Lawrence Krauss: Why Are We Here? | Town Hall Seattle

Award-winning theoretical physicist and bestselling author Lawrence Krauss (The Physics of Star Trek, A Universe From Nothing) is not afraid to court controversy. In 2015, he made waves when he published an essay in The New Yorker with the headline: “All Scientists Should be Militant Atheists.” He also stormed out of a 2013 London debate entitled: “Islam or Atheism: Which Makes More Sense?” because the audience was segregated by gender in keeping with Muslim traditions. Krauss found this untenable. He later returned to the stage and shared his opinion that this sort of religious observance was inappropriate at a public college. In his new book, The Greatest Story Ever Told-So Far: Why Are We Here? Krauss explores the furthest reaches of space and time and the natural forces that govern our existence. He challenges us to re-envision ourselves and our place within the universe.

[@DisneyJF]

Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krause and Sam Harris in that order are instrumental for me who was a staunch catholic to become a liberated atheist. I will always be thankful to these wonderful men for liberating me from the prison built by Mathew, Mark Luke & John.

[@Prelatte]

Agree having listened to them all and of course Ricky Gervais I am a confirmed atheist too

[@DisneyJF]

@@Prelatte , I am an old man, Though Ricky is very good I would put George Carlin before Ricky.

[@StoicContrarian]

Sam Harris; he’s the one that buffoon made me almost go back to religion. He believes in spirits and metaphysical realities.

[@saiyagneshchadalavada8851]

@@StoicContrarian what? No! He does not!

[@diggyss]

Prisons builds by man, ...upon prisons.

[@station3913]

LOL at Lawrence hiding in the shadows during the introduction.

[@smiley235]

Squishy Things he's gone incognito

[@HouseJawn]

Was thinking the same thing

[@GamingBlake2002]

His character hasn't been unlocked yet

[@adurgh]

Safe to say this is the most enjoyed scientific lecture/seminar event I’ve seen so far. I Wish I was there.

[@foyorama]

I am not a scientist, far from it, but I truly enjoy his talks even though sometimes they are difficult for me to understand, they always give me a new perspective of the world around me.

[@daviddempsey8721]

Foyrama OU812, it takes courage to challenge your perspectives with things that are hard to understand.

[@pdworld3421]

The perspective he offers is complete fairy tale

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

You are not alone in that . Physics is non intuitive ....we aren't well armed in that arena

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

@@pdworld3421 Good luck with that

[@pdworld3421]

@@georgeelmerdenbrough6906 after watching a history on mathematics and watching how sides form I'm reluctant to believe a lot of the things I thought were cold hard facts

[@freespirit133]

I love listening to Lawrence, a brilliant communicator of science, amazingly intelligent with a good sense of humour. I've learnt so much from his talks.

[@riderchap]

What a brilliantly simple explanation of complex concepts.

[@afifakimih8823]

What a lecture.outstanding!!

[@brickwitheyes1710]

This is one of the best lectures ever!

[@donaldedward4951]

Now somebody has discovered the answer to that silly question, can we please move on.

[@helenbostock2350]

You explain its so well I did get the math questions.

[@pvoshefski]

thank you.

[@robertm3849]

thanks you, once again, for another great lecture... on to the next one. #forevercurious

[@BradWatsonMiami]

== The Conglomerate - Universe Creation Theory (combining GOD/Nature, Ancient Religions, Physics, Cosmology, General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Chaos Theory, Chemistry, Biology & Mysticism)== "Energy can't be created or destroyed in an isolated system. 'The BIG Bang-Bit Bang' inflation/ expansion of energy and information into the void 13.8 billion years ago was a supermassive white hole spawned by a supermassive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in our 'parent universe'. This duality combines general relativity’s singularities of infinite density in a ‘Cosmic Egg’ birth of this and all baby universes within 'The Conglomerate': multiverse without random bubble universes and parallel worlds. 'In the beginning', the Planck density of the core of a SBH acts as a birth canal. 'Quantum bubble SBH-SWH seed transitions' are 'quantum tunneling umbilical wormholes' with energy-matter and data transformed/transferred, albeit scrambled and encoded. Our Universe is 1-in-2 trillion 'self-similar offspring' each with the same inherited physical laws (‘DNA’). The ubiquitous cause-and-effect 'circle of life cycle': birth-life-death-transformation-rebirth explains infinite space and eternity - a requirement. Reproduction is GOD/Nature’s simple plan to greatly spread life for everything from cells to universes." - Seal #1a of the "7 Seals" revealed as 'Beyond Einstein Theories'; see 7seals.blogspot.com . This has triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation.

