Bob Berman - Strange Universe

Quantum revelations and recent cosmological discoveries have led us to completely new understandings of the universe. Astronomer and author Bob Berman explores these new ideas, including the nature of "empty space," the non-reality of time, the curious inter-relationship between the observer and nature and what it really means if the universe is indeed infinite.
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[@olegkuznetsov5784]

Nice lecture by a very deeply thinking person coming out of real scientific school. I mean what Bob tells is not which he just believes. I guess he tried all he could to support in his early career the "classical" approach. And only when his own perception became too contradicting to what the reality is - only after this he started to revisit his opinion about this reality and what classical science offers on this as of today. I would vote 100% for what Bob suggests as a fair and honest vision on our existence in this Universe. Especially I would support the absence of length as a parameter in our reality. Even that for a second we forget about relativity - the measurement of any distance itself by us (humans!) is some rather "spooky" process - where we really cannot understand WHAT do we measure. What we can say definite - is that our measurements of any distance or time are good "tools" in our everyday life - while we are still too bad in conclusions we try to make up out of our everyday experience. We are merely nowhere with understanding what we measure and in WHAT we live. Imagine our perception of macro-reality around us changes to a perception from a tiny "camera" and then we (like ants or much smaller creatures...) would see reality in absurdly different way - thus we would understand that what we believe we see - is quite artificial and "humanistic". If we turn into the "rogue" mode of Reality - and throw away our brain work "adaptations" we would maybe see quite different World around us. And this is maybe what Bob pretty well understood through his scientific career. Thus - great respect and also I would mention Robert Lanza and Biocentrism which is maybe one of the most true and fair/honest approaches I have ever heard of and in which I am more and more believing compared to any Standard Model theories.

[@anothermonkeyproductionino2331]

Perhaps the universe is expanding because our consciousness is expanding.

[@Raydensheraj]

Doubt that the cosmos cares much about one of it's biological lifeforms...

[@anothermonkeyproductionino2331]

The "cosmos" in question radiates purposefulness and emotion, It guides us in evolution. For tens of thousands of years it was a roadmap to understanding nature. It created philosophers and cosmetologists and science in all it forms. With all it's perfection for life and you say it doesn't care. @@Raydensheraj

[@jeffolsen4983]

And contracting.

[@kp6880]

If only....

[@SimplifiedTruth]

As we measure more, more is rendered on observation. Just as the horizon is rendered more and more in Sims the further you travel towards it. Nothing was everywhere. It's all data structure rendered on measurement.

[@jeffolsen4983]

Do you, Bob Berman, see these comments? Whether you do or don't, respects to you.

[@Raydensheraj]

I looked this video up because I'm planning on reading his new Book... I admit that I don't like this type of "negative" presentation. We came a long way and Science keeps moving forward - while there are obviously questions...the standard model and General Relativity - us being able to use the entire spectrum from Radio to Gamma - New Horizons reaching Pluto & Ultima Thule - Juno at Jupiter - the outstanding Cassini Mission - Quantum computers slowly becoming a useable technology - 4000 Exoplanets confirmed - Professor Genzel and his Team at the Max Planck Institute 25 Year Study of the center of our Galaxy basically confirming a central, supermassive Black hole... Dark Matter experiments, Fermilabs Muon experiment, Fast Radio Bursts detection, ITER Fusion experiment being constructed, the technology used protecting the Solar Parker Probe... There is a lot of great things going on... This Man talks about Quantum physics and mixes it up with a bit of "woo woo metaphysics"... I hope his Book ( Earth Shattering ) is better then this presentation... By the way, Biocentrism is a ridiculous and arrogant pseudo hypothesis and might impress teenager...

[@christinebadostain6887]

Was not Quantum physics considered "ridiculous and arrogant" at one time?

[@jeffolsen4983]

Swedenborg.

[@jeffolsen4983]

God's laughter.

[@davidwalker5054]

I'm not the brightest bloke in the world but I do know that you don't have to be an astrophysicist with letters after your name To know the universe is strange

[@protodhamma]

36:45 Kama Loka, Rupa Loka, Arupa Loka

[@abcdefghij8698]

Weird the author has not touched on the subject that all we see, feel and experience around us is pure emptiness, a 100% empty space, that we register the manifestations of protagonist and antagonist forces, but we essentially do not know where they originate from, apart from the fact that we know that they originate because the two sides of matter having antagonist and protagonist properties, but again we cannot find or determine what that matter essentially is, because as we descend from the galactic scale into the microcosm, the empty space takes the most of space, that we float on a very odd island full of matter called our planet, but then on the molecular, atomic, subatomic and quark gluon levels the empty space again takes the most of space and we aren't sure is there is and ever will be found the smallest particle, thus making us to presume that the emptiness is everything, and that the forces we observe originate from that emptiness and are emptiness. Usually biocentrists start there, as it stumbles any educated or uneducated person.

[@malcolmlockridge1853]

Keep smoking the green, brother. :-)

[@jessewallace12able]

The universe is expanding seems like a joke.

[@Aluminata]

He mostly jumps around like a flea, never quite completing a train of logic.

[@markspc1]

bob berman biggest fraud !