Why does the universe exist? | Jim Holt | TED

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  • Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2024

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  • @michaeld2519
    @michaeld2519 5 лет назад +5808

    He could have just said: "Hello everyone. We don't know why the universe exists, and we probably never will. Thank you".

    • @guleidhasan816
      @guleidhasan816 5 лет назад +165

      I guess we were given this answer but some of us are refusing to accept it

    • @johnbarry8553
      @johnbarry8553 5 лет назад +40

      Why does he assume Jesus is not perfect?

    • @theawakening2946
      @theawakening2946 5 лет назад +54

      GOD

    • @michaeld2519
      @michaeld2519 5 лет назад +270

      @@theawakening2946 Even if an Almighty God created the universe, the question remains as to 'why' it exists and why such a being created it. The question is 'why', not 'who' or 'what' created it.

    • @punisher6387
      @punisher6387 5 лет назад +118

      @@johnbarry8553 he doesn't exist in the first place

  • @nytemaire4561
    @nytemaire4561 4 года назад +311

    I feel like watching speeches improves your vocabulary and overall your speaking

    • @lowlowseesee
      @lowlowseesee 3 года назад +25

      only if you go speak and fail and speak and fail and so on. lot of success in that

    • @opst1704
      @opst1704 3 года назад +3

      They also have subs in many different languages!

    • @FallenLight0
      @FallenLight0 3 года назад +16

      Here the new words I learned in this TED Talk: Purported, Thrall, Variegated, Clout, Ontic, Encompasses, Pious, Coupling, Crummy, Deity, Frothing, Wag.

    • @dras227
      @dras227 3 года назад +4

      @@FallenLight0 nice

    • @retro2vr
      @retro2vr 3 года назад +1

      me not

  • @DF-og1gz
    @DF-og1gz 2 года назад +1281

    I remember being 7 years old, sitting on the steps of my front door, and blowing my mind trying to imagine nothingness.

    • @hshf.6292
      @hshf.6292 2 года назад +36

      It happened to me when I was about 7 as well, but i grew up and read the holy Qoran and it cleared up the mystery.

    • @Jovito_Britto
      @Jovito_Britto 2 года назад +222

      @@hshf.6292 brain washed is another word for it I guess

    • @johnhough7738
      @johnhough7738 2 года назад +120

      @@hshf.6292 I read the Holy Donald Duck, but it was The Prophet Scrooge McDuck than answered all my questions.

    • @hshf.6292
      @hshf.6292 2 года назад +13

      @@johnhough7738 good for you.

    • @tomgroover1839
      @tomgroover1839 2 года назад +14

      I remember doing the same thing at about the same age. What is a mystery is why a young kid would try to do this, it maybe seemed like an interesting diversion at the time maybe, or maybe it says something about our nature that a 7 year old would delve into it sort of like a temptation brought own by existence itself.

  • @lukeebduck647
    @lukeebduck647 2 года назад +69

    The only solution I have come about is just that, as we go about in a dream accepting logic that does not make any sense, we are blocked by some sort of mechanism now, that our logical structures are not built to answer this question, and maybe if the afterlife exists we will understand it later it will all make sense, and will be simple to us.

    • @blackcommando5264
      @blackcommando5264 Год назад +1

      i think the same

    • @blackcommando5264
      @blackcommando5264 Год назад +7

      i think our minds aren’t made to understand

    • @stevedawson9191
      @stevedawson9191 Год назад +4

      You are living your millionth afterlife right now

    • @infotainment-s9j
      @infotainment-s9j 7 месяцев назад

      what about lucid dreams?

    • @prabhuganesanin
      @prabhuganesanin 2 месяца назад

      Advaita Vedanta, a philosophical school within Hinduism, has been articulated for over 5,000 years.
      Advaita Veda prove that this life is an illusion.
      Quantum Nobel physicist Schrödinger has read the Advaita Veda and talked about it

  • @rahulsharma2402
    @rahulsharma2402 5 лет назад +1741

    When you are watching these types of videos, its really the time to sleep

    • @Mustis91
      @Mustis91 5 лет назад +40

      i watch them to get sleepy :D

    • @andymoore9892
      @andymoore9892 5 лет назад +27

      You're probably right. I've been scaring myself looking up asteroids hitting Earth all night.

    • @Mustis91
      @Mustis91 5 лет назад +8

      @@andymoore9892 haha don't worry. if one is heading towards earth we will see it months before and we could probably do something..well there's a chance we miss it but i don't think so. and if so..who cares? wouldn't be the worst thing for planet earth if it got rid of us :D

    • @Difop
      @Difop 5 лет назад

      thank you

    • @benbaby100
      @benbaby100 5 лет назад +3

      Andy Moore That just means you were watching JRE before this.

  • @yummy8074
    @yummy8074 4 года назад +1494

    To all people who are spamming in comments "spoiler, he doesn't say the answer": you didn't think you'd find the answer to this in the video on YT, did you?

    • @sarans96
      @sarans96 4 года назад +132

      Exactly.. people want easy answers...
      . That's the reason that non sense like religion has taken over the world..

    • @lc1777
      @lc1777 4 года назад +34

      @@sarans96 yes they are pure idiots. See religion could actually be true. But the type of religion we have is purely stupid. God might exist but Jesus, Hindu gods, Allah all this is pure idiot.Maybe reality doesn't exist at all.

    • @littlewhitebutterflies4586
      @littlewhitebutterflies4586 4 года назад +24

      @@lc1777 Reality does exist. "I think therefore I am." That's the only thing we know. We know that we exist, and that is our reality. As to the fundamental reality of the universe, that's a different story...
      Also, what do you mean when you say "religion could actually be true?"

    • @lc1777
      @lc1777 4 года назад +17

      @@littlewhitebutterflies4586 see I am a atheist myself. And to me physics has given better explanation of our existence instead of any religion.But what if God really exist? Or maybe we are created by a advanced civilization?. But I still doubt that we are living in an reality. Because we just are to timid to understand it. Our theory is That time started with big bang. But I ask then what was between big bang. Big bang wouldn't just happen by itself it needs a push . It needs a force to happen. And why can't time be before big bang. It would still be there but meaningless. Just like our end of universe will be like that. Its so fascinating

    • @littlewhitebutterflies4586
      @littlewhitebutterflies4586 4 года назад +8

      @@lc1777 I assume you mean traditional religion, because using physics to draw conclusions about metaphysical phenomena is also in a way a religion. Ultimately some questions can never be answered by science, and we must make our own choices based on personal belief.
      Well ultimately, what is reality? What is our universe made of? It' not made of molecules, atoms, quantum fields, or even spacetime... It's made of information. And it turns out that it doesn't matter what stores that information, whether it's stored in some supercomputer, the relative distances between molecules in a gas cloud, or imprinted on the surface of a blackhole, as long as that information exists, so do we and our reality. So maybe there is another reality imposed ON TOP of our reality, but our reality exists nonetheless...our reality is our subjective experience, which we know to exist.
      Also yes, physics is cool ^^

  • @nerdsuper1514
    @nerdsuper1514 4 года назад +2007

    No one:
    Universe: exists.

    • @B4_E
      @B4_E 4 года назад +33

      Me in the future but also in the present at the time of my death: *am I a joke to you?*

    • @harryferrett9420
      @harryferrett9420 4 года назад +10

      None of you 11 year olds are funny

    • @B4_E
      @B4_E 4 года назад +23

      @@harryferrett9420 you must be very humourous then :)

    • @blackmamba5133
      @blackmamba5133 4 года назад +34

      This is the perfect use of this joke.

    • @ianburns6218
      @ianburns6218 4 года назад +6

      @@harryferrett9420 you're 12 year old, that's pretty good for a duck

  • @yingle6027
    @yingle6027 2 года назад +86

    I tried explaining this to my dog, she just looked at me like 'yeah, are we going to the park or not?'

    • @johnwibbels4678
      @johnwibbels4678 4 месяца назад +3

      Your dog is in the now 🦴🐶🙏🏻

    • @prabhuganesanin
      @prabhuganesanin 2 месяца назад

      Advaita Vedanta, a philosophical school within Hinduism, has been articulated for over 5,000 years.
      Advaita Veda prove that this life is an illusion.
      Quantum Nobel physicist Schrödinger has read the Advaita Veda and talked about it

  • @nightrider6136
    @nightrider6136 4 года назад +359

    With all the open questions left, this talk was deeply satisfying.

