I don't mean to infer and I mean no offense: yet do you think that some aspects of the culture of India regarding Hinduism, Islam and Buddhism are useful as to why when people look up at the night sky, that they perhaps see a bit further into infinity?
In other words: do you think some aspects of the cultures around you are infact compatible with cosmology, and perhaps even a motivating factor to see further?
@@py_a_thon No offense taken. I'm born as a Hindu. The fact that it's like every other religion i.e. not all dandy, rosy or enlightening as it seems to an outsider. The religion has its own flaws like every other religion maybe and it's recently been highjacked by the vicious to spread hatred in the country. Sorry to disappoint you, but I personally draw no inspiration, motivation, peace or pleasure from it and it's a mere option on a government form that saves me from some harassments with the majority Hindu population for now.
@@samratjpatil Fair enough. I suppose the sort of rational historic concept of the religion is what is most fascinating. Ramanujan as a mathematician was an odd individual, and some of that random brilliance seemed to be derivated from perhaps the culture of Hinduism, if not a blind adherence to the religion. If you want to view those stories (some of which are kinda awesome) as just the past form of Marvel Cinematic Movie storytelling, then that is all good lol. I suppose that narrows my real question down though: Storytelling(fiction, mystical or other) has alot of power, and perhaps we can find ways to incorporate that into the world in a moral form?
@@samratjpatil Another randomly interesting concept is how someone found a like 1000 year old islamic mosque that had tiling on it that was almost exactly what Roger Penrose had mathematically quantified in his major discoveries regarding how shapes tile perfectly (in 2 dimensions. I guess Penrose's brilliance was that his quantified logic can expand into topology in n-dimensions. Maybe...? 3D often plays nice 4+D gets weird fast).
About a decade ago I was a student at Arizona State University and I would routinely attend your Origins talks. I miss being there in person! Thanks for all the great content and for genuinely caring for students. You would always give me a few minutes of your time after talks for questions. Happy New Year!
Thank you Lawrence for this lecture. I think you've covered a great deal in this 2 hour presentation. For me, this is the best lecture among your lectures that I've seen so far.
Love Lawrence's lectures and 'one on ones' ... always thought provoking, always understandable to his audience, sometimes provocative, sometimes teasing ... but most of all a great human being ... happy new year from the UK ...
It's really amazing how many key components for our understanding of the universe came about just in the last century: plate tectonics, DNA, the real scale of our universe and even just definitive proof of atomic theory.
@@PronatorTendon Once you recognize that there is one galaxy more, it immediately grows very quickly. BTW, Krauss is a BS artist. His big selling book 'A Universe From Nothing' is a lie. Its a universe from an quantum field. And he was actually asked about that. His response was 'I couldn't title the book 'A Universe from a QuantumField', no one would have bought it. He is very dishonest guy.
I love and learn much from watching Dr. Krauss. His videos will teach many of our grandkids - please take a minute to check the lighting before you hit the record button! You're a handsome man! ;-) (Thx!)
What an incredible New Year gift! I would love to shake his hand and thank him for bringing so much light into our lives. Truly he is a lens through which dullards, such as I, are able to snatch fleeting glimpses of the infinite.
Dr Krauss. In 100% humility and honesty, your lectures inspired me to enjoy thinking of the components of the universe in a different and more enjoyable way. I cannot thank you enough for the lectures, presentations, and guests you presented over many years for free on this platform. Thank you.
Just as trains created the need for time zones, commonplace long distance telephony, and more recently, the ubiquitousness of internet communication have complicated our sense of time. My wife in Nova Scotia, Canada, called her uncle in New Zealand, but got the time conversion wrong, so it was 3 am, there. Nowadays, you might get on the computer or your cell phone and send a message to a colleague, only to discover they are not down the hall, but thousands of miles away.
Greatest Exponent on the edge of knowledge, Deep Insights into our Universe, clarity in explaining quantum mechanics, Fantastic Origins Podcast...undoubtedly the Greatest Scientist Lawrence Krauss...I Thank you Sir ❤❤❤
That was fun: thank you. Also, I see in the chat that a few stable geniuses have concluded Einstein was wrong about General Relativity, yet forgot to inform the world's scientists.