[@astroporpoise7802]

It was surreal having him turn to me at 1:20:09 and joke around with me, it was a great exchange of energy. Also, I'm happy at the reflection on Hitchens I was able to get out of him. That love of knowledge! But yeah, so glad my timeline is overlapping with Krauss' and that he made it so memorable for me. :)

[@johntobin7368]

+lowellaby - "so glad my timeline is overlapping with Krauss' " - What a very *cool* way to phrase that! Hadn't looked at it quite that way. But now that you mention it, we are living at a wonderful point in time aren't we, in which we are (or recently have been) collectively enriched by the lives, work and sheer *presence* of such minds as Krauss, Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, et.al.?

[@astroporpoise7802]

Thank you! :) And yes, we are living at such a wonderful time -- not just for the luminaries that help keep our minds open, but also because they can speak in public about controversial subjects without fearing for their lives! Thank goodness for the enlightenment. :)

[@rubenmartinez2994]

Beware of men considered luminaries. In my opinion he brings nothing new. The physics that he describes has been discovered by others and he is simply parroting. Big deal!

[@rubenmartinez2994]

Hey maybe Lawrence Krauss Ph.D. degree is also a "remarkable accident"!

[@astroporpoise7802]

When I watch him at the Nobel Conference 49, I'm struck by how quick to assume the other scientists and professors are -- and how steadfast Krauss is to remain skeptical. He's illuminating that way of thinking even among his mostly-like-minded (and established) peers. So, I don't consider him a luminary for his physics exactly, but for the fact that I'm inspired by his critical thinking and for his generosity in sharing it to the public.

[@willmpet]

What I have learned from this is a further understanding of "Flatland" and the consideration of additional dimensions.

[@HouseJawn]

Wow. Just watched the whole thing that was great.

[@bernaldelcastillo1768]

great shoes and hat Lawrence, the lecture interesting too!

[@speedypanda454]

“And crawling on the planet's face, some insects called the human race. Lost in time, and lost in space. And meaning.”

[@spencerm5913]

at 48:40 he talks about how the magnet waves are bounced off of the superconductor. lately I've been reading about radio transmission polarity. to reduce interference from your own signal, you can use a circularly polarized antenna. it propagates the wave in a spiral shape with either a left hand twist or right hand twist to the shape of the wave so that any reflections off of objects bounce off in reverse (LH turns to RH) and is not picked up as interference due to the antenna looking for a specific left or right waveform. is there anything of that nature relevant to electromagnetic waves? or is it specifically the frequency modulation aspect of radio? or would it not matter since the wave is still carrying a signal/energy, regardless of the shape of it's propagation through space. sincerely, uneducated me.

[@lmcov4]

I am so happy these make it to youtube.

[@BradWatsonMiami]

== The Conglomerate - Universe Creation Theory (combining GOD/Nature, Ancient Religions, Physics, Cosmology, General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Chaos Theory, Chemistry, Biology & Mysticism)== "Energy can't be created or destroyed in an isolated system. 'The BIG Bang-Bit Bang' inflation/ expansion of energy and information into the void 13.8 billion years ago was a supermassive white hole spawned by a supermassive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in our 'parent universe'. This duality combines general relativity’s singularities of infinite density in a ‘Cosmic Egg’ birth of this and all baby universes within 'The Conglomerate': multiverse without random bubble universes and parallel worlds. 'In the beginning', the Planck density of the core of a SBH acts as a birth canal. 'Quantum bubble SBH-SWH seed transitions' are 'quantum tunneling umbilical wormholes' with energy-matter and data transformed/transferred, albeit scrambled and encoded. Our Universe is 1-in-2 trillion 'self-similar offspring' each with the same inherited physical laws (‘DNA’). The ubiquitous cause-and-effect 'circle of life cycle': birth-life-death-transformation-rebirth explains infinite space and eternity - a requirement. Reproduction is GOD/Nature’s simple plan to greatly spread life for everything from cells to universes." - Seal #1a of the "7 Seals" revealed as 'Beyond Einstein Theories'; see 7seals.blogspot.com . This has triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation.