    • @rosiesaikaly1178
      @rosiesaikaly1178 4 года назад +7

      I wanna hear him talk more

    • @scammbledeggs2707
      @scammbledeggs2707 4 года назад +17

      Odly satisfying to think about while also filling me with extreme amounts of existential dread all at the same time

    • @jlwolfe2112
      @jlwolfe2112 4 года назад +5

      Excellent presentation. Hilarious and entertaining 🤣 I can't get enough.

    • @lukemcguire6363
      @lukemcguire6363 4 года назад +1

      Some people are satisfied to ask questions and to wonder. It's all we can do with questions like these. If you think you know the answers it just proves you're stupid lol

    • @theonlineanimal6009
      @theonlineanimal6009 2 года назад +1

      @@stratosphere2323 yes. It can. Your just having trouble picturing it in your head. Your brain can't comprehend something it's never seen. But let me ask you this to help you see it... What was it like for the billions of years before you were born?

  • @Ballistixwear
    @Ballistixwear 5 лет назад +1235

    This guy is talking exactly what I think when I’m stoned.

    • @kushlandtooclean1539
      @kushlandtooclean1539 5 лет назад +24

      Me too homie

    • @ketchup5344
      @ketchup5344 4 года назад +35

      Pass that blunt over here dude

    • @blanco7726
      @blanco7726 4 года назад +28

      I swear I’ve tried explaining nothingness to my homies at least a dozen times when we’re high, not sure if its too complex, if my stoned self is just incomprehensible or maybe both

    • @blanco7726
      @blanco7726 4 года назад +4

      Shaun Bishop in Germany you are considered an Ehrenmann, google it. Safe bro

    • @Astral_Wave
      @Astral_Wave 4 года назад +6

      @Shaun Bishop most people do this when high on weed and hallucinogens

  • @reptilev8625
    @reptilev8625 3 года назад +563

    This 17 minute video is the longest "I don't know" I've ever seen

    • @jimtruscott5670
      @jimtruscott5670 3 года назад +8

      There is no necessity to ask the question,” Why does anything exist?”

    • @BrettBtv
      @BrettBtv 3 года назад +4

      Intellectuals...

    • @devonlarrnt4041
      @devonlarrnt4041 3 года назад +2

      Ah i found right comment to describe what i feel

    • @antiquarian1773
      @antiquarian1773 3 года назад +9

      Did you expect him to solve the meaning of the universe? lol

    • @SKT3109
      @SKT3109 3 года назад +1

      Welcome to Philosophy

  • @raya4801
    @raya4801 2 года назад +155

    Yes, this question has haunted me a lot. Why something instead of nothing? And after extensively thinking about it, I realised it's a futile cause. Yes, we are humans and our brain is constantly thinking. But not always all thoughts are fruitful. We know very little about consciousness, we don't even know what we are trying to find. So asking why and how is just a search of needle in a haystack. And moreover the needle might not be even there. People have thought their entire lives and got no answer. If we take scientific and atheist view we do not have a plausible explanation. I beg to differ from the speaker in here. Buddhism doesn't advocate that nothingness is world. It is rather that it says the world is an illusion, a maya, root of all our suffering. To ease the suffering, Buddhism asks us to go beyond the worldly afflictions. But one who is living can very well choose to live in Maya. Eternal peace or Nirvana is a joyful feeling that if discovered is even better than life. Not death. Peaceful existence. Now coming to the ontological argument. The speaker said it is a bad argument but I beg to differ. Why? Ontological argument says that the supreme being exists because one of us has to be supreme. I mean why not? If there are all pencils, one will be bigger than others, even if it's all same, patterns do break. Okay maybe not the best arguments. The cosmological argument comes into picture. If something happens it always has a cause. Meaningless life is not what we live. It's cause and effect. If there is a watch there is a watchmaker, and if questions arise who made the watchmaker? Well nothingness would have been better? Then we would not have had this conversation in the first place. In Hinduism it is said actually we all are one not different. One soul. One being. One universe. Then it broke (scientifically big bang) and other atoms and participles were created. God is never bored or has questions where he came from. Because primeval energy or universe always existed. We are conscious of reality is the proof in itself. The universe is aware that it exists. And hence it does not question why and how because existence in itself is beautiful. If you say why god broke into so many participles, because he wanted to play. All of it is a game. He is aware also unaware. He is concerned also unconcerned. So yes we exist because he exists, he exists because nothingness is not the truth. Supreme reality is meant to exist. And non existence is a lie. When we die we return as matter of energy. After all we are bundles of energy and we return back to the universe where we came from who knows the greater scheme of things? God doesn't have be even called god or doesn't even have to be human form it's an infinite source of energy which could create anything and everything out of nothing. Even himself. Because he willed so. And when you yourself are the universe manifestation is very much possible. And this beautiful world is not mediocre. It's elegant. Every creation has its scars. Death, decay, imperfection, struggle, pain all of it is a part which makes life up. Reality is a very small box and we are confined to it. The supreme reality is far hidden from our eyes. But whatever we can see, hear, sense, feel, think is enough. Because I do agree with the speaker on some points- even if there was nothing we wouldn't have been satisfied, we exist that's all that matters not why not how, we have actually won the cosmic lottery and we get to think live and perceive the world because we have won. Yes everything exists in our mind in our consciousness it's nothing but a trickery, actual simple truth is hidden in plain sight. Yes I am a believer so I gave my point of view. Felt like sharing also to calm my intrusive thoughts. If it helps anyone great. If you stick to atheist or science it's fine. But it is undeniable that science explains little, and it couldn't prove the non existence of God either, there is no harm in believing if the thoughts comfort you. I know how troublesome these thoughts can get. So reining our mind not letting it run wild is the main motto. And my explanations I hope is not just religion but also scientific. The question is futile but our existence is not. We should focus on living. Nihilism and other factors are always going to be there. Whenever we feel what is the point of it all we can remind us how miraculous it is to exist and how lucky we are to win this genetic lottery

    • @ferrishadaway1322
      @ferrishadaway1322 2 года назад

      jesus christ you are pretentious

    • @male20yearsold
      @male20yearsold 2 года назад +8

      help me.. this science thing.. theory of everything, quantum mechanic... wolfram Boltzmann brain, nihilism, well nearly everything.. im drowned in it and existential crisis are consuming me, do you know or at least have some thought on how to gain back all the meaning and purpose that we lost because of..these science truth seeking?

    • @Novachrono3
      @Novachrono3 2 года назад +5

      @@male20yearsold ben de tam olarak bu durumdayım. Hayatın hiçbir anlamı olmayacağını düşünüyorum ve bu beni korkutuyor. Albert Camus hayatın anlamsız olduğunu söylüyor. Hayatın anlamsız olmasıyla yaşamaya değer olması arasında farklar olduğunu da belirtiyor.

    • @seephor
      @seephor 2 года назад

      I believe what we see as the "universe" is just the ceiling of our understanding just as an ant seeing headlights will never understand what headlights are but they can observe it. We observe something that is beyond our intelligence and no amount of studying will ever reveal what it is just like a million years from now an ant will never know what those headlights are and dogs will never know why we bathe them. They experience it but can never understanding the reason behind it. We can never understand the reason behind the universe.

    • @ianodonoghue3786
      @ianodonoghue3786 2 года назад +9

      @@male20yearsold I was going through something similar. What helped me was the buddhist view on non-attachment. Which would also mean Non-attachment to our thoughts and our world views. If we are consumed by our thoughts and we run around looking for answers, we will just drive ourselves crazy. The point for me now is just to observe and experience, rather than to constant question. I am not in the most articulate mood today. But, in essence: Non-Attachment

  • @Boris194786
    @Boris194786 3 года назад +1461

    If we are part of the universe, thinking about how it works it's like the universe studying itself.

    • @grocket6561
      @grocket6561 2 года назад +75

      Your statement is so altering in terms of way of thinking...
      Thanks..

