Do you think there was a universe before ours? Where Did the Universe Come From? And Other Cosmic Questions: Our Universe, from the Quantum to the Cosmos by Chris Ferrie and Geraint F. Lewis (affiliate link) amzn.to/3oBQyW7
Isn't that what Roger Penrose once proposed? If I remember correctly he claimed that there is evidence in the cosmic background radiation from the universe before ours.
I would say yes. If you look at the history of scientific discovery, things\events don't just occur once- there are usually many instances, to say the least. I don't think it's a stretch to think that the creation of universes have happened prior to ours
It's certainly interesting that this universe was set with with the laws of math and the law of natural selection/evolution already built in. Quite strange...
In relation to universes of space/time, define "before," sil vous plait. Maybe also "ours" while you're at it, just for sihts and giggles.. The way I see it, if there is some sort of inflaton-field outside our "universe" in which other universes can exist and/or come to being, then that would be a different framework of "time" that is completely separate from ours and could even operate or be "sensed" in a manner we could not fathom. The point is, "before/during/after" are causal concepts that likely do not apply beyond our universe as we currently understand it.
John - I have been fascinated by many of your episodes. I rarely comment, but feel I need to now since I want you to know that your productions have enhanced my life. After listening to an interview I sometimes go to bed full of wonder. Thank you.
I really hope I’m alive when Quantum mechanics and General relativity join in a whole new theory of understanding. I can’t even imagine the leaps well make when we have that understanding.
Wales , for it's physical size , packs a heck of a lot of varied and beautiful scenery in a relatively small area ! Mountains , rivers , lakes , forests , and also stunning and in many places unspoiled coastline with some gorgeous beaches ! The people are very nice and down to earth ! It really is a very beautiful country !
Every week Event Horizon is eagerly awaited for its unique view of the cosmos. I isolate myself from any distractions and immerse myself in my personal Event Horizon. Thank you. A bit of trivia from someone who lives in the area. Geraint is from Neath in South Wales. Some of the other famous people from this area are Ray Milland, Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins, Dylan Thomas, Catherine Zeta Jones and quite a few others.
I am going to have to watch this a few times. I love the concept of a cyclic universe that eventually (via snowballing black hole action) becomes one singularity that has eaten all time and space, then exploding and releasing... well... everything. The existence of this 'dot' out of time and space suddenly appearing and going bang has always left we wondering how it might have got there in the first place... though if you take time and space away there is no 'first' I guess - now my head hurts :(
This guy.... this guy.... reminds me of Sean Carroll. Total genius. What a insanely good conversation 👌🏻 probing the really big questions. Nice Job JMG!!!
Imagine not listening to John in 2021 - also whomever is falling alseep to these videos is missing out. Listen in the morning with coffee or on your commute. Dont listen before bed...
@@michaelfried3123 well read scholarly papers and studies then bud idk what to tell you. The whole point of this channel is to listen to perspectives of all kinds. You shouldn't make educated decisions based on one youtube channel. The average youtube watcher like me, for instance, won't be doing that.
Simulation is such an outlandish concept that it should not be seriously considered. It is crazy and wrong headed. Time is time. Billions of years can’t be seconds. We can’t be in computer.
I feel we can't exclude the human experience and consciousness since we are more or less bound by it. Simulation theory is interesting but doesn't it sound too much like an easy solution? Simulation theory is kind of like a god in a lot of ways. Both make sense of a difficult question, no coincidence it has grasped attention in the age of computers, even if it has been around in many forms for millennia.
@@halilzelenka5813 Exactly. Useless idea unless you are inclined to be a bit psycho. "So if the universe is just a simulation, it doesn't matter what I do, or to whom, because we're all just fake computer bits."
@@BooDamnHoo Regardless of our ability to refute to concept of infinite simulations, it is not fair to levy arguments against claims the theory itself does not make. The best critique is that simulation theory does not make any testable claims about our reality, so can we go back to science now?
@@gjhromnskczkrth262 My personal critique is that when I pound my thumb with a hammer, it does not help to be told the pain is a simulation. Likewise when I am vomiting, it does not help to be told the sensation is only a simulation of nausea. I can find no circumstance that the simulation argument is not a pointless mental game.
In the beginning there was VOID and nothingness, a timeless, spaceless, nothingness. And into the nothingness came a thought, purposeful, all-pervading, and It filled the VOID. There existed no matter, only force, a movement, a vortex, or vibration of the purposeful thought that filled the VOID. Was this thought eternal? In the beginning, there was eternal thought, and for thought to be eternal, time must exist. So into the all-pervading thought grew the LAW of TIME, time which exists through all space, floating in a smooth, rhythmic movement that is eternally in a state of fixation. Time changes not, but all things change in time. For time is the force that holds events separate, each in its own proper place. Time is not in motion, but you move through time as your consciousness moves from one event to another. Time exists, all in all, an eternal ONE existence. Know that even though in the time you are separate, yet still are ONE, in all times existent.
