Brian Greene Talks NOVA's "The Fabric of the Cosmos" @ NY Comic Con

[JG129]

What a great guy !!! Trying to explain very complicated ideas in laymen's terms.

[readbird]

But what if we are just a universe or whatever. And another one have the same thing. If there is an infinity of universes something like this will happen: In our universe it is ok to have an infinity, and in another that is not allowed! We say it is ok, but in another it is not! Which universe wins?

[LothairApoclyane]

Reality is not 2 dimensional.. Topological entropy physics is the hologram

[Sirchud68]

Science is cool!

[2011mrnoah]

u ever notice how scientist theory mimics religion, hindu, jewdism, muslim, buddhism and shamans

[SuperMagnetizer]

Gravity and relative motion affect the speed (space interval divided by time interval) of light, not time and space. The video is pure propaganda. The CERN neutrinos did not travel faster than light, but they did exceed c. Light would have done the same, over the underground (reduced gravity) path the neutrinos took. Very few of the sheeple will understand, try to understand, or believe this.

[KennyReddwooddforest]

@SuperMagnetizer Light also is consisting of particles which in themselves don't travel as much as they compel or trigger other particles as in a domino effect. Same applies to neutrinos, they only trigger a chain reaction, but on a micro physics level and therefore it is faster that way, and can absolutely react at light speed as well as more than light speed. They have tested it and it worked. Its just hard for our perception to make sense out of. No propaganda. It is scientific innovation.

[greenoryellow]

@KennyReddwooddforest i think ur right, there was some tests conductd last decmber at cern and subsequently at america. they are still testing it further.. whatsoever.. but this is startling..

[greenoryellow]

@SuperMagnetizer r u sure gravity is weak underground.. I thought it is other way around. It gets weaker as you go above.

[Mackinstyle]

Going forward in time seems fairly underwhelming. When I hear "time travel", I think of cool, mysterious science/magic. The way it's possible is essentially to just freeze or slow time around you and let everything else progress at the "normal" rate. Anyone else seem to find that underwhelming?

[grnstar77]

I can't wait for the show to start!!!!!!!

[bariswheel]

The orange jumpsuit makes me think the dude bust out of prison, beat up Jonathan Sahula and is now pretending to be him.

[TiMrozek]

@bariswheel Haha! Oh that's the real Jonathan Sahula alright. Trust me, I was him for halloween. He also has some pretty nifty orange cargo shorts.

[joebstarsurfer]

Isnt it the cat theory or tread Nova swing !.

[joebstarsurfer]

Isnt it the cat theory or the force .Like his voice id believe anything must be true.

[djancak]

if multiverse theory is true, then existence is infinitely times more horrifying than it already is. just imagine billions of years of evolution in every possible configuration, animals slaughtering each other in every cruel and brutal way possible for eternity. it's Hell.

[ipodvidoe]

@sachamm No you fail terribly. If you knew anything about the theory of relativity you'd know that nothing with positive mass can move faster than light, and if it does, it will have negative mass and it will go back in time. Therefore it would have arrived before he shot the gun. What are you talking about "via light"? You actually think they visualize these neutrinos? No. They have detectors, which are independent of light.

[MrPLatchman]

Why the Canary Islands for experiment in particle teleportation?

[TheMonolith]

God Did It.

[gc7234]

when does this new series premier ?

[VanMedia]

@gc7234 November 2nd

[PBS]

@gc7234 Nov. 2

[cristianfcao]

I know it's this was a Comic-Con lecture and I'd hate to sound... I don't know... bitter? unappreciative of the work science popularizers such as Brian Greene do? Anyway I just wanted to say that I really think there's a LOT more value in teaching science FACTS than crazy hypothesis that may not be proven in the next 100 years if ever... And please, PLEASE when speaking about phenomena such as quantum entanglement don't make examples such as this: 16:05. PLEEEEEEEEASE???!!!

[ufotofu9]

Great talk.

I think that Greene is our greatest explainer of the new frontiers of physics to a popular audience. I just wish he explained a little more carefully to the kid who asked the second question. It's not so much that you time travel to the future instantly due to extreme gravity and velocities, It's just that time slows down for you relative to an observer traveling at a sub-relativistic speed.

[ufotofu9]

Great talk. I think that Greene is our greatest explainer of the new frontiers of physics to a popular audience.

[sachamm]

13:15 Brian Greene fail. A particle moving faster than light still takes time to arrive. What he should have said is that the FTL particle would arrive before he had the possibility of knowing about it via light.

[mantanz]

Great speaker, that guy... looking forward to the show for a bit of mind-blowing!

[USERNAMEfieldempty]

I wrote this yesterday. I read it today. Tomorrow my hologram will change his mind and delete it before posting.

[lokaiwen]

I imagine Professor Greene lecturing at university, and I compare that image with his style of explanation at Comic con. I wonder how it feels to know as much as he does about his field, and how difficult it is to truncate his concepts for the audience.

It is the "sci-fi" strangeness of quantum physics that make it popular.

I think that it is inspiring that the general public, here represented by Comic con attendees, have a thirst for modern general knowledge. Hope for the future?

[curiousgeorge1940]

It's a great leap forward in human progress, that every scientist on the planet can still say : " I don't know " .... and then take it from there. No magic - no dogma : just imagination and discovery !