To Seek Cosmic Origins | Episode 1711 | Closer To Truth

How did the universe begin? We seek cosmic origins. How things start helps reveal what things are. How to conceive the beginning of the universe? What are latest theories? Are they all speculation? What’s the recent evidence? Featuring interviews with Alan H. Guth, Andreas Albrecht, James Hartle, Laura Mersini-Houghton, and Don Page.
Season 17, Episode 11 - #CloserToTruth
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[@rabeeet]

Robert is such a humble man. He goes to every person who might have an answer or a part of it, asks the right questions and listens attentively. One of my favourite people tbh

[@toxendon]

Absolutely, refreshing in a world of bias, struggle between religions and ideologies

[@tomingrassiaimages8776]

agree. He is an amazing listener and his questions are incredible...like he really know the mind of his interviewee.

[@faisalfardin1847]

He doesn't interrupt when somebody is talking and respects the view point of others even if they dont match with his. I love this guy!!!

[@chrisbennett6260]

Well their easier topics to discuss .their not politics .geopolitical.ecomical issues

[@faisalfardin1847]

Every day i learn new things and realize that i don't know anything really. There is always much much more to learn about basically anything. Curiosity is the best gift humanity got from this world.

[@OmniGuy]

I find the people who simply say "I don't know" much more credible than those who say they know for sure.

[@OmniGuy]

@J w I agree......totally.

[@suprafiend111]

"i dont know" sometimes is the most intellectually honest answer.

[@garybalatennis]

Yes, it’s true of course that no one “really knows” ultimate answers and folks shouldn’t pretend they do - which is an obvious argument for avoiding arrogance and accepting humility. On the other hand, there is nothing wrong with thinkers and commentators offering their ideas and theories for consideration, analysis and testing. That is how progress is made. Theory is offered. Experimentation, testing, prediction, confirmation, refutation, verification, falsification are pursued and done - these are the essence of the scientific method and the way to advancement. I say keep pushing the human conversation and journey forward.

[@OmniGuy]

@@garybalatennis I couldn't agree more Gary. That was my point. When you positively think you already know the answer you stop looking. When you admit you don't know you want to search farther.

[@onestepaway3232]

We have logic and reason. I don’t know can’t hold water. They just want to ignore the elephant in the room.

[@6xxj773]

This channel is a hidden gem

[@edoda1438]

This is the masterpiece of this channel. Well done, keep up your life research!

[@thegreath.sapiensapien6907]

GOD IS A PROGRAMMER, SO WHO CREAT GOD?.

[@-JSLAK]

@@thegreath.sapiensapien6907 If your question is genuine, God wasnt created, god always existed and god exists outside of time space and matter.

[@alikarimi-langroodi5402]

We only know very little about this life - the behviour side if it is explained by David Attenborough. The physical side of it needs mathematics as the basic.

[@patrowan7206]

This is the most edifying series I've seen. The humble and respectful perspectives of Robert Kuhn presented with such high production values make this quality information remarkably accessible and enjoyable. I am grateful for this.

[@chrisbennett6260]

Greatful hood

[@deanwilson8955]

It’s comforting to know others ask the same questions I’ve been asking over the last 30 years. There is so much I’d like to know, but alas, will never know...at least while existing in the physical universe. Afterwards, who knows?

[@bloggerfromthefuture]

I greatly appreciate all you do. And you never ask for anything in return.

[@JohnSmith-gp9ut]

Amazing content but god there are so many ads. I like to listen while I lay in bed falling asleep but impossible with all the ads.

[@IIVVBlues]

Use one of the free ad blocker apps. for KZbin.

[@arc46789]

You can pay for youtube premium. I have and am never going back. I never see ads while also paying creators.

[@andrewmoran7353]

I’m a student and advocate of Closer to the Truth really enjoy 😊 each and every episode 🤔👌👀

[@ucrohenry]

Great content Robert. Please continue the journey. We also want to know the truth.

[@garybalatennis]

The ultimate question and Grand Mystery for us humans since time immemorial is not just how the Universe began - but Why? Or if there was no “beginning” to the Universe, then why such a beginning-less Universe at all? Or why the Multiverse (if that is the case)? In short: Why existence? Options (from least to most “satisfying”): 1. Brute fact. Go home, that is all. 2. No purpose or meaning. Pure random naturalistic chaos. 3. A specific or general meaning and purpose that we cannot ever understand or know. 4. A meaning or purpose that we can at least obtain a distant and faint glimmer of, and which justifies its existence, evolution and conclusion. (Many thanks for these videos, by the way. Mind-blowing.)