@@stingingmetal9648 That may be. I think, that at death, you step outside of time and do not experience it. A second after death is experienced the same as 10 billion years. When eternity comes into the picture, anything that is possible will happen gain and again, eternally. Every experience of life, every person, every choice. The same life lived a thousand different ways, every life, lived over and over, the sum total of all possible life, all possible experience. The Golden Rule has new meaning - everyone you help, you're helping a future or past incarnation of you, the sum total of all life. Everyone you hurt, the same. This philosophy of life would leave many feeling disturbed, upset, as it implies every monster and every saint is connected at a deep level. This idea is one I have considered many times. One can hope that the monsters of history represent a much earlier incarnation of what life represents, and it is possible to better oneself through the experience of many lives. There are some frightening implications - eg Hitler may personally experience, eventually, all the horror that he inflicted, as he is repeatedly born into the generation he lived. For if in death you are beyond time, it may be that past or future has little relevance, as in the course of eternity everything must repeat. I wonder if God could be the sum total of all living things, the sum total of all living experiences, past, present and future, including all possible alternate histories,past and future. Human beings have an extremely difficult time grasping the logical consequences of infinity, ie eternity.
I like listening to Prof. Geraint. His RI lecture about the end of the universe is one of my favorites on their channel. I think it's called The End of the Universe. Heat death is, like, just the opening phase.
Omg, this is amazing! I listen to your channel all the time for sleep, your voice is so calming and the content is so innocuous and fascinating it keeps my mind busy and helps me relax
The 5th force is all around us I think we all know what that is already 🤔 may it be with you! Thanks John great interview as always loved the conversation. 🎩
I still like the theory that at the end of the Universe, when one atom is a large distance away from next, at this point the Universe becomes unstable leading to another big bang event. I gave this some thought because I find it hard believe that the Universe is 13.8B light years old. A number that I can easily comprehend rather than a larger infinite number.
Why an atom? And why not, say, an elementary particle? And why even that, if that? What are the physics behind this? What evidence would you have that supports this hypothesis? Sorry to sound like a dick haha but the big bang / one-universe theory is the theory that is the best explanation for what we have evidence for. It's fun to think of other scenarios but none yet have held up against the evidence we observe.
I have wondered if “Dark Matter” is a gravitational effect from a neighbouring universe. It would potentially explain why we don’t see the actual stuff to create the mass that is inferred, but we do see the effects of that mass.
Dark matter and dark energy are theory's put forth because of interpretations of actions observed that cannot be explained by our current understanding of how and why things behave. There are two ways we can approach an explanation of these observations. 1st is to invent an unseen force that we cannot detect. 2nd is to take a look back at what we think we understand but refuse to change because the math works. Math can predict an action but it cannot tell you why and in that statement lies the answer to all of the questions these guys have.
Dark matter was theorized because galaxies were spinning faster than expected. I don't think a neighboring universe would do that. If there was a neighboring universe we'd probably see all the galaxies flowing towards its direction, so in a single direction. Instead, galaxies are flying away from us from every direction.
@@adlex1212 unless we are surrounded on all sides by other universes, which if there are an infinite num ber of universes we would be surrounded on all sides
I like the way you think. The Universe is crazy and we don't understand a lot of it. That could be because we don't think outside the box. I however, would more likely entertain a higher dimension instead of a different universe.
@@McShaganpronouncedShaegen The Universe is a living entity, that is why it was born and is growing, and the human scale is almost at the limit of the structural basis of existence. Dark matter doesn't exist, we actually live in something dense, organic, and the unexplained forces that maintain the gravitational structure between galaxies are equivalent to what we see in the microcosm, where creatures live within the "density" of a drop of water and cannot see the "force" that limits their movements and stabilizes their habitat. Black holes are equivalent to dead cells that deteriorate all the matter around them. One day everyone will agree with me. ^^
Fantastic interview, JMG! Thanks a lot! 😃 You know, from all this conversation, what I conclude is that physics are weird. They get uncomfortable about ideas... 😐 Not me. Any of the ideas discussed here would be fine for me. My only demand is that it must be true. Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
So discussion of ideas must always represent truths. The very reason for discussing ideas is to explore which can be true and which cannot. What you are suggesting is religion, not science. Only religion starts with "truth" and rejects discussion which challenges that truth . Science starts with ideas and discovers those which are perceptibly true, allowing that those ideas be challenged by further exploration and discovery to replace perceived "truths" with new knowledge.
@@billhenry7213 I believe you really misunderstood me. That's not what I said, absolutely. During the interview, prof. Lewis said, many times, that "this idea makes physics uncomfortable". You know? What I meant is that I really don't care which of them is correct, I only care about finding the correct idea (the "truth"). Usually, religious people are exactly those afraid of ideas. They are the ones who get uncomfortable about them. Which is something crazy for a science person! Now, if you want to debate what "the truth" is... We're going to need a bar table and some beer, because it's going to go really far! 😬
The Universe is finely-tuned for everything that currently exists in, well, the Universe, of course. What if the Universe follows an eternal self-sustaining cycle of expansion and contraction that evolves with each new iteration? What if the Universe is just a failed science project?
Why would the Universe want/need to evolve? What would be driving this? Life evolves because if it doesn't, it dies out due to its competition. Can a Universe die out to a competitor? If so, what/who are the competitor(s)? Evolution (as far as we know) also requires offspring; what is the offspring of a Universe? Do Universes producing offspring imply Universe mating? If so, what is a Universe's mate? If not, how does it produce offspring (i.e. evolve)?
@@destructionman1 I believe that the evolution referred to is just entropy. Entropy needs no reason and the current universe is an extremely slow evolution from a state of low entropy to high entropy.
@@destructionman1 not everything comes in two 'sexes' all that is required for evolution is change and selection. I do not know what the selective mechanism is, or where and when it applies, but that does not invalidate evolution.
All that can be will be. All that can’t be will not. The reason the universe is finely tuned to everything in it is because only what could exist exists. There are probably things in in other universe (if they exist) that are impossible to exist with ours and vice versa. We as life only exist to question our existence because the laws of the universe aloud it and any universe with life will have this, we’re not special. We only exist because we can.
