Humanity in the multiverse: Thomas Hertog at TEDxLeuven
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Thomas is an internationally renowned cosmologist and a close collaborator of Stephen Hawking. After a research career abroad at CERN and at the University of California, he recently returned to Belgium to launch a team at the KULeuven that works around the interface of string theory and cosmology. At TEDxLeuven Thomas will describe the cosmic context of our world and indicate how a profound understanding of cosmology will be instructive to safeguard Mankind's future here on Earth or elsewhere.
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I don't get why so many theories of alien life assume we'll be able to see them at all. The millions of beings living in my own intestine have no way of perceiving me, but I'm literally all around them. From their perspective, I am the alien they don't believe could exist in reality as they know it.
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Multiple Universe's are real! No doubt!
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5:40 WTF? Dun dun DUUUUUN!! XD
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It is incredible make and outreach theory like the 6 dimensions strings to explain why the perfect Universe that sustein life has no intelligent design. 09:59 i prefer find the Kentucky scientists
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Your last comments are bullshit .
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Steve the Pirate?
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15:50 or that life maybe so far advanced we do not recognize it, or "advanced life" is just a relative term. Advanced compared to what? What if there are animals among us that have the capabilities of our "technology" built in naturally and do not need to artificially create it? What if size really does not matter? what if we evolve to be so efficient we only need a single cell or less. What if evolution leads to efficiency. There are single celled organisms that do not die and can live in very very extreme conditions. What if we're like computer technology becoming smaller and smaller yet more and more powerful where we don't need a massive brain to process thought and all of these organs to convert energy? What if there is a universal consciousness like the cloud and we eventually tap into it? What if becoming a virus is the ultimate evolution? Not saying I have any sources or studies to prove or back any of this up. I'm just trying to keep an open mind. We've been trying to explore and prove theories based on centuries old perpetuation. What if we evolve into energy? I personally believe we are merely cells of something much bigger, and our reality is only relative to us. I believe all we know is a grain of sand to an ocean of beaches. Like Tesla said we need to think in terms of energy. We are the flat lander. Time, distance, density, temperature etc. is only measured and calculated in relation to how it affects us. There can be so much more going on here and now that we do not know about because it does not affect us. Like I said I'm not arguing anybodies theories or trying to say I know something nobody else does just asking what if and trying to get people to break the barriers of what we've been told. We maybe looking at all wrong. I know we definitely can only look out from one point right here and right now, but what really is more "advanced" how do we know if we do not know what we're supposed to be. I think the whole what's intelligent and whats advanced is only in relation to ourselves. Of course we're going to be the most advanced and intelligent for our own purposes. I think cats and dogs are superior to us. We do all the work the providing etc. etc. and they get everything we have by us serving it to them and we do everything for them. There are cats living billion dollar lifestyles and didn't have to do shit for it look cute to us and they do not have to deal with a bit of the stress that's intelligent.
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5:41 my reaction in class
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Incredible talk! Complicated matters in simple words. Applause to Thomas Hertog!
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None of these videos doesn't give me a conclusion.
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He forgot one possibility, when it comes to alien contact - maybe they have observed us and concluded there is no sign of intelligence in us? Sense they are suppose to be so far ahead of us!
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Interesting that the editor of the video chose to cut to that random zoom at 5:41
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was confusing initially with the melody of the language ,but nothing wrong with his english as general . presentation was at the average level.. at the last just astonished ,that i didn't got what he talked about,but anyway i watched 5 min. He was charming,wasn't he? . simulation and visualisation used to help presentation were not type-top.. ;)
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5:36 watch closely for 10 seconds lol
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Dutch.
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This guy spent 20 minutes creating this presentation. It's so obvious. A sociology undergrad could have given a better presentation on the universe. Don't bother watching this. Watch a Brian Greene video instead.
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I never new Tony Hawk was an astronomer
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the expansion of universe is not included in 11 dimensions theory. much more interesting view. the 5:44 closeup on a girl from audience. wtf? hitchcockian cameraman.
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what an accent !
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nothing new ... old n recycling THEORIES.
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