Lawrence Krauss on the Origins of the Universe

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1. "...the age- old assumption that something cannot arise from nothing has been turned on its head....
   Nonsense, a deceptive statement. It did not come from nothing, unless you redefine what nothing is. Quantum fluctuations, energy fluctuations in a vacuum are definitely NOT nothing. They too then have an origin, cause.
   I don't dispute the theory, just the definitions. This idiotic god debate has sucked scientists into putting their work into its context. I think if it weren't for the god debate Krauss would not have defined it as nothing.
2. mind blowing how they can see all the way back to the 1 billionth of a second which followed the Big Bang, and measure the temperature of galaxies 100 billion light years away. strange though how 95% of the bodies in our own solar system are yet to be undiscovered, and that most potentially dangerous meteors are only discovered as or after they pass Earth...
3. Many easy and children's jokes to distract, when a brilliant scientist, because of a personal opinion, comes out of his area to other areas that have not mastered, can fall into the ridiculous.
   
   Paul Davies Says Stephen Hawking’s Doesn’t Get Rid of God :
   "The laws of physics can explain, he (Hawking) says, how a universe of space, time and matter could emerge spontaneously, without the need for God. A much tougher problem now looms, however. What is the source of those ingenious laws that enable a universe to pop into being from nothing?
   The multiverse comes with a lot of baggage, such as an overarching space and time to host all those bangs, a universe-generating mechanism to trigger them, physical fields to populate the universes with material stuff, and a selection of forces to make things happen. Cosmologists embrace these features by envisaging sweeping “meta-laws” that pervade the multiverse and spawn specific bylaws on a universe-by-universe basis. The meta-laws themselves remain unexplained – eternal, immutable transcendent entities that just happen to exist and must simply be accepted as given. In that respect the meta-laws have a similar status to an unexplained transcendent God."
   
   Proverbs 8:22-31:
   The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: when he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: then I was with him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
4. He reminds me of Leonard Hofstander from Big Bang theory. Jokes aside, an amazing scientist. I can only hope to possess the knowledge he does.
5. Lana Del Rey does lip syncing
   chiao
6. What if universes are just spaces atoms? Boy are we small. I remember think our galaxy was all that existed.....
7. Hubble was a conceited idiot, about Krauss and the mental midgets that regurgitate his crap.... no comment
8. His amazing person. :)
9. Its a weird thing, and im not sure about it, but there is a strange similarity between prof Lawrence Krauss and dr Steven Greer...
10. Surely, you'd EXPECT the universe to be virtually uniform in temperature? When the parts were still close, soon after the start of expansion, temperature of all parts would have been uniform. Since stars and galaxies are relatively evenly spread, the heat they generate would - on the large scale - heat space the same. What would cause different parts of space to have DIFFERENT temperatures?
11. ugh Krauss gives same lecture with same jokes all over again kinda boring
12. I was keeping up until the last 15 minutes... I'm not very smart!
13. I like the explanation about how Earth might seem to be center of the Universe by noticing how all galaxies seem to be moving away from Earth. Minute 3:52 of the lecture.
14. fuck god rightin hislittle ass
15. lawrence is so easy to listen to. fuck god/gods. I want tofuck god
16. That guy is awesome.
17. Lawrence Krauss is an amazing scientist and all...but he tries to make too many jokes. I appreciate comedy, but not every ten seconds. Too much man...
18. Does it bother anyone else that a cosmologist says 'sup-er-nov-eye'? It's 'su-per-nov-ee!" dammit!
19. JW.ORG
20. Let's assume that somebody had answers to these questions. Is there a means to reach Krauss to speak with him about this stuff? By "answers", I'm referring to the means by which the lumpiness formed in microwave background radiation, the origin, relative ranges and relative dominance of the 4 fundamental forces of nature, how particles coalesce and decay, the mechanism behind empty space, its dark energy and dominance over gravity, the relationship between matter and anti-matter, how point particles occupy no space and have a finite mass, the mechanism behind quantum mechanics, how the singularity of the big bang appears so small and much more.