[@billnorris1264]

Cable quality programming on KZbin? YES indeed!.. Well done.. Good questions, and the ANSWERS given by the guests were all worthy of serious consideration, save one, which will remain unnamed.. Chalmers didn't appear this time..He's a person I like to dismiss, BUT the one I would personally choose to spend an afternoon with discussing reality..Peace.

[@bajajones5093]

Doc, all I can say is "Grazie"!

[@Terence__]

Yesssssssa another episode.. 🇳🇦😄

[@cenkandic]

Alan H. Guth is a good scientist

[@mitseraffej5812]

In Guths model of “eternal inflation” does the age of 13.8 billion years calculated for our universe apply only to our “pocket universe”. The word “eternal” to me implies not only no end but also no beginning. Has the process of “pocket universe” formation been going on forever?

[@nurbaidoa]

Eye-opening experience.

[@nicholasa8969]

Always good

[@akumar7366]

Canada 🍁 is such a beautiful setting, I think from many posts I've watched, inflation idea is being opposed by many leading scientists for example Roger Penrose CCC theory, it will be interesting how this discussion proceeds.

[@_a.z]

That just turned into baby talk towards the end!

[@raymondparsley7442]

"How" did the Universe begin is ,indeed, the right question to ask, and one that only scientific research and study can answer. For the sake of conversation and common sense, the "why" is irrelevant... as it implies an intelligent creator, a deity if you will, taking the "answer" into the religious realm.

[@williamburts5495]

religion might be the only answer to " why " since the universe isn't a self-explanatory reality. The " why " can only be understood subjectively not objectively since all of our conceptions and perceptions are within consciousness not matter.

[@williamburts5495]

@Mazza P " Why " or " how " represents an ultimate reality beyond the material world but since material science can never know such a thing by material means scientist would rather not give credence to such a reality. If the universe did begin to exist such a thing would represent an event, but where did the event take place? It couldn't have taken place within itself since that would imply that it already existed, so to me there must be an ultimate reality that the universe exist in.

[@astrol4b]

Frankly I find the why far more relevant, the how it's interesting but not much relevant

[@WISE1]

Open minds; healthy dialogues; non-arguementative approaches; well thought out questions and answers; these are hallmarks of CTT. Well done and many thanks, RLK; for bringing us all 'closer to truth.' Whatever we are able to discover about the 'supreme intelligence' behind the formation of the cosmos [and beyond] in our very brief human existence: our knowledge will be exponentially enhanced in future life experiences [herein is 'hope']. I ask: is that 'belief' not a splendid idea of how to live out an eternity?! To wit: knowing the Supreme Being and Creator of all things. That is: all things visible and invisible; known and unknown; material and immaterial; physical and spiritual; limited and limitless; laws of nature and a lawgiver; created and Creator, effect and cause; darkness and light-source: emptiness and void, giving way to space, time, and matter. In the beginning - of the cosmos as we know it - God said "Let there be light" and light sprang into existence - as fast as a big bang explosion of energy, light particles, and all atomic and subatomic particles necessary to form a universe. To God be glory; now and for all ages to come!

[@Domispitaletti]

Big Bang is not an explosion. Is just the period after superluminal expantion of space when inflation stops.

[@TheSwordofra]

Ultimate truth in general terms is like the speed of causality. You can get closer and closer to it by putting in more and more effort, but you can't get there because you need infinite energy. Maybe with ultimate truth you need infinite amounts of processing power, knowledge and wisdom. Which means you will never ever reach a point where you can clearly see ultimate truth

[@andrebrown8969]

I love these discussions, I actually do. It does not bring me any closer to believing in god, but I like these discussions.

[@andrebrown8969]

@@rehvex I think at the heart of it that is what many people are looking for. And god can be anything they want it to be.

[@nihlify]

@@andrebrown8969 then it isn't God...

[@andrebrown8969]

@@nihlify there is no god

[@melissaflanary7]

I myself also enjoy the conversations

[@prime_time_youtube]

@@andrebrown8969 _I think at the heart of it that is what many people are looking for. And god can be anything they want it to be._ That is stupid when philosophers talk about the classical concept of God they refer to a being that is immaterial, atemporal, spaceless, powerful enough to create the Universe and probably conscious. Obviously many details are different from worldview to worldview, but you can see that there are many interpretations of Quantum Mechanics, dozens of theories for consciousness, or opinions about the ontology of spacetime (realism, antirealism, substantivalism, etc.) or the myriad of cosmological models.

[@pikiwiki]

Incredible channel

[@ottodetroit]

How the host and producers continue to re-ask and re-hash the same seven subjects is the real mystery.

