'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009

Lawrence Krauss gives a talk on our current picture of the universe, how it will end, and how it could have come from nothing. Krauss is the author of many bestselling books on Physics and Cosmology, including "The Physics of Star Trek."

Books by Lawrence Krauss:
http://www.amazon.com/Lawrence-M.-Krauss/e/B000AP7AZS/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0

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[revo1974]

@dudejohnny

"No, it doesn't"

Please elaborate.

[dudejohnny]

@revo1974

No, it doesn't

[MsPerduta]

@MsPerduta

p.s I realize that unlike atheism Chritianity does recognize spirit but I am concerned that they identify this with another concept they call "soul". The concept of an individual's soul is alien to me and I would rather keep them separate.

So just to recap: Spirit is something eternal... a bit like say geometry... it exists in principle even before there are any humans to understand it.

I have no idea what a soul is.

[HarshColby]

@DJockovic1 I have never suggested a 'dark matter multiverse, parallel universes, a universe from nothing' is fact. They're possibilities (except possibly for a 'dark matter multiverse' which has not been proposed to my knowledge), and I wouldn't have you or anyone believe that possibilities are facts. Dark Matter, otoh, has been observed and I would expect you to accept facts as facts. We know DM is there for much the same reasons we know gravity is there.

[MsPerduta]

@jimnpatcavell

Don't you think perhaps over so many generations such teaching could affect hereditary character traits of your lineage? Is it your faith directing the course of evolution? I honestly believe that evolution is a process of intelligent design but that the intelligence resides in what is being designed and is motivated by a spirit... your faith in this case.

[DJockovic1]

@HarshColby So when you said we have detected dark matter and that's how we know it's there, you weren't suggesting for a second that you believed it exists?

[HarshColby]

@1spiders1 [Harsh will have us believe dark matter multiverse, parallel universes, a universe from nothing] Given that I haven't said I believe any of those things, could you please refrain from making stuff up? I've been civil, and I expect you can be if you really try.

[revo1974]

....accounted for by design than chance.

When you take this into consideration and the fact that it's turning out that life isn't a result of some random chance event, but an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, a case for design becomes even stronger.

[revo1974]

@Murdulo

I directed four posts toward you, which were less than 1600 characters. That's not exactly a lot of information, especially when considering about 400 characters or so included a quote from you and three links.

I never mentioned the word god once so you're attacking a straw man. We make our inference to the best explanation based on what we do know, not what we do not. The Universe exhibits profound order, harmony and regularity and these attributes are better.....

[HarshColby]

@1spiders1 The photons from SN1987a arrived on schedule, as did the neutrinos. We received the light in 1987. The Supernova blew up 168,000 years earlier. (It's 168,000 LY away)

The current most active investigation is the synchronization of the atomic clocks used to time the neutrinos. Both OPERA runs used the same timing methods, which haven't been used often before. The experiment is being re-run at FermiLab, but since these are statistical tests, it'll take two years to gather the neutrinos.