What We Still Don't Know
In these series Sir Martin Rees asks several questions and tries to answer them.
"Are We Alone?"
Sir Martin explores the possibility that life exists on planets beyond our own.
He unveils an unsettling scientific debate that has startling consequences for us Earthlings.
"Why Are We Here?"
Everything you thought you knew about the universe is wrong. It's made of atoms, right? Wrong. Atoms only account for a measly 15% of everything that exists. The mass of the universe consists of something so mysterious and elusive that it has been dubbed 'dark matter'.
"Are We Real?"
There is a fundamental chasm in our understanding of ourselves, the universe, and everything. To solve this, Sir Martin takes us on a mind-boggling journey through multiple universes to post-biological life. On the way we learn of the disturbing possibility that we could be the product of someone else's experiment.
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comment #3759 Stephan
This is a reply to comment #1417
What makes you so sure that we are foolish, Aki? In my opinion it's foolish to invent a multiverse just because some scientists don't like where the evidence leads them.
reply | permalinkcomment #1419 Aki Tuomaala
"My own tao solutions"...Tell me now,why does the Heaven still allow some things to happen?Even the wise one get mutelated sometimes.The way to my Heaven:..Dont compete,but are an excellent winner in the long run,dont speak that much,but answeer when the right question are askt the right way.Dont demand that much,but are obeyd.Seems caotic to the nonprofound,but reveal also one off the grandest off plans to the intellectual and profound one.The tao multibuble heavens net are thrown widest around and even if its galactic philament loops are so huge,nothing ever gets lost!What do yuo think about that?
reply | permalinkcomment #1418 Aki Tuomaala
Some solutions from "brother"Aki.The great mighty everlasting and harmonic superreallity terrain tao soner or later flows everywhere.In every dimension we can think off and not think off.On our planetary home earth for.ex every life form are depending on it for their own lifes and it dont turn away from them.When its work are done ,it dont demand acknowledgement. It covers and feeds all the lifeforms on earth and dont demand that much acknowledgement.Because it dont demand so much for its own part,it seems to be off a small signification,but when for ex. all the living things so naturally and voluntarily return to it ,without it have to demand it .It can really be can be considert as mighty and it is only because it dont do a demand to be mighty,it can be so Mighty!Right?!!..Greetings Lao Tzu 550 before chr and Aki.T. 2009 after chr.
reply | permalinkcomment #1417 Aki Tuomaala
Some foolish men still declare that a creator made the world,universe and cosmos.The doctrine that the world for.ex was created is ill-advised and should be rejected.If God created the world,ask the christian for.ex,where was the "lord"BEFORE creation?....How could God have made the whole world without any energy,rawmaterial or information for.ex?If yuo say the lord made this first,and then the world,yuo are faced with an ENDLESS REGRESSION.....Know that the world is UNCREATED,as time,space,motion ,cyclic elapsies and other everlasting things,without beginning and end.And they are based on the principles....-The Mahapurana,the great legend Jinisena,India ,ninth century and brother Aki Tuomaala 2009 after chr.(More might later)
reply | permalinkcomment #1416 Aki Tuomaala
This is a reply to comment #87
The everlasting are everlasting,no matter how we wanna define the everlasting.But what are the thing above energy for.ex with are everlasting in a way that it cannot be wipet out or extirpatet?In a multi universe energy always exists for.ex?!?!But the Natural laws can be different in an other univerce compared with ours,but If energy can leac out from an other univerce in a big bang cycle,why not everlasting information for.ex also?What are the difference then in information whichs can leac out in a big bang cycle and the information which dont leac out?
reply | permalinkcomment #1143 Lil'Carla
Too inconcrete, but still interesting.
reply | permalinkThey elaborate some of the explanation much more than necessary - everybody knows that life is composed by atoms, whereas the more impalpable concepts are not explained thoroughly (the cosmological constant, mathematical laws, etc)
They have a great deal to learn from the attractive Prof. Brian Cox ^^
~ Lil'Carla
comment #88 koele
I think it's arrogant to think we are the end of the line or the purpose of evolution. We are only a stepping stone in the universe becoming conscious of itself. Even if the next evolutionary advances ARE more technological rather than biological. 'In Here' has influence on 'Out There', but 'Out There' ultimately created 'In Here'. If we make a God out of the human brain, all we end up with is an EGO problem.
reply | permalinkcomment #87 koele
Couldn't dark matter be space itself acting as the container for all atomic matter? And then assign gravitational force as the primary identifying property - like attracts like! Just an idea. But, how about this... what if Dark Energy and Quantum Theory are truly unified? What if the vibrating energy inside every atom also exists throughout space, independent of the atom, and acting as creator (God?) for space itself? ...always pushing outward and seeking to create more dark matter, birthing stars, then leading to the natural tendency to form into Hydrogen and all the other elements.
reply | permalinkcomment #68 Yan
"Are We Real?" its not playing.. Your videos are amazing thanx for posting..
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