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

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

LOL at Lawrence hiding in the shadows during the introduction.

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

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

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

What a brilliantly simple explanation of complex concepts.

What a lecture.outstanding!!

This is one of the best lectures ever!

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

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

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

thank you.

great shoes and hat Lawrence, the lecture interesting too!

I am so happy these make it to youtube.

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

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

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

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

What a shame the audio is so low.

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

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

I really enjoy listening to this man.. fantastic mind

Wow. Just watched the whole thing that was great.

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

thank you

whoah blew my mind

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

My brain needed this

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

he looks like a villain in the background at begining

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

The music bit was pretty funny

Tell your editor to learn about audio levels

Plato in high school. What a concept!

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

This was April of 2017?

An outstanding public speaker.

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

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

A great explanation of relativity. Ta.

Great speaker.

Release your fear for there is nothing to fear.

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

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

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

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

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

Are you in the red shoe club?

I was there!

why no subtitles?

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

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

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

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

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

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

we dont know

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

Very low volume unfortunately

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

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

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

The eternal book tour.

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

What with the shoes Dorothy?

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

THAT is where we come from.

Fantastic presentation for laymen😊

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

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

keep on trucking rs

Brilliant as usual.

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

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

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

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

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

Ronald McDonald called. He wants his shoes back.

those ruby red shoes though

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

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

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

What about the principal?

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

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

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

Is the Higgs Field the same as Dark Matter?

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

I wonder if Hitchens would have been more tolerant of Trump.

,.why where are we...

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

19:40.😂

If this guy just stuck to science, no politics or religion, no one would buy his books.

Do GPS satellites really rely on sending a signal and waiting for a reply? I'm certain each user compares the signals from multiple satellites! In the first case, complexity is O(number of users) while in the second case, complexity is O(number of satellites) ---> o(billion) compared to O(5)

The greatest scientist storyteller !! 👏👏👏👏👏

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

Dude, where am I?

we are here to watch rick and morty. that is all.

Sound poor, no CC.

Was that Neil degrasse Tyson @ 6:33?? LMAO