Distinguished Lecture in Astronomy: Steven Beckwith

[tuhinshukla]

0:23:33 few farts in a million .... lol

[DeadInTheLivingRoom]

gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

[tousalgeriens]

good work

[ExtreamThrills]

all this new tech and the man can't walk and talk. i think its time to develop new tech that addresses this issue.

[Tefri1]

Thank you for the download and the link and, of course the lecture is great.

[nuwa81]

22:22 Space Tao:-)

[holzpusher]

Love and worship Jesus because He loves you with His perfect love, but if you don't behave yourself he'll burn you in horrible torment for eternity. Bow down before his awesomeness or he'll let Lord Xenu (riding on the flying spaghetti monster) throw you into a Hawaiian volcano and drop H-bombs on you!

[deepwinter77]

@holzpusher kinda weird comment who exactly is this jesus some competing scintist or something?

[TheDanceForLyfe]

This speaker seems quite unintelligent if you ask me. He is the kind of person who makes me think humanity is just full of monkeys scrambling to figure out the universe before it ends.

[KingJamesBible]

The "first" 2 BILLION years?! IT's already propaganda. This is science falsly so called. Berkley is a complete joke and a cesspool for NWO minded folks

[kayakbruce1]

@KingJamesBible Christianity has become a cesspool of the ingnorant and angry. And you are one or the other.

[KingJamesBible]

@kayakbruce1 Christianity is your ONLY salvation, without Jesus Christ you are going to hell. If you live long enough for the elite to impliment their "plans" YOU will be "culled" away. If anyone is "ignorant" it's YOU!

[TheDanceForLyfe]

@KingJamesBible If you look at string theory you realize everything is made out of strings, or so to have said, in any sense all things are made of one kind of matter including yes, you. These string never just disappear but change their lengths and vibrations creating different kinds of atoms. I believe you should try to expand your own thinking, and try not to be so closed minded. You don't need to accept it, just try to learn more before you speak please.

[kayakbruce1]

@KingJamesBible ha ha Got any rapture? There are to types of christians, fools and damn fool. you appear to be the second kind.

[KingJamesBible]

@kayakbruce1 As I've been reminding folks for 25 years of this verse, it appears to me more and more obviously TRUE

2Peter 3:3 ¶ Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

2Peter 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming?..

[saultube44]

Great Astronomy Lecture, can I study Astronomy online for free at Berkeley?

[Hollywood1898]

Did he die?

[dominator120397]

Keep religion and Science separate. No need to hate!!

[TheShredder101]

science and music (two things that keep me sane)

[nicophobia]

I've watched hundreds of these lectures now, physics, astrophysyics, theoretical physics, particle physics, I love physics. These are some of the smartest people on the planet, at the forefront of science.

Is there really no one who can sort out a lapel mic, this happens at a scary percentage of these lectures.

Amazing.

[cc123456789]

take audio from the sound board! that way you don't have 3 mics

[AgilitySeed]

Who doesn't want to go into Astronomy...

[EltonJThe]

@AgilitySeed Really, really, smart people who don't want to be excommunicated and banished to Germany.

[sandeep090984]

beautiful lecture.... its sad to realize the things that we see are nothing compared to scale of the universe ....

[taphoenix]

Great talk. Just brings about so many questions.

[Zurround100]

Krissypoo508 I was being sarcastic. I am a devout ATHEIST myself.

[vinizz11]

@Zurround100 a devout atheist lol

[romano444]

Just explain this and I will believe in all you say: what happened BEFORE the big-bang?

[kjboy91]

@romano444 thank u someone said it

[Videos4USArmy]

@romano444 That is a unknown question. And it's still being tested. I hope you don't bring in God of the gaps.

[heartlessvietboy]

What is the difference between astronomy and cosmology? The "and".

[saultube44]

@imontellano poor ignorant moron...

[imontellano]

@saultube44 Thank you for your enlightening response. What, may I inquire, regarding my comment reflects a poor, ignorant, or moronic nature?