    • @someshwartripathi8446
      @someshwartripathi8446 2 года назад +187

      You studying biology is a group of cells trying to understand itself

    • @flxckos
      @flxckos 2 года назад +125

      you are the universe experiencing itself

    • @kevinp4092
      @kevinp4092 2 года назад +66

      You are Creator experiencing Your Own Creation

    • @ankitSharma-uo6zf
      @ankitSharma-uo6zf 2 года назад +49

      exactly you got this...... we are the universe experiencing itself through human form,

  • @thekkl
    @thekkl 9 лет назад +3132

    Spoiler alert: He never says anything about why things exist.

    • @mastertheillusion
      @mastertheillusion 9 лет назад +74

      ***** There is no requirement of a why for existence. There is clearly a how.

    • @thekkl
      @thekkl 9 лет назад +108

      mastertheillusion
      First off that's the same thing. Second, the title of this video says why.

    • @ClaudiaShifferLA
      @ClaudiaShifferLA 9 лет назад +46

      ***** He doesn't has the answer, just loose talk.

    • @myAutoGen
      @myAutoGen 9 лет назад +75

      ***** Actually it's worse. After explaining the shortcomings of previous attempts to answer the great mystery, he then props up the multiverse theory, which has all of the same problems. The multiverse theory provides an answer to 'why is it this specific way?', but it does nothing to explain why anything exists in the first place.

    • @AndyRosebrook
      @AndyRosebrook 9 лет назад +80

      myAutoGen It's uncomfortably possible that humans will never be able to know the answer to that, it's also possible that logic and reason has no utility at that point, and there is no answer.
      Think about how humans discovered the big bang. If human civilization had come about 10+ billion years in the future, the cosmic background radiation not only wouldn't be detectable(makes you happy to live in a time and civilization where we can at least learn THAT much), but the exponential expansion of the universe would have made it impossible to even see other stars and galaxies. That civilization might grow up thinking they had the only star in existence, oblivious to all of the wonders of our current universe or it's origins.

  • @boringjawid
    @boringjawid 4 года назад +869

    Universe: *exists*
    Humans: "Why you gotta do us like that!?"

    • @explicitreverberation9826
      @explicitreverberation9826 3 года назад +5

      @Brad Watson why do I understand this.......thats absolutely absolutely astonishingly familiar to be correct.. but how do we get to the next level

    • @The431047
      @The431047 3 года назад +2

      😂 😂 😂

    • @seethelight657
      @seethelight657 3 года назад +6

      (God’s Signs 🪧)
      God said it first in the “Quran” before 1400 years for disbelievers.
      { And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander.}
      “This verse talking about Space expansion”
      Also, another one…
      { Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and We separated them and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe? }
      “This verse talking about the Big Bang”
      { So are you a Thinker ? }

    • @mikeharrison4846
      @mikeharrison4846 3 года назад +2

      No way we can know what existed before nothing ..

    • @muhammadyaseen6638
      @muhammadyaseen6638 3 года назад +2

      @@seethelight657
      Thanks for this insight Brother.

  • @Rydonittelo
    @Rydonittelo 2 года назад +90

    We are not in the universe, we are the universe. We are the universes ability to understand and express itself.
    Divinity or no divinity, both are possibilities are astonishing in their own way .

    • @tracesprite6078
      @tracesprite6078 Год назад +9

      Yes, I agree ... we are one of the brains of the universe. It may have other thinking centres, too, but we haven't come across them yet.

    • @trueuniv4333
      @trueuniv4333 Год назад +1

      Yes, we are part of universe. Universe is created by nothing/blank. So it proved God is nothing/blank. We should pray from blank that we don't know. That is why mysterious exist in the universe.

    • @dheera8889
      @dheera8889 Год назад

      Shankaracharya?

    • @taketwo_duo
      @taketwo_duo Год назад

      @@tracesprite6078 Another way to put it, the universe only exists because of us.

    • @tracesprite6078
      @tracesprite6078 Год назад +1

      @@trueuniv4333 We haven't proven that the universe is creating by nothing. We suppose that it might be so. On the other hand, there may be other possibilities that we haven't been able to imagine yet.

  • @jmckinney149
    @jmckinney149 5 лет назад +820

    He could have just said he doesn’t know.

    • @nollaf126
      @nollaf126 5 лет назад +39

      He did. And he explained why he doesn't know. He answered the question, it just clearly wasn't what the majority of commenters were hoping to hear. Most people seem to have expected an answer other than, "I don't know." It's simply a dissatisfying answer. It seems obvious that people read the question and came to the video expecting some form of answer, and discount that "I don't know" is a completely valid - and I believe the only possible - answer.

    • @jamesanthony5681
      @jamesanthony5681 5 лет назад +12

      @@nollaf126 Nobody really knows how the universe came into being, that is, how something came from nothing. However, a number of physicists have posited theories,. yet unproven. At least give us something.

    • @wellardbr
      @wellardbr 5 лет назад +7

      @@jamesanthony5681 The bigger point is that we are here, talking about this: where did this all came from? The fact that we humans exist, as part of a vast (albeit dwindling) collection of carbon-based life points back to questions like 'why are our universe's physical constants which science has been determining what they are?'. Why is carbon such a badass building block for organic strings?

    • @robraider3149
      @robraider3149 5 лет назад +8

      humans give cause to a universe, we have the self reflecting capabilities to bring about the universe as we see it, which ultimately is the final evolutionary stage nature, ie consciousness

    • @robraider3149
      @robraider3149 5 лет назад +1

      no such thing as experiencing nothing.
      also it should be no thing as nothing by itself can exist

  • @SHTennis89
    @SHTennis89 4 года назад +39

    I think of this question sometimes and the more you embrace it the trippier it gets

    • @jwsanders1214
      @jwsanders1214 2 года назад +3

      trust Jesus , call on him and he will answer

  • @whytho9350
    @whytho9350 4 года назад +583

    The universe: **exists**
    Philosophers: *hmm..*

    • @whytho9350
      @whytho9350 4 года назад +4

      @@joshualaird6167 it's okay for two people to have the same name on RUclips
      There is a relatively big channel named Jesus Christ

    • @igoraraujo7451
      @igoraraujo7451 4 года назад

      @@whytho9350 those are not the real nicknames, the names that shows up on the comments are like a "mask"

    • @wetstinkysocks490
      @wetstinkysocks490 3 года назад +1

      RUclips: *exists*
      Commenters: hmmm

    • @seethelight657
      @seethelight657 3 года назад

      Seek the truth with a mind that thinks in 3 minutes and don’t be ignorant cause if you think a little bit, everything have a purpose except us and why we’re here?? just to have fun and grow old drinking beer common!!
      * There must be a stronger entity and it is not a coincidence. Look what god said and you will know the truth, he said
      * (( We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth. But is it not sufficient concerning your Lord that He is, over all things, a Witness?)
      See by your self :-
      God said:
      1- ( And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me )
      2- ( And when Our verses are recited to them, they say, "We have heard. If we willed, we could say [something] like this. This is not but legends of the former peoples." @ And [remember] when they said, "O Allah, if this should be the truth from You, then rain down upon us stones from the sky or bring us a painful punishment.")
      3- ( Indeed, these [disbelievers] love the immediate [ life ] and leave behind them a grave Day.)
      4- And they say, "There is not but our worldly life; we die and live, and nothing destroys us except time." And they have of that no knowledge; they are only assuming.
      5- (We had certainly brought you the truth, but most of you, to the truth, were averse.)
      If you reached here and you didn’t believe that’s for you, god said:
      ( Have you seen he who has taken as his god his [own] desire, and Allah has sent him astray due to knowledge and has set a seal upon his hearing and his heart and put over his vision a veil? So who will guide him after Allah? Then will you not be reminded? )
      God may guide you that’s Quran....

    • @whytho9350
      @whytho9350 3 года назад +1

      @@seethelight657 it's just a joke, i think critically about existence and a lot of other stuff all the time, I actually used to be a very religious muslim I still memorize a lot of the coran, my family are conservative muslims, but after a lot of thought process and research I cane to the conclusion that... Well.. everything is random, given enough time, life will emerge in some way, and that's how we're here, you think that this is far from possible, but think about it, a god is much more complex that the universe that he would make, how did he came to exist in the first place? Also being omnipotent is logically impossible look it up, going back to you thinking it's far from possible, try to do some research it will make more sense then the story of creation, actually random natural selection inspired us humans to create machine learning (witch is the back bone of Artificial intelligence) it's basically making a computer create arbitrary neural networks and putting it into test and the closest ones to an accurate result will be copied and these copies will be changed again in an arbitrary way (there's a lot of math behind that and not all of it is changing but you get the point) then these new "descendants" of the winner are put into test again and the cycle repeats until almost perfection (and this way with no coding, without the person that created it themself knowing how it actually work it just does!). I liked that feild (AI) for a long time in my life and it's probably the thing that made me concider that evolution is plausible after that I slowly started rejecting creationism and seeing it for the stupid nonsense it is

  • @Zar_Art
    @Zar_Art 2 года назад +4

    I was just thinking these thoughts this morning. Strange that this video showed up in the search engine because I didn't type it in or look for it.

