Alan Guth - Why Is There Anything At All? (Part 1)
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2021
- Why is there a world, a cosmos, something, anything instead of absolutely nothing at all? If nothing existed, there would be nothing to explain. That anything exists demands some kind of explanation. Of all the big questions, this is the biggest. Why anything? Why not nothing? What can we learn from the absence of nothing?
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Alan Harvey Guth is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He is currently serving as Victor Weisskopf Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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In summary: nobody knows anything about anything
I miss these types of conversations with my grandfather. He was the only one that ever asked the same kind of questions that I ask in my family. We connected on a deeper level because of our wanting to understand the natural order of things.
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Btw.. missing my father so much on this question...He used to be my Encyclopaedia for all such questions since my early childhood
This is one the better ones I’ve seen. What a wonderful physicist, so clear and so little ego. And Robert Kuhn facilitated extremely well. Great job!
A well-balanced answer by a mentally balanced man. Speaking firmly of what he knows and at the same time admitting what we don’t know yet. Trusting “science” enough but not more than enough! Brilliant.
Such clear and humble exposition! Alan Guth is a giant figure in the field, yet he shares mind-bending ideas the way you
I love all of your interviews, and love seeing all the different viewpoints of our reality.
Alan Guth makes discussion of these mind bending questions totally graspable. Very enjoyable to watch.
This is the best ever Closer To Truth presentation, by a long shot. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I was so glad to hear Alan say space is malleable so obviously it has substance. I've been thinking on this a lot lately I'd love to hear what Alan is working on and thinking about right now.
I tend to look at it this way. Something can’t come from nothing. The fact we are here at all experiencing this “something” proves that nothing is an impossibility. Whether this “something” is just the way things are and have always been or there is something more divine going on, is a question no one can truly answer.
Wonderful discussion, I really enjoy listening to Alan Guth .
"All I need is the laws of physics and a little matter.” But where did the laws and matter come from? I appreciate Guth’s intellectual honesty to admit this, and his willingness to say physics isn’t even close to answering this question.
Thank you for your honesty.
Excellent interview, Robert great host as always
Years ago I heard Alan Guth say something, it really doesn't matter what, that bothered me and I kinda ignored him for years. But recently I've been listening to him speak and have gained a lot of respect for him. Primarily because, unlike so many therotical physicists, he freely admits that there are things we just don't understand and what we think may be wrong, even inflation theory, his own creation.
Robert is a great interviewer.
I have to chuckle when the really tough questions posed to Physicists are answered with "we don't know". I give them credit for their brilliance and their effort to extrapolate and surmise along with their determination to uncover the facts. All there is to know about our universe exits and is present. The job of these talented and creative Physicists is to peal back the layers if this big ball of knowledge.
Always good to listen to Alan Guth