[@BradWatsonMiami]

@Rod Loucks You very rudely judged me, therefore... BY the power(77) vested in me by GOD as the reincarnated Christ(77=C3+H8+R18+I9+S19+T20), I hereby rule that 12.13.20 is your Judgment Day: you FAIL. Sentence: Really awful luck for the rest of your life, then your eternal soul won't be reincarnated as human for 17,400 years with 474 years incommutable. When you're born-again as human, it'll be under really hellish circumstances. Note: You can repent, publicly apologize, do many months of verifiable public service and petition this court for a retrial. GOD & Christ II are just & forgiving. However, any contempt-of-court Will result in an increased sentence. You're now part of a grand scientific experiment to last 1,000+ years. c.c. 7seals.yuku.com

[@BradWatsonMiami]

@Rod Loucks I attended 7 colleges (4 locally) and taught at an eighth. You? You're now guilty of contempt-of-court, therefore... BY the power(77) vested in me by GOD as the reincarnated Christ(77=C3+H8+R18+I9+S19+T20), I hereby rule that 12.13.20 is your Judgment Day: you FAIL. Sentence: Really awful luck for the rest of your life, then your eternal soul won't be reincarnated as human for 35,000 years with 2,000 years incommutable. When you're born-again as human, it'll be under really hellish circumstances. Note: You can repent, publicly apologize, do many months of verifiable public service and petition this court for a retrial. GOD & Christ II are just & forgiving. However, any contempt-of-court Will result in an increased sentence. You're now part of a grand scientific experiment to last 1,000+ years. c.c. 7seals.yuku.com I'll now block you.

[@wadeheaton123]

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[@diceblue6817]

"The hardest thing of all to see is what is really there." "The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see." Ayn Rand

[@donaldedward4951]

What Ayn Rand said tells one more about her mental processes than it does about those of the ''everybody'' she rrefers to.

[@gutzimmumdo4910]

actually thats really easy to explain, people have diferent opinios, grow up in diferent houses and places, boom, i explained it in less than half a line. the first one is very dumb also.

[@donaldedward4951]

@@gutzimmumdo4910 I was a deprived child. Nobody told me what to believe. Consequently, I have no idea what another person believes is ''right'' or ''wrong''. I am open to intelligent argument, however.

[@gutzimmumdo4910]

@@donaldedward4951 whut?

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

Ayn Rand had an agenda

[@WarpathHatred]

I really enjoy listening to this man.. fantastic mind

[@lawrencebishton9071]

thank you

[@blade9852]

whoah blew my mind

[@Quark.Lepton]

What a great man-a national treasure, without doubt.

[@ceceroxy2227]

yes the man who tells us something is nothing. real treasure

[@Quark.Lepton]

@@ceceroxy2227 Don’t give up! One day when (or if) you grow up, and you’ve attended high school, you might realize that, even though being a zoomer incel is a horrible fate, there will always be comic books and Scooby Doo reruns on TV!

[@williamslepourcelet837]

International !

[@rubenmartinez2994]

Lawrence Krauss said ;"We are hardwired to look for design", now the question, who or what wired use? Maybe in his next book he would tell us.

[@SystemScientist]

Great speaker.

[@leerybisquit]

What a shame the audio is so low.

[@AS-cy1jt]

you mention in the begining satelites are moving at 10kmph. i got a problem with that, since rotation of earth is approx 24+ kmph and since geo sync sats need to orbit even faster

[@whiskeybravo9936]

I believe that it's about 17k mph in low earth orbit. The earth rotates at about 1k mph at the equator. GPS satellites are not geo-stationary, but they are in a high orbit, so they move slower than the lower satellites. They move at about 10k mph...so Krauss was correct.

[@theflyingotis3797]

This was April of 2017?

[@brendarua01]

Plato in high school. What a concept!

[@pdworld3421]

10 minutes in and he's said Nothing. How appropriate.

[@raiage]

Lauwrence Krauss looks like Indiana Jones in this talk, it makes it even more amazing !!!

[@LogicAndReason2025]

Thought puzzles: With infinity and eternity everything that is possible, is probably inevitable. We are here, therefore we are possible. Perhaps endlessly repeating? (Heidegger- Being and Time?) Just as nothing (no-thing) lasts forever, nothingness can't last forever. Our being here seems almost impossible until you factor in infinity and eternity. We were inevitable. Which is more likely, or harder to conceive?: Infinity or non-infinity? Eternity or non-eternity?

[@Pondmann]

"Because we're here,...Roll The Bones"

[@NIKITKOKIS]

Roll the bones

[@christineoconnell9158]

My brain needed this

[@watchtowerwitch4426]

He is so cute n sweet n funny. Pleasure to listen to 😁😁😃

[@michaelfarrell4824]

Tell your editor to learn about audio levels

[@andrewmartin2274]

he looks like a villain in the background at begining

[@neilcates3499]

Andrew Martin: The Science Shadow knows

[@BradWatsonMiami]