I love your lectures, and you have been my favorite physicist for a long time now. Thank you for sharing your insights and a tip of your knowledge. Happy New Year and PLEASE come to Pittsburgh!!!
IF CANT BUILD IT YOU DONT UNDERSTAND IT - Feynman. Thanks for this quote from the blackboard and thanks for this talk. I really like the bit about ‘I don’t know’ but not to confuse it meaning we don’t know anything. Also I liked what you said about how we educate HAS to change. Facts are irrelevant, scientific process is the key, kids get scared off thinking they need to know many facts, we need to tell kids instead no they need to know only the process of thinking and testing , and it doesn’t matter as much if you’re wrong or right as it does that you can think and care whether it’s right or wrong.
my favorite Krauss lecture is the one where he talks about the stars died for you! it's so eloquent and beautiful. he is such an amazing speaker and brilliant mind.
The Salton Sea apparently has an abundance of lithium. What we need for EV's is inductive charging using coils below the roadway, charging batteries as it's driven. That'll minimize the need for large capacity batteries.
Superb lecture, Mr. Krauss. I've wondered for quite some time now if DNA itself was the only fundamental life form and every other living thing was simply a vessel for DNA to live. I thoroughly enjoyed the first hour and I loved the second hour. The breadth of topics covered is amazing and wonderful. The way you share and propose epistemology is helpful, relatable, and accessible. And your presentation of knowledge is a gift to us all. Happy New Year 2024
we, laymen, thank you very much for filling up what general education should have provided. You present facts and also tell us about the scientist's mindset, and how it ought to work, objectively with no bias.
Can you claim sonething is not conscious when you have no idea what consciousness is? The only metrics available are whether an animal feels pain and they can think. Whether they can perform complex thoughts wouldn't mean the animal is not aware if itself.
Every time I watch a professor like this I wonder why bad lectures are allowed/forced to give lectures. Much better watching really good ones on the internet.
1:10:56 You _can_ ask questions of a document now! There are websites where you can upload a document, and a large language model (LLM) "reads" it, and you can ask natural language questions. I tried it, it really works. I have only tested extremely technical documents, and the book "1984", so far.
Thanks for the video! I will add about the "intelligent design" question, that the assumption that this universe, or even this world, was made for us is flawed from the start. Because there are many parts of the world directly deathly hazardous for humans. Take the oceans. Forget the need to breathe, which is a huge issue on it's own, but the pressure alone in the depths of the oceans will kill a person, or persons, instantly. And if you manage to solve these two issues, then you have to deal with nitrogen narcosis if you return to the surface too quickly. Then you have the tallest mountains. Breathing is also an issue, even worse is the cold. Even well equipped climbers have to deal with losing toes and fingers due to frostbite. This also applies to the arctic and antarctic regions. The cold in these places will kill an unprepared person nearly instantly. Add in other natural effects that are directly hazardous to us, like volcanoes, tornadoes, hurricanes, cyclones, wildfires, landslides, and strikes from comets and asteroids. These things are all directly and deathly hazardous to humans, if directly exposed to them, and sometimes also indirectly exposed. Also, microbes and plants outnumber us BY FAR. If anything, this world is made for -them-, and we just happen to be living on their world. And then once you leave the bounds of this planet, EVERYTHING is deathly hazardous for us. Even when properly prepared, like those who visit the International Space Station, there are issues that stem from being in micro-gravity. And the radiation in space is a constant concern. Especially once you leave Earth's magnetic field. So, just like the "Goldilocks" zone that enables liquid water to exist on this planet, there is a "Goldilocks" zone ON this planet, because we are not suited to survive in the lowest and highest parts of this world.
I love listening to people like Krauss talk because they love to talk about the possibilities in their work. They are always quick to admit that their are lots of things out there ... possibilities that we just aren't sure about but are possible. They are even willing to admit that things like multi-dimensions and the Dyson sphere, a thought experiment that was created to explain how an advanced society would meet its energy requirements once those requirements exceed what can be generated from the home planet alone. Anything is possible in science except ... Intelligent design. What is it that makes them so sure that doesn't exist? It's as theoretical as everything else they've examined yet this is the one thing they unconditionally reject with no basis or explanation. That's when I know this scientist lives with bias in his work that limits his journey on finding the truth of the universe.