What about - assuming we live in a universe among many - all the universes supported life. And that life would be fine tuned for its universe, unable to survive in any other and couldn't imagine any life beyond the "finely tuned laws" of its respective universe?
May be the initial conditions for the universe repeated numerous time until it landed on the sweet spot that is the universe in which we live. Multiple big bangs and collapses prior to this universe each leaving a shadow until the distribution was just right. It will be interesting to see what James Web can see when it looks back farther than we have been able to before. I wonder if the tiny variations in the CMB are echoes of previous universes. We know so much and yet we know so little about the most important question.
I've been trying to find the ending credits music since forever. It's not findable amongst your credited music :/. Very interesting episode again! Enjoyed listening to it a lot
It’s a simple but troubling and confounding question; why is there something instead of nothing? Where did it come from? Has it just always been? If so, how can we ever be able to fathom infinity? Again, relatively simple questions at face value but if I think about them for a few minutes, the how and why, I literally begin to feel legitimate terror. The universe is spooky.
if some objects did have the "arrow of time" reversed for them, would we even be able to recognize it? would the object even be able to phisicaly interact with our "forward time" matter? so much left to learn, so exciting.
Wow! I'm normal! I thought I had a problem coz I struggle to sleep but once I plug my headphones and tune in, it won't take me more than 10 minutes 🙈. On the other side though I must listen for a second time to capture the content 😊
👍Great video, as always. Thanks. Interesting comments about our universe's Periodic Table. What would be possible in a universe with 100, or 200, or 500 elements in the Periodic Table?
What would happen at the termination boundary for the observable universe? If the observable universe was all there is then it’s diameter would be transposed into a right angle triangle with length half*AB, where AB is the length of the diameter. With the new base, an angle of 89.9recurring degrees would pinpoint a maximum proportional distance for quantum phenomena. With each additional decimal place calculated for the angle the height increases. Beyond h it’s statistically implausible to define an observable quanta, as it’s more likely either side of the moment of measurement. It’s even possible that wave functions couldn’t collapse beyond this distance (h).
Hello sir. I've been wondering. Wondering for a few days now. JWST launch is 12 days away. NASA will be broadcasting/streaming it live. Are you going to do an event or live stream or something for it? I think it would be great to hang out and witness history together.
It's launching just after 6 am my time, so I won't be able to do a live stream. But there will be a full update interview in January covering all the developments.
@@JohnMichaelGodier Still an exciting time to live in, regardless. I'm never more stoked about our scientific progression then after I watch your content or Anton Petrov's.
Why would you think only this universe won the lottery with life? It could be like cooking, where you're handed a set of ingredients and you all end up with something, usually, edible. People seem to think only this way of life is possible but I would imagine there are some sort of beings, for example, living in high radiation in possible different dimensions, etc, that think the same. There was an old episode of the Superfriends cartoon, I think, which had a type of "high energy" beings which would be the best way of describing how different circumstances creates a different form of life.
Also, with the regard to physics divorced universes outside the visible universe and the conundrum of homogeny, is it possible that the universe is so big, we simply can't see portions of the universe which are less homogenous of our own?
Because the speed of light is limited, we can indeed only see portions of the universe (called the observable universe, which is just a part of "the" universe) and not any more. We can't in principle observe the rest. We can't therefore know or observe (and never will) how large this rest is or how it looks like, if it is less homogenous or not, or if the missing antimatter is just located there. But as that part of of the universe can never be observed, any speculation about it can not be falsified and is thus not scientific in nature. You could hypothesize, that that's the place where Elves, Dragons and Unicorns are living and will never be falsified. Meaning: speculations about that part aren't leading anywhere from a scientific point of view.
It came from a singular molecule and just expanded into what it is now! I think the universe just continuously resets itself so once it reaches its end it does a new big Bang and starts all over again
Perhaps history repeats and we will live our lives again after our current ones end. Maybe we've been here before - déjà vu - and will be again. Indeed, perhaps we are destined to relive our lives over and over for an indefinitely long period of time, making the same mistakes as we did originally, or maybe a novel change might occur in each iteration to make things play out differently. Who knows for sure, but it's fun speculating. Take care.
Frankly I'm struggling to be open-minded enough not to reject all of this outright as metaphysical gibberish rather than scientifically meaningful discourse.
The name " uni verse ' should be revised seriously, its not 2500 yrs ago.. science satellite telescopes and many other instruments prove otherwise... it cant posibly be spoken into existence
I think there was a 'universe' before ours, much like a nuclear chain reaction requires more than one radio-isotope to occur. Our universe had reached equilibrium until an object struck it, similar to a free neutron splitting a uranium atom.
Has anyone tried to measure statistical anomalies in the probability of finding specific flavours of neutrinos generated from sources at different relativistic speeds (towards and away from the detectors)? Could this make it possible to find the masses of all three flavours of these particles instead of just the difference of the square of their masses?
@@twitchi8478 It's not the neutrinos themselves that would be racing away from a detector, but the source of these particles. What could be measured is a potential anomalous behaviour in the "doppler shift" or "redshift"/"blueshift" - for the lack of a better analogy - of neutrinos (which unlike the massless photons are shown to experience time) caused by their inherent oscillation among the three flavours - electron neutrino, muon neutrino and tau neutrino. By correlating observed anomalies (if any) with what we already know there is the very tempting possibility to zero in their individual masses.
at the edge of the observable universe galaxies are very young. Is there actually any reason to think there are more galaxies further out since they wouldn't have had time to form ? I'm inclined to believe that dark energy is gravity from an external universe acting on our baby universe.