[imontellano]

@saultube44 "questions like this after your first comment, meditate on them and it will "hit you" eventually, OK?" A nebulous response from a nebulous mind. No surprise there. And besides, it was a single question that I asked - which you blatantly dodged. I'm enjoying my non-poor, non-ignorant, and non-moronic life that you, apparently, cannot dispute with clarity nor "balls." Stop degrading coherent individuals you do not know and scamper off into the bitter void that is your mentality.

[saultube44]

@imontellano nebulous for you yes, because you don't have the brains to think and deduct by yourself besides the obvious, I dodged in the hopes that you'd have the natural instinct to get the hint and do the thinking but yes you have a poor moronic thinking with great ignorance surrounding it, because what you refer to is not what he meant at all you are understanding what you want to understand not what he is trying to communicate.

[imontellano]

@saultube44 Weak response; and, are you confusing me with someone else? I wasn't interpreting anything this "astronomer" was babbling on about. He quite clearly communicated the word "fart" and that's what I commented about. It's called a sense of humor/sarcasm; entities intelligent lifeforms possess. I've read some of the other comments you have posted to others on YouTube and it's quite sad, to the say the least. Please don't respond back to me; your words and thoughts are useless.

[saultube44]

@imontellano "your words and thoughts are useless", likewise.

[Zurround100]

This video is blasphemy, the world began six thousand years ago. Did any of these stupid scientists even take the time to read the bible?

[snappy452]

@Zurround100 The infinite regress is the enemy of both science and religion.

[Krissypoo508]

@Zurround100 Keep your Religion out of my Science.

[Brazilianjj]

@Zurround100 your a fucking ignorant moron.. your stupid bible is man made and fake. so keep your imaginary god and your peice of shit religion out of here.

[cryingoutloude]

@Zurround100 Keep Religion away from politics and science

[Videos4USArmy]

@Zurround100 Such a troll jhahaha

[YamaKazoo]

Why do you have to turn this into a religious debate? religion has nothing to do with science and vice versa. Im trying to enjoy these lectures and mabye learn something and on almost every lecture about the universe or physics some arse has to comment "Religion is garbage". If a person (like me) believes in a higher power just accept it and move on. All your doing is shoving your beliefs down peoples throats like the religious radicals you despise. Seriously !! fuck off with your atheist jihad.

[SilentHillRedemption]

@YamaKazoo you got that right! all it does is piss people off, and adds nothing to anything at all. it just wastes time, which could be used for much better things.

[joeshmo1979]

Hate the way religious people take offense when you talk about the big bang. God and the big bang theory are NOT mutually exclusive. What was there before 13.7 Billion years ago? What was the catalyst for the big bang? Where does dark energy come from?

[Lubial]

it could happen another big bang if this continues to grow?

[Chaguarama75]

Dude!!! Thats Will Ferrel.

[vintagedesert]

Wow. All these comments, not a one having to do with the video. Did anybody actually watch it? Anybody? At all?

[quarkmuffin37]

anaiasacts...not half enough empowered when vast swathes of humanity are still giving the crazies a base of support, enough to have an immeasurable impact on the direction and stance of entire populations, states, and the globe. Dont be so cocky, the war is nowhere near won, religious fuckoffs still have their hands on the levers and hold the keys to many doors, some of which you have tried to walk through yet could not, in your life, without even knowing it. They may yet bring the sky down.

[merrittolsen]

the pictures at about 0:31:00 looks exactly like the neural connections in the brain...

[attilaclark]

I don't know if you people who are bashing religion would consider Buddhism a religion, but it has given science a lot of big time help with topics in science from neuroscience, medicine and geometry. Some topics cannot be investigated within the scientific method , however they can still be known. Science and Buddhism have come to agreement on topics with Buddhism there first.

[vladamirrrr]

@attilaclark well, since you're saying it (i know this isn't the place for it:) but buddhism rules, it's not even a religion in a common sense, it's pretty scientific and makes a lot of sense, no dogmatic bullshit in buddhism

[attilaclark]

@vladamirrrr science is so limiting in itself...data collection...hypothesis...yaya it workds well for some things but it's to narrow for me...Buddhism is a philosophy that will guide the way for science to do better. Especially in theoretical physics and neuroscience.

