Hawking's Universe

Ahead of TVO's exclusive broadcast of renowned physicist Stephen Hawking at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario on Sunday, June 20th, we examine Stephen Hawking's contribution to our understanding of the universe.

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Janna Levin is a professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College.

Lawrence Krauss is foundation professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University.

Neil Turok is the Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and co-author of Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang. He has worked in a number of areas of theoretical physics and cosmology, focusing on developing fundamental theories and new observational tests. With Stephen Hawking, he developed the Hawking-Turok instanton solutions describing the birth of inflationary universes, and with Paul Steinhardt developed a cyclic theory of the universe. For more on Neil Turok click here.

Raymond Laflamme is the Director of the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo, and an Associate Faculty member at Perimeter Institute. Amongst his most important theoretical results was inventing, with Emmanuel Knill and Gerard Milburn, a radically new approach to Quantum computing using linear optics.

Lee Smolin is a theoretical physicist and faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Marcelo Gleiser is a professor of Natural History at Dartmouth College.

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[Atheist961]

I love the universe

[andy16666]

Excellent video. Can't say the same for some of the comments below it. ;)

[hendrix5045]

Keep these fucking mormon commercials off of real science talks!

[WhoresOfTijuana]

Chinese Girl giving interview showing cleavage, 6 million views. Some of the greatest minds in the universe talking about the universe. 26 thousand views.  They should invite the kardashians on to sit in the corner and suck their thumbs for ratings

[TheAtheologian]

@FlyingPicklePeople It's not only not necessarily the case, it is not the case.

[ModernPhysics135]

Another interesting video is called "Stephen Hawking: Power of Ideas" and includes an animated history of Prof. Hawking's impacts, plus discussion.

[FlyingPicklePeople]

@zerooneboy12345 If I could jump in here and try to answer your question..if my understanding is correct, just like the universe expands in all direction, time extends in all directions as well. But the nature of the expansion, the way we perceive time personally, and the way forces interact with the current expansion (thermodynamics) is what gives time the appearance of only being one way. We all perceive time as flowing forward universally, but that isn't necessarily the case

[InfinityDz]

His quote on 28:25 is dedicated to all the superstitious folks who are like "How come that the set of constants that rule the universe (speed of light, etc) are exactly set so that there may be life? There has to be something divine in this. God made it this way"

No. Go d made infinity, and in infinity, intelligent creatures such as us are just BOUND to exist... Because it is infinity.

There could be other universes existing right now, where life can't exist, but we just can't witness them

[dpowens]

Oh look, a bunch of religious people who think they're smarter than Stephen Hawking and Lawrence Krauss. This must be that Christian humility I've heard so much about. Publish YOUR ideas, guys. Really. Go for it. Can't wait to see.

[babyshambler]

Krauss should be crowned as King of Earth and have free-reign to do what he wants, and we should worship him and sing songs about him.

[esraretin]

wow i wathed it second time:)