Could we be a simulation within a simulation within a simulations within a simulation.........???? I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Prof Lewis but there is always something disturbing about discussing the origin and ultimate nature of the universe. Something inside my mind just wants a nice simple explanation without the need for extra dimensions, multiverses and lots of mathematics that I don't understand.
I don't believe we are in a simulation. I think the idea is pure fantasy -- for some it is perhaps a means to wish the universe (or certain personally unpleasant aspects of it) away, or perhaps a round about means to engage in wish-fulfillment fantasy.
I think about this all the time 😩 are we recreated from the ashes and are the same people or different? Is reincarnation real? Are we different forms of ourselves? God created the universe? What created the universe? When we’re gone are we gone for good?
Me too...I can spend hours thinking really deeply into how we got here and what was there before the universe and how can there be nothing before the big bang and what is nothing!!! How can there be nothing!!! It can literally drive you crazy lol but I still enjoy thinking about it.
Every time I’ve driven through Treherbert I’ve thought to myself this must either be or have a parallel universe. If Treh has a parallel universe what do you think it’s like?
I have a question whose answer is probably relevant. If the universe is only 14 billion years old, how can we see light from galaxies more than 14 billion lightyears away?
The universe is not static, but expands. This means what is now visible at the border of the observable universe (roughly 46b light years away) was at closer to us (at max at a distance of 13.8b ly), when the light was emitted, than it is now. Inflation (as mentioned by Scott McCloud above) is NOT the right answer, if it refers to the Guth inflation, because that took place nearly immediately after the big bang and a long time before the era of recombination, which limits the time we can see back using electromagnetic waves.
@@TheShootist Inflation doesn't make light faster, though. I get that those galaxies are redshifted. They are still more than three times the distance from Earth than could possibly have been traveled by light. Most of that was immediately after the big bang. The rate of expansion slowed significantly since then. We should see these galaxies crossing the visible horizon, and at quite a rapid rate.
Do you think there was a universe before ours?
Where Did the Universe Come From? And Other Cosmic Questions: Our Universe, from the Quantum to the Cosmos by Chris Ferrie and Geraint F. Lewis (affiliate link)
amzn.to/3oBQyW7
Isn't that what Roger Penrose once proposed? If I remember correctly he claimed that there is evidence in the cosmic background radiation from the universe before ours.
I would say yes. If you look at the history of scientific discovery, things\events don't just occur once- there are usually many instances, to say the least. I don't think it's a stretch to think that the creation of universes have happened prior to ours
It's certainly interesting that this universe was set with with the laws of math and the law of natural selection/evolution already built in.
Quite strange...
I like the bubble universe
In relation to universes of space/time, define "before," sil vous plait. Maybe also "ours" while you're at it, just for sihts and giggles..
The way I see it, if there is some sort of inflaton-field outside our "universe" in which other universes can exist and/or come to being, then that would be a different framework of "time" that is completely separate from ours and could even operate or be "sensed" in a manner we could not fathom. The point is, "before/during/after" are causal concepts that likely do not apply beyond our universe as we currently understand it.
John - I have been fascinated by many of your episodes. I rarely comment, but feel I need to now since I want you to know that your productions have enhanced my life. After listening to an interview I sometimes go to bed full of wonder. Thank you.
Listen now, then repeat tonight for sleep. Very relaxing voice.
I listen to jmg video to sleep every night and then rewatch them during the day to actually get the information!
@@seanmcmaster4856 Me too
I have BAD anxiety and I do the same every night. Glad I’m not the only one who does this
Same here!!! Isaac arthur is also a good one for me to get to sleep.
@@seanmcmaster4856 Cheers 🍻
I really hope I’m alive when Quantum mechanics and General relativity join in a whole new theory of understanding. I can’t even imagine the leaps well make when we have that understanding.
Just waiting for Sabine Hossenfelder to crush my hopes and dreams on this one, too.
Every optimist needs their skeptic!
Yes, she can be a killjoy at times.
@@view1st Of course one doesn't have to listen to her :-)
I choose to listen, but I can still dream!
@@view1st I especially like the Roger Penrose idea of quantum-governed consciousness.. she shoved a sock in my mouth on that one, sigh.
That woman is a beast but she’s also a dream crusher 😂😊
“Where did the Universe come from?”
All I remember is a lot of sudden excitement ✨
I don't remember either. I was too busy at the time... Not existing. 😐
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Wales , for it's physical size , packs a heck of a lot of varied and beautiful scenery in a relatively small area ! Mountains , rivers , lakes , forests , and also stunning and in many places unspoiled coastline with some gorgeous beaches !
The people are very nice and down to earth !
It really is a very beautiful country !
The fifth force to me, is this splendid channel. YT's best.
Welcome to the dark force.
Old South Wales, represent!
Enjoyed this one, cheers.
This is probably my favorite channel in regards to space content
you are my favourite space content fan,for sure 😊
Here is another suggestion. ua-cam.com/video/lR9r7_MweK8/v-deo.html
Cool worlds, Anton petrov and Godier are such a blessing!
Melody sheep is also one of the best out there!
This was a fantastic interview! So many questions and ideas popping into my mind as Prof. Lewis spoke. Please have him on again, JMG.