[vladamirrrr]

@attilaclark i agree because buddhism is all about expanding your consciousness, which definitely helps with your imagination, which is something astronomers should have. but of course, that doesnt mean you have to be a buddhist to expand your consciousness ;))) astronomers have to be well rounded, just my humble opinion

[bobean991]

religion is a hindrence

[ananiasacts]

@bobean991, but if religion is selectively encumbering those least able to recognize it's absurdity, then it might be a good thing for humanity overall. One way to artificially enhance our collective ability is to convince the people least likely to be helpful to opt out of participating. Perhaps it's no accident that shortly after the codification of scripture, and rise in literacy, humanity discovered the scientific method and began to seriously empower itself. Religion works like fly paper.

[MrMarijuanasmoke420]

Looking at the comments posted, I really wanted to touch briefly on the subject of religion and science that everyone keeps wanting to bring up.

I just wanted to say that science does not contradict belief in God, as God is all seeing, all knowing and all powerful. All things are possible through God. When I say God I am talking about the God of Moses and Jesus Christ.

Just as we look unto Science with an Open Mind, please also look unto The Holy Bible with an Open Mind. Thank you.

[k0nn0r]

@MrMarijuanasmoke420 You say that as a religious person, so as a convinced atheist, let me agree wholeheartedly. Religion and Science do not argue on the same level. For me personally, it's not possible to be religious simply because I believe that god is a construct, but science is about what you can prove, where as religion is basically faith in the unknown. You cannot prove religion wrong with science, or prove science wrong with religion, those who do have no idea what they are talking about

[ChristiansRevil]

@MrMarijuanasmoke420

Holy Bible?

A book full of porno, incest, and errors. I would never call the garbible holy, trashy is more appropriate.

[MrMarijuanasmoke420]

Absolutely phenomenal lecture! Thank you.

[SilverTissues]

Yes, it only took hundreds of years. So lets keep pushing forward. Could one consider Science as a religion, never actually thought about it in that way. It is a believe one has. But still it is visually noticable and measurable.

Back in the day, Da Vinci created a flyer. A few years ago they replicated it. It flew with some limitations. If Da Vinci would have flown it, "The church" would have called it blasfemy. And now "the church" is desperate to merge with science. Isn't that evolution?

[nilesh1nilesh]

@SilverTissues all athiests' r followers of the (religion) "science".

[The7of1]

keep yr fucking religion out of science & shove yr koran up yr arse

[SilverTissues]

+/- 30:00 minutes: So interesting

[dirtyandscratchd]

i can understand a big bang, i can conceptualize of a universe spreading millions of lightyears in every direction and the forces which makes it work, but...

where is the edge?

what exists after it?

what if there is no edge,is it infinate? it cant be...

before the big bang (which spewed out everything ever) where was there?

a nowhere place?

help!

[TheWhat667]

@dirtyandscratchd ______________You want to find an edge? Imagine walking a straight line on the surface a globe. If you can walk a straight line, you will eventually return to the point where you started, which appears to be the future. What you will realize is that the beginning and the end are the same thing. Space is curve. You cannot move outside of space, sorry.

[nilesh1nilesh]

@dirtyandscratchd ......just imagine my friend how life replicates.....how child is born? 1 set from dad 1 set from mom ...then fertilization then growth then birth then nurishment and within few yrs 1 big adult human.....same way matter comes into existance.....evolution is applicable everywhere......i m not certified scientist so my errors/mistakes r forgivable.... very sorry if i m wrong.

[Raekwon941]

I keep watching these lectures, but i'm British and have to remember that when he says, for example '500 Mpc, 1,500 million lightyears, 1.5 billion lightyears' (15:50), he means 1,500,000,000 and not 1,500,000,000,000. I think. Well i hope anyway. It's only a few extra zeros but it makes a huge difference.

[FlashTwister]

christians did belive the universe was about 4000 or so years old. Until they changed their mind.... No... according to faith you cannot just change your mind.

[eyeAMtwinkEE]

0:23:20

"A few farts in a million".

Hahahahah.

[eyeAMtwinkEE]

@eyeAMtwinkEE I mean 23:30.

[roisoleil10]

Moving on from my last coment, the negativity of so many makes me doubt they are mature members of the scientific community. Scientists are among the most openminded. Peer reviewed journals, the scientific method all suggest we be skeptical about religion, test any specific claims, but also be humbled & awestruck by the majesty of the unfolding universe. Not so cavalier in our attitudes. We are not masters of our own domain (e.g. BP Gulf of Mexico disaster). Why the certainty, anger, disgust?

