Sean Carroll: Distant time and the hint of a multiverse

http://www.ted.com At TEDxCaltech, cosmologist Sean Carroll attacks -- in an entertaining and thought-provoking tour through the nature of time and the universe -- a deceptively simple question: Why does time exist at all? The potential answers point to a surprising view of the nature of the universe, and our place in it.

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[PakiCockSuckaHaiderr]

Really? Then how come he just happened to be there forever?

[MagnaYu]

The Creator is the cosmic intelligence, which exist apriori. Don't have time to explain in details, but simply, it's there forever and it will be there forever;

[PakiCockSuckaHaiderr]

Just one question though genius,if the Universe was as you claim created by "The Creator!" then who created "The Creator"?

[MagnaYu]

Typical american unproductive waste of time. And what did he explain at the end? - Nothing. - The Universe exists forever and will be there forever. Big Bang theory is a bullshit. Behind the creation of highly organized life and intelligence is The Creator and period. Not any enthropy fluctuation can create something complex like that. The energy is the basis of everything in Universe, including living and non-living things. Souls are a kind of energy. Don't be stupid, respect the old wisdom.

[avedic]

This is fucking fascinating.

Why 31 people disliked this video...is beyond me.

I'm so glad I live in 2013, a time when we know SO much...but recognize how much is left to know. Physics, and science in general, has gotten so profoundly advanced, that for the first time ever...we can finally start searching for answers to the most fundamental existential questions ever posed. That mystery excites me to no end. Those that fear "not knowing" confuse and annoy me. Imagine what we'll know in 50 years!

[avedic]

Imo...the sheer fact our universe is so conducive to incredible regularity and so allowing of evolved life(we're here afterall), gives me reason to think the multi-verse theory might actually be the answer.

Reality has a curious "fractal" element to it. As above...so below. Evolution by natural selection seems to be the norm, not just in biology...but in everything. Maybe universes evolve too? Maybe they reproduce and die out or thrive based on their adaption to some multi-verse "environment."

[avedic]

2:45 "It's a clue...that the early universe was not chosen randomly. There was something that made it that way and we would like to know...what."

THAT is the difference between scientists and the religious. The religious replace the word "sometTHING" with "someONE" ...because...they want to. And then answer the question with: a "god". Problem solved!

Not quite. That actually answers nothing. Thank god(pun intended) we have scientists willing to seek actual answers to such existential questions.

[Wherez Waldo]

I like the "universal chicken"

[BullInTheHeather1]

I'm a big, big, fan of Sean Carroll; I've seen him online, read a few sensible quotes of his about the Templeton Foundation and I loved From Eternity To Here, especially the bits about Boltzmann fluctuations(which rarely gets brought up by modern cosmologists) and the back-to-back, time-symmetric universe proposal of his(which is beautiful). Well worth reading.

[liquidminds]

mass is a reaction, that has to have had an action causing it.

I just said, that if there was mass, for no reason at all, we'd have a problem.

Nothing of what you said, related in any way to my comment.