== The Conglomerate - Universe Creation Theory (combining GOD/Nature, Ancient Religions, Physics, Cosmology, General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Chaos Theory, Chemistry, Biology & Mysticism)== "Energy can't be created or destroyed in an isolated system. 'The BIG Bang-Bit Bang' inflation/ expansion of energy and information into the void 13.8 billion years ago was a supermassive white hole spawned by a supermassive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in our 'parent universe'. This duality combines general relativity’s singularities of infinite density in a ‘Cosmic Egg’ birth of this and all baby universes within 'The Conglomerate': multiverse without random bubble universes and parallel worlds. 'In the beginning', the Planck density of the core of a SBH acts as a birth canal. 'Quantum bubble SBH-SWH seed transitions' are 'quantum tunneling umbilical wormholes' with energy-matter and data transformed/transferred, albeit scrambled and encoded. Our Universe is 1-in-2 trillion 'self-similar offspring' each with the same inherited physical laws (‘DNA’). The ubiquitous cause-and-effect 'circle of life cycle': birth-life-death-transformation-rebirth explains infinite space and eternity - a requirement. Reproduction is GOD/Nature’s simple plan to greatly spread life for everything from cells to universes." - Seal #1a of the "7 Seals" revealed as 'Beyond Einstein Theories'; see 7seals.blogspot.com . This has triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation.

[@alexkang7360]

Lol

[@dogvorbis]

I think he would appreciate this comment

[@alkhan6704]

Why are we here..and not there..we are never here..as we always long to be there..we are in midst.

[@glennsimonsen8421]

This is so ironic when Krauss brags about playing a villain in a Herzog film and then jokes that some view him as a villain in real life. And not long after this speech is he fired from ASU and the Origins Project for having taken advantage of multiple subordinate women. I understand he is now known as Dr. Creepy Krauss!

[@rebeccadubois8270]

Just allegations

[@rBennich]

​@@rebeccadubois8270 Remember that Krauss actually defended Jeffery Epstein. He did that all by himself and the internet never forgets.

[@jithinckck]

why no subtitles?

[@gweflj]

An outstanding public speaker.

[@pdworld3421]

Not at all.

[@benwarnock]

The music bit was pretty funny

[@mogadeet6857]

A great explanation of relativity. Ta.

[@TieXiongJi]

Release your fear for there is nothing to fear.

[@ripcord93]

Large Hadron Collider just got turned on? i don't understand, didn't experiments with that machine start yearss ago? is this video too old or am i missing something?

[@gmshadowtraders]

It was switched off for repairs I believe. Apparently we are supposed to go oohh and ahhh just because it gets switched back on again. You have to remember every little thing counts for the bottom feeders.

[@markmacfarlane3169]

Very low volume unfortunately

[@brianrakes5413]

light has exactly 1 and only 1 speed no matter the conditions or circumstances that being the speed of light

[@sturpdog]

He's been waiting so long for a chance to stunt on an audience with that ensemble

[@davidwilkie9551]

I do prefer to listen to the Prof's educational lectures, (like the direct approach), because in my own experience, the problem with getting taught one particular way of describing the world is that the effort to reverse the process and unlearn is twenty times longer than learning. (it turned out to be right) So the better plan is to carry on with what you know, but make it as complete as time and ability allows. Maybe it's a matter of natural symmetry, and "you can't teach pigs to sing", so always be constructive. (?) AI will replace the intelligent humans, but what about the rest then? At least there will be plenty of time to follow the path of Faraday, or is that already true?

[@helenbostock2350]

Ok I like asking questions. I sure you are smart enough to know that if you talk to ice nicely the crystal shape changes in pretty pattern and if you talk to them with bad words the crystal will have be distorted. How do you explain that Do good vibration change the ice crystals.

[@jamescollier3]

lol. no

[@bryandraughn9830]

B.S.

[@venkybabu8140]

Electricity has surface waves and vibration and alignment. But magnetic field curves spaces with a flower spring action for movement. Mostly electric motors run with spring action of twisted lines of forces of magnetic fields. That's why they induce ahead of time for electric vibration to travel. Otherwise electricity cannot travel. Induction is a process of looking ahead. Impedance is opposite and that's why you have to bend the electric coil in such a way that force power is on a line or a circular or elliptical. The elliptical is always the true way because of lookahead. In a nucleus it is the lines of curves of a magnetic field that are curved so much to trap electrons in its position. The centre of black holes should have massive electron traps in magnetic fields. Time is a curvature ratio of fields. Heating is always an impedance curve. That's why you have so much heat in the stars. Normal atoms don't have impedance so not much heat. Can you bend lasers for propulsion. Or at least quantum computing.