[PyraTheHead]

@roisoleil10 The BP Gulf of Mexico disaster was a disaster because of corporation and legislation.

[roisoleil10]

Science is a technique for testing our hypotheses about the observable universe. A scientific "proof" is one that appears to hold and that can be replicated independently by other scientists.

Religion is faith in one or more deities. Faith needs no proof and cannot be tested. Faith, atheism and agnosticism are personal decisions based on belief.

Science can test/disprove specific religious claims (e.g. creationists) but it will never be able to prove/disprove the existence of a/the gods.

[moonwatcher1967]

@roisoleil10

very well put

[SonnyDelight55]

Why is everybody commenting on religion on a video about astronomy?

[FelipeZucchetti]

The udf Skywalker is great...thanks...:)

[jontibloom]

Science is the fucking future !!

[ottawadonburton]

life lives!

[vh2k]

@Pig560 Are you kidding??

[keen125]

When you give faith to some higher energy you trade questions and intelligence for control, and become weak-minded based on the ideologies that someone somewhere is making the decisions for you. Sadly, over time, you lose the ability of creative thought because you have sealed your fate based on a false interpretation of why life was created in the universe. Religion is the illusion that there is a better place, and that your purpose is not to think, but accept evil in the world as unchangeable

[pandaya]

Nicely put.

[pseudorandomly]

@maxwellsdaemon7

I know I'm responding to an old question, but perhaps you'll return to read my reply. I can't think how your question got flagged as spam ...

You have to define *how* you're measuring the distance to see what's going on. A ruler doesn't expand, because the electromagnetic forces holding the ruler together are stronger than the stretching of space. Timing a beam of light doesn't expand, because time (think duration of a second) is not expanding, just space. Etc.

[maxwellsdaemon7]

@pseudorandomly Thanks for the insight. Does that mean that galaxies and planets and other objects get "dragged" by the expanding space, and doesn't this imply a force?

[pseudorandomly]

@maxwellsdaemon7

That's the wrong way to look at it. The galaxies are actually *sitting still* in space (modulo their own secular motions) and the space between them is stretching. Put two dots on a slightly-inflated balloon, and then blow up the balloon some more. The dots are now farther apart, but they aren't being dragged; they're sitting on the same bit of rubber as before, but the rubber between them has been stretched.

[maxwellsdaemon7]

@pseudorandomly Thanks. What if the two "dots" are, say, two stars in a binary, or a nucleus and an electron in an atom. Then stretching the space between them increases the distance, and implies an increase in potential energy, do you agree?

[FellstarOverlord]

@Pig560 Please...feel free to explain to me exactly what you mean by that, friend. We're here because of religion? There are many different kinds of religion out there. Are you saying that we're the result of the wills of the Gods of all of them? Or are you referring to a specific religion?

[rapperzondernaam]

there is no purpose, no begin no end.

we humans have outgrown the universe and seek for things that are not ment to be understood. They just are.

[imjinc2k]

nothing 'just is', look deeper.

[rapperzondernaam]

I have been looking deeper, much deeper. just check out my favs, its full of it.. but what I ment with it is that we look at quantum mechanics and the universe(s) from our point of view which makes everything pretty complicated and rational..

[keen125]

Modern language may also be a boundary in exchanging critical thinking. We cant really think how it could be any other way.. but do you ever wonder why it takes so long to explain yourself using language. These languages were created hundreds if not thousands of years ago

Plus, to also add to your comment, if you could describe something to me in a way that I may understand it, I could learn anything. The universe is simple but not obvious. "Thinking" is what separates us from everything else.

[rapperzondernaam]

I like the part about the language, it's true that although we all seem to 'understand' each other, it still takes a lot of effort and words to explain yourself... when in your head you know what's going on, no words, no effort..

[nilesh1nilesh]

@rapperzondernaam .....welcome to  enlightened world

[rbolo29]

'What is the purpose of the Universe?'

