Stanford Professor Andrei Linde celebrates physics breakthrough 

You sir, have your head screwed on tightly, i respect that :) I totally thought the same thing. I do not to start hate or anything, like everyone has their own beliefs and opinions, but just me, myself personally, couldn't have my faith and belief stored souly on blind faith, and believe something because thats what history has told, humans aren't the most trustworthy creatures, they like to exagurate and lie about things, which effectively leads to history being told differently, just like a big game of 'Chinese Whispers'. i like to have an open mind and think, "what is really out there? beyond just us and our planet, and solar system? what other life is there? surely we cannot be the only inhabited planet?" the universe is a strange, wonderful, mysterious and beautiful place, larger than any of our minds can even begin to comprehend. That is why it facinates me so much, I can't wait for even more groundbreaking discoveries in the future :D

And clearly he was right to be skeptical.

@@zombieinjeans why clearly?

@@hottiesoe87 It came out a few months later that there was a serious error in the analysis. There was no evidence of inflation.

A real scientist!

This.

I mean she's also a professor of physics - she understands the gravity of the discovery as much as he does

@@homicidal_duck Thank you for telling me, I think I assumed because he seems to specifically want to tell Professor Andrei, but I shouldn't have jumped to the conclusion she didn't know what was being said.

thanks official guy to tell us that

+Kaleb H this was einstein's theory tho

+imnotdavid Gravitational Waves were theorized by Einstein not Inflation

That's just not true at all lmaooooo

Truly! 👏👏👏👏👏❤

Its very true. It is also true that running around shooting things also makes much more money for the greedy elite. If the average man gets too smart the elite lose the money in their pockets.

somewhat true.. but on the other hand building things that shoot things is how we make sure the things we paid to discover work LOL. I kid of course.

7-Eleven In this

they wouldnt accomplish annything

Maximillian Dirnfeld Except you know complete our understanding of the whole fucking universe. But no, let's focus on the cosmically insignificant rival countries.

His wife is a string theorist. That why she knows what going on. Professors tend to marry other the professors.

True. Scientist's work revolve around themselves 24/7 so it is easier to be with someone who they can communicate similarly with.

Well she'd wake up soon enough if she knew you were discussing her "short comings" online! Also if you treat her with the condescension you show in your first sentence (your impressed are you) it's a wonder she is able to stay conscious at all in the face of such pseudo-intellectual self aggrandizement. I wonder the last time your wife was impressed by you? I imagine she feigns wonder at your intellectual prowess as she perhaps does at your sexual prowess. What a life she must have with you... just wonderful!

Ismael Hayden Well wasn't that a mouth full for someone who doesn't know shit about the subject he just brought up.

And he fucking thought of it back in '76!

Because of course she is a physicist too. She knows exactly what the moment portends. Beyond beautiful.

Yes congratulations indeed. Science done by publicity is most effective....

:) lovely

That's not what r is. It's the tensor to scalar perturbation ratio which is related to the amplitude of of the gravitational waves caused by inflation.

mogget03 Yeah I was like "An R of .2, that data sucks ass..." thanks for clearing that up.

I would say 5σ is more like P(z>5σ) is the probability that their results are insignificant (that the null hypothesis is true)

Great point. It shows that most "famous", (as in widely known), people are not important, and that most truly important people aren't famous. 1000 years from now, who will know or care about the artists and athletes that people follow right now? On the other hand, Linde, whose name is now etched in stone, is now virtually unknown to the masses.

Lies never create change for the good.

Timothy Locke We know, The Bible and every Holy book proved that, just look at the Crusades.

Timothy Locke Yeah, religion does cause a lot of problems with its lies. Think of how many people will read about this discovery and the certainty behind it, and they may even question their faith in an invisible moody toddler. Slowly but surely people are waking up and ignoring the fairy tails and learning more about the universe we live in. It's great.

This thing has been proven incorrect: www.space.com/28423-cosmic-inflation-signal-space-dust.html But we haven't seen a follow up video where Standford knocks on the door of Andrei and telling him about that.

... and then come back a few years later "nope, turns out we were wrong!"

Roberto Cantú Wow, thanks for that impressively concise explanation. It was very helpful.

***** wrong, Christians have no problem with the big bang lol.

Christians. www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/03/18/how-did-creationists-respond-to-yesterdays-big-news-in-support-of-the-big-bang-theory/

absolutely #ipsilateralful my faith was greatly grown today. man i love science!!!!!

***** hahaha sorry brother ive been a christian a long time and always thought the big bang as probable.

***** ISLAM

Funny that was the exact same thought I had! what a smart pair

She’s a professor of physics at Stanford, just like her husband.

shared interests = an amazing mariage

@@AudoricArt She herself is a Physics professor. It's far more than a shared interest.