  • @bretnetherton9273
    @bretnetherton9273 4 года назад +29

    "Awareness is known by awareness alone," is the sole irreducible axiom of reality. To put forth a syllable to the contrary is but to concede.

    • @jeffreythemeditator
      @jeffreythemeditator 2 года назад +1

      that is quite a remark bret. curious: is this a quote from someone? I think your comment is excellent.

    • @mohammedmostofa1162
      @mohammedmostofa1162 2 года назад +1

      Indeed... Precisely explained.

  • @MrKrack-ri8ix
    @MrKrack-ri8ix 6 лет назад +1626

    The universe was made in China.

  • @salamaltamimi
    @salamaltamimi 4 года назад +1229

    "Never in my life have i had a cell phone", totally more astonishing than the answer to the universe.

    • @letmesee359
      @letmesee359 3 года назад +2

      @Brad Watson 😳😳😳

    • @jefrodad
      @jefrodad 3 года назад +14

      Not necessarily, you can use an iPad to do pretty much anything a cell phone does.

    • @V1V2v
      @V1V2v 3 года назад +34

      Some foolish men declare that Creator made the world. The doctrine that the world was created is ill-advised, and should be rejected. If god created the world, where was he before creation? If you say he was transcendent then, and needed no support, where is he now?
      No single being had the skill to make the world - for how can an immaterial god create that which is material? How could god have made the world without any raw material? If you say he made this first, and then the world, you are face with an endless regression. If you declare that the raw material arose naturally you fall into another fallacy, for the whole universe might thus have been its own creator, and have risen equally naturally. If god created the world by an act of will, without any raw material, then it is just his will and nothing else and who will believe this silly stuff?
      If he is ever perfect, and complete, how could the will to create have arisen in him? If, on the other hand, he is not perfect, he could no more create the universe than a potter could. If he is formless, actionless, and all-embracing, how could he have created the world? Such a soul, devoid of all modality, would have no desire to create anything. If you say that he created to no purpose, because it was his nature to do so then god is pointless.
      If he created in some kind of sport, it was the sport of a foolish child, leading to trouble. If he created out of love for living things and need of them he made the world; why did he not make creation wholly blissful, free from misfortune? Thus the doctrine that the world was created by god makes no sense at all.

    • @jefrodad
      @jefrodad 3 года назад +29

      @@V1V2v We are stuck in the time domain, and therefore none of this makes any sense to us. Suffice to say that with how little we understand of the universe, it would be arrogant to assume that there is no God.

    • @Meowbay
      @Meowbay 3 года назад +8

      It does explain how he still doesn't know why we exist. ;)

  • @kaimys
    @kaimys Год назад +1

    This talk gets better every year like a good wine?

  • @Herzankerkreuz67
    @Herzankerkreuz67 7 лет назад +4709

    I shall call myself a fool for thinking I can find the answer on RUclips........

    • @allmendoubt4784
      @allmendoubt4784 7 лет назад +35

      It's all over youtube - hang on in there...

    • @Gam3B0y23r0
      @Gam3B0y23r0 7 лет назад +161

      you are a fool! if you think, you can find some definitive answer. humans have not evolved enough to have answers to such tings yet.

    • @olliveraira6122
      @olliveraira6122 7 лет назад +109

      +Gam3B0y The day we do we probably aren't in human form anymore...

    • @MekkaMehamedi
      @MekkaMehamedi 7 лет назад +20

      andree hammerschmidt Universe's expansion also mentioned in Quran 1400 years ago from a illiterate man whom grew up in a dessert name Muhammed.
      He is the final messenger from ☝🏾 God after Abraham, Moses (Musa), and Jesus (Isa)

    • @SpanishFluency
      @SpanishFluency 7 лет назад +18

      The Quran is the Answer! "I'm No telling you to become muslim" ... Just Read the quran and u will get it.

  • @michaelyu2744
    @michaelyu2744 4 года назад +754

    when the essay has a word limit so you stretch 'we don't know' to over 17 minutes

    • @moonaa4495
      @moonaa4495 4 года назад +6

      ✌🏼

    • @chandrashekharvk5765
      @chandrashekharvk5765 4 года назад +1

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    • @SubmitTheKraken
      @SubmitTheKraken 4 года назад +11

      If you're smart enough you will realize that you are not smart enough to comprehend, it's like asking a bacteria why it's in a human body, it just doesn't know.

    • @thiagodossantos2884
      @thiagodossantos2884 3 года назад +1

      AEHUHEUAHEUAHEUHAEUHEAUHEUAHEAUEHAUHEAUHEA

    • @onevastanus
      @onevastanus 3 года назад

      I love you.

  • @martinsrozenbergs9692
    @martinsrozenbergs9692 8 лет назад +145

    Knowledge about the lack of knowledge is still useful to know.

    • @hankigoe5389
      @hankigoe5389 8 лет назад +1

      Ciertamente, tal como la teoría de lo incompleto de Gödel demuestra.

    • @tree-huggersans-cur4371
      @tree-huggersans-cur4371 7 лет назад +4

      KnowledgeSeeker Perhaps you prefer to see it as a simulation because you don't sit well with the real one

    • @ronmitchell571
      @ronmitchell571 5 лет назад

      Consciousness of all consciousness is conscious

  • @arep1030
    @arep1030 2 года назад +53

    Truly fascinating. How can he live without owning a cell phone?

    • @stoneysdead689
      @stoneysdead689 2 года назад +1

      It should be isolated and studied, immediately- shaved a sterilized until we understand.

    • @billfarley9015
      @billfarley9015 Год назад +19

      In the same way that humans lived without them for almost all of human history.

    • @march8482
      @march8482 Год назад +6

      Yeah, all the things you can do with a cell phone nowadays. You make it pretty hard on yourself, but I respect the willpower.

    • @YouTuber-mc2el
      @YouTuber-mc2el Год назад +1

      A millennial, living a "mediocre" life, I would argue has experienced as much positivity as negativity from a cell phone.

  • @DaveTAM
    @DaveTAM 6 лет назад +490

    Einstein opined, “it would be possible to describe everything
    scientifically, but it would make no sense. It would be a description
    without meaning-as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation
    of wave pressure.”

    • @drop0112
      @drop0112 6 лет назад +7

      Well said. Reality is primary in relation to its understanding. This applies to both God and man. God does not know everything, but he can know everything that he wants. If he knew everything, then there would be no place for his creative work, but he is a creative person. Moreover, God cannot do absolutely everything, but he can do everything that he wants, because he is blessed God.

    • @iamasmodai
      @iamasmodai 6 лет назад +36

      Got any proof your god exists outside of your skull?

    • @henryrobinson3820
      @henryrobinson3820 6 лет назад +13

      iasmasmodai --The proof for God is in the depth of artistry in addition to the functionality of symbiosis systems of energy, life, and chemical reactions. These could not exist together harmoniously without a 3 dimensional designer.

    • @iamasmodai
      @iamasmodai 6 лет назад +32

      Uh, no.

    • @technolus5742
      @technolus5742 6 лет назад +22

      Henry Robinson So far no evidence of god (much less "proof") in any such functionality. Those assertions invariably amount to nothing more than an argument from ignorance, which is why similar claims were made in the past were eventually shown to be misguided.

  • @alexullrich5694
    @alexullrich5694 4 года назад +305

    I love these sorts of talks, we’ve grown so accustomed to people just saying facts instead of leaving us with more questions. And given the choice, I prefer the latter almost every time.