[witecracker2]

i believe we are in a matrix and that there is no end,...there is no beginning and no end,we are alive over and over again,we are everywhere and no where,we are in this certain zone of this matrix as a dot and larger than a mountain we have a speck of knowledge ,and truly see little or nothing of our universe...this is right now in this dimension

but we truly have an unlimited number of possibilitys .

[xp0nd3r]

he stole the radar gun analogy from griest! but brilliant tho, and great lecture for sure!

[String425]

@xp0nd3r Every astronomy teacher since the doppler gun came out has used that analogy

[shananagans5]

The first 2 billion yrs. I sure hope this is a summary !! :)

[swagger93]

haw haw haw

[TheOGTripnotist]

if you look farther away from were middle of the universe(whereever that is)

ur looking back in time.

then if you look towards the middle do you peek into the future?

[greencap1]

@TheOGTripnotist

No! It takes light time to travel, so everything you see have already happened.

The further away it happened the longer the light had to travel to reach you and therefore the further back in time you are watching.

Long distance = far back in time

Short distance = more recently

This is true in all directions.

[TheOGTripnotist]

yes that makes sense so we must be behind the times then haha.

maybe thats why other alien civilizations are more advanced.

[PadraigM46]

There is no middle, the whole universe is the middle...crazy huh!

[String425]

@TheOGTripnotist No, because it still takes time for light to reach you from any direction so no matter what you're always seeing into the past.

[ANDROID697]

Atomic silence is more apropriate to a big bang theory.

[olishant]

wow, this Beckwith must really be someone special. He got TWO introductions. XD

[MusicologoImperfecto]

LMFAO AT 17:40 hahahahah HAHAHA

[MusicologoImperfecto]

LMFAO AT 7:08 XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

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[Thymonico]

Why would someone introduce the introducer? That's... Weird... XD

[maxpolaris99]

@Thymonico These people have to pester the the very important imbeciles on capitol hill for money all the time. The very important capitol hill imbeciles just wish they would go away.

These people sometimes need to feel important too! ;) Hence the introducer feels important by being introduced himself.

[Goetterhand]

Grüße aus der Oberlausitz!

[JFriday123]

A lot of nondenominational churches believe in an old earth, meaning billions of years. Go google this "bible hebrew translation of genesis". The key word I would like to point out is the word yom.

Anyways, this video is great, I love this free courseware!

[Oakaloke]

Finally I understand the evidence for the acceleration of the expansion of the universe! Thank you, Dr. Beckwith!

[alvon999]

God is great..

[UmarilOBLIVION]

sorry i meant about 2000 years ago ^^

[UmarilOBLIVION]

agreed, how the hell could jesus or god dunno make the universe in 7 days 1000 years ago, when we have found things severl billion years old, religions r some fucking bullshit, i believe only in sience that's my opinion, DON'T BE AN IDIOT AND CALL ME STUFF THEN UR JUST AN IDIOT like i said.

[jus1haz2]

Yay Science!

[mrarches]

Genesis,verse 9,chapter 3,and god says He who doubts i made the universe in 7 days will be hit by the plague.

[JFriday123]

Actually Genesis 3:9 says "But the Lord God called to the man, 'Where are you?'"

That is one of the most ridiculous lies I have ever heard, our you were being sarcastic; hopefully you were sarcastic, because proclaiming false doctrine is much worse than believing in an old universe.

[mrarches]

your a bit sad looking that up,of course i was being sarcastic,i wouldnt go within a million miles of a bible.

[JFriday123]

Why make fun of something you don't understand then? Then you just sound like every other Christian talking about how stupid evolution is without even knowing what they are talking about. You know what I mean? I had the bible right next to my computer so I saw that and felt obligated.

[mrarches]

pardon ?

[Emerven]

dont wanna be an ass, and totally agree with you on the scientific view of the universe... but PLEASE inform yourself before talking, or others will have a good reason to bitch :P (i am talking about you saying christians believe the universe was created 2000 years ago)

[590268002]

You dumb ass. jesus died 2000 years ago. and adam and eve were supposedly 84000 a little after food foraging stopped. take your anthropology fool. so please INFORM yourself

[590268002]

8400 oops lol

[kjboy91]

@UmarilOBLIVION how do u kno god didnt make the universe in 7 days??nd it was 2010 years ago btw

[ultradevon04]

Religion is garbage!