[@markorendas1790]

I REMEMBER READING THIS AND THE INTERVIEW WITH ALAN IN OMNI MAGAZINE. IN THE MID 80S. WHAT IF THIS EXISTENCE IS A FORM OF TECHNOLOGIES. SOON WE MAY FIND OUT.

[@gerrymjrb]

Banff makes a beautiful background to your video.

[@anirudhadhote]

❤ Very good 👍🏼

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

In the case that universe started from quantum fluctuation(s), maybe that universe is a combination of randomness and determinism?

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

Do quantum waves / fields increase temperature and lower entropy?

[@vulcanus30]

What are the similarities and differences between the expansion of the universe and the launch of the virtual reality program?

[@Domispitaletti]

Impossible to answer this question, because a simulation program could contain any parameter as it initial state. For instance they could create something like a big bang in the program, and we would never know if its artificial or not.

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

Are there any parts of the CMB the same as the part where the Milky Way galaxy comes from?

[@leomachado7676]

Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is. Richard P. Feynman

[@kjustkses]

But Guth said on the Craig/Carroll debate that the universe is probably infinite in the past. Did I miss something?

[@yanassi]

In the yanassi theorem, in the beginning, two forms of energy were created.

[@robertflynn6686]

I advocate 'physics of creation '

[@meekeekaelthekeystodavid9738]

The quantm origin is here👑👑👑

[@lovingkat5]

our universe is in our mind, you can say that is a mental case :D

[@domcasmurro2417]

Prepare the adblock for this one.

[@andrewlilly2947]

I can't take inflation seriously because there are so many versions of it that we can always say "the observations are lining up with certain forms of inflation."

[@kjustkses]

So, we not only just happen to live in the one universe which is able to produce life, but also the only one in which we are able to figure out how all the universes work. Sounds about right. Deal the cards, I’m feeling infinitely lucky today.

[@kjustkses]

zempath How is that possibly the same?

[@kjustkses]

zempath Did you know that 50% of all people are dumber then the other 50%.

[@bokchoiman]

When we look out into space, we can only see what's happened in the past. Even Mars is 3 minutes away from us, so the only way we can know what's happening at that moment is to be there physically. Even on Earth, if our eyes are not exactly at the exact location as an object, we are technically seeing it in its past form. Can we truly not perceive the "now"?

[@firstnamesurname6550]

You can, but that requires the extinction of Your Self ...

[@theoskeptomai2535]

Correct. Every phenomenon we observe has already occurred.

[@tiago-wm2mq]

What's the name of the event at the beginning?

[@OmniGuy]

Lighting the Bong.

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

Does the part of cosmic microwave background (CMB) where Milky Way galaxy comes from have anything that contributes to life?

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

If the universe is about 13.8 billion years in age, how far could dark energy / cosmological constant have carried the universe in that time? Or is it our part of the universe that is 13.8 billion years in age, and there are parts of the universe even older than 13.8 billion years?

[@UrukEngineer]

He always starts with science and then looks for ways to smuggle God in.

[@nobe8652]

Exactly!

[@darrylschultz6479]

God's a small guy-he could fit in a large suitcase not a problem.

[@raghu45]

@Joe George u sound certain that god doesn't exist. To say something exists or not one has to enquire sufficiently enough to reach that conclusion & as with any reasonable verdict one needs to state a certain margin of error relating to it. Only religious zealots would assert a cent percent certainty about their beliefs, bcs religion needs only faith; acceptance without evidence.

[@neilcreamer8207]

That's because the science is really weak and speculative. Inflation is not even a proper scientific theory as it can't be tested.

[@timyates807]

@@neilcreamer8207 yup you got it man . I compared it to taxes but we both believe that it's mainly a theory trying to explain another theory lol.... No thanks , I'll stick to craps ....it's based on reality ... somewhat. Take care Neil . You are exactly right tho.

[@theoskeptomai2535]

The very title of this video is *_begging the question._* One would have to demonstrate the universe began to exist *_before_* one could determine *_how_* it began to exist.

[@theoskeptomai2535]

@J w infinity refers to the boundless or unlimited quantity or magnitude. Eternal means without regard to time (everlasting). The two concepts are different. Here's some questions for you. How have you eliminated the possibility that our cosmos may be eternal? What methodology did you employ to confirm that an eternal cosmos is an impossibility? Explain your procedure, data, null hypothesis, results and conclusion. You will avoid those questions and requests at all cost. WATCH!

[@theoskeptomai2535]

@J w Eternal means without regard or limitation of time, NOT _endless_ nor an _infinite amount_ of time. That is why those that substitute "common sense" as an excuse for not presenenting evidentiary support for their claims only demonstrate their dishonesty and cowardice.

