What's Philosophy of Cosmology? | Episode 1901 | Closer To Truth 

Thank you, Robert. Finding your channel was a eureka moment for me in the jungle of RU-vid!

Because I considere myself a True searcher, a philosopher, I want to express my gratitude for your existence. I love each one of your videos and interviews. I'm going to used in my classes

What are your thoughts on the philosophy of cosmology? What ideas really stood out to you? Let us know in the comments. If you enjoyed this episode, the entirety of Seasons 18 & 19 are currently available on our channel. Check out the Season 19 playlist for more from this season.

In a sense Robert is just as brilliant as the subjects he interviews, he’s never lost for the perfect question.

Does size matter? Why do so many thinkers equate our small size with insignificance? Our size is only small compared to the external universe. The internal universe, getting smaller and smaller, down to subatomic particles, is so incomprehensibly lilliputian that it makes human beings look incomprehensibly huge. It seems to me that size is a totally arbitrary criterion when assessing significance.

Thanks, Robert. What a great work you have done. Keep it up!

We need to see more of David Albert, he is very eloquent

So thankful for finding your show! 💫❣️

Robert should get an Emmy for these vids. Also, please put them in every school in the country starting in middle school please.

Loved this assemblage of thought experiences, each time opening up a whole range of topic to further disclose…

This brings us all closer to Truth

I like the program "Closer to Truth" RLKhun presents interesting topics about spirituality and the brain. S. Marsh

Waiting to see this channel grow bigger and sooner.

Great episode. Really helped nudge my thinking a long a little bit.

You are incredible thinker, you ask all the questions i want to ask, you are neutral in your opinions and guests, you are true to yourself and others to the deepest core, i just love you and your show beyond words, i like the intro music i would very much love to hear the rest of it , also can you explore inhabitable planets and possibility of aliens? Thx so so much, keep up the good work

thnx! i like how Barry Loewer is looking on the things.

Great video. When trying to get Closer To Truth, both philosophically and spiritually, it disturbs me that - with rare exceptions - everything from microbe to man only survives and prospers if and when something else perishes and is eaten. Even plants compete (to the death) with other plants for light and nutrients. Nothing (including vegetarians and vegans) can live, unless something, somewhere bites the bullet. The prevalence of Death and Destruction isn’t limited to ‘living’ things. Blackholes consume suns, planets get torched by stars, biospheres degrade under the onslaught of cosmic radiation, volcanoes, earthquakes and the activities of people / other life-forms. Turmoil, Chaos and Entropy prosper. It is challenging to find, or maintain, a positive philosophical or spiritual outlook when - everywhere in space and time - everything is busy dying, being eaten or getting wrecked. It also brings into question whether we are justified in assigning value and purpose to the achievements of the human intellect we hold in such high esteem, and attach so much relevance too. (mmm...Perhaps it’s time for a stiff drink, or a sugar fix).

Robert is awesome

Thanks for that. I can't believe i have this for free ... Thanks alot

There are always limits to what we can see but we will allways be pushing the boundaries. I don ´t think that we can say that something cannot be proved. You never know. The fascination with the philosophy of cosmology is that it keeps on pusshing the boundaries while observations surprise us with sometimes totally unexpected new details. I love to be surpised.

Very good, Very good 👍

Hands down one of my favorite shows. ADHD means there aren’t too many things that keep my attention, this keeps my attention plus some. Very glad I found it.

Good stuff. I take the view, "I am possible, therefore I am."

Great interview, as always. Robert is so relentless and so inquisitive about existence.

Great as always.

Time is flowing for us. For us there is the beginning of the universe. However, when you look at the universe from the outside, it is stationary, just like a harmonic oscillator. Because it is in the eigenstate of energy. In quantum mechanics, time and energy have a complementary relationship.

Of the interviews posted here the one which was most meaningful to me was with George Ellis. For he tells us something about the ultimate limit of our understanding, and how that in a sense has already been reached. Speculations may abound about multiverses but we cannot progress toward affirming or disconfirming them through experimental evidence. This suggests something truly distressing for human beings who desire to know, and for whom the quest for greater knowledge essential to our nature. We with billions of years ahead for the cosmos, and who knows how many for humanity cannot possibly ever know the ultimate answers.