[mrarches]

luke verse 9 chapter 10,and god says he who takes the lords name in vain will be struck down by a thunderbolt.

[nilesh1nilesh]

@ultradevon04 pls dont throw religion in garbage untill everyone is educated on earth.....religions keep stupids under control....(that means earth needs religions forever)

[ultradevon04]

@nilesh1nilesh That is a really interesting point and perhaps you are right. I;'ve thought of it like that. I think there needs to be something to control people in general because smart people do crazy things too.

[SilverTissues]

@nilesh1nilesh I totally agree. We are now just finding out what and where. Due to the fact that we have the telescopes to view things good enough to make distance calculations. So how the hell could religion tell us what and where. Because some dude wrote something down, without scientific proof = GUESSING. And the dummies believed it. Making religion the biggest april fools ever. Just like Creationism. Let's take some proven science and mix it with 2000 y.o. failing fiction and have a giggle.

[nilesh1nilesh]

@SilverTissues ...........that would be so great.....the god electron? mother goddess gravity? saint hydrogen....evils dark matter dark energy......i think if stupidity of leaders take us to world war 3 then this "new religion" will come to existance for sure! ..u know i m grateful to all scientists and all scientific research who has weakened the religions this much and made the present day living atleast free of interference frm religion otherwise u say earth is round and u r gone

[hisinfernalsith]

@ultradevon04 You're so right dude

[rampantlion103]

What is the BIG BANG? What consist of BIG BANG. Could you explain how BILLIONS OF GALAXIES and GAZILLIONS OF STARS can be contain and hold in limited amount of space in BIG BANG? The force of holding the BIG BANG? Are there many big bangs privously? Is Big Bang like THE BLACK HOLE?

[StevoDog21]

There were no galaxies or stars originally, remember. Only the energy, of which, some would later form them. Right now, our mathematics breaks down when we try to explain how all the energy that ever would be was contained in a single point of 'infinite density', just like (and this is probably significant)the center of a 'black hole'. We think we know what we mean, but we don't yet know how to say it. Physicists are divided on whether there were other Bangs and other Universes. We don't know.

[alain97133]

Since I'm an agnostic/pantheis, I'm "almost" sure god was alone & bored to death in her perfection... Her only consolation was eating great curries, but that day she ate too much & let go a really loud* fart... The rest is astrophisics.

*I know sound doesn't travel that well in nothingness, but she god after all, isn't she ?

[StevoDog21]

The recently discovered 'Dark Energy' definitely has something to do with it, since it's 3/4 of the whole Universe and caused the original expansion (Big Bang) and is still causing an accelerating expansion, but so far we don't know squat about it.

[hecdaca2007]

Your problem (as i deduct from the way you posit your questions) is that you are thinking three-dimensionally using common sense thinking based on your day to day frame of reference. you need to remember that with the big bang time/space as we know then came forth. So the universe was born at no time in the past!! Get the paradox? I am just a lay dude bedazzled by the subject as well. There are many books out there written for the lay man. Get some you will be amazed!!

[DrZenith]

The Big Bang was the moment, about 14 billion years ago, when physicists think that all the matter and energy in today's universe exploded from a point of infinite density, called a singularity, in a gigantic fireball. As this fireball cooled and expanded over the next few hundreds of thousands of years basic matter, essentially hydrogen and helium, formed and over the following millions of years the effects of gravity caused denser areas to be pulled together into the first stars.......

[msgol1]

Could you explain how BILLIONS OF GALAXIES and GAZILLIONS OF STARS can be contain and hold in limited amount of space in BIG BANG?

E=MC^2

don't think about matter and Density

think about Energy

can you imagine infinite Energy on limited amount of space?

[tocalpianix]

Some scientists think at the other side of every black hole there is a white hole - in other words, a big bang. So black holes would create new universes.

[nilesh1nilesh]

@rampantlion103 what is population of world today?....how everyone comes to existance?....see andromeda galaxy is going to get married to milkyway galaxy some 3.2 bln yrs frm now ...then they will have lots of children galaxies...this is called cosmic sex...... take it easy ....just for fun...

seriously, do we have any other explanation?