Every week Event Horizon is eagerly awaited for its unique view of the cosmos. I isolate myself from any distractions and immerse myself in my personal Event Horizon. Thank you.
A bit of trivia from someone who lives in the area. Geraint is from Neath in South Wales. Some of the other famous people from this area are Ray Milland, Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins, Dylan Thomas, Catherine Zeta Jones and quite a few others.
i go for catherine
I live in Poland and I also like Event Horizon. Especially that movie with Sam Neil.
@@hadeseye2297 That's the movie that's a good sci-fi for the first half?
JMG's initial question reminds me of Mitchell and Webb's "I'm the captain" sketch. If you don't know it, look it up on UA-cam, it's very funny
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I absolutely love falling into the EVENT HORIZON with John. Fascinating!
I am going to have to watch this a few times. I love the concept of a cyclic universe that eventually (via snowballing black hole action) becomes one singularity that has eaten all time and space, then exploding and releasing... well... everything. The existence of this 'dot' out of time and space suddenly appearing and going bang has always left we wondering how it might have got there in the first place... though if you take time and space away there is no 'first' I guess - now my head hurts :(
This guy.... this guy.... reminds me of Sean Carroll. Total genius. What a insanely good conversation 👌🏻 probing the really big questions.
Nice Job JMG!!!
Loved this, what a great guest.
Geraint Lewis is a great communicator, The subjexts covered were fascinating. Thx for expanding my mind again.
I can listen all day to these types of discussions. And I do. Thx for great video 😊
Ohh that was good! Wonderful to hear someone so clearly on top of their game. Thanks again JMG.
Outstanding content as always! I found his book at my library!
So cool🤩
Yes. Top quality speculative cosmology exploring the boundaries of what may be! That’s what I come here for.
Interesting to listen to right after finishing the expanse.. I wish there were 10 more books coming
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Imagine not listening to John in 2021 - also whomever is falling alseep to these videos is missing out. Listen in the morning with coffee or on your commute. Dont listen before bed...
philosophical garbage tends to put people who prefer real science to sleep...so go figure.
@@michaelfried3123 well read scholarly papers and studies then bud idk what to tell you. The whole point of this channel is to listen to perspectives of all kinds. You shouldn't make educated decisions based on one youtube channel. The average youtube watcher like me, for instance, won't be doing that.
@@qwok I call em like I see em. Honestly.
@@michaelfried3123 There is no science without philosophy. Deal with it...
Simulation is such an outlandish concept that it should not be seriously considered. It is crazy and wrong headed. Time is time. Billions of years can’t be seconds. We can’t be in computer.
I believe that we're in some type of cycle of universes being created on a timescale of which we are unable to ever comprehend, perhaps infinitely.
I feel we can't exclude the human experience and consciousness since we are more or less bound by it. Simulation theory is interesting but doesn't it sound too much like an easy solution? Simulation theory is kind of like a god in a lot of ways. Both make sense of a difficult question, no coincidence it has grasped attention in the age of computers, even if it has been around in many forms for millennia.
Simulation theory is just techno-solipsism, a philosophical dead-end
@@halilzelenka5813 Couldn't agree more
@@halilzelenka5813 Exactly. Useless idea unless you are inclined to be a bit psycho. "So if the universe is just a simulation, it doesn't matter what I do, or to whom, because we're all just fake computer bits."
@@BooDamnHoo Regardless of our ability to refute to concept of infinite simulations, it is not fair to levy arguments against claims the theory itself does not make. The best critique is that simulation theory does not make any testable claims about our reality, so can we go back to science now?
@@gjhromnskczkrth262 My personal critique is that when I pound my thumb with a hammer, it does not help to be told the pain is a simulation. Likewise when I am vomiting, it does not help to be told the sensation is only a simulation of nausea. I can find no circumstance that the simulation argument is not a pointless mental game.
Regardless of time or multiverses...What bugs me the most is no final answer can ever explain how the very first 'thing' came into existance at all.
In the beginning there was VOID and nothingness, a timeless, spaceless, nothingness. And into the nothingness came a thought, purposeful, all-pervading, and It filled the VOID.
There existed no matter, only force, a movement, a vortex, or vibration of the purposeful thought that filled the VOID. Was this thought eternal? In the beginning, there was eternal thought, and for thought to be eternal, time must exist. So into the all-pervading thought grew the LAW of TIME, time which exists through all space, floating in a smooth, rhythmic movement that is eternally in a state of fixation. Time changes not, but all things change in time. For time is the force that holds events separate, each in its own proper place. Time is not in motion, but you move through time as your consciousness moves from one event to another. Time exists, all in all, an eternal ONE existence. Know that even though in the time you are separate, yet still are ONE, in all times existent.
We all live eachothers lives at some point in "time".
Consciousness exists outside of time and pulled the universe into existence
@@stingingmetal9648 That may be. I think, that at death, you step outside of time and do not experience it. A second after death is experienced the same as 10 billion years. When eternity comes into the picture, anything that is possible will happen gain and again, eternally. Every experience of life, every person, every choice. The same life lived a thousand different ways, every life, lived over and over, the sum total of all possible life, all possible experience. The Golden Rule has new meaning - everyone you help, you're helping a future or past incarnation of you, the sum total of all life. Everyone you hurt, the same. This philosophy of life would leave many feeling disturbed, upset, as it implies every monster and every saint is connected at a deep level. This idea is one I have considered many times. One can hope that the monsters of history represent a much earlier incarnation of what life represents, and it is possible to better oneself through the experience of many lives. There are some frightening implications - eg Hitler may personally experience, eventually, all the horror that he inflicted, as he is repeatedly born into the generation he lived. For if in death you are beyond time, it may be that past or future has little relevance, as in the course of eternity everything must repeat. I wonder if God could be the sum total of all living things, the sum total of all living experiences, past, present and future, including all possible alternate histories,past and future.