    • @originalunoriginal4055
      @originalunoriginal4055 3 года назад +4

      If I am going to watch a content that consists of simply....
      a guy talking for 15 minutes straight and by the time his speech/video comes to end.....
      I would then prefer my knowledge being improved and feel that ever slightly more educated in the subject matter!
      Of which, I spent the last 15 minutes (out of my 10 waking hours ) processing and make a decision on what to do with the particular information!
      But, to come away with increased knowledge of the subject matter that was being presented, it goes without saying that, the newly attained information will raise the need for additional intel... This is a natural phenomena that occurs in the human mind.
      For example, you see an ad on tv of a supermarket promoting it's "Special Discount Week" campaign... Subconciously, in your head you'll say to yourself: " what's on offer"
      " How much can I save" "Do i have any money to spend" etc etc.
      The point is any information we view, our minds will always respond with questions!

    • @lynnfisher3037
      @lynnfisher3037 2 года назад

      Name just ONE fact if matter does not exist. You can't

    • @gbrowboat
      @gbrowboat 2 года назад

      @@originalunoriginal4055 aaaaaaaaa

    • @kennethbransford820
      @kennethbransford820 2 года назад +3

      @@lynnfisher3037 ====== Universe is a first cause event. Something had to start the universe. E=mc2 is testament to that. Since energy and mass are the same thing and interchangeable. Where did the energy for our universe come from, that latter became mass ergo here we are. Even the laws for physics and chemistry came from the big bang, a first cause event. Even the fine tuning of the universe, with its existing and specific sets of individual laws and equations of physics and chemistry, that is right now giving us our current universe with 18 different parameters for each sets of different strengths and weaknesses in particles, like how strong or how weak gravity is, if changed to a millionth of one percent in strength of weaknesses, we wouldn't be here. This is just one of the fine turned laws out of eighteen in our universe that is needed for out EXISTENCE. This is by DESIGN. Not by an accident. === Evolution = Self Assembling Atoms = Impossible =====

    • @TtableWhey
      @TtableWhey 2 года назад +3

      Yes, we need more questions and less answers.

  • @student6830
    @student6830 5 лет назад +509

    I come to this side of RUclips when I want to procrastinate but not feel like I'm procrastinating.

    • @Orca_Orcinus
      @Orca_Orcinus 5 лет назад +6

      Same 😂

    • @markburch6253
      @markburch6253 5 лет назад +7

      I try to put off procrastinating for later

    • @johnbroomhead1039
      @johnbroomhead1039 5 лет назад +2

      Ha ha ha I do when I want to fall asleep very effective

    • @captainwill3796
      @captainwill3796 5 лет назад +1

      Yes, I used to be indecisive about procrastinating but now I'm just not sure.

    • @johnbroomhead1039
      @johnbroomhead1039 5 лет назад

      @@captainwill3796 ha ha ha

  • @glenndouglas8822
    @glenndouglas8822 2 года назад +1

    Thinking this will send you mental, we are not supposed to know yet, I feel we will find out once our bodies are gone and we are one with everything.

  • @SirThomasJames
    @SirThomasJames 8 лет назад +1256

    Why is everone laughing all the time? This is THE philosophical question, if you go in your room for a few hours, think about meaning of life, death, existance, aynthing, and think about it long enough, you will be struck by this, as in you receive a blow, and suddenly you wonder: Why is there anything at all? It's so weird and mysterious.. And this is super interesting and entertaining on its own, not everything has to be laughed at to be good. I think the guy even added some jokes because the audience clearly wanted it, instead of just trying to understand his deep wonder...

    • @Danzka354
      @Danzka354 8 лет назад +67

      Yes, only a few are disturbed by those questions, I am and it's quite scary as it is a kind of obsession for me, but i've come to realize that maybe we should not question existence... Language has its limits and cannot understand this existence. Imagine if suddenly we had the answer, what will we do about it? It doesn't change anything, we'd still be humans and we'd still be mortals! We feel that we are alive, why question it? Feeling our existence should be our only truth, existential questions should be put aside, and we should just live, like we always did and always will till the end of the human race... to stop questionning our existence would probably reduce the pain of existence, no more god, no more ideals, just a plain truth, this present moment...

    • @skipeveryday7282
      @skipeveryday7282 8 лет назад +25

      SirThomasJames Lately my head has been really fried by the concept that we are all one. I fear having to live all those horrifically painful lives. My fallable human mind can't take it.

    • @laplacesdemon82
      @laplacesdemon82 8 лет назад +2

      SirThomasJames why shouldn't be something rather than nothing???

    • @Ayelis
      @Ayelis 8 лет назад +18

      Because you can say 'what created it' until the cows come home. But what are cows? And what is home? Most of the things we can see have a beginning, before which they do not exist. Why should the universe be any different? And what is the universe if not 'all that exists'? And before 'all that exists' exists, what can exist besides nothing? So how did nothingness create the first thing? And do things really 'exist' anyways, if they are 99.99~9% empty space and 0.00~1% energy? What even is energy, besides a wavelength, vacillating between +1 and -1?

    • @missanorajjohnthattil8526
      @missanorajjohnthattil8526 8 лет назад +2

      Ayelis There is no such thing as an empty space and the most objects around us gains its mass by the energy in it and energy is nothing other than excitement of particles.

  • @tucowept
    @tucowept 5 лет назад +40

    Maybe a universe will spring from this talk.

  • @neilmcmahon
    @neilmcmahon 6 лет назад +571

    The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to us.

    • @its_just_roberto
      @its_just_roberto 6 лет назад +22

      At least credit that quote.

    • @QuantumEntangledSelf
      @QuantumEntangledSelf 6 лет назад +4

      @@its_just_roberto www.brainyquote.com/quotes/neil_degrasse_tyson_800277

    • @neilmcmahon
      @neilmcmahon 6 лет назад +12

      @@its_just_roberto my humblest apologies. It was Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

    • @wirechair
      @wirechair 6 лет назад +7

      Neil McMahon same with God.

    • @robertracy6860
      @robertracy6860 6 лет назад +8

      Nothing is under that obligation, but through study we have figured tons of stuff out.

  • @creativitycell
    @creativitycell Год назад +23

    Understanding Creativity and Consciousness is the key, as it seems to me these two elements of human behaviour are not really needed for pure biological evolution and pro creation, they seem added special extras; and if we are a part and reflection of the Universe then unlocking these two mysteries could unlock greater answers. I find it fascinating that their is no real complete understanding of either, just generalized explanations.🙏

    • @midianpoet
      @midianpoet Год назад

      Exactly.Yes.There is definitely something.

    • @march8482
      @march8482 Год назад +2

      They were needed, otherwise we wouldn't have had them.

    • @krisanctil794
      @krisanctil794 Год назад

      This was generally about Quantum Fluctuations, not about creativity or humans in general. Check out some Brian Greene videos on Quantum Physics, it'll blow your mind.

    • @raya4801
      @raya4801 Год назад +1

      Absolutely. Absolutely. Beautiful ❤️

  • @zenborder
    @zenborder 4 года назад +119

    ----"Why is there something rather than nothing? "
    ----"Oh, even if there was nothing, you still wouldn't be satisfied."

    • @grattata4364
      @grattata4364 4 года назад +9

      Yes and no. I wouldn't possess the ability to feel unsatisfied in the first place, because there would be no "i". There would be no expectations on anything at all, total freedom from the burdens that comes with existing.

    • @lukemcguire6363
      @lukemcguire6363 4 года назад

      Still there are people that are saying he didnt say anything funny. That's funny and it's a joke. It wasnt meant to be taken literally...guy above this comment

    • @grattata4364
      @grattata4364 4 года назад +1

      @@lukemcguire6363 Yeah my bad, sorry for being a thickhead

    • @kodyamour6330
      @kodyamour6330 4 года назад +6

      @@grattata4364 You mentioned that you would not possess the ability to... (so on and so on). You are making a claim about what would be true if nothing were true. Where does that claim exist in a reality of nothing?

    • @grattata4364
      @grattata4364 4 года назад +2

      @@kodyamour6330 It's purely my own assumption based on the human concept of what true nothingness would mean.

  • @soybeanlegs1987
    @soybeanlegs1987 4 года назад +473

    No one:
    “Why does the Universe exist?”
    Audience: *immediately laughs*

    • @gabeheartz13saravia97
      @gabeheartz13saravia97 4 года назад +15

      So in conclusion,
      The Universe: either a fragment of or what we “know” As the physical reality.
      The Multiverse: A Meta Reality containing multiple realities.
      The Omniverse: The totality of Reality

    • @soybeanlegs1987
      @soybeanlegs1987 4 года назад +1

      Gabe Saravia it’s so cool tbh...