[@theoskeptomai2535]

@J w Why are you sorry? What things have I manufactured? How did you come to the conclusion that this god you've mentioned exists? How is it _obvious_ that I don't _want_ this god to exist? What group of people are like me? How much do you know about me?

[@theoskeptomai2535]

@J w J w Why did you say "I'm sorry you try..."? What things have I manufactured? Do _you_ claim that this god exists? How is it obvious that I don't want this god to exist?

[@theoskeptomai2535]

@J w What obvious truths am I fighting so hard against? What things have I manufactured? Do you claim that this god exists? Is this god you've mentioned infinite?

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

With the universe made up mostly of finite space and time, there was a beginning for finite space and time, whether at start of big bang, cosmic inflation or before. Finite space and time of universe likely came from infinite time and space, not sure what caused transition. Infinite time and space would be consistent with no physical reality before, as either over zero would be infinite. Perhaps something builds up in infinite time and space that results in finite space and time, leading to cosmic inflation and big bang.

[@timleffel6665]

James I always enjoy your comments..any up and down headshaking is welcome here

[@thivasalamarumugam2529]

Why do we need science& maths,when the answer to 'Truth' is simple and striaghtforward.Since,God is mercifull to all,even to non-believers,what actually we get,is only a bit of the nectar in ppm.

[@kimsahl8555]

Cosmic origins we find in the cosmic-potential.

[@agodfortheatheistnow]

Inflation? Think "Minus One Law of conservation of Information".. From the very first conscious awareness of "I AM" Our Photonic Self Awareness, has been seeking this Information. What Am I ? Where Am I? Why Am I? And where do you think this information had to come from? We had to come up with possibilities , and with each possibility we added another layer to the onion that is our universe. Our Singularity of an ever changing NOW of possibilities created from memories of our past imaginations. Yes a quantum fluctuation creates a thought energy that we must according to the laws of motion react to with an equal and opposite reaction. the formula E=mc2 is the equation that explains that motion. It is motion or the speed of light thate we react to and define that energy as the perceived mass of dark matter and dark energy/antimatter.

[@MrRamon2004]

My personal opinion, I believe I understand are origins, for science they have to uncover the secrets of double sliding. In this life and the next one stay in the light.

[@xspotbox4400]

Research of inflation could be very useful, if nature can do it, so can we. Let's hope we're not missing something, we don't receive reality from out there but pictures, information, space time quakes, things like that.

[@javiersoriano4803]

Sadly, the great minds also fall victims to rabbit holes. They are so fascinating. Like black holes....

[@jz5jo]

i am irritated when gods and angels entered the discussion, i immediately suspected that Walt Disney was behind the production of this film... 😂

[@WyreForestBiker]

It intrigues me when I hear Robert say ( as he often does ) that he doesn't believe in the existence of God but WISHES it were true ….. I would love to know why . The human condition is one of such pain and cruelty any God would be an exquisitely unpleasant character . As the late Christopher Hitchens said , why would anyone want a celestial North Korea ?

[@Ploskkky]

I wonder about that myself. What kind of god would he want to exist? I hope not the biblical monster/god. He also said that he wanted to live forever. I have no idea why anyone would want that either.

[@astrol4b]

I'm agnostic, but I hope God exists for two reason 1) the universe is absurd and this annoys me a lot the existence of God is the only thing I found that give the cosmos some sort of sense 2) we already live in north korea, if God doesn't exists it's like there is no boundaries to it, like a worldwide north korea with no escape except annihilation, if something along like the christian God exists, the human condition is like going to the dentist to pull out the wisdom teeth, even more painful than living in north korea but insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

[@WyreForestBiker]

@@astrol4b I don't know exactly what you find absurd about the universe , but how could the existence of a supernatural creator make the universe any less absurd ? ... surely if this "absurd" universe is the creation of this "God " it just adds another layer to its absurdity ? !!

[@astrol4b]

@@WyreForestBiker I always find the existence of things absurd, there should be nothing at all.

[@machida5114]

The wave function of the universe is a superposition of all the worlds. The wave function of the universe does not evolve over time. Time flows for us. For us, there is the beginning of this world. I think so.

[@williamburts5495]

something beginning to exist represents an event, but where did the event take place?

[@syruseye]

And when did it take place?

[@williamburts5495]

@@syruseye I was conversing with one guy and he told me that the BB was expanding into nothingness that it was nothingness that was surrounding the BB. But if nothing represents space how can we say that space and time began with the BB?

[@syruseye]

William Burts who says nothingness represents space? Confusingly, there are different types of “nothingness”

[@williamburts5495]

@@syruseye could we say then that nothingness is similar to space since it allows expansion?