[@seabud6408]

It’s significant that when ever Dr Krauss describes the lead up to a new discovery, he mentions again and again ... all the seamlessly integrated “accidents” which have produced the complexity (Universe) he has spent his career exploring. Count his use of the word accident and then listen to the part where he described why he was so resistant to the “fact” that a field like The Higgs “permeates all of space”. So resistant to what he likened to “something which sounds religious” ... omnipresent and powerful. So resistant due to his unconscious bias against the actual holistic organismic nature of the Universe... that he wrote “5 papers” about how the Higgs could not be actual. He has absolutely no self awareness regarding his militant materialist bias. His notion that the Universe ... despite the obvious evidence ... cannot possibly be more akin to an organism than a machine. He would rubbish this as unscientific but would them emphasise all the “accidents” in all this order he and his colleagues uncover. Hypocrisy. What is the obvious evidence that the Universe is organismic and conscious at every level? Super hot plasma left to effectively cool and clump within its intrinsic order of the 4 forces and integral geometry/mathematics .... and some waiting around for 14 billion years for some interaction growth/evolution/mixing/reacting to happen ... produced Einstein and Walt Disney ( but not directly Mickey Mouse 🐭 ) ...produced all this .... without one single human thought or scientific theory. Why can’t science just SEE the obvious .... that is the same growth process as an egg to a chicken. The Universe is one field of energy ... there are no particles (ask Dr Sean Carroll) It’s holographic ... from top to bottom and inside out (ask Dr Leonard Suskind) It’s entangled and connected instantaneously (ask any physicist about non locality and the measurement problem) And ... this is the other part where Dr Krauss’s bias cannot allow him to go ...we know part of this one unitary field/entity is alive and conscious ... I just checked with ME, MYSELF, I. The only fact I can know for certain without consulting anyone ... any scientist. Therefore we know a part of this unified field is alive and conscious ... this means that that quality is holographically intrinsically inseparable from the WHOLE FIELD ... THE UNIVERSE. Any other conclusion contradicts logic, cause and effect. Mr Krauss seems unaware that chickens and eggs exist ... and that if he plants a tiny seed a redwood tree will grow .... with just some soil and the seasons as support. Like the (once plasma) Universe, it will grow from the state of its own nature/environment/intrinsic forces/teleology. Hot plasma to Einstein....... there is not an “accident” to be found in that whole growing and ever evolving process. To think otherwise would be to believe that if an Atom Bomb was detonated in outer space (resulting in super hot plasma), we would just have to wait around for 14 billion years for Mickey Mouse and Walt Disney to appear from it (though not necessarily in that order 😀. Of course no one would expect that to happen .... but it did happen 14 billion years ago ... because unlike an A bomb blast the Big Bang plasma has the whole Universe and everything we perceive in it ... enfolded in potential in that primordial infinitely dense ball of energy (including consciousness/subjectivity and of course what was to become the unresolved “measurement problem” in quantum theory/physics) It’s embarrassing to listen to an intelligent person indoctrinating children in his audience with this militant materialist drivel. A grown man actively destroying the wonder he is a manifestation, while suggesting the same cynical preposterous myopic vision, be adopted by his audience. He wrote 5 papers railing against a group of scientists intuition that there must be a Universal field like The Higgs responsible for the phenomena of mass. What more do you need to know. No one knows what ... Energy IS Life IS What consciousness IS No one knows how something comes out of nothing or how a Universe or (as is more likely) a likely cyclic Universe could have always existed .... eternally... out of time. It’s one or the other isn’t it? No one knows how chemistry becomes conscious biology ... but it did. This suggests that energy/plasma ... has never been dead/inert/lifeless/unconscious at any stage. Evidence? No one knows how chemistry transitions to biology. No one can discern a once only transition point from dead to alive from unconscious to conscious. This would suggest the hypothesis of an eternal living conscious (Organismic) Universe at every level is ... however bizarre, more likely a more accurate representation of actuality. This suggests that energy is both alive and conscious at some level ... and can grow at a Universal and personal scale SIMULTANEOUSLY. It is both subjective and objective. We are energy evolved ....and we have an internal subjective Universe in addition to what looks like an external but integral outward UNIVERSE as our field of perception and lived reality. No wonder physics is in a dead end at present .... they actually believe that the Universe is a dead unconscious machine .. which came alive and conscious in us ... by accident and from a preexisting dead unconscious state. For Dr Krauss’s vision to be accurate there would have had to be a near infinite series of accidents... on the journey , “dead” unconscious plasma to living conscious Einstein. It beggars belief ... drop the militant materialist dogma, it’s intellectually embarrassing and detrimental to our continued existence on this planet 🌍 which is being exploited as if it’s a dead mechanical machine. Wonder why? Science tells and has told children (future scientists) and citizens this false narrative/fairy story for 200 years and counting.