Regarding consciousness.. on social media it is easy to recognise the bubbles of unconscious minds suggested as content for you that has nothing to do with your reality accept machines assumptions and bias..Consciousness is like a common sense, self awareness - a child develops through experience..that’s why everyone is at different state of it, because subjective experience depends so much on time and space..
Wow, the explanation at 1 hour 24 minutes how the picture taken with the camera is spread out in time was provoking! Have to ponder it more. Any chance this will come out in a podversion?
Krauss is a brilliant brain and speaker, human too I imagine but I don’t know him personally. His Rogan appearance is still up there as one of my favourites and I’ve seen a lot of Rogans stuff.
Space... The bar that you look down your nose at, but you know that you will visit regularly to separate the things that went before from things that come after.
The issue I have with the dominantly western "judeo-christian"(or the physical science as we know it since renaissance) is the ability to even consider human centric special consideration to human consciousness(and the related suffering) when it is abundantly obvious even without any of the accepted or believed methods of scientific investigations, that the other animals do have a consciousness and can suffer the same or similar ways to humans suffer. This is an even deeper issue when we use the known and accepted methodologies of physical sciences to evaluate animal consciousness and the related suffering. This habit of placing humans on a higher ground of consciousness and suffering is most certainly a core tenet of the "judeo-christian" world view, yet the modern physical sciences that claim to have deviated from those thought patterns and world view since the renaissance has also inherited that world view(or some core aspects of it) if we look at the core tenets of modern western philosophy as well as physical sciences(or some of it). It is all good and admirable Lawrence has become a vegetarian because of his assessment that his dog also has consciousness and suffers as he does. However, it should be a given that his dog is conscious without having to go into deeper philosophical or western model scientific assessments, because otherwise we have to question the consciousness of everyone around us except the conscious person(in this case myself) by asking or searching for empirical evidence of whether my mother possess a consciousness like myself. We need to question the generally accepted(or seemingly accepted) view that we are far more intelligent, knowledgeable and aware of these matters related to consciousness than our ancient ancestors like Egyptians, Greek, Indians or Chinese who had explored this domain in depth(particularly the Indians). There is a very high probability the ancient Indians and Chinese had explored these existential issues in much more depth than we would've done so far because they have passed on a good deal of that knowledge and philosophy to us, the modern day humans. For example, the debate between materialism and idealism(or anti-materilism/non-materilism or spiritualism etc) is nothing new. These debates had existed in depth among ancients Indians, Chinese and Greeks. The idea of microscopic life(or life forms that we cannot see with our normal eye vision) had existed among ancient Jaina, Buddhist and similar world views and knowledge. The microscope basically gave a visual validity to an existing ancient understanding, concepts and knowledge. We don't even know about world view and philosophy of the ancient Egyptians who built those monuments that we still can't figure out how they did it because they have not left any detailed documentation of their philosophy of human existence, existence of life on earth or their technology. I would imagine we can debate about the "levels" of consciousness between life forms like bacteria, algae, trees, mussels, fish, elephants etc. When we are hopeless at finding the consciousness in our brain(even though we know it is in our brain, even if the brain can be/may be a major component of it, but perhaps not the only component of it). I honestly do not know whether the consciousness is fundamental or not, but it is abundantly obvious dogs, cats, elephants, fish etc are conscious and suffers the same or similar way we do. Whether the consciousness is an illusion of nature is a different argument. What is obvious is that a conscious human(or another animal) is required to construct all these world views, knowledge and whatnot. What is obvious is that the biological life as we know it exists through parasitic, dependent or co-existing(symbiotic) mechanism of biology. In other words, one form of life must suffer one way or the other in order to maintain another form of life. We should avoid causing suffering to other life forms as much as possible in our attempt to feed ourselves because we do not have all the answers about consciousness and the suffering of life forms in the natural business of survival. This is true regardless of a person's choice to be a vegan, vegetarian, herbivore, omnivore or a carnivore. In that process, we should try not to be hypocrites because we do destroy lots of animal life forms in the process of producing our seemingly herbivorous food as well. What is obvious is that the natural world is ruthless from human ethics point of view and we humans are most certainly no exception when it comes to ruthless behavior. As a matter of fact we are above all other life forms(far more ruthless) in our practice of destroying other life forms for our food supply and other survival activities, whether it is about killing animals for meat or our plant based diet.