    • @gabeheartz13saravia97
      @gabeheartz13saravia97 4 года назад +1

      I’m glad you think that way

    • @anthonycallender6492
      @anthonycallender6492 4 года назад +6

      and the universe responds: Am I a joke to you??

    • @slightkek
      @slightkek 4 года назад +7

      Can someone explain ?? I don’t understand why it makes people laugh /:

  • @kyradesj2429
    @kyradesj2429 4 года назад +348

    I’m so high on shrooms right now and this guy gets it

    • @daroth7127
      @daroth7127 4 года назад +12

      science knows da wae

    • @kodyamour6330
      @kodyamour6330 4 года назад +16

      Bro I'm high on weed right now and YOU ARE TOTALLY RIGHT. HE JUST GETS IT JUST LIKE WE DO.

    • @iwonderwhathappensafteryou7881
      @iwonderwhathappensafteryou7881 4 года назад +17

      @@kodyamour6330 I never touched a drug or anything like that but I think like this everyday

    • @Ono-ye-baja
      @Ono-ye-baja 4 года назад +7

      Broooo.....
      Same boat homie......

    • @seethelight657
      @seethelight657 3 года назад +3

      Seek the truth with a mind that thinks in 3 minutes and don’t be ignorant cause if you think a little bit, everything have a purpose except us and why we’re here?? just to have fun and grow old drinking beer common!!
      * There must be a stronger entity and it is not a coincidence. Look what god said and you will know the truth, he said
      * (( We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth. But is it not sufficient concerning your Lord that He is, over all things, a Witness?)
      See by your self :-
      God said:
      1- ( And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me )
      2- ( And when Our verses are recited to them, they say, "We have heard. If we willed, we could say [something] like this. This is not but legends of the former peoples." @ And [remember] when they said, "O Allah, if this should be the truth from You, then rain down upon us stones from the sky or bring us a painful punishment.")
      3- ( Indeed, these [disbelievers] love the immediate [ life ] and leave behind them a grave Day.)
      4- And they say, "There is not but our worldly life; we die and live, and nothing destroys us except time." And they have of that no knowledge; they are only assuming.
      5- (We had certainly brought you the truth, but most of you, to the truth, were averse.)
      If you reached here and you didn’t believe that’s for you, god said:
      ( Have you seen he who has taken as his god his [own] desire, and Allah has sent him astray due to knowledge and has set a seal upon his hearing and his heart and put over his vision a veil? So who will guide him after Allah? Then will you not be reminded? )
      God may guide you that’s Quran....

  • @LightUpNancy
    @LightUpNancy 2 месяца назад +1

    Stick with it till the end it’s quite good!

  • @nex_1ne
    @nex_1ne 3 года назад +108

    "Nothing" might be a concept made up by the human mind.

    • @somepeep8944
      @somepeep8944 3 года назад +6

      😳

    • @ericscaillet2232
      @ericscaillet2232 3 года назад +7

      @Akshay Sharma humans do not 'create' anything but merely observe , copy and transform up against something...the nothing concept
      is but a response to it.

    • @SKT3109
      @SKT3109 3 года назад

      @UCXIVWlWgMEtYifoX7Y9-1_w get the f*ck outta here

    • @lawrencestark4356
      @lawrencestark4356 3 года назад +3

      @Akshay Sharma Wouldn't you say that ALL concepts are created by humans?

    • @lawrencestark4356
      @lawrencestark4356 3 года назад

      @@ericscaillet2232 Interesting idea. But I'll ask whether observations, copies and transformations are "created."

  • @cherrycotapie
    @cherrycotapie 5 лет назад +625

    The biggest Why is why the audience is laughing at every word he says

    • @arleenpalacios7248
      @arleenpalacios7248 5 лет назад +2

      Good question! lol

    • @relativityify
      @relativityify 5 лет назад +2

      I think there all pissed up or something

    • @marius4iasi
      @marius4iasi 5 лет назад +7

      he's funny.

    • @lenient1438
      @lenient1438 5 лет назад +4

      @StefenF ofcourse, humans can know.. It exists because........... Goodness Gracious :O

    • @ahmedalhesiny5365
      @ahmedalhesiny5365 5 лет назад +3

      to act smart, or make others think they are one of the smart ones, this Ted talk is about people pretending to be smart and other people who act like they understand, no offense but it's just a show and shows made to get money, now Adam's ruin everything that's a show i prefer to watch over these.

  • @jatinverma7967
    @jatinverma7967 3 года назад +33

    This is exactly the kind of thing I enjoy. I loved this video.

    • @123-w3y
      @123-w3y 3 года назад +3

      But u didn't understand

    • @HarpreetSinghChauhan
      @HarpreetSinghChauhan 3 года назад +1

      @The Illogist there are people who love doing drugs and spoiling their life while still not having any answer to it.

    • @steplim3
      @steplim3 2 года назад

      That's because you like watching videos that gets you nowhere and makes you even more confused.

  • @lopiklop
    @lopiklop Год назад

    7:10 I gain immediate respect. I have been waiting so long for someone to shout this from a stage! It feels like I live in a land blind. Keep asking why until you can no longer ask why.

  • @frankthebeing
    @frankthebeing 9 лет назад +55

    A major flaw in this presentation: Everything he says hinges on the belief that the human brain is capable of understanding truths about reality beyond the individual brain's subjective experience. This is a dubious belief for anyone who believes the human mind evolved for the sole task of survival which has no necessary connection to understanding objective reality.

    • @matthewmullin9673
      @matthewmullin9673 9 лет назад +1

      Frank Canepa Well if the human mind evolved to exist in an objective reality then wouldn't it be a harmful trait for human's to have not developed to logically interpret reality?

    • @frankthebeing
      @frankthebeing 9 лет назад +3

      I suppose you would have to argue that our minds evolved to be a part of objectivity. But considering the sole reason for evolution in a naturalist model is adaptability it's hard for me to see why objectivity is a likely outcome.

    • @frankthebeing
      @frankthebeing 9 лет назад +1

      Edit: adaptability in terms of survival and reproductive I mean.

    • @frankthebeing
      @frankthebeing 9 лет назад +1

      ***** My knowledge of the source of this argument is from Alvin Plantinga, a philosophy professor. Here is a link to a summary of this argument that he did, you may find it more compelling (or not) than my two sentence version: www.calvin.edu/academic/philosophy/virtual_library/articles/plantinga_alvin/an_evolutionary_argument_against_naturalism.pdf

    • @matthewmullin9673
      @matthewmullin9673 9 лет назад +1

      Frank Canepa Oh, I'm not arguing that humans have perfectly developed to understand the objective world. I was talking about humans' ability to reason relatively well, and how their subjective experience should reflect objective reality because it would probably be helpful for survival : www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1yp2k0/how_do_we_know_that_our_logic_is_true/

  • @akumabito2008
    @akumabito2008 10 лет назад +47

    Why assume everything came from nothing? We know things exist. We do not know a thing about non-existence. We don't even know if it is at all possible to have absolute nothingness - no matter, no energy, no time, no dimensions, etc. We have absolutely no clue if such a state is even possible.

    • @jbetteridge23
      @jbetteridge23 10 лет назад +4

      Interesting thoughts

    • @AQWoy
      @AQWoy 10 лет назад +4

      I like this, a perpetual state of existence. If you think of time as circular as opposed to linear this makes sense. Thanks for this comment you just open opened my mind even more.

    • @ihavenousernamelol2
      @ihavenousernamelol2 10 лет назад +1

      you mean existence don't need to have a beginning? thats a lot harder to comprehend compare to non-existence

    • @AQWoy
      @AQWoy 10 лет назад +3

      Of course it is, but I think that's because our minds are so wired to think that everything has a beginning that it's difficult to imagine otherwise.

    • @IntricationZ
      @IntricationZ 10 лет назад

      We have not assumed anything. The big bang did bring forth the universe 13.7 billion years ago. By saying that all this is an assumption would be to discredit all the peer-reviewed studies and research done on it.

  • @Ben-rz3cw
    @Ben-rz3cw 5 лет назад +366

    Plot twist: This ted talk is actually a metaphor of the universe symbolizing that it exists just to exist, serving for nothing, just like this talk.