[@syruseye]

William Burts I think we have a tendency to project characteristics into nothingness because we are unable to imagine it’s true nature.

[@agodfortheatheistnow]

Hey don page “Oh, I believe there are Angels Among Us, Sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours To show us how to live To teach us how to give To guide us with a light of love.” EDIT: oh yeah angels also explain quantum physics to us and even quantum entanglement is really very simple ... after all since everything exists in a now singularity in which the minus one law of conservation of information tells us all that information is entangled in the dark matter and dark energy memories of the NOW moment, ... hey just like 1 corinthians 13:13 tells us it is ... funny isn’t it.. not complicated at all for those Angels among us.

[@FAAMS1]

You can't just throw in the word transcendent to have a sort of super kind of meaning. Purpose is by definition ultimate if there is any. If Time is not fundamental any time frame of reference on which phenomena manifest themselves is NECESSARY. There is no beginning for any time frame of reference. Just a correlated set of events or phenomena, including not free, not causal awareness. Again, the Experience of experiencing, as I don't seem to be able to tweak the amount of dopamine or serotonin or adrenaline I release from my own free will. I don't tweak perceptual conditions nor intellectual depth. The species themselves don't tweak what they are! A cat cannot decide to be a dog. Therefore and once again we have the experience of experiencing and not the experiencing of deciding which experiences we have.

[@firstnamesurname6550]

Cool, but let the apes to perform their Ego's trips through Games of Language ... At the end of The Day, That's an Earth's biosphere phenomenology that each one of them are conforming into something that is beyond their individual egos... ... The Nervous system had its way for digesting "sensory incomes" ... and Cultures are some sort of Upper layer structures sustained by those "cellular events" ... ... and Who knows?? ... Maybe, The ecosystem can deploy new complex systems for balanced "Joy" ... Of Course, Humans are not as smart for generating a Negentropy System . . and Nature works in scales of time where Negentropy becomes exceptional and near to impossible ... But when/where there are observers that can modulate a system environment, there is a chance to modulate the system into optimal setups for the energetic events, therefore, transforming the expected disorder from The Cosmic Inertia ... Of Course, Actual Humans are like Cavemen compared to Humans that can be Integrated in an Energetic Planetary Ecosystem of Optimal Balance ... That requires a Collective Intelligence that very likely will never come into fruition in this Planet.

[@edmar14500]

I don't understand. If inflation is still accuring how is there an edge of the universe?

[@tomingrassiaimages8776]

The edge is moving and is CREATING additional space.

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

Could inflation have been a deceleration of time, which produced the energy for space to expand? Space an energy created from the deceleration of time?

[@jupiterthesun3217]

It’s very sad to realise that we are on a spec with no neighbours around us to help us to find new horizons.

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

Did quantum fields start from the energy of inflation?

[@agodfortheatheistnow]

You have to start with the equivalent of the energy that is in the universe now if the law of conservation of energy is to hold true. "The zero-energy universe hypothesis proposes that the total amount of energy in the universe is exactly zero: its amount of positive energy in the form of matter is exactly canceled out by its negative energy in the form of gravity." Well that makes it so much easier. If we start the universe wth one photon of zero mass, then that photon creates two thoughts, of 1. I AM and 2. I WANT TO BE BETTER, virtual particles, of no mass.. Then we put those two thoughts into motion, that gives them mass and energy at the speed of light. A SPARK caused by a quantum fluctuation should be enough to create a universe in maybe 13 billion years or so.

[@JeffChen285]

Curiosity, no matter how strong, can only expand non-curious knowledge, not curious realities.

[@firstnamesurname6550]

Interesting, ... maybe, to transform what is already gave is a path for producing "curious knowledge" ... But it seems that the definition of "curious knowledge" implies a Paradoxical Knowledge ... because All Consistent Knowledge that becomes Knowable should lead to dissolve the curiosity for knowing what was unknown and had become a Common Fact repeating itself up to Absolute Boredom ... For enjoying Curiosity's moods, Ignorance is required.

[@JeffChen285]

@@firstnamesurname6550 Interesting comments. Issac Newton is a good example. Even his curiosity has expanded the knowledge of gravity so much. Reality of gravity is still as curious as it used to be.