Human beings have an extremely difficult time grasping the logical consequences of infinity, ie eternity.
@@deandeann1541 Couldnt have said it better
I like listening to Prof. Geraint. His RI lecture about the end of the universe is one of my favorites on their channel. I think it's called The End of the Universe. Heat death is, like, just the opening phase.
Yes Prof Geraint is fascinating, I've also seen that wonderful lecture.
Been waiting for this subject to come up, was heavily in thought about it for the last few months, I look forward to this episode, thanks guys.
I listen to these videos while editing my landscape photos. Thank you.
Omg, this is amazing! I listen to your channel all the time for sleep, your voice is so calming and the content is so innocuous and fascinating it keeps my mind busy and helps me relax
The 5th force is all around us I think we all know what that is already 🤔 may it be with you! Thanks John great interview as always loved the conversation. 🎩
Call me ignorant but listening to the introduction, I wasn't expecting a Welshman!
Great content as always.
Event horizon is awesome, I really like the choice of music you use in your videos, it feels like I’m warping
Love to hear your podcast!
I still like the theory that at the end of the Universe, when one atom is a large distance away from next, at this point the Universe becomes unstable leading to another big bang event.
I gave this some thought because I find it hard believe that the Universe is 13.8B light years old. A number that I can easily comprehend rather than a larger infinite number.
Why an atom? And why not, say, an elementary particle? And why even that, if that? What are the physics behind this? What evidence would you have that supports this hypothesis? Sorry to sound like a dick haha but the big bang / one-universe theory is the theory that is the best explanation for what we have evidence for. It's fun to think of other scenarios but none yet have held up against the evidence we observe.
No life, no lottery. 13.8 is not a lottery number, but 14B years(!) is.
Light year is a distance in space, not time. The universe is about 13.8b years old, but the observable universe is 46b LY in radius.
Great conversations. Thanks for sharing.
2:39 a cross on a middle finger.... ironic yet hilarious.
I love that JMG always has relevant and well thought out questions for his guests!
I just started listening to all these & I was just about to comment but you done it for me.
I have wondered if “Dark Matter” is a gravitational effect from a neighbouring universe. It would potentially explain why we don’t see the actual stuff to create the mass that is inferred, but we do see the effects of that mass.
Dark matter and dark energy are theory's put forth because of interpretations of actions observed that cannot be explained by our current understanding of how and why things behave. There are two ways we can approach an explanation of these observations. 1st is to invent an unseen force that we cannot detect. 2nd is to take a look back at what we think we understand but refuse to change because the math works. Math can predict an action but it cannot tell you why and in that statement lies the answer to all of the questions these guys have.
Dark matter was theorized because galaxies were spinning faster than expected. I don't think a neighboring universe would do that. If there was a neighboring universe we'd probably see all the galaxies flowing towards its direction, so in a single direction. Instead, galaxies are flying away from us from every direction.
@@adlex1212 unless we are surrounded on all sides by other universes, which if there are an infinite num ber of universes we would be surrounded on all sides
I like the way you think. The Universe is crazy and we don't understand a lot of it. That could be because we don't think outside the box. I however, would more likely entertain a higher dimension instead of a different universe.
@@McShaganpronouncedShaegen The Universe is a living entity, that is why it was born and is growing, and the human scale is almost at the limit of the structural basis of existence.
Dark matter doesn't exist, we actually live in something dense, organic, and the unexplained forces that maintain the gravitational structure between galaxies are equivalent to what we see in the microcosm, where creatures live within the "density" of a drop of water and cannot see the "force" that limits their movements and stabilizes their habitat. Black holes are equivalent to dead cells that deteriorate all the matter around them. One day everyone will agree with me. ^^
I love Prof Geraint F Lewis, he explains everything that we cannot understand in the most understandable way. 🤔🤨
Fantastic interview, JMG! Thanks a lot! 😃
You know, from all this conversation, what I conclude is that physics are weird. They get uncomfortable about ideas... 😐
Not me. Any of the ideas discussed here would be fine for me. My only demand is that it must be true.
Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
So discussion of ideas must always represent truths.
The very reason for discussing ideas is to explore which can be true and which cannot. What you are suggesting is religion, not science. Only religion starts with "truth" and rejects discussion which challenges that truth . Science starts with ideas and discovers those which are perceptibly true, allowing that those ideas be challenged by further exploration and discovery to replace perceived "truths" with new knowledge.
@@billhenry7213 I believe you really misunderstood me. That's not what I said, absolutely.
During the interview, prof. Lewis said, many times, that "this idea makes physics uncomfortable". You know? What I meant is that I really don't care which of them is correct, I only care about finding the correct idea (the "truth").
Usually, religious people are exactly those afraid of ideas. They are the ones who get uncomfortable about them. Which is something crazy for a science person!
Now, if you want to debate what "the truth" is... We're going to need a bar table and some beer, because it's going to go really far! 😬
When a will you come out with more videos? 😁
@@Hasblock Wait... Me? Or JMG? 😬
Finally checking out this channel - great chat!
The Universe is finely-tuned for everything that currently exists in, well, the Universe, of course.
