Neil Turok: What Caused The Big Bang?

Professor Neil Turok of Cambridge University presents his lecture "What Banged?" which examines the possible causes of The Big Bang, the initial singularity that created our universe.

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[theBartone9119]

@mukkohaha "Energy cannot be Created or Destroyed"

Then there can be no creator, which means no God, you lose.

[612Tiberius]

Actually, it is religion itself which is a perfect example of different collections of nonsensical assumptions about nonexistent deities and made up events. Science, by definition and by practice, is the diametrical opposite of this.

[ironman1478]

why isnt this man fighting dinosaurs?

[Kaddywompous]

@helloohhi Semantics. I think you're right.

[helloohhi]

@mukkohaha Science has no limits? My "belief is science" doesn't even make sense. Of course it's unproved, who gives a shit? Why do we need identification? We just want knowledge and that has its limits.

[helloohhi]

@Kaddywompous 'Invention' is a debate of semantics therefore. No, I don't read science fiction- not really- but I do admit epistemological limits and draw new, also fallible conclusions from that basis. It's my solid ground.

[helloohhi]

@Kaddywompous You cannot deny the possibility of the impossible perfectly. Rather, you only claim- and rightly so- that the impossible within our realm is certainly impossible (e.g. gravity, time, nature, etc.).

Exactitude is my aim here needless to say even if I fail. I felt there were quiet, couched assumptions which you made. You cannot logically imply that the big bang explains all; there can be a different all somewhere or a non-somewhere and even a non-all.

[helloohhi]

@Kaddywompous If you say that logic is our absolute confluence with all, you overstate. You ought to say, the all that we know of (history, evolution, human nature versus behavior, etc.). To state as questions: is there nothing beyond our rational limits in the universe? Is there an 'outside' the universe? What about another dimension outside the confines of cause/effect as we know it?

[mukkohaha]

@JohnGrove310 you go ahead and believe' the laws of the universe invented itself, and Energy popped into existence without a cause.

But don't  claim for one second your belief is science, because all of this is only unscientific assumptions, and unproved theory.

[JohnGrove310]

@helloohhi

Good point

[JohnGrove310]

@mukkohaha

"Even assuming that, it won't explain where this Kind of energy came from"

From empty space, see Lawrence Krauss new book, "A Universe from Nothing"

[mukkohaha]

@612Tiberius  Their is good science and bad science, all of big bang theory and macro evolution and abiogenesis for instance is a whole bunch of assumptions,

Formations of planets are still to this day an assumption, Dark matter and dark energy is an unproven assumption. Then their is provable documented science that is good science.