Ricky Gervais Explains The Big Bang to Karl Pilkington | Opie & Anthony 

Cosmologists have been saying for decades that there was no big bang.

@@danielfinch362 then what?

he's not as well known as ricky, but he certainly has a following

I think so at this point. I'm American and I love the guy.

Probably not "Famous famous". I doubt he would be swamped or turn every head as he walked down an average American street.

Idiot abroad had a mild following, and was the reason I couldn't stand Ricky Gervais. I have since become able to find him funny on occasion.

Karl, it's Karl

lessevdoolbretsim this is possibly my most favorite comment in all of RU-vid comment sections

Have you learned that it was wit yet?And hence the laughter. Also'timing'

Bill hicks ..... 🐐

nakata023 wouldn’t there be sound inside the Big Bang itself... like imagine if you were in the mass rather than being at a distance in empty space/non existence. Surely the explosion would contain sound for a massive distance as it would be much denser than air for a greater amount of space.

What do you think we'll do to him, teach him how to tip waitresses, then he'll bring the habit home and you'll all have to start doing it?

lessevdoolbretsim no. You'll introduce to him to guns and he'll come home and shoot up a school whilst shouting "yeahhh murica"

WOOOPdoctorFROGhere swing and a miss

lessevdoolbretsim Nah, we pay our waitresses a wage they can actually live on.

Mister E lol

Howard from the Big Bang theory

But random mutations can produce the same effect. Those who are in possession of those traits that allow them easier access to food or make them resistant to certain illnesses etc. are usually more successful in passing their genes to the next generation. Ricky probably understands this, but he is not a scientist; hence, he isn't really good at explaining scientific ideas.

***** It has to do more with fact that he used the infamous giraffe example, which in the 19th century was used to ridicule Lamarckism for it's deterministic and purposeful ideas. Or how Aristotle used the 'idea of a cow eating grass on an idea of a field' to poke fun at Plato. So it's not even what Ricky said, but more like the example that he used so nonchalantly is a historically laden example which biologists rarely mention just because it's in bad taste as it points to a chain of bad ideas and misconceptions that early biology was filled with.

***** Would you use migration patterns of Jewish and Semitic tribes as an example when talking about human migration patterns in general? I wouldn't. Thanks to mister Goebbels, and films like Der ewige Jude. Same thing with the giraffe example. It has been historically compromised to talk about it seriously. I mean, you can talk about it seriously, but after explaining yourself a bit more. That's it.

***** Thank you. This comment succinctly ends this argument. It's just a simplistic example that Ricky used, and the original poster inferred something that wasn't implied.

+Barry in the case of the podcasts/TV shows he's quite deliberately being that way to get Karl to say stupid things, that's the premise of the show really. he can definitely come across as arrogant IRL as well though.

It can't be explained in a RU-vid comment because it is complex. If it were an easy explanation, the religious might then understand what they were arguing against.

The space expanded faster than the speed of light, but objects within space can't move through space faster than the speed of light. (Distant areas of space are still expanding away from us faster than the speed of light, and in that space are stars that we'll never be able to see because the space between us and them is expanding faster than light can travel!)

curious mind No, that doesn't work. If the space between two objects is expanding faster than light, then the slowest something can be going would be at least half that. If A travels from B at half the speed of light, then C must be travelling away from A at double that. So what about X, Y, Z, etc along that line? Also, what is space? If it is empty, then how can it expand into nothing? If it is something, then how can that travel faster than light?

***** OK mate I weren't there. If there was a singularity, it also would surely need to come from somewhere wouldn't it? Merry Christmas though mate.

BeerGogglesReviews Nope, as far as we know energy can only change form, not be created or destroyed truly. Saying "it must have come from somewhere" doesn't really apply here, because before the Big Bang time and the laws of the Universe are so fundamentally different from what we understand now that even the concept of something having a start or end (even just a conversion of matter or energy 'starting' or 'ending' the way _we_ describe things starting and ending) might not even apply. That's why science can't really examine beyond, or say anything about what happened before the Big Bang because there's no way for us to even begin to be able to test it. I might be wrong, but currently science can't examine past the Planck time, so nothing definite is said about it at all, and certainly not that it's "nothing", Ricky was wrong. This isn't even a good analogy, but if you want to slightly understand what that might be like, imagine if you were working on a toolbox with a screwdriver, and the toolbox is sitting in a shadowy corner where you can't see it, and everytime you went near it with the screwdriver, the screwdriver turned into the concept of love. Now tell me how you fix the toolbox.

+Stephen Wilson because nothing can have two purposes

+IamHueGraves exactly.

Stephen Wilson exactly what?

They don’t have long necks to reach food. The mutants born with the long necks are more likely to survive and thrive passing on that gene surpassing the rest. It’s not like they decided to have long necks to reach food the long neck allows them to reach food. Feel free to destroy me if you disagree :)

Final Fuse That was so awkward man..

Final Fuse Yes he was.

Michiel van Hedel whats the joke? there is none. I've been listening to ricky for years on podcasts & audiobooks. I think I know if he's making a joke or not.

Final Fuse the "joke" is that Joe Derosa was trying to sound intelligent and failed, th

Michiel van Hedel He wasn't trying to show anyone out of their depth. He said right after they started laughing "This is True" they was laughing because they thought they should. To be polite. So fake. Be true to yourself.

Kerry P Thanks, I'll watch it tomorrow.