What if the Universe follows an eternal self-sustaining cycle of expansion and contraction that evolves with each new iteration? What if the Universe is just a failed science project?
Why would the Universe want/need to evolve? What would be driving this? Life evolves because if it doesn't, it dies out due to its competition. Can a Universe die out to a competitor? If so, what/who are the competitor(s)? Evolution (as far as we know) also requires offspring; what is the offspring of a Universe? Do Universes producing offspring imply Universe mating? If so, what is a Universe's mate? If not, how does it produce offspring (i.e. evolve)?
@@destructionman1 I believe that the evolution referred to is just entropy. Entropy needs no reason and the current universe is an extremely slow evolution from a state of low entropy to high entropy.
@@destructionman1 not everything comes in two 'sexes' all that is required for evolution is change and selection. I do not know what the selective mechanism is, or where and when it applies, but that does not invalidate evolution.
All that can be will be. All that can’t be will not. The reason the universe is finely tuned to everything in it is because only what could exist exists. There are probably things in in other universe (if they exist) that are impossible to exist with ours and vice versa. We as life only exist to question our existence because the laws of the universe aloud it and any universe with life will have this, we’re not special. We only exist because we can.
Always enlightening and entertaining
Great guest. I hope you have him back.
Really great episode!
What about - assuming we live in a universe among many - all the universes supported life. And that life would be fine tuned for its universe, unable to survive in any other and couldn't imagine any life beyond the "finely tuned laws" of its respective universe?
The views vs the 👍 on this video is way outta wack! Let's all show Mr. Reliable some love & throw him a like!
May be the initial conditions for the universe repeated numerous time until it landed on the sweet spot that is the universe in which we live. Multiple big bangs and collapses prior to this universe each leaving a shadow until the distribution was just right. It will be interesting to see what James Web can see when it looks back farther than we have been able to before. I wonder if the tiny variations in the CMB are echoes of previous universes. We know so much and yet we know so little about the most important question.
Very nice. Will be watching tonight!
I've been trying to find the ending credits music since forever. It's not findable amongst your credited music :/. Very interesting episode again! Enjoyed listening to it a lot
Ending credits would be Stellardrone: Ascent.
@@JohnMichaelGodier Thank you so much! Keep up the good work
It’s a simple but troubling and confounding question; why is there something instead of nothing? Where did it come from? Has it just always been? If so, how can we ever be able to fathom infinity? Again, relatively simple questions at face value but if I think about them for a few minutes, the how and why, I literally begin to feel legitimate terror. The universe is spooky.
This was a video of perfect length 👌
if some objects did have the "arrow of time" reversed for them, would we even be able to recognize it? would the object even be able to phisicaly interact with our "forward time" matter? so much left to learn, so exciting.
Very interesting interview. I really want to read the book now. Thanks for the episode.
Hmmmmmm. Commented 4 hours ago when the video was released just 27 min ago. 🤔🤔🤔
@@Stoned2TheBone69 I'm a Patreon supporter so I get early access.
(Kqigop to Glorbek) Ancestory Civilization 35X-B42.8 is dangerously close to uncovering the internal code, shall I terminate?
After hearing so much useless drivel on the 'net, it's very refreshing to listen to your intelligent conversations!
Very entertaining, as usual.
Wow! I'm normal! I thought I had a problem coz I struggle to sleep but once I plug my headphones and tune in, it won't take me more than 10 minutes 🙈. On the other side though I must listen for a second time to capture the content 😊
Just curious, why is the episode locked on Spotify? Either way, I’ll still listen here. Love your channel.
listening to event horizon makes my imagination run wild like when i was a kid.
Great video and information !
👍Great video, as always. Thanks. Interesting comments about our universe's Periodic Table. What would be possible in a universe with 100, or 200, or 500 elements in the Periodic Table?
Lovely episode.
It's interesting that so many folks who comment find room for skepticism of scientist's ideas but not of their own.
I'm six hours late to the party!! I like to make an entrance.. love Thursdays 😍
love this Channel
great episode!
What would happen at the termination boundary for the observable universe?
If the observable universe was all there is then it’s diameter would be transposed into a right angle triangle with length half*AB, where AB is the length of the diameter.
With the new base, an angle of 89.9recurring degrees would pinpoint a maximum proportional distance for quantum phenomena.
With each additional decimal place calculated for the angle the height increases.
Beyond h it’s statistically implausible to define an observable quanta, as it’s more likely either side of the moment of measurement. It’s even possible that wave functions couldn’t collapse beyond this distance (h).
Hello sir. I've been wondering. Wondering for a few days now. JWST launch is 12 days away. NASA will be broadcasting/streaming it live. Are you going to do an event or live stream or something for it? I think it would be great to hang out and witness history together.
It's launching just after 6 am my time, so I won't be able to do a live stream. But there will be a full update interview in January covering all the developments.
@@JohnMichaelGodier Still an exciting time to live in, regardless. I'm never more stoked about our scientific progression then after I watch your content or Anton Petrov's.
That was really cool thx!!!
I can't say thanks enough. This Channel is Amazing.
Thanks so much for the video and info.
I wish you All the best.
I ♥️ Event Horizon so much!!!!!
Why would you think only this universe won the lottery with life? It could be like cooking, where you're handed a set of ingredients and you all end up with something, usually, edible.
People seem to think only this way of life is possible but I would imagine there are some sort of beings, for example, living in high radiation in possible different dimensions, etc, that think the same. There was an old episode of the Superfriends cartoon, I think, which had a type of "high energy" beings which would be the best way of describing how different circumstances creates a different form of life.
