Lee Smolin - What Do Black Holes and Dark Matter Reveal?

It might take us a dozen of thousand years to find out eventually.... but this is actually one of the most compelling and consistent ideas about the universe(s): That we're actually sitting inside a gigantic black hole spawned by some parent universe.

One of the best CTT videos I have watched. New intriguing ideas here I never heard before

OK, this is Robert Kuhn at his best. He not only doesn't get in the way of the guest, but he helps the guest unfold his ideas by, as we say in the news business, "sign posting" the interview; putting pauses in the interview, summing up, and pointing in a direction for further discussion. Perfecto!

They should stop calling it dark matter and call it clear matter because you can see all the stars and galaxies with no obstruction .

Lee “Smokin” Smolin. Absolute genius.

I love the fecund universe theory, it has a poetry about it that many of the best theories have (which isn't to say it's necessarily true, but it's a point in its favour). Very humble of Lee to say right away that it isn't his original idea. I always assumed it was, but it's interesting to know that he sees himself as just the messenger.

Sería estupendo que estuvieran disponibles los subtítulos en Español para poder disfrutar plenamente de estos estupendos vídeos

It's always a great pleasure to listen to brilliant Dr Smolin.

I sure wish these videos give dates when the discussions occurred.

Fantastic interview. It's unfortunate that Lee sort of dodged or just didn't understand what the interviewer was talking about when asked essentially, "if forever is part of the process, then why are we here when universes should be just creating black holes". The answer, seemingly, is that we're at the apex of blackhole creation and more or less there's no way in the entire range of possible laws of physics for universes to do more. We're at the end of the line because an infinite chain of universes would be entirely that best selected range... is what I would have expected Lee to say. Still, there's concern here mixing an infinity and an evolutionary effect. Lee is suggesting there was a time when universes weren't well selected... but that would imply a true start of some sort even if we're now on the path of an infinite evolutionary process of universes, and that opens up new questions.