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Roger Penrose - Did the Universe Begin?

2024-03-21 Education
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Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq Free access Closer to Truth's library of 5,000+ videos for free: http://bit.ly/376lkKN Some scientists claim that the universe did not have a beginning. Some theologians contend that the universe did not need a beginning. Yet the universe is expanding, and so run the movie in reverse and there seems to be a beginning. What stakes are riding on whether the universe had a beginning? Watch more videos on cosmic beginnings: https://shorturl.at/pzAW4 Support the show with Closer To Truth merch from our Bonfire store: https://bit.ly/3P2ogje Sir Roger Penrose is an English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher. He is the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, as well as an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. Subscribe to the Closer To Truth podcast with new episodes every week: https://shorturl.at/hwGP3 Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.

Top Comments (10)

@andrewmasterman2034 2024-03-22

Of all the truly commendable academics and philosophers that this channel has introduced me to, sir Roger strikes me as the most effective in the sense that he appears to stringently uphold the values and requirements of good science whilst also allowing himself to extend the reaches of what he’s willing to postulate.

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@siegfriedvaz 2024-03-30

"Beginning" is a concept intrinsic to the time factor.

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@leeofallon9258 2024-03-24

The JWT forces us to appreciate how little we know about that which we love to speculate endlessly ...

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@anilmahajan8426 2024-04-23

There is no beginning & end of the universe, as per the ancient Vedic science. This theory seems to be more logical. There may expansion at some part of the universe, and the same time, There may be contraction at the other part. It means There must be number of big bangs. The universe is omni present.

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@peep39 2024-03-22

My favorite modern scientific mind

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@Dan-zq5wt 2024-03-22

After this video I went back and derived the equations - watch out for sign errors - and Sir Penrose is right! It makes a heckuva a lot of sense!

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@colemayhugh 2024-04-02

Two people I watch every time they come on no matter what… Roger Penrose and Paul Davies

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@SqueakyChase 2024-03-30

For us to explain the beginning of the universe is like a blind person, who has never had eyesight, describing the color 'green'. If we were equally as blind, the discussion would seem a waste of time to many but some might find comfort in believing that they understand the color green.

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@gilberttello08 2024-04-03

👍👍hello fr Philippines

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@Get2daChoppaa 2024-04-03

Surprised I lasted 2 minutes, thanks camera man!

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