[@seabud6408]

@@schmetterling4477 Really? All your saying is that you are fully subscribed to the militant materialist paradigm ... which has not the first clue what energy IS, what life IS, what consciousness IS. What the Universe and the individual are. Give me your solution to “the measurement problem” in quantum mechanics. Itemise your knowledge of how “dead” plasma (dead “virtual” Lego like particles) “developed” subjectivity/intelligence/consciousness .... let alone came to (self regenerative) LIFE. I’ll spare you the easy stuff ... what dark energy dark matter IS. Failing that, watch the following documentary about the late Prof David Bohm, protégé of Einstein, friend and colleague of Sir Roger Penrose, who (as Prof Penrose has) has made some headway to establishing a new holistic paradigm, which has at least a chance of moving beyond the the impasse you are, it seems, not even aware of. Your bull***t is already known, figured out and complete. That’s militant materialism for ya. Film - Infinite potential. The life and ideas of David Bohm. kzbin.info/www/bejne/marWfqOXmcqWnLc Live a little outside the box 📦 Read “The Science Delusion” by Dr Rupert Sheldrake” an eminent research scientist/plant biologist, who also dialogued with the philosopher/mystic Jiddu Krishnamurti and Bohm and who’s theories re the importance of field phenomena in Biology, are being explored as we speak, by a biologist, tipped as likely get a Nobel prize for his work by fellow scientists. Many cutting edge physicists think that insights from biology may lead the way out of their current impasse. You don’t know there is an impasse .... THAT is my point. The precursors of a paradigm flip always sound crazy. Aristotle, Western Theology, Copernicus, Newton, Einstein/Bohr .... ? What is crazy about acknowledging that dead unconscious plasma (dead, according to materialism) ... from its own nature and order and with no help from human thought or science ... produced conscious chickens 🐓 and eggs 🥚 and humans 💃🏻 This came about with just some clumping cooling and waiting around/and self interacting. The current paradigm has no way of accounting for this or has an understanding that is remotely logical Huge aspects of reality are ignored by physicists ... ie the nature of life/consciousness, yet they say they are seeking a “Theory of everything”. Everything should mean ... EVERYTHING ... shouldn’t it? Not everything ... minus all the hard core stuff that we haven’t the first clue about. The materialist assumptions that aren’t working/don’t map on to living organismic reality, need to be questioned. You don’t know that project is underway. How can plasma give rise to living conscious organism at the universal and individual level ... if the potential for the same, is not inherent in the initial state and the possibly eternally cyclic Universal system as a whole. Crazy? bull***t? You should keep the above in mind and watch the film 2001 a Space Oddysey again. As much documentary as Sci fi. It sets out the actual mystery of existence ... in widescreen. A great work of art. It was written by the telecommunications scientist and author Arthur C Clarke who was also interested in the work of Prof Bohm and the mystic J. Krishnamurti. D. Bohm dialogued with JK about the nature of reality, for almost 3 decades. Mystic - someone who experiences Universe as self and not intellectually. There is a subjective Universe in other words/which is not a separate reality from what we perceive as being wholly objective. Experimental work guided by Bohm’s theories is currently being pursued by a group of UK scientists. You haven’t noticed that materialism and it’s tech ... wonderful as it is ... is wedded to blind capitalism and we are sitting on the branch, being sawn through by its unfolding, over the past 200 years. Look out your window at the weather patterns and then watch the news. The consequences of militant materialism are writ large and unquestioned are all around us.

[@SystemScientist]

Fantastic presentation for laymen😊

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

Is reality just the relationship between all things and the times and spaces they inhabit ?

[@elijaguy]

11:17 shadow of lawrence on the wall of the stage

[@cosmicmirror1320]

Jordan Peterson and Lawrence together in conversation would make a phenomenal impact on their listeners...

[@samboss2091]

JP is a not smart person throwing around jargon words, Lawrence is an actual smart person

[@rBennich]

@@samboss2091 Would a smart person defend Jeffery Epstein?

[@kaarlimakela3413]

A commenter asked earlier: Why the wheelchair? :) *Dr. Strangelove* starring Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers as Kissinger with degree from M.I.T) ... *UFO Expert Doctor VON Scott* (Rocky Horror Picture Show), *Stephen Hawking* (Star Trek: Next Gen) ... the *bald-headed X-Men wrangler ... you know* ... Makes perfect sense. :)

[@phoenixskeptic7698]

If Krauss was so well educated in Canada, why is he wearing those shoes?

[@PugetSoundFlyer]

I was there!

[@thejcquartet6943]

Brilliant as usual.

[@peterbarker8249]

,.why where are we...

[@patrickkilduff5272]

I thought the moral of the cave experiment was that people who were let out would want to go back to the cave since it is familiar and 'normal' to them, while the real world is scary and too bright....

