Why does anything exist at all? - Quentin Smith
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People have wrestled with the mystery of why the universe exists for thousands of years. Pretty much every ancient culture came up with its own creation story - most of them leaving the matter in the hands of the gods - and philosophers have written reams on the subject. But science has had little to say about this ultimate question. However, in recent years a few physicists and cosmologists have started to tackle it. They point out that we now have an understanding of the history of the universe, and of the physical laws that describe how it works. That information, they say, should give us a clue about how and why the cosmos exists. Their admittedly controversial answer is that the entire universe, from the fireball of the Big Bang to the star-studded cosmos we now inhabit, popped into existence from nothing at all. It had to happen, they say, because "nothing" is inherently unstable. This idea may sound bizarre, or just another fanciful creation story. But the physicists argue that it follows naturally from science's two most powerful and successful theories: quantum mechanics and general relativity. Here, then, is how everything could have come from nothing. http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141106-why-does-anything-exist-at-all
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There's only something, since I just thought that you didn't know that when we and us, then was not and I because for did but ........
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if their was time ,their would always be something.
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their is god and it exist it is not Christian or Jewish or Muslim it is just god!!!
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If he went any higher, only bats could hear him. He reminds me of Stewie sneering at Brian over "the book".
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The stuttering guy doesn't know what he's saying
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our brain evolved as a result of its limited experience , trying to find answers in this something. thats why its bending so much when put at work to solve something like this. it might be counterintuitive, but something had to exist, in order for this question to make sense.
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The stuttering guy needs some good kush to chill out and reflect more zen. Or trip on some lsd. lol
This dude is a professor emeritus in philosophy. Why didn't he coin any term for "some thing before something"? Or "no thing can only exist between some thing" What a schumk. -
'Quantum Fluctuations' take place is Space and in Time. Before the Big Bang there was no Space and Time. Sean Carrol, Max Tegmark and Lawrence Krause never explain how something comes from a TRUE NOTHING ( no Space, no Time, no Negative Energy, no Quantum Gravity) except to say that a True Nothing is unstable and will eventually collapse and become 'something'. That begs the question: In a No-Place and a No-When, how does a True Nothing eventually collapse. An incident happening 'eventually' involves Time. As mentioned - before the big bang there was no Time.
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2:16 what's with that weird expression all about?
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Simply the question can't be answered because of the way our minds operate. Our minds take inputs (facts/assumptions) and combine them in a certain way producing outputs (explanation/reasoning). but in this case there are no inputs to be processed in your brain from the first place!
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I like that "Science" now is explaining why a question can't be answered.
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Ok. So I watched this whole video and I'm stunned that Quentin Smith has an idea of nothing that he is unable to properly articulate. But I understood it, I think. So I will attempt to articulate it as I understood it, but do so more concisely and rigorously. According to QS, nothing is just the final state of a recursive infinite regression of states until the earliest possible state is reached, which can never be reached on a state by state analysis, but has an actual value of nothing when looked at as an inverse logarithmic regression. This means the initial "nothing state" is definable, but never reachable via any kind of incremental analysis. So nothing is just the simplest state. Sound about right?
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The most complete definition of "nothing" that I can come up with is that nothing is like an original idea that someone hasn't had yet. It doesn't exist. And when it does, you can't imagine a world without it. And therefore, the nothing that came before is unimaginable. That is precreation because every reality starts with an idea. And to have an idea without a mind may not be possible. Unless you invoke God. And that is perfect, because most of these guys are atheists. Which means the only thing that they can all agree upon is that the only real nothing to them, as atheists, is God. Which worst case scenario is still an idea, and therefore something. Which is why they don't ever go there. Just pondering...
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so stoned right now.
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Nothing doesn't exist. It takes pure energy to reach nothing, and then it becomes unstable. If someone wants to propose the possibility of nothing, they will have to produce it.
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Dude's brain exploded 2 minutes in, its simple, non existence doesnt exist, so there has and always will be existence, including your own
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i love to see people's brains break when asked this
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Mr. Smith is struggling with answering the questions. I'm amazed that he doesn't seem to be able to grasp the root of the concept of nothing. His answers never approach the premise. If there is nothing than all of the somethings that he speaks of are irrelevant. Something is no better than God. The acceptance of the concept of something in no less of the mass delusion of religion. I'm stunned that he doesn't seem to get this.
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