Krauss '09: "A Universe From Nothing"
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PLEASE SUB TO THIS CHANNEL & HERE TOO:- https://www.youtube.com/user/MrMindFeed Transcript:- https://www.amara.org/es/videos/vlpT1Tz1Q5pB/en/157707/ As the documentary "The Unbelievers" premières at Toronto's Hot Docs Festival, two of the men featured in the film: professor Richard Dawkins and physicist Lawrence Krauss sit down with Steve Paikin to tell us why indeed, they don't believe:- http://ww3.tvo.org/video/190768/rise-new-atheists Dawkins & Krauss conversation 2007:- http://genesis1.asu.edu/krausssdawk.html Sean Carroll's remarks on Krauss's Book:- http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/04/28/a-universe-from-nothing/ http://debunkingwlc.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/borde-guth-vilenkin/ One of Astronomy's pet crackpot theories: non-cosmological quasar redshifts:- http://scientopia.org/blogs/galacticinteractions/2011/01/14/one-of-astronomys-pet-crackpot-theories-non-cosmological-quasar-redshifts/ The University of Cambridge Relativity & Gravitation Group Program: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/research/gr/subjects/#cosmology Lawrence Krauss gives a talk on our current picture of the universe, how it will end, and how it could have come from nothing. Transcript of this talk:- https://www.universalsubtitles.org/es/videos/vlpT1Tz1Q5pB/en/157707/ Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_M._Krauss Quote: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lawrence_M._Krauss Web Page: http://krauss.faculty.asu.edu/ CV: http://genesis1.asu.edu/cv.htm BOOKS & BIO: http://www.amazon.com/Lawrence-M.-Krauss/e/B000AP7AZS "I was born in New York City and shortly afterward moved to Toronto, spending my childhood in Canada. I received undergraduate degrees in mathematics and physics from Carleton University, and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982. After a stint in the Harvard Society of Fellows, I became an assistant professor at Yale University in 1985 and Associate Professor in 1988. I moved in 1993 to become Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics, professor of astronomy, and Chairman of the Physics Department at Case Western Reserve University In August 2008 I joined the faculty at Arizona State University as Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the Department of Physics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Director of the University's Origins Initiative. In 2009 we inaugurated this this initiative with the Origins Symposium [www.origins.asu.edu] in which 80 of the world's leading scientists participated, and 3000 people attended. I write regularly for national media, including The New York Times, the Wall St. Journal, Scientific American (for which I wrote a regular column last year), and other magazines, as well as doing extensive work on radio and television. I am strongly committed to public understanding of science, and have helped lead the national effort to preserve sound science teaching, including the teaching of evolution. I also served on Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential campaign science policy committee. In 2008 I became co-chair of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and in 2010 was elected to the Board of Directors of the Federation of American Scientists. I became a scientist in part because I read books by other scientists, such as Albert Einstein, George Gamow, Sir James Jeans, etc, when I was a child, and my popular writing returns the favor. One of my greatest joys is when a young person comes up to me and tells me that one of my books motivated them to become a scientist. I believe science is not only a vital part of our culture, but is fun, and I try and convey that in my books and lectures. I am honored that Scientific American referred to me as a rare scientific public intellectual, and that all three three major US Physics Societies: the American Physical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers, and the American Institute of Physics, have seen fit to honor me with their highest awards for research and writing. My research focuses on the beginning and end of the Universe. Among my contributions to the field of cosmology, I helped lead the search for dark matter, and first proposed the existence of dark energy in 1995. When I have the chance, I love to mountain bike, fly fish, and scuba dive. I spend a tremendous amount of time on planes now, alas, and enjoy flying, but hate airports.." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/victor-stenger/did-the-universe-come-fro_b_739909.html The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science http://richarddawkinsfoundation.org Atheist Alliance International http://atheistalliance.org
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So when we die we become nothing? No consciousness. Gone for eternity
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"Su-per-nov-ee" Seems strange that Krauss doesn't know the correct pronunciation of the term, but not that he might know it and refuse to change his own pronunciation.
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This is only a one hour video, if you don't understand or are unsatisfied then read the book.
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What was the hostile question that Richard Dawkins mentions in the beginning?
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Keep wanting him to slip up and say, "..the reason I got into cosmetology."
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I wonder how many people who've argued against this video have actually read his book.
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This guy just gave my mind a blowjob... And I don't know if I liked it
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8:50 a small hopefully unintended error ;-). Edwin Hubble did not discover that the Universe is expanding. The discovery of expanding universe is credited to Georges Lemaître (1927, also the Big Bang theory father). Edwin Hubble confirmed in 1929 the theory that had existed. Thus cannot be mentioned as discoverer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble%27s_law
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I love listening to Krauss. He has an uplifting effect.
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@hackum1"Fascinating lecture. Truth is much grander than any holy book nonsense."
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realy amazing
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I started watching this as a convinced atheist, expecting to hear the arguments confirming this in scientific terms. But I didn't - why does nobody address the fundamental question of existence itself? Science (and I admire scientists) surely can't locate/discern a true origin for anything, because by its own definition science would have to inquire beyond it, so there can never be an origin that we could understand.
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The philosophical question of "Did something come from nothing" doesn't matter if Nothing Never Was.
If the Universe is truly eternal, but we just can't see past the big bang, then it would make perfect sense. The "nothing" that Krauss describes is philosophically "something", but I see this as a non-issue. Because that singularity might have been the literal first state of all that is. In other words, Nothing was never a real thing. Something ALWAYS existed, and nothing is just a concept we made up, like Infinity. -
Krauss 1:04:27 delights in denying us interpretation of words like 'special' as he points out that there is nothing special when everything is equally unlikely. But special is just the observation of coincidence, like birthdays. His trademark style however is to imply causality and then argue against it. This is one way to illuminate your point but, like a skilled lawyer able to avoid conviction for a guilty client, we become painfully aware of the asymmetry of effort put into explaining both sides. And, ultimately, truth is under served.
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.. Interesting.
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Do you know what i like about Lawrence?
If you look at his mannerisms while his talking, especially when he says certain things, you can tell he's filled with absolutely no doubt. There's no faith here and that humbles him, it really, really does.
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you dont get something from nothing, thats a rule of science.
scientists like to say that to combat the idea of an eternal force -
What was the question
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Please correct me if I am on the wrong track but is it not likely that all or any other universe that might form should look the same as ours? Would the cosmological constant not always be the same, and would the exponential decrease in the density of matter not always intersect at more or less the same point on the graph (dependent on variations in the explosive force of the initial event)?
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