person. He's being a host here by asking the lecturers to clarify their every word so that everyone can understand them. He's asking questions that the general population would ask.
iz2sicc 5 months ago
@iz2sicc I suppose it's a matter of perspective like everything else.
You see what you see, I see a man that is far too sure of his own opinion, and far too quick to use a mocking tone, too quick to interrupt, too loud and overbearing in the discussion, and actually very rude at times.
I've watched many other videos with him, and in my opinion his way of thinking and behaving is a real problem. We don't have to agree.
AlkPacino 5 months ago
@AlkPacino Yes, we do not have to agree. But this man has done more for science, astrophysics in particular, than a lot of people. He is also great at "dumbing" it down so that the general population can understand it. This is a debate and ridicule is just a part of it. They all laughed it off. Why did you not mention two of the other speakers cutting each other off and one telling the other very adamantly to let him finish? Seems you have a very biased view of Dr. Tyson's personality.
iz2sicc 5 months ago
@AlkPacino Neil uses the same rhetoric on himself. "Maybe I'm not smart enough to [x]". You can see it at the end of his discussion at Cosmos Quandaries a bit. Feynman also did this.
I think you are interpreting the rhetoric to be derogatory, when he is just trying to be honest, simple and direct.
nakomaru 4 months ago
Higgs boson - Actually it used to be called the God Damn Particle...
LOOOOLLL
fiesta181 5 months ago
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fiesta181 5 months ago
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I'd work on her black hole.
AhSchit 5 months ago 2
I belove a theory of everithyng will not end phisycs but it will open a new door to a new phisycs
nicoeste8765 6 months ago
I love this!
funkkyzenzei 6 months ago
The saddest thing about these videos on youtube, is that they house so much intellectual content, they are free, they present some of the greatest minds of our time, and yet their view count is laughable when compared to justin bieber or snooki videos. It's so sad that people care more about something like that, rather than the origins of where we come from.
whielyex 6 months ago 4
@whielyex Proud to be one of the 22,326.
ugacherokee 6 months ago
@whielyex I'm just happy that there are 22,637 (current views) that do care.
Fizzlefuse 6 months ago
An entity discovering its existing is more than enough to enjoy its existence
geeoogle 6 months ago
A entity asking about its existence is a contradiction in terms
geeoogle 6 months ago
I just made the best use of the bag of pot i just smoked watching this debate !
geeoogle 6 months ago
Dark matter = God = maybe God is DARK not Light !
geeoogle 6 months ago
This is the kind of debate I love watching, a room full of intelligent people debating on intelligent matter. A huge contrast from the politician debate in my country which makes me want to run them all down with a truck.
Hornet85 6 months ago
The true mystery of the universe is: Why in "God's" name is Bill O'reilly richer and has more viewers than Neil Degrasse Tyson?
GutterSweatHavoc508 6 months ago
@GutterSweatHavoc508 in the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
stupids will watch assholes who spew, what in their minds sounds smart.
mihaimoldo 6 months ago
@mihaimoldo In thw land of the blind, the one eyed man is often in the circus freak show.
Spock23307 5 months ago
@Spock23307 well, that too, but often it's the king part.
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@mihaimoldo In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is often in the circus freak show.
Spock23307 5 months ago
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@mihaimoldo In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is often in the circus freak show.
Spock23307 5 months ago
All great answers.
GutterSweatHavoc508 6 months ago
Hypothetical: Who would win in a debate concluded by a knife fight. Michio Kaku or Neil Degrasse Tyson?
GutterSweatHavoc508 7 months ago
@GutterSweatHavoc508 kaku wins, he knows karate. But if you give Tyson a baseball bat things gets interesting
jotatsu 6 months ago
@GutterSweatHavoc508 It depends if Michio knows Karate.
someThinkingApe 6 months ago
Great video! but what I don't understand is nobody can agree on the answer that derives quantum mechanics and relativity. But jim gates proposes the matrix and everyone laughs. Biocentric theory, and digital physics, says that reality is based on information, and that consciousness is fundamental ingredient, we live in a virtual reality. This theory does derive quantum and relativity. I just don't understand why this is not accepted as a reasonable hypothesis withing mainstream science.
mcarbone80 7 months ago
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matrix my ass...faggy theory..and that dickhead with the mike needs to shut the fuck up
viralfunnies 7 months ago
why is this debate so dumbed down??? if the people who watch this video/lecture have a general grasp of what string theory is (including quantum mechanics and what mesons, hadrons, electrons and leptons are), WHY would they need to explain microwave background radiation? This must be painful for the panel hosts... Then awesome Lee Smolin elevates the discussion... awesome!
artofnick 7 months ago
WHITELIKETAR...you sir are an idiot:)
jonnytrex 7 months ago 5
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There are white fools and there are black fools - the madness of astheism spreads its insidious blanket without regard to colour. This black fool follows white fools like dawkins hitchens and harris gleefully running toward burning forests.
whiteliketar 7 months ago
@whiteliketar ease up on the bongs!
MrDasmaster 7 months ago
@whiteliketar Dear sir, apparently you've been living in the 19th century.
GutterSweatHavoc508 6 months ago
Smolin's head is lodged below his clavicle???? o.O wat
balkan2k 7 months ago
@SymmetricStrings Physically, we've explored far, far less.
painxtreme 7 months ago
Gotta love science people talking like yeah, you know, like, hum, I mean, you know... LOL
Setherian 7 months ago
we are the closest thing to a "creator" around, let's keep trying to upgrade ourselves and all will make sense eventually and i bet I will still be living to see part of that to happen.