[@smujismuj]

The reason we didn't build the collider in Tx was because we have idiots in Congress who can't understand priorities, not because there wasn't enough money.

[@AnnoyingMoose]

Another option once considered was to build it on the border with Quebec and have Canada contribute to the budget but even then there wasn't enough money.

[@nullpup]

louie "gomer pyle" gohmert doesn't believe in math

[@donjonsen5295]

No,you have Congress confused with theists in Texas. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnrXh3qPlp1pac0

[@jamescollier3]

They all backed out when it wasn't in their district

[@executivesteps]

Actually it was a choice between building the accelerator (SSC) or building the space station (ISS). The space station won.

[@aglasser100]

The eternal book tour.

[@ismschism5176]

25:20 "no experiment you can perform..." [to know if we're moving or not] then he mentions at 25:50 a traveling Earth & galaxy?? What gives? 24:31 "therefore true" - eww, 'bout threw-up in my mouth there. This speach does have some good nuggets; will have to return some day.

[@DesertDmitri]

1) You're missing the second part, "at a constant speed." Moving at a constant velocity from your reference frame is indistinguishable from being static. See calculus, if your velocity is a constant its derivative is zero hence static, hence indistinguishable. 2) Right, without leaving the earth and changing your reference frame, you can't perform an experiment to determine which body is moving and with which relation. I.E. Two trains moving at a constant velocity in opposite directions, without changing reference frames, you couldn't determine if train one was moving, one was static and the other moving, etc.

[@davedave9455]

we dont know

[@saudade5373]

keep on trucking rs

[@AtamMardes]

Evidence shows we are here because of a natural, accidental, mindless, amoral, imperfect, unplanned, unintentional, unguided, unkind & unintelligent evolutionary process. But religion has fooled the gullible people feeling especial by believing we are here because of an intentional, mindful, moral, perfect, kind, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient & loving creator with an intelligent plan.

[@ceceroxy2227]

which evidence is that.

[@AtamMardes]

@@ceceroxy2227 Fossil and DNA.

[@raminjan6942]

@@ceceroxy2227 Dude how old are you wtf

[@brawnerbandwidthmusic2529]

When Krauss has the beard I always think of evil Spock.

[@TheJosep70]

Because we're here. R.I.P. Neil.

[@Sharperthanu1]

THAT is where we come from.

[@RonJohn63]

1:06:49 Think how much science could be done if a tiny fraction of the social budget (which *dwarfs* the Defense budget) were cut by a measly 1%.

[@DesertDmitri]

1)Yeah..why spend money COLLECTED FROM the people..on the people. Let's pay defense contractors more right? In 2015, the world's countries spends about $1.6 trillion on defense, U.S accounts for 37% of total. U.S. is a 4.3-4.5% of the world pop. You think this country spends enough on defense? 2) If you want to increase the U.S budget by cutting defense and that amount spending on the sciences, I agree.

[@bluecrystal3900]

Are you in the red shoe club?

[@ChrisDragotta]

Is the Higgs Field the same as Dark Matter?

[@whiskeybravo9936]

no

[@yakovisaacs6441]

EXPERIMENT and EXPERIENCE form the cornerstones of existence. While experiment refers to objectivity the kinds of exercises we conduct in the lab to test a hypothesis, experience usually refers to subjectivity wherein we are aware of our thoughts, feelings, surroundings and can cogitate on experimental results or simply bask in our self awareness or enter the realm of imagination in which comparing past results, dreaming up new ideas, poetry, creativity and subconscious impressions play out. Science is stuck with the objective or experimental side of existence as seen in its mathematical models that it tests out in labs but where subjectivity is concerned well science remains clueless.

[@davegonnaway6007]

When he was a fan of Plato I was a fan of play dough

[@kencrotty3984]

I thought he was a fan of Harry Stottle!

[@georgeelmerdenbrough6906]

I am still a fan of play doh

[@davegonnaway6007]

@@georgeelmerdenbrough6906 I should call it play doh...i like the trademark infringement...

[@jestermoon]

7:30 play-do?

[@Gringohuevon]

and if the real world is a shadow of a further deeper real world?

[@moreplatesmoreface]

it wouldn't matter

[@Raphael_NYC]

Dr. Krauss: you are a wonderful human being. Thank you for sharing. Just awesome. raphael santore

[@rubenmartinez2994]

Just awesome, WHY?

[@666legnadibrom]

ruben martinez you have a huge raging hard on for Kraus, don't you? You've commented on every single comment on here.

