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Lee Smolin - How are Multiple Universes Generated?

2021-12-31 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 Cosmologists believe that multiple universes really exist; they call the whole vast collection, which might even be infinite in number, the 'multiverse'. But how are all these universes generated? There are several ways, each radically different from the others, each incredibly fascinating, each capable of generating infinite universes. Free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN Watch more interviews on multiple universes: https://bit.ly/3JrzQkF Lee Smolin is an American theoretical physicist, a researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo. He is best known for his work in loop quantum gravity. Register for free at CTT.com for subscriber-only exclusives: http://bit.ly/2GXmFsP 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)

@datdudeinred 2022-01-01

I just love how physicist, scientists & astronomers literally argue with each other for all day long but won't get angry for 1 second. 🙌

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@Apoplectic_Spock 2022-01-01

I can appreciate this guest's purist approach to science and research. His fears seem valid and his preferences reasonable.

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@longcastle4863 2021-12-31

Totally from a layman's perspective this some of the newest most refreshing and interesting thinking I've come across in a long time on the current state of theoretical physics

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@CristinaG 2021-12-31

*HAPPY NEW YEAR..!!* I'm excited for the breakthroughs and discoveries coming in 2022..!!

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@leonreynolds77 2022-01-01

This isn't a video about how multiverses are created. He is just basically saying he doesn't believe it.

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@patrickl6932 2022-01-03

Kuhn is a national treasure. What an amazing interviewer. I just love this guy.

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@probablynotmyname8521 2022-01-01

It really doesnt matter what a scientist thinks or believes or dreams about, all that matters is what they can show. Pontificating about multiple universes is not science unless you can show evidence that they exist.

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@jasonsmith6508 2022-01-02

First time I’ve seen Robert Lawrence Kuhn out of his depth actually and his stance seems to challenge what I have come to understand to be his position in a number of areas which surprised me.

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@jareknowak8712 2022-01-01

HAPPY 2022 FOR ALL OF YOU!!

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@Kaydin66 2022-01-01

this is guy is describing something that goes beyond just physics. this goes into human psychology and how we hold models of the world that dictate how we act. for years I believed in multiverse new age nonsense and my psyche used it to avoid facing reality and some early trauma. we don't even know if the filaments go on forever. just because some mathematics can support something doesn't mean we should move in that direction. it could waste decades or even centuries of progress. edit: I've watched a lot of this channel and this is clip is pretty interesting. Robert seems to uncharacteristically push back. It's subtle throughout the discussion but it's noticeable and speaks to the very topic itself. (the point that Lee makes at the end about how weird Newton was is fantastic, and I'm sure that thought riles a lot of 'scientific minds' of today)

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