@@Lindsaayyy Indeed. We should at least accept the animals that behave similar to us are conscious like us. Beyond that we should consider accepting our ignorance and start from there while avoiding hypocrisy as much as possible. Dogmatic beliefs won't help us reconciling our ethical dilemmas or finding answers for existential questions.
I like towards the end of the lecture how its mentioned about how we need to think. But It seems we're still primitive in the way we think because the way we think is based on the education foundation of who and how we are taught to think. And we can't question what doesn't want to be considered or are affraid of. Its like the human species is still in its primordial evolution.
In case anyone else didn't have a f****** clue what was going on with the experimenters deciding A and B are plus or negative one, check out Brian Greene's book. He uses an example that is much more intuitive. No math, etc. The Elegant Universe.
I am a person about 9 yrs older than you who studied Mathematics and Physics back in the early 70’s who did not pursue such as a career path but never lost my interest in either discipline. If I had been in the audience there are several questions I may have put to you but the following one is the one I would be most apt to ask. So here goes: Do you believe it could be possible that the Singularity State we believe existed at the the beginning of our Universe is not foundational but is merely a Quantum Mechanical Boundary State where the “ Proposed Foundational Quantum Fields State” transitions into our observable Universe in a continuous manner right up to today and if this is true then could we perhaps verify this thru advanced instrumentation looking back in time for positive signs to support the Idea?
@@TheOriginsPodcast Thank you for taking your time to respond. I personally look at the concept of a Singularity as highly unlikely so I wonder what else may have gone on, as you say who knows for sure, certainly not me, but like everyone else, I wonder. So sometimes I picture myself standing at the between our Macro Universe State and the Quantum State and as I look into the Quantum State I don't see a jumbled State of constantly changing "Probabilities" but an Infinite State of all "Possibilities" waiting for our selection.. There is a subtle, but a distinct difference between the 2 States.
It is one thing to be "smart". It is an entirely different thing to "have wisdom". I respect Mr. Kauss because his life has enabled him to merge the two. I do not think Lawrence was always wise, but I believe he has arrived at a place of wisdom. We would be neglecting our humanity to not listen and abide by his words.
I’d suggest that not only do conscious systems need to sense to environment, I think they need to be able to modify it. For example, an infant waves around d it hands which modifies their visual fields plus the face and lips when hit. In addition, some of those events are uncomfortable while others pleasurable (eg. tastie)
Time is represented by the rising and setting sun. The periods in-between the setting and rising over time was broken down. Trickle down effect. That's how time was first understood. How many sunrises will you see. Peace 😎 ✌️
Passage of time=movement thru physical space, time dilation is moving thru the same amount of space but in a much more crunched area, so the distance seems to be the same and time seems to pass differently, but in reality u are just moving thru the larger given amount of space in a tighter bundle , the time passes the same , the amount of space u move thru for a given distance distance is what changes, it’s why scifi never grant communication , (the cells in ur body aren’t aging at a diff time scale)even tho they grant moving humans through black holes, because it’s a fundamentally misunderstood concept movies never get right, it’s not a magical time changing force, it’s distance relative to the amount of space(time) which are one in the same, u can’t cheat space, we are physical so we have to move thru it all, no matter how compressed it is
Sorry but at 50:07, it was not a virus being incorporated into a living cell that made the endosymbiosis. It was instead another living cell: a bacterium. Not a virus!! This is a huge mistake told to people here. A prokaryotic cell (archea) took a bacteria inside it, and they were both unicellular well living organisms. A virus is not a cell at all, its envelope is a capsid which is a mosaic of proteins, while a cell's membrane is made of two layers of phospholipids. So no! The virus is not able to process oxygen! A bacterium is. A virus is basically a box with a strain of RNA or DNA inside it. It cannot have any proper metabolism to process chemical compounds. And this is why it is defined as a non-living entity today. I value a lot Dr Krauss' lectures and conferences, they made me like and understand physics in its deeper and more fundamental aspects, but a lot of biology terms and concepts are misused here, so maybe biology should be left to biologists.