I love David Albert.

"Any theory which talks about infinities of physical entities is not a scientific theory, because there isn't any possibility whatever of proving that an infinity of anything exists." 16:28 I couldn't agree more!

Excellent video. The Chronoverse is the cosmology of Philochrony. Philochrony is the theory that describes the nature of time and demonstrates its existence. Time is magnitive: objective, Imperceptible and measurable.

You can look at the vast cosmos and think how miniscule we are, or you can look at the vast cosmos and think how incredible we are for being able to acknowledge its wonders and beauty.

Great work 👏👏👏👏👏

Question: If the arrow of time is driven by entropy, does this imply that time will slow down as the Universe becomes more disordered, since the absence of order would fail to give time a direction? Does this imply that time as an extended dimension is intrinsically of finite duration? Or would the potential of there being an infinitely disordered state lead to an infinite trajectory? And actually, here’s one more… If we are to consider time as a dimension in the space-time continuum, how might ordered states of matter, be related to the dimension of time itself (as another spatial dimension) such that changes in the amount of order correspond to the passage of time? It seems like time is intrinsically necessary for there to be anything like a change in the amount of order…

I wonder if he ever interviewed the late John Wheeler. That's an interview I'd love to see.

Anyone can recommend a good book about this issue? Thanks

Music should be lower down please

Who's the composer of the music in the intro?

kya ye program hindi mein bhi hai??

It's weird that this show is called "closer to truth" since not a single episode has ever gotten closer to anything. Still, I like the questions even if I do have to answer them myself.

Time of our mind depends on the environment. We all are living with that energy. Can we send our mind into space

Troubled with this question

15:23 multiverse theory belongs to R. Feynman who worked on Americas nuclear bomb.

david albert said good things 19:00

Does anyone know where this is filmed? Looks like a gorgeous location worth visiting one day.

You as one individual, is as important and able as one atom is important as just one atom. So important but also nothing

Yes, what *_is_* the philosophy of coamology? Denial of the need for such?

Can the Universe be endless? Can it be constrained?

would be so awesome if yous translated it for world viewers. i have family that do not know english well.

How can something be "almost infinite?"

13.11 that is the furthest matter we can see. Is that true?

That which is (Life), that is nothing in particular (actual), is by definition everything in general (potential). It is the nature of Life, the All in One in all, to function/serve as a diversified unity of infinite potential, eternally actualizing as a unified diversity or Uni-verse.

I 'know' that I am me, I know that I am human, I know that I am Life, I 'know' that I am Cosmos. I am all of these things. I have a sense of being all these things. They are not mutually exclusive. It's not "mystical", it just is...

Philosophy and environment is defrins one video sir

Fundamental constants have the values that they do because they are a direct consequence of the thermodynamic properties of space fluids. There are two flat space fluids, the Planck density space fluid and the vacuum density space fluid. The properties and physical nature of the quantum vacuum as virtual pairs of vacuum fluctuations is the underlying cause of vacuum permittivity, the speed of light, and the energy density of the vacuum. The cosmological constant is determined by the vacuum density and is not a product of fine-tuning. Many natural laws and fundamental constants arise from the description of a limiting condition, such the operation of only one interaction effect on two identical bodies or limits of maximum or minimum size or extensive thermodynamic properties (T,P, density). Time is eternal and space is the infinite, flat 3d quantum vacuum. Parent universe systems of a multi-verse system originate from the quantum vacuum as Planck mass vacuum fluctuations, which create the smallest "black hole". This black hole is actually a dark star with a core consisting of a flat space fluid with the Planck density. This dark star grows faster than it evaporates and eventually reaches a maximum size where it becomes mechanically unstable and decays adiabatically into flat blackbody radiation with no Inflation event, i.e., a constant entropy Big Bang event. The offspring universe of the parent universe produces many dark stars, which in turn produce the next generation of universe systems.