    • @justsam7919
      @justsam7919 5 лет назад +12

      I have a cell phone.

    • @jasehonfroy5343
      @jasehonfroy5343 5 лет назад +1

      That's sad asf

    • @jasehonfroy5343
      @jasehonfroy5343 5 лет назад

      @@justsam7919 is that a meme or a joke q vine cuz i dont get ur comment

    • @ASTROALL
      @ASTROALL 5 лет назад +1

      He is trying to prove his existence .

    • @chanceDdog2009
      @chanceDdog2009 5 лет назад +1

      @@ASTROALL he thinks, therefore he is

  • @Ellier215
    @Ellier215 10 месяцев назад +1

    My reality- the only thing i know is true is that there is suffering. Therefore I will use empathy and try to make the place I live in better by helping others not to suffer.

  • @davidbaker5180
    @davidbaker5180 5 лет назад +401

    He would make a good politician, completely dodging the question LOL

    • @lrvogt1257
      @lrvogt1257 5 лет назад +7

      Good science is always on the edge of the unknown.

    • @fivish
      @fivish 5 лет назад +19

      He had no answer.

    • @lrvogt1257
      @lrvogt1257 5 лет назад +33

      @@fivish : When discussing anything scientific one simply explains what is known. It doesn't pretend to have answers to everything like religion does. "I don't know" is a far more honest answer than making up a fairy tale.

    • @q45ij54q
      @q45ij54q 5 лет назад +8

      @@fivish Because there is no answer to the question of "why". It simply does exist, but humans are constantly trying to assign meaning to things that have no implicit meaning.

    • @beenaplumber8379
      @beenaplumber8379 5 лет назад +5

      ​@@lrvogt1257 Discussing science most certainly is not a matter of explaining what is known. That's nearly the opposite of science. There is no place for science among things that are already known. (Think of the difference between a lab and a library.) Science is not knowledge, or a set of knowledge, or a collection of what is known. Science is something you do. It's a process of observation, prediction, testing, collecting data, critically evaluating it, and by doing so, generating new, robust, and shareable knowledge. Scientists are obsessed with what we don't know because science is nothing but a systematic method of learning those things we don't know, at least to a significant likelihood. Science needs the unknown - problems & questions - or it has no function.

  • @zdmuchnelamniejesien
    @zdmuchnelamniejesien 5 лет назад +60

    The comments and the level of entitlement of some people, dear God. Did you really expect the question the most brilliant minds of this world have pondered about for literally thousands of years to be answered in one youtube video?

    • @toddinthemiddle
      @toddinthemiddle 5 лет назад

      i haven't even made it half way through the vid. thanks for the spolier, without the alert!

    • @squidproquo2241
      @squidproquo2241 5 лет назад +1

      @Anita Walczak The answer is in the mind and the conscious of the beholder. Just like you said literally thousands of years perhaps thousands of answers and true ones were given...only if we could understand the answer.

    • @zdmuchnelamniejesien
      @zdmuchnelamniejesien 5 лет назад

      @Rich very, very true.

    • @arleenpalacios7248
      @arleenpalacios7248 5 лет назад

      VERY FUNNY! Have you seen this? ruclips.net/video/QmIc42oRjm8/видео.html The Privileged Planet... Here is the answer to the WHY

    • @americangal49
      @americangal49 5 лет назад

      He wasn’t so brilliant. He didn’t even conclude with his opinion! Epitome of laziness!

  • @razeenrahim
    @razeenrahim 2 года назад +12

    Everything is clear when you look from Creator's perspective. So much Love!

  • @zombineutral
    @zombineutral 2 года назад +9

    I've had an out of body experience trying to contemplate how something came from nothing and how we are here because of it

    • @mahlohonololebuso741
      @mahlohonololebuso741 2 года назад +7

      Bruh. And how that nothing came about in the first place 🤔

    • @douglasrowland3722
      @douglasrowland3722 2 года назад +4

      Too much synchronicity...too much co-ordination....too much Human Life for it to be a Big-Bang co-incident. How is it that our Ecosystem is JUST PERFECT for the
      sustaining of ''life''.....BY COINCIDENCE??????

    • @gastonemoschin4337
      @gastonemoschin4337 2 года назад +4

      @@douglasrowland3722 it isn't perfect. but in the everexistence of the universe, all chance must be fulfilled. We are chance, and we are beautiful m8

    • @echoe4806
      @echoe4806 2 года назад

      @@douglasrowland3722 It could be .Yes.

    • @Humanbeering
      @Humanbeering Год назад

      Nice mushrooms 😊

  • @TheShattenjager
    @TheShattenjager 3 года назад +13

    I love how a talk is devoted to a single question, and he does not end up even approaching somewhat sort of even touching upon any semblance of an attempted answer.

  • @kaykwanu
    @kaykwanu 3 года назад +97

    His ability to engage his audience is superb!

    • @dermaniac5205
      @dermaniac5205 2 года назад +8

      Him: "Why does the universe exist?" Audience. "BWAHAHAHAHA!"

  • @webadage
    @webadage 5 лет назад +94

    I can beat his last statement. I'm a 65 year old American male and "Never in my life have I EVER watched a football game." Thank you!

    • @alexplastow9496
      @alexplastow9496 5 лет назад +5

      Man of good taste, twenty two years going strong on my end

    • @brian7897
      @brian7897 5 лет назад +7

      @Rich There are more people who watch sports whom also play sports, than people who don't watch sports and play sports. By your logic playing sports is how you become healthy. Therefore the people whom watch sports will be more healthier than people whom do not watch sports. Watching sports on TV has encouraged our youth to exercise for decades. Lets say you got rid of all these famous athletes our kids try to emulate. Do you think they would be running every day trying to get better at some sport, or do you think they would be playing video games?

    • @winstonsmith11
      @winstonsmith11 5 лет назад +3

      @@brian7897 Well said, Brian. Funny how people can so easily judge what they do not understand.

    • @sammifruitbat
      @sammifruitbat 5 лет назад

      ruclips.net/video/CFYswvGoaPU/видео.html

    • @johnbarry8553
      @johnbarry8553 5 лет назад

      I wish families would get together and play together more. Don't get me wrong teams are cool but family playing together and enjoying each other's company well just my opinion. By the way God is good.

  • @hkc322
    @hkc322 2 года назад +50

    “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein ---we can't solve universe creation problem using universe rules

    • @adrianvance556
      @adrianvance556 2 года назад

      Sorry, but I disagree and fail to see that logic.

  • @akusticruya
    @akusticruya 4 года назад +16

    My english is not enough to explain my feelings about that subject but we will ask that ''why ?'' question forever.

    • @sandeep2435
      @sandeep2435 4 года назад +3

      Agreed.No body will be able to find the mystry of our universe since we , are also part of it

    • @ericscaillet2232
      @ericscaillet2232 3 года назад +2

      The only mystery is that we choose not to understand it over animalistic pleasures.

  • @fratc.karakus4612
    @fratc.karakus4612 2 года назад +9

    While trying to answer this question, we mustn't leave out the answers of future generations. The question is ongoing. Meaning that no single answer is the truth. This doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to find answers. It means that we can never be satisfied with one. The answer to the question is another question. If our motive is to satisfy our need to know, we'll either eventually settle down on a relatively accurate story or suffer tremendously. That's where the Buddha's teaching comes in. I don't know what Buddhists believe in, but his teaching was not about answering the question, finding it to be nothingness. His teaching is about not suffering because of our inabilities and unanswered questions. I still try to do my best to find answers or help others in doing so. The only difference is that I no longer do it because I want to fill my hungry stomach and finally relax. I'm always relaxed.

  • @izzydawiz7486
    @izzydawiz7486 Год назад +3

    What remains when we strip all possible forms of identifiableness from an object? Is existence a little less existing when that object doesn't exist any longer? Is existence itself only present in identifiable forms? Could being in it's purest form be formless?

  • @centronenilo6106
    @centronenilo6106 5 лет назад +151

    this video is great definition of “nothing”

    • @scythian3
      @scythian3 5 лет назад

      So it would seem....

  • @provocationman
    @provocationman 5 лет назад +17

    Time is the mystery.
    If there is no time then there is no universe, so how time started is really the only questions, and when we know how time started we will know why there is a universe.