[@firstnamesurname6550]

@@JeffChen285 Oh, "Gravity" 😂 What the fook makes inertial chaos collapse in itself?? 🤔 Some dudes said that in the transitions between 2 linked chaotic states, there's a chance that in some regions from That transition, a differential of superpositions can be observed as a Chaotic "Attractor" ... That means, that Gravity is more like an emergent contingent casualty in an Astonishing ( near to infinite ) Chaotic "Sea of Energy" ... Some sort of landscape for Multiverses landscape ... Then, What in This Universe is observed as The Curvature of Space-Time Energy grid by Mass ( Gravity ) can be derived from some sort of Topological Resonance Phase in Quasi Infinite Energy/Chaos ... The Hard thing to comprehend by the Human Mind is The Absence of Space ... Fortunately, Death is set to make them understand that. Of Course, Once One understand that, there are not space for understanding. ... and less, the power for reversing the state or becoming Space Itself ... It's not mysterious those human beliefs about The Absolutely Immense Unitary Macrocosm merging from an infinitesimal tiny Unitary Microcosm were both states are absolutely ignorant about what Space and Time means ... In Mainstream Contemporary theoretical physics, Maybe, Roger Penrose is one of The primates trying to deal with those Ideas from The Infinite and trying to adapt that to The Current set of Scientific Quantitative Data and mathematical theoretical frameworks ... Of Course, Very few humans accept that Nature doesn't give a fook about Human's notions of Space ... Then, he said, "A crazy idea" for preventing been socially ostracized by believers in Space.

[@JeffChen285]

@@firstnamesurname6550 【a path for producing "curious knowledge" ...】　－－ I would rather worship reality than passionating knowledge. In my opinion, the human's knowledge is essentially trivialized realities.

[@caseydahl1952]

Mr. Kuhn no amount of wandering around in a turtleneck looking at things will tell you how something came from nothing

[@boooringlearning]

so he is a believer or not after all the episodes ？

[@70AD-user45]

He sure is a believer. He was seen shouting out, "Allahu Akbar"! 😂🤣

[@yanassi]

The yanassi theorem (YT) also considered, how will it end. Expansion into an ending? Would extreme expansion create a vacuum, pulling from it’s center the next big bang. Or, is there a center, could there be an entity in that center not unlike a pulsar star without the spinning aspect. Or, was there nothing before everything became, if so, the YT wonders how powerful is Nothing?That every so many billions of years emits the next explosion of energy, that eventually forms all things, and also expands like the previous one into oblivion, and so on. As the YT develops, i considered whether that center conscious or not, still a question. I lean not. So far, that leaves me thinking consciousness belongs to a living entity, as consciousness would offer purpose, a reason. That entity I, at this stage, believe is god. God as a newborn, and not unlike all living things, becomes evermore conscious as more information is obtained over billions of years. If that center entity is god, then god is the creator, but has only the function of explosions of energy, and nothing to do with us as living beings. I prefer god to be, more connected to us. I can see purpose in that. But for such a connected god to exist, it had to be born in the big bang.

[@agodfortheatheistnow]

There are only three things that exist. 1: FAITH . in the thoughts we have as memories (number one law of physics, of the conservation of information). 2: HOPE in the thoughts plans and intentions of a future not yet carried out as an expression of the 3:NOW which we LOVE because it is all that exists of us as a SINGULARITY of the energy that just keeps changing form. ... The process works like this. NOW we think about our past memories of now experiences and action reaction kicks in and we execute our plans of the future while at the same time creating new plans. IOW, we are currently creating plans (future) based on memories (past) and executing them NOW. This validates the conservation of energy and information and the laws of motion all at once, which of course solves the issue of quantum entanglement and why light has properties of wave and particles and the observer effect all at the same time.

[@bokchoiman]

Time itself could be the driver of our universe. A sort of vector that only moves in one direction. Light could be the medium that time travels through which allows us to "see" the effects that time has on our universe. We wish to know from where we came, but until a time comes where we are able to manipulate time itself, we'll not know the short answer.

[@agodfortheatheistnow]

@@bokchoiman But only now exists. because the past and future cannot coexist with the Now Singularity. The future we plan turn into our past are executed and those virtual particles that physicists claim violate the laws of physics actually are fulfilling the laws of physics by constantly changing form from future to present to past.. we only think they are defying the laws of physics because our consciousness can only know the NOW and when the now turns to the past we assume it is gone but it has merely changed into the next now, likewise the virtual particles come from the NOW as we create it and our now changes form into the next now.

[@bokchoiman]

​@@agodfortheatheistnowDoesn't religion believe that we live in a deterministic universe? And if so, wouldn't that mean that the outcome ie. future is already predetermined?