Yes c.s., really enjoyed this myself. So happy for him! Think it may still be sinking in lol :D

Want to know what he means when he says "It's 5 sigma r at point 2"? check this out The Theory of Everything...A Little Bit Closer

I knew critically needed info (proof) was just reaching us from the initial cosmic inflation, but I learned more from this vid you linked. Thnx c.s. briar!

It is brilliant innit? I saw this thru Sci-Show and I did have a moment :)

Linde's prediction still stands but hasn't been discovered as yet. BICEP2's result was premature (the background due to dust was underestimated), but Planck did not rule out primordial gravitational waves but set an upper sensitivity limit.

Yup, i mean he felt it was discovered, and must have been let down.

+Jayanth Kumar at the end, i think he knew it couldve been wrong, i know its a but dissapointing but it was prematuire for a reason, most scientists dont live long enough as anohter comment saud (sorry for bad speling#)

+Austin Pinheiro Rejoice! Its coming!!!! ITS COMING!!!

I think his let-down would've been easily accepted by himself. even in this video, he clearly knows it could bullshit. that's my favorite part about scientists, even when their own work is purportedly proven, they still think it's bullshit. nothing is more humble than that

Stanford weather is also a bit nicer than Moscow.

Mwhaah! Putin invests only in his PR and gazprom company, which uses resources of the country

Economy based only on gas and oil cannot be always stable. Plus the gazprom doesnt care about well being of people or about preserving nature. And our oligarchic government too. We are richer in terms of GDP per capita, but it doesnt take into account the unevenly distributed wealth. Many people are very poor just because wealth is concentrated among few richest groups of people. Plus, for a country with relatively big GDP per capita we still have enormous mortality rate, very small life expectancy, big percent of alcoholics and drug addicts etc

If it doesn't get me more channels on my satellite, or cures cancer, or makes my erection last twice as long, then good riddance. This is the kind of science that is meaningless, because it has no effect on anything at all. I met a "scientist" once who specialized in the study of the mating habits of the African horned beetle. Not the Asian horned beetle, but the African. He is living his life in utter peace and harmony, soaking up valuable grant money so desperately needed by real problems. And when one grant runs dry. he cons another university onto funding more of his "research". And there are thousands more like him out there, just kicking back, skating through life without a real purpose. If you're country is losing these purveyors of snake oil, then you are fortunate. We here in America are supporting too many of these deadbeats.

Danny Criss I think everything new we discover is worth it. Every bit of knowledge we can gather will only better us as a species. When you really think about it, everything in this Universe is beautiful. Galaxies, Stars and Planets. Seas, Storms and life itself. To think that today we live in the craziest most unimaginable place ever, where the particles that form the person you are and everything you see around you were created in the center of stars. Thoughts and ideas that spark out of nothingness, which then manifest into the technology we see in our every day world. I don't see anything better to spend the money on.

I'm really impressed by Professor Linde's humility before the science - despite a lifetime of work, despite the elegance and beauty of his theory, he wants more data - more confirmation of the facts. Now that's integrity, he'd rather be wrong in his theory and right in the facts. That's a real scientist to be admired.

Andy Lundeen I'm a molecular biologist here - and yes - this is a great time to be alive. We're making huge jumps in so many areas all at once, it seems like we're at the edge of a New Renaissance? His joy, and no little relief, is wonderful.

NorthForkFisherman So I came back to these comments when I wanted to watch this vid again, and somebody went through and thumbed down all our comments. lol -

yeah but neither you nor nearly every other person on the planet can validly assert otherwise. They are 'laws' because everyone in the scientific community agree to their terms, but per the scientific method, still open to debate pending a valid arguments. These laws are not to 'govern' the universe, but to describe it. Nature is not going to defy the laws we set, we are going to redefine the laws we use to describe it. Nature is not some constantly-changing entity, what is here has been here for billions of years and will continue to be here for billions more. The only thing that changes in our understanding.

Summary: GOD N SHIT

if you believe in science, you have to believe that there are many ignorants in this world ;)

Guillermo cobo vegas your "if" and "then" are totally unrelated. What you said makes no sense in the same sentence. Try again.

He deserves a no holds barred DATE with Miley Cyrus.

...Nobody deserves that. That's just monstrous.

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he already said no evidence can ever convince him, its a lost cause.

I'm more eager to see what William Lane Craig has to say. He'll probably just repeating his lil Kalam just because he has realized he can get enough delusional people to buy his books.

theMstanglover WLC already accepts big bang cosmology and the age of the universe.