I know the basic matter about formation of the Universe . With the help of my theory , ordinary people also , can understand all about formation of Stars , Planets , Satellites and Asteroids . The World has to know , how to think .

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If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along. Carl Sagan

There is one fundamental issue with the multi parallel universes theory and that there are infinite universes and we just happen to be one of them. If that was the case then we have to accept that there exists a parallel universe that anyhilates us and that hasn't happened, therefore that universe that anyhilates us doesn't exist, therefore universes are not an infinite quantity and we don't just "happen" to be.

These videos would get more views if you used better thumbnail images.... just saying... use a screenshot from the interview.

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Crawling on the planet’s face.Some insects called the human race. Lost in time, lost in space and meaning.

And here's another thought. If reality requires an observer, and if this universe is the only universe in which the particular laws and constants actually allow observers to exist then all those other infinite multiverses cannot be real. Only this particular universe can actually collapse its wave function.

(16:35ff.) "Any theory which talks about infinities of physical entities is not a scientific theory because there isn't any possibility whatever of proving an infinity of anything exists." ...Therefore infinity doesn't exist...? (Is that statement even logical?)

I fail to understand why 12 persons disliked this videos. This is more intriguing than multi verses.

The problem is... cosmologists observe more and think less, and philosophers think more and observe less...And they both dislike each other!

The commercials on this channel are excessive and long. Very disruptive

The crickets in the background or whatever that noise is ruined the video for me. It was so loud at times I couldn’t even finish the video.

He's not using his glasses lol.

"We never see smoke collecting back into a cigarette..." yes we do, see ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h5oLF-TiE6I.html which shows how CO2 and dirt are mixed with water and sunlight to grow a tobacco plant.

these are definitely the droids i have been looking for Obi-wan.

What is the cosmology of philosophy? Which stars shone brightest out of the cosmological thinkers, who were the black holes, full of nothing but BS sucker traps, and where are the most important star formation zones?

I don't see why if fine tuning for life via a cosmological constant is true that is evidence for the multiverse. (...?)

Of Quantum strangeness tells me anything. It says God could be a real thing.

Minute 10: In other words the Multiverse answer is no answer at all, to the origins of our own Universe, (The First Cause) problem, of a source outside of time, energy, and space, is not going to be solved with multi verse theory's , we have to look for a non material reality to explain physical reality, P.S. This same problem occurs with Macro Evolution and DNA,

12:30 🦗🦗🦗🦗

Sadly the universe is so long and awesome, the cosmos just beeps and beeps for what it's worth. Dream of contemporary science, and you will find nothing but subsystems.

Multiverse is the most ridiculous idea ever.

What's hilarious is the guy says in infinite universes no god. Ha ha. Wrong mom. In infinite universes there must be god. All things are true in infinite. Including god. And Zeus's lightning bolt. And superman exist in infinite universes. All things eventually happen

Free your mind and your ass will follow.

David Albert was too difficult for me to follow..

Jews

Boring

That's incredible to see that this video is full of people chasing their own tail ! How can you name that video Philosophy of Cosmology when you spend the entire time talking about Multivers ! It doesn't make any sense as the multivers theory is totally out of context for any philosophical study ! If you want to start talking about Philosophy of Cosmology you should defenitly start considering that the Psychology of Cosmology will bring you much more answers and will go way more deeper than any physicist have ever been. For your knowledge : the Cosmos is a gigantic living Soul with the power of creating matter and energy out of nothing with the mighty goal of creating a giant living Univers ruled by the laws of physics (Celestial Plans). The Psychology of the Cosmos is very important to understand that everything existing today is the result of a Cosmological Plan that has been form in the core of the cosmic soul. That soul has an ultimate goal wich is to form a living and conscious being that will evolve in such a way that his final evolution will result in the perfect understanding between the creature and the creator

Clearly these two are unaware of Electric Universe Theory which is totally eclectic.

I'm sorry, I'm sure he's very knowledgeable but I can't take the guy with crooked glasses seriously about anything he says.

Muh multiverse. Lazy thinking

Unbearably smug. Sorry.