[@agodfortheatheistnow]

@@bokchoiman Lets see. First Corinthian 13:13 says. These three exist ... (ooo there is some NEW IDEA LIKE THAT GOING AROUND , yeah right)... FAITH in our memories of a past that no longer exists ..zero 0... HOPE in our thoughts of a future which does not yet exist,... zero 0... and of course LOVE of the NOW SINGULARITY, which is all that has EVER existed 1. 101010101010... gee that looks familiar? Almost like a computer program of a virtual reality which looks very real even though you KNOW those cars and guns and explosions happening all around you do not exist. What was the question again? The Laws of physics are based on a Closed System. Yes once any thought of an action is put into motion it becomes a part of the perception of the closed system of the physical perception of reality. But until that energy thought is put into action , all bets are off. People can be very "predictable", but in a universe of duality where we can choose up or down stop or go left or right good or bad its not that crystal clear is it? And when the entity we exists as consists of physical needs that must be fulfilled or we die .. That instinct for survival can be very strong. BUT the purpose of life is the pursuit of happiness, and while physical needs and pleasures can fulfill that Pursuit of Happiness, the needs of Love, Belonging, Esteem, Purpose, Self Actualization and Self Ascendancy, have cause more than one person to give his own life to save another. The lack of that fulfillment sadly has cause even more people to Kill themselves, " for who would bear the whips and scorns of time the proud mans contumely the oppressors wrongs when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?" .... Did I miss anything?

[@bokchoiman]

@@agodfortheatheistnow It would seem that the program has in it the intrinsic benefit of pursuing happiness, or in my view, peace of mind. True happiness in my mind is being okay with your state of being and it seems to vary from person to person, from society to society. We could look at our technological accomplishments and argue that we're happier than we've ever been, but it brings with it a second edge which is instant gratification. We don't need to work nearly as hard to reap the reward. And isn't the satisfaction from performing a task directly proportional to the difficulty of that task? With great sacrifice comes great reward? This is where religion truly resonates with me because it seems we've lost that concept over the years.

[@robotaholic]

Isn't this presupposing that the universe did have a beginning? I acknowledge the big Bang posits a beginning and with inflation it is possibly able to explain the universe we see around us. But, We don't know that it had a beginning.

[@agodfortheatheistnow]

Thoughts are choices good or bad , up or down, truth or lies, ONLY ONCE WE PUT THOSE CHOICES INTO ACTION, do they fall under the laws of physics, like the laws of MOTION.

[@garman1966]

I don't like this inflation idea where our universe started out as an extremely small point, or even something the size of an orange. Having an edge means that our universe grew inside a preexisting one which doesn't make sense in terms of the BB theory. Why couldn't the universe have always been infinitely large, like an infinite ocean of a certain density, and then it went through a phase change somewhat like when water turns to steam which expanded it incredibly quickly in all directions? Maybe it was instead a phase change where a higher energy universe collapsed into a lower energy universe and it just looks like what we think of as the big bang?

[@theamalgamatedtheory]

After watching this all i know is the universe thinks i have money and it wants me to spend it. Seems someone wants to keep inflating something.

[@rikimitchell916]

looking for a beginning of the universe is the ultimate in anthropomorphic indulgences...or possibly even worse ...though we might look about a see 'constant' change, we all too often misinterpret it as a series of beginnings and endings... closed cycles... when in fact it is a continuous and contiguous happening without beginning or end

[@GUPTAYOGENDRA]

In order to understand how universe came from nothing, following procedure should be followed: 1. After waking from a dream, ask yourself the question: What was present in my dream which is also present in the universe? The answer to the above question is doubtlessly “I”. I was present in dream and I am also present in the universe. Since the body-mind of the dream is not present in the universe and also the body-mind of the universe was not present in my dream, hence it is clear that I who was present in my dream as well as in the universe is not body- mind. Ask from yourself another question: What am I other than body-mind? Don’t try to reply, the answer will come automatically as the experience of being conscious without body-mind.

[@agodfortheatheistnow]

Their is no forward or backward in time.. there is only now... quantum entanglement solves any problem of time travel because only now exists as a Singularity

[@vladimir0700]

When I use the restroom I visit DeShitter space

[@GUPTAYOGENDRA]

The universe appears from the ignorance of consciousness and disappears with the knowledge of consciousness just as snake appears from the non cognition of the rope and disappears with its recognition.

[@arthurwieczorek4894]

0:35 '...the blind purpose of physical regularities." 'Purpose' used to mean 'that is just what it does.' And 'purpose' as 'the made up meaning of human psychology', meaning the attribution of goals to behavior. But 'Transcendent meaning and ultimate purpose'-----just noise, as far as I am concerned, meaning nothing, accept perhaps scam bait. I believe I have detected one more usage of 'purpose' in these videos----one not used in the beginning of this video. That is simply purpose as satisfaction. Keep your antenna up to see if I am right.

[@starcycle1]

Inflation theory is pretty full of itself.