Keep it up mate good video!
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour” William Blake
Also, with the regard to physics divorced universes outside the visible universe and the conundrum of homogeny, is it possible that the universe is so big, we simply can't see portions of the universe which are less homogenous of our own?
Can't wait to see what helpful pieces Webb will uncover
Because the speed of light is limited, we can indeed only see portions of the universe (called the observable universe, which is just a part of "the" universe) and not any more. We can't in principle observe the rest. We can't therefore know or observe (and never will) how large this rest is or how it looks like, if it is less homogenous or not, or if the missing antimatter is just located there.
But as that part of of the universe can never be observed, any speculation about it can not be falsified and is thus not scientific in nature. You could hypothesize, that that's the place where Elves, Dragons and Unicorns are living and will never be falsified.
Meaning: speculations about that part aren't leading anywhere from a scientific point of view.
It came from a singular molecule and just expanded into what it is now!
I think the universe just continuously resets itself so once it reaches its end it does a new big Bang and starts all over again
Perhaps history repeats and we will live our lives again after our current ones end. Maybe we've been here before - déjà vu - and will be again. Indeed, perhaps we are destined to relive our lives over and over for an indefinitely long period of time, making the same mistakes as we did originally, or maybe a novel change might occur in each iteration to make things play out differently.
Who knows for sure, but it's fun speculating. Take care.
More great content, thanks.
Thank you
Frankly I'm struggling to be open-minded enough not to reject all of this outright as metaphysical gibberish rather than scientifically meaningful discourse.
I love for these videos
wow, that’s an amazing video.
John Michael God-Tier stuff 👍
When do the parallels end and reality begins?
When is this from? I'm pretty sure the natural element count is up to 100 now
when you make a particle a wave and a wave a particle, then you can apply this to the parts of gr and qm...
think of the vacuum eneergy calculation
The name " uni verse ' should be revised seriously, its not 2500 yrs ago.. science satellite telescopes and many other instruments prove otherwise... it cant posibly be spoken into existence
I think there was a 'universe' before ours, much like a nuclear chain reaction requires more than one radio-isotope to occur. Our universe had reached equilibrium until an object struck it, similar to a free neutron splitting a uranium atom.
Time has always existed. It has no beginning, it has no end. It just is.
Has anyone tried to measure statistical anomalies in the probability of finding specific flavours of neutrinos generated from sources at different relativistic speeds (towards and away from the detectors)?
Could this make it possible to find the masses of all three flavours of these particles instead of just the difference of the square of their masses?
I like the idea but how to measure something racing away at relativistic speeds, you need an interaction to measure something
@@twitchi8478
It's not the neutrinos themselves that would be racing away from a detector, but the source of these particles.
What could be measured is a potential anomalous behaviour in the "doppler shift" or "redshift"/"blueshift" - for the lack of a better analogy - of neutrinos (which unlike the massless photons are shown to experience time) caused by their inherent oscillation among the three flavours - electron neutrino, muon neutrino and tau neutrino.
By correlating observed anomalies (if any) with what we already know there is the very tempting possibility to zero in their individual masses.
And legend has it every big bang happens the exact same each time, over and over forever.
at the edge of the observable universe galaxies are very young. Is there actually any reason to think there are more galaxies further out since they wouldn't have had time to form ? I'm inclined to believe that dark energy is gravity from an external universe acting on our baby universe.
Could we be a simulation within a simulation within a simulations within a simulation.........???? I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Prof Lewis but there is always something disturbing about discussing the origin and ultimate nature of the universe. Something inside my mind just wants a nice simple explanation without the need for extra dimensions, multiverses and lots of mathematics that I don't understand.
look for universe from nothing by Krauss
I don't believe we are in a simulation. I think the idea is pure fantasy -- for some it is perhaps a means to wish the universe (or certain personally unpleasant aspects of it) away, or perhaps a round about means to engage in wish-fulfillment fantasy.
I think about this all the time 😩 are we recreated from the ashes and are the same people or different? Is reincarnation real? Are we different forms of ourselves? God created the universe? What created the universe? When we’re gone are we gone for good?
Me too...I can spend hours thinking really deeply into how we got here and what was there before the universe and how can there be nothing before the big bang and what is nothing!!! How can there be nothing!!! It can literally drive you crazy lol but I still enjoy thinking about it.
Every time I’ve driven through Treherbert I’ve thought to myself this must either be or have a parallel universe. If Treh has a parallel universe what do you think it’s like?
I'd guess that the parallel Universe version of Treherbert is pretty much like Abercynon ;)
I do like this channel.
I have a question whose answer is probably relevant. If the universe is only 14 billion years old, how can we see light from galaxies more than 14 billion lightyears away?
seriously? inflation is the current hypothesis.
The universe is not static, but expands. This means what is now visible at the border of the observable universe (roughly 46b light years away) was at closer to us (at max at a distance of 13.8b ly), when the light was emitted, than it is now.
Inflation (as mentioned by Scott McCloud above) is NOT the right answer, if it refers to the Guth inflation, because that took place nearly immediately after the big bang and a long time before the era of recombination, which limits the time we can see back using electromagnetic waves.
@@TheShootist Inflation doesn't make light faster, though. I get that those galaxies are redshifted. They are still more than three times the distance from Earth than could possibly have been traveled by light. Most of that was immediately after the big bang. The rate of expansion slowed significantly since then. We should see these galaxies crossing the visible horizon, and at quite a rapid rate.