[@rubenmartinez2994]

Yes, He is using science to propagate his religion 'atheism', instead of sticking with science. His Logic is faulty and his interpretations wrong. He devalues the belief of others, in fact he has said that we are "Cosmic pollution" which disparages all of us. He says it with a smile. I my opinion he despicable.

[@--ART3MIS--]

no, not all of us (don't even try that game..). just the self-centerd idiots. you're welcome.

[@Emanuel_carey]

What about the principal?

[@--ART3MIS--]

can somebody explain: what is it between Lawrence Krauss and Neil deGrasse Tyson?

[@warriorqueen94]

I was wondering the same thing but as far as I know, it's just a friendly pulling of the leg. They're friends and know each other well.

[@speedmindjuhan305]

EVERY CREATION HAS A CREATOR... it will not survive by its own without supervision right

[@mihaelaulieru3063]

The greatest scientist storyteller !! 👏👏👏👏👏

[@juju2345]

Genius. Too bad if he doesn’t respect someone’s imaginary friends or authoritarian tendencies.

[@billcosbyeatsbabies9947]

those ruby red shoes though

[@diceblue6817]

"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see." Ayn Rand "maybe i'll begin with a picture of Donald Trump" - pathetic the "MAYBE IF WE'RE JUST NICE TO EVERYBODY AS THE WORLD GOES TO HELL, I'LL BE MORE POPULAR ON SOCIAL MEDIA" crowd really love themselves.

[@ih181]

Bitter enough?

[@travisfitzwater8093]

To protect us from the never-ending fuss over the wall.

[@donaldedward4951]

Now somebody has discovered the answer to that silly question, can we please move on. Making sense is not a priority for Krauss. If it were, he would talk at a reasonable speed. Proving the idiocy of Islam is like a walk in the park. Gee, I missed his London performance. GOOD !

[@daveskerritt185]

Well. I arrived here through my mom and dad. Where was I when Jesus, Galileo, and Einstein, were around? All those hundreds and thousands of years went by, ,and then I came out of complete darkness out of my mothers womb. Where was I during the Middle Ages? How did I miss the George Washington administration. Or Lincoln"s Gettysburg address? Where was I over 2000 years ago when Jesus supposedly gave the Sermon On the Mount. Gee, I sure wasn't around in those caveman and dinosaur days. Where the hell was I to miss all that! Oh, I know. I had to be a gleam in my father's eye! :)

[@lifeunderthemic]

Natures egg form, that womb, was.

[@lesalabs]

Sound poor, no CC.

[@nicosteffen364]

So i am not to wide, i just walk to slow!

[@OscarMaris]

Ronald McDonald called. He wants his shoes back.

[@bertmollar]

LOL Yeah those shoes violate the laws of physics.

[@josephsmith6777]

Red shoes have deeper meaning if u think im wrong look into it

[@sevengrapes1257]

@@josephsmith6777 You are quite right . I commented on another thread, his habitual appearance in red shoes says far more about him and society than any amount of talks he can give. It is no coincidence. Pure evil.

[@tedgunderson67]

Red shoe club, it’s terrifying.

[@jestermoon]

Take A Moment They are My Shoes 👞 Jester Moon The Wizard of Silly. Hi from very sunny Calgary Untruedauxland Stay Silly Stay Safe and Stay Free 😅

[@ivanbarbosa81]

Great sense of humor

[@RonJohn63]

56:59 But Mozart concertos don't cost $12 billion.

[@robertw2930]

What with the shoes Dorothy?

[@shmookins]

Styling it up a little. :)

[@flawns]

When you are the shit in physics, why do could you care about people opinion? If I win a Nobel prize(probably wont happen) in physics, I will dye my hair purple.

[@blade9852]

hes pulling off that look

[@rubenmartinez2994]

He looks like a giant leprechaun.

[@MrGOTAMA420]

wouldnt that just be an irish person?

[@rubenmartinez2994]

Scientific method and Virtual particles; The cause and effect or the principle of causation plays important role in the analysis of physical phenomena. When a phenomena is observed the scientist always looks for the cause of the observed effect based on scientific known principles. But if no such principles or laws are found in the storehouse of knowledge, then the theoretical physicist attempts to invent one by using abstract thinking called mathematical reasoning. Virtual particles is an invention by means of such methods. In modern physics a Virtual particles is a phenomena that can only be inferred by mathematically, such as laws of symmetry, but it's never directly observed or Virtual particles could also be detected by its secondly physical effects (disturbance) in experiments, but never directly. Hence the term "virtual particles" .

[@darkmatter7124]

I dont understand

[@Pegasus4213]

!Why are we here?": 'To buy the book!', obviously!. Did you all get one?

[@manubantuh4231]

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[@paulsackery8692]

19:40.😂