Setherian 7 months ago
I dont think we should be humble and disbelieve that we cannot come up with the answers for everything, that's a pathetic statement. Is Marcello aware that in just a couple of decades we will have an unthinkable amount of computational power , is he aware we will have genetically modified humans that will make us now sound like dogs?
Setherian 7 months ago
Marcello Gleiser seems to be a weak link there ..
Setherian 7 months ago
I think we live in a megaspace (not multiverse) in witch there were many big bangs in different times and everything that came out from each one is expanding forever BUT this matter will eventually be attracted to matter from other "big bangs" in a inevitable attraction force that will culminate in new big bangs and thats all ! ;)
Setherian 7 months ago
as one professional to another; cameraman - tighten up your shots, stop playing with the focus and let the damn camera sit still! gaunch.
jabbott376 7 months ago
@SymmetricStrings if that is all true then that is one of the best and most straight forward explanations of dark matter and energy. thank you :)
jabbott376 7 months ago
That girl is into "black hole" ....
haydenhuang 7 months ago
The 1 dislike was either accidental, or done by a total douche :p
fuzzyhunty 7 months ago 2
Wonderful!
tubatunes 8 months ago
@SymmetricStrings Can we properly call this unkown thing "matter" if it doesn't emit light, doesn't exert gravitational pull, doesn't react atomically with ordinary matter? Calling it "matter" is a misnomer then
MrVuHNguyen 8 months ago
@MrVuHNguyen Well, "dark matter" is simply a placeholder term anyway, so it seems almost not worth it to discuss the semantics, but I'd say there's every reason to call it matter, seeing that it has mass. (Which is pretty much the only thing we know for sure about it.) That also means I'll have to correct you on the "doesn't exert gravitational pull" part, because it does. We only know it's there because we can see the gravitational effects.
DementorBob 7 months ago
A unified theory maybe THE holy grail of physics, but it is a hollow and useless one. Religious people call it GOD, theoretical physicist call it TOE, but in the end, such a theory would predict nothing about the complex world we live in. A theory like that is like a brand new deck of card, you have no way of predicting what hand you are going to get.
MrVuHNguyen 8 months ago
"Science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence." I have to write that down somewhere.
kjrunia 8 months ago
dudes.. just anything with Dr. Neil Tyson DeGrasse deserves a thumbs up.
mmmodafoca 8 months ago 18
"unification"
Before Newton, the motion of planets & motion of falling apples were considered two independent phenomena as described by copernicus and by galileo. newton demonstrated these two things to be truly one thing being gravity. I understand this as an achievement.
Maxwell, I think, discovered how electricity and magnetism combine to form light, but I don't get why we should view electric force and magnetic force as one force not two. or why we should expect all forces to be one force.
jffryh 8 months ago
Why do we need all forces to be 'unified'?
why should electric force and magnetic force be considered as one force together. they may be linked by the speed of light but these are still two distinct things. If two theories conflict, then there is an error that needs two be fixed. but if two theories do not conflict, if they describe distinct phenomena, what good is it to claim that two distinct things are really one.
jffryh 8 months ago
I look forward to the day when we can have such discussions about anything with anyone..where you can be in your face and where nobody will take things personally
a9fc 8 months ago
1:01:33 WTF? This guy could be considered a genius in a few decades and I'm in no position at all to judge that. Anyway if I had to guess, I'd say it seems more likely that people will say that something went terribly wrong in the world of physics in the last decades that allowed this kind of research to flourish.
cristianfcao 8 months ago
I find most interesting here is the notion that "equations" are embedded in the substructure of the universe. The very idea of an equation is a very very powerful and yes philosophical idea. It is perhaps the best example of the intersection between science, mathematics and philosophy. That one statement is entirely EQUAL to another one. Such a fundamental notion. Now consider that reading an "equation" in one direction may be true, but in the other false depending on the observer's state = FTW
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Futurecop2012H 8 months ago
1:11:25 Come at me bro!
That's right... a Jersey Shore reference in a debate about the theory of everything. And they told me it couldn't be done.
aroblesCG 9 months ago
Why isn't Edward Witten in the panel?
0pteryx 9 months ago
@0pteryx Because nobody wants to hear the voice of a six year old, emotionless robot boy describing string theory, regardless of how brilliant and adult he may actually be...
On a serious note, I think they did a great job selecting panelists that can relate this material to the "average" listener. (I put average in quotations because I'm sure that most people interested in this topic are above average, but in comparison to the panelists are certainly average at best)
goblesqb7 9 months ago
@0pteryx Because nobody wants to hear the voice of a six year old, emotionless robot boy describing string theory, regardless of how brilliant and adult he may actually be...
On a serious note, I think they did a great job selecting panelists that can relate this material to the "average" listener. (I put average in quotations because I'm sure that most people interested in this topic are above average, but in comparison to the panelists are certainly average at best)
goblesqb7 9 months ago
Lastly (I'll stop after this) No phenomenon yet seen in the measurable universe occurs outside of time. So to say that an equation begins and ends outside of that same aspect of the fabric/sub-fabric of our universe is sort of shocking. According to current theory there is nothing in the universe that is faster than, or exceeds the speed of light. Yet the speed of light is not infinite, nor instantaneous and can be measured.
So...where does that fit in?
Prometheus1st 9 months ago
You may have a flawless diagram of a circuit but until you use the circuit, and it performs it's function in time...it's simply a drawing.
Prometheus1st 9 months ago