Comments on: A Universe From Nothing (Lecture)

By: Xercès Des Stèles

Xercès Des Stèles — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:11:00 +0000

i can’t get enought of these docs :PPP

By: Xercès Des Stèles

Xercès Des Stèles — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:09:00 +0000

you gotta be kidding, enjoy the suspence? because your sad now that you know god is real? did i get that right, you are unbelievable. you’re an ignorant and are enjoying it, how ’bout that.
no one can proove god is real i dont care how you got your hallucination, the brain is a machine to ”make sens” of the information it gets, you clearly need a better feeding of information to understand the univers that surrounds you… sorry but your argument that god exist and that once you know that, learning more about the univers is boring, makes no intelligible sens, i don’t know which way you twisted the logic in your brain but it’s too simple, as in stupid.
it sounds like you got raped when you lost your virginity.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:32:00 +0000

The universe is expanding at and increasing speed. So it makes sense to me that there will be other “big bangs” in the future that will need the extra space now being created to exist in. I adore the way you are so sensitive to what others believe. I wish I could have “faith” in God and the afterlife. I did have the near death experience in my life already and I can tell you with 100% truth that God is real and we do still exist when we die in this world. Once you know the truth for yourself, it takes the excitement and wonder that we all have from childhood and throws it right out the window. Enjoy the suspence for as long as you can. Once you have found the answer to the question… “Does God exist?”, You will understand that it is like loosing your virginity. You can’t ever go back to who you were before.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:44:00 +0000

If you think you know it limits your ability to learn……….

A wise man is someone who knows, he knows nothing.
If you think you know all about something, it hampers or limits your ability to learn anything new in relationship to it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:06:00 +0000

Very good!

By: adam webb

adam webb — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:59:00 +0000

uv never lived until uv taken a psychedelic..once u take one u’ll realize why they are banned,anyways nothing is for certain. I personally believe that there is a God

By: adam webb

adam webb — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:56:00 +0000

if u take lsd u’ll believe in god

By: Brian Møller Nielsen

Brian Møller Nielsen — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:09:00 +0000

This is the most interesting talk i’ve ever seen :) Lawrence is a great scientist and the mix between knowledge & comic is just perfect! :D So quit whining!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:38:00 +0000

I thought this would be a science lecture – but instead it is some kook talking about science fiction…disappointing!

By: THEHOUSEOF FAR-GAZE

THEHOUSEOF FAR-GAZE — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:58:00 +0000

I don’t mean to offend anyone w/ the atheist comment. Maybe I just cannot understand either viewpoint because I was brought up in an nonreligious household that did not push one view or the other on me, I could understand the pent up frustration that some people have w/ religions, esp. Judaism-Christian-Islamic just because they perhaps grew up in an overbearing household and also the wars perpetuated by members of these religious groups… But still, tis not a reason to hate the religion in general, more of a reason to hate the charismatic leaders who use a philosophical ideal as a tool to dominate, the same can happen with science, when the scientific community ostracizes a member for a controversial belief that goes against their long held traditions… Is science as a community not much different from the incense swinging mysteries of the vatican… in a way at the least? I just like for people to question themselves… to hold any viewpoint so tightly cannot be good for one’s intellect or psyche.

By: THEHOUSEOF FAR-GAZE

THEHOUSEOF FAR-GAZE — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:51:00 +0000

Erm… clarification, the idea of: No such thing as a beginning or end, just an is-ness…

By: THEHOUSEOF FAR-GAZE

THEHOUSEOF FAR-GAZE — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:49:00 +0000

I just have one thing to pick at… why is it almost all hardline atheists are just as dogmatic and intolerable as fanatic religious individuals? Also, how can you say that for sure, you *know* what happens after death… even science has said that it does not know, and cannot prove anything regarding this… to follow science as blindly as a god seems futile. BTW. I am not a Christian, Hindu, et al. I stand neutral on the god matter… I just choose to not vehemently push views onto others that I myself cannot prove, and then say that I am overly scientific, and intelligent and moral. I feel that it is a most unscientific thing, and quite base. If atheists would like to one up the religious community, why not be kind to them and treat them nicely, just so you can prove that you’re all more christ like than them, and don’t even believe in him! ;) Cheer up guys! And don’t take everything science says to be truth, no one in this world can know anything for *sure*. god has not been proven, nor disproven, so for one to say that science has disproven the existence of a god is quite illogical.

On another note, what about the idea that the universe has always been, will always be, and is an ever-changing infinite system?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:05:00 +0000

Seems like the notion of a beginning of a universe that could have been formed from nothing is baseless or a canard for it would not have had a beginning if it were infinite. Infinity comes and goes in every direction. Not from something nor from nothing.

By: Robert Goldberg

Robert Goldberg — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:28:00 +0000

My Favorite Documentary. Our existence a “Coincident or Design”, “A Special Time” being the only time life can exist. Then the Dr. “Returns to the Center of the Universe” to create a Different “Special Time” and infinite “Special Times” when life may exist. Something from nothing or from “THE VOID” sounds like Gods creation, GOD which is yet to be defined or described by anyone I know or heard of to my satisfaction. WHAT OF COSMIC HUMILITY?Please define God, love and Eternal. I don’t understand or have ever seen any of them, but I experience LOVE and all of them at every opportunity.
This without considering Reality and Truth from Bishop Berkeley to Kant. Sincerely loved Lecture, learned so much, opened too many doors to new questions.THANK YOU

By: The Buachaill

The Buachaill — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:58:00 +0000

This is also one of my favorite videos on the site; very informative and clearly explains and relates a lot of complex concepts

However I agree with Atom’s comment. It may be true that the universe was created out of quantum fluctuations, but to say that this means something was created from nothing, and that that in turn proves there is no need for the concept of a prime-mover, is in my opinion a step too far. It’s a case of science over-stepping it’s mark; a worrying sign given the history of religions in this regard.

Quantum fluctuations may be defined as essentially nothing in the realm of Physics, but then wasn’t it Richard Feynman who said nobody truly understands Quantum Mechanics? I think Laurence Krauss has indeed led us on a bit of a Mystery Story here. His story ends at the point where neither Physics nor Cosmology can offer any further explanations for the mystery within their current paradigms. And rather than ending the story with something along the lines of “this is as far as we can go with the story in today’s limits of scientific understanding”, rather he concludes that a phenomenon not entirely understood by science is now in fact a new definition of nothing. And with this understanding he has shown us there is no need for a prime mover in the universe.

Given how smoothly and clearly the story runs up to this point, it’s particularly disappointing that in order to reach the climax, we need to make a leap-of-faith with this new definition of nothing. Perhaps the idea is totally plausible to Cosmologists and Theoretical Physicists; in which case it’s more an issue of failure to communicate the idea to the rest of us mere mortals!

A possibly related aside: I seem to remember some idea related to M-Theory and Parallel Universes whereby quantum fluctuations were seen as the crossing of particles from one universe to another [I could be confusing this with another idea on gravitational forces "leaking" across universes]. If there’s anything to this, it suggests that in the realm of physics, Krauss’ nothing is in fact something from a different universe