[@DarwinianUniversal]

jeez people, when are you going to work out that atomic "forces" drive causality and dictate the rate of causality, not time. I mean jeez, you use atomic activity to measure time, and atomic activity is generated by atomic forces. A direct causal relationship

[@DarwinianUniversal]

@zempath care to elaborate?

[@maverick-gp6mg]

Damn ! What are they talking about? All Greek and Latin to me.

[@FlatEnough]

What "universe"? You mean the Earth and the Sky? Because this is all you see and experience.

[@alikarimi-langroodi5402]

To seek cosmos origin: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqrTd4p5gJmXpLs Yes well done. This is the masterpiece of this channel. To seek the origin of the cosmos, it is best to rely on mathematics and religious original texts, alone. It has already been explained by masters like Roger Penrose and the like who were his students. You can also refer to Meta-physicians. Physics alone is not enough, though it does help to understand the basics of Atoms. The rest is in religious text of monothism - that is Judism, Charistianity, and Islam. Yes, religion is a dangerious subject, just like sex or family subjects. You have to read to contain the dangers, not add to it. We know how they contained religion by dropping neuclear bombs on Japan, 'to stop the war'?

[@Exnexus]

Searching for the cause of the first cause?

[@TheSwordofra]

Indeed. Makes so much sense. ;p

[@toreoft]

Time and size are tied together. Big things take longer to travel past than small things. But to say that the Universe was small in the beginning before time was well defined, is meaningless.

[@albertjackson9236]

The universe began in the comic books. God read them at took full credit.

[@jorgenoriega9152]

Maybe it's just happened one more time, again and again............

[@jorgenoriega9152]

The probability are infinite, the most important question is how we can preserve our own universe?

[@owencampbell4947]

I think we have enough evidence of the wrong way we search on most universal questions. We apply every us known scientific theories that for us humans are plausible but not for all other living species and not for the mysterious universe. I mean, what for us humans is natural and logic, is for all other species rather a disturbing attitude. To understand what I mean, is to look like you never looked before, and here is the point, if we try to explain everything from the view and understanding of a human, we'll always keep in the limited frame of thinking, and never adventure maybe a true vision of our cosmos the way it should be. Some won't take it serious and joke around you probably smoking weed. But that's exactly what I mean, a regular person won't get out his frame of possibilities he know's no better. It's not sci-fi and it's not fantasie, its opening a door to maybe unsolved questions.

[@firstnamesurname6550]

@HenryDavidT 🙏

[@owencampbell4947]

Yes, you're all right when you think the way humans think, that's what I'm talking about. But have you ever tried to think differently, like in the position of a bird, to have the ability to fly, how would you see our world? with the same thoughts of today, or could you give a better explanation of the structures that you have explored from a different perspective. If a Creator exist, can we expect he created all to our benevolence and not to his almighty power and knowledge? The thing is, to think like something else, were planets and stars have a purpose, were most of the construct have a purpose, were humans might develope to something else. There are many ways I'm sure there are.

[@jbghumanjr]

I think whenever I hear "he" when one refers to a form of "God" it immediately feels off. I mean... if there is any form of a creator "being" it'd be "it" or "they" or... whatever. But "he" simply feels, a'dunno... a bit dusty in perspective. xx

[@meekeekaelthekeystodavid9738]

Finite is only in circles the outer space cant make the multiverse but the inner is always fosilized so multiverse must be shrunken a healthy way👑👑👑👑👑👑👑AMEN. P.s.Smaller vocab for others to understand please

[@OmniGuy]

The first event to ever happen was the Cleveland Browns sucking.

[@rsakovich1]

I don't think you understand this series. It is about asking tough questions that we don't already know the answer to without question.

[@samuelarthur887]

Going to interview on science, what does makeup have to do with it?

[@georgegrubbs2966]

Yes, you can go further, but not with current theories and their math. Our universe emerged from an eternal, infinite substrate of quantum fluctuations. More than likely. dark energy and dark matter are the substrate. Assume that makes up the initial conditions and work from there.

[@davidallen3637]

Consider if all that existed were 1 thing. What you will find is that a single thing shares a description of God, without the human characteristics we project onto everything. If only 1 thing existed, it would be pure potential, non-physical. It is when a 2nd thing is introduced that space and time emerge. In short our physics does not exist until a 2nd thing exist. Energy, being the interaction between 2 potentials, would be released from the potential state of 1 thing.

[@johnwestcott5612]

Dude sounds like Morpheus from The Matrix.

[@richardmooney383]

It seems like Cage is saying that God's creation techniques were constrained by laws of His own making. I know I'm not supposed to question God, but why?

[@asyetundetermined]

Because it’s a fictional narrative which gives the man some peace. It doesn’t really need to make sense completely. It’s personal to him.