    • @Harihar_Patel
      @Harihar_Patel 5 лет назад +2

      Time started from big bang. Before big bang, there was no time.

    • @artifexrex1578
      @artifexrex1578 5 лет назад

      Time is a measurement of action. If things stopped doing, then it would time is frozen

    • @donnahesleph4072
      @donnahesleph4072 5 лет назад

      @Gert Jan Trooster Your ego has to get out of the way.

  • @lisaschuster9187
    @lisaschuster9187 5 лет назад +206

    Tiger gotta hunt, bird gotta fly.
    Man gotta sit and wonder why, why, why?
    Tiger gotta rest, bird gotta land.
    Man gotta think that he understand.
    -Kurt Vonnegut

    • @questioneverything8301
      @questioneverything8301 5 лет назад +4

      simple answer. there is no universe, it doesnt excist.

    • @ImmortalFabrizio
      @ImmortalFabrizio 5 лет назад

      @@questioneverything8301 If it doesn't exist you'r saying the nothing exist, and nothing by definition is nothing.

    • @questioneverything8301
      @questioneverything8301 5 лет назад +2

      @@ImmortalFabrizio above us is the sky, above that is the firmiment, the dome, above that is heaven where God is. the world is flat. there is no space. man as never been to space. nothing can go higher thn low earth orbit. nothing can break through the dome. there are waters above.

    • @ImmortalFabrizio
      @ImmortalFabrizio 5 лет назад +12

      @@questioneverything8301 LOL trying to spread disinformation to confuse people to make them not to have real awakening like if with that you'r going to stop the rise in consciousness that's happening hahaha

    • @questioneverything8301
      @questioneverything8301 5 лет назад +3

      @@ImmortalFabrizio so you seem like one of those cia agents that get paid by you tube to shill on line and spread lies and disinformation. it is too late though the cat is out the bag. people and woken up and can see the truth with their own eyes. look up you might see the real world we live in also. it is shills, nasa, the government, and you tube that spread the lies and disinfo, not I , and they also supress the truth. but then their empire depends on it.

  • @marlieeasley830
    @marlieeasley830 2 года назад +1

    😂 the reason he writes off in the beginning is it. The ontological argument is a good one!
    God would never ask "where" time and space are illusory!

  • @Andybaby
    @Andybaby 5 лет назад +445

    Spoiler: He doesn't know.

  • @shanay1794
    @shanay1794 5 лет назад +37

    "Oh.even if there was nothing you still wouldn't be satisfied." That's me

    • @earldecker7760
      @earldecker7760 5 лет назад +3

      Shanay- If there was nothing you would not exist so you would never know that you would not be satisified.

  • @ashleysmall2718
    @ashleysmall2718 9 лет назад +79

    _"...so we don't want to live in that special reality."_
    What we want is irrelevant.

    • @sergeantpickles4202
      @sergeantpickles4202 9 лет назад +5

      I disagree, what we want is central to how we interpret and perceive our world, if it wasn't important the discussion about the existence of God could have ended long ago...

    • @ashleysmall2718
      @ashleysmall2718 9 лет назад +26

      Grim Reaper Sorry, that was my own fault. What I meant was; what we want is irrelevant to what is true.

    • @dynelol
      @dynelol 9 лет назад

      +Grim Reaper Aaaaaaall our tiiiiiimes have come!

    • @BushidoEffect3
      @BushidoEffect3 9 лет назад +2

      +Ashley Small Auuuuugh my mind! ^_^

    • @TheTrueReiniat
      @TheTrueReiniat 9 лет назад +3

      +Ashley Small Dayum, i saw the first comment and I knew this exact comment would follow up.

  • @jasonh.8754
    @jasonh.8754 2 года назад +1

    Well, I don't know, but we are all here. May as well enjoy it while we can.

  • @pulkitgupta4927
    @pulkitgupta4927 4 года назад +62

    Spoiler Alert: He dont have a cellphone

    • @Aliyahsarchive
      @Aliyahsarchive 3 года назад

      I see ur comment everywhere

    • @RameshKumar-ru8uk
      @RameshKumar-ru8uk 2 года назад

      @@Aliyahsarchive may be he is from India became his I'd name I am saying thia

  • @chrisreid5745
    @chrisreid5745 4 года назад +347

    They laughing cause they know this is going nowhere

    • @cletussamboy8650
      @cletussamboy8650 4 года назад +7

      Laugh track overused

    • @aryrios154
      @aryrios154 4 года назад +5

      Like life lol

    • @kevinkun2052
      @kevinkun2052 4 года назад +11

      yes, i was wondering why people are laughing from the things he says that doesnt even nake any sense. he just wasted 17 mins of everyones time with a bunch of nonsense

    • @lukemcguire6363
      @lukemcguire6363 4 года назад

      If you didnt find any of the things he said amusing then you dont have a very good sense of humor

    • @cgriffin2013
      @cgriffin2013 3 года назад +10

      Doesn't mean we can't talk about it and ask questions.

  • @gin36147
    @gin36147 8 лет назад +26

    Nice speech, but a bit misunderstanding of Buddhism and the "vacuity" in the Buddhist language. In fact "vacuity" is not precise translation as the concept itself is difficult to explain even in its original language. Apart from that, very inspiring speech.

    • @gin36147
      @gin36147 8 лет назад +2

      Similar "vacuity" also exist in Taoism, but still not the same as the definition in western world. Has to do with some cultural gap and language difference.

    • @JuuisHenrickLe
      @JuuisHenrickLe 8 лет назад +1

      Agree. I am about to comment the same thing. Thanks

    • @kyoung21b
      @kyoung21b 7 лет назад +1

      Jing Ji - Good point; the view he expresses seems to be based on a misunderstanding (mistranslation...) of the Buddhist notion of emptiness, which specifically does not mean vacuity, and to whatever extent I understand it would better be described as saying that everything lacks independent existence (which is very different than saying that everything lacks existence). Which is not to say that I didn’t appreciate the rest of Holt’s presentation, and I thought his book on the subject was excellent.

  • @mikemorgan8646
    @mikemorgan8646 2 года назад

    We were created to love Him. And each other. That’s why the last commandment was to “love each other, like I loved you.”

  • @lubamovie5841
    @lubamovie5841 5 лет назад +39

    I presume we are allowed to ask as many questions as we like while we're here on this planet. That's kind of intrinsic to being alive and having consciousness. I have been quite preoccupied with both the "why" and the "how" of existence at many times throughout my life. I am very suprised to see in the comments how upset so many people were that Jim asked the question at all and/or didn't provide an answer. I'm quite sure the point of the talk wasn't to announce to the global community that Jim knows the how/why of existence. I, for one, was glad to walk through some of the most prominent theories, dogmas, beliefs with Jim and go over a few strengths and weaknesses. Especially where it pertains to scientific theory. There is an incredibly arrogant culture thriving in some segments of the scientific community, the members of which speak about these kinds of questions in terms such as "we KNOW" - ie. Krauss, Dawkins, Harris, etc. Was nice to hear Jim point out what is obvious to me - that the scientific community actually KNOWS very little about the how/why of the origins of the universe. Scientific theories that are clutched on to too tightly basically become religion.

    • @thomasgroflin9073
      @thomasgroflin9073 5 лет назад +5

      Just remind when Holt quotes Leibniz; that's probably the source of these comments you wonder about.
      And I agree with you that science is about to transform into a religion: If you don't believe whats propagated then you're blasphemic...and in case it turns out that your disbelief had reason then the community will tell you that your reasons for your disbelief were not scientific. Nowadays universities are about to become the catholic cathederals of the middle ages, professors are like priests and like Holt quotes: Some questions are not allowed to be asked. And the worst of all: If you want to push an agenda then all you need to do is found some studies and then call them scientific. And once its science, who will dare to doubt it...

    • @patricioansaldi8021
      @patricioansaldi8021 5 лет назад

      Precisely. Glad I'm not alone in that thinking

    • @patricioansaldi8021
      @patricioansaldi8021 5 лет назад

      @@thomasgroflin9073 that's right, as can be evidenced by almost any science "educator", as Neil deGrasse Tyson famously states "I don't want people to understand science, I want them to *feel* science". Neither should it be too astounding as the modern university system was conjured up by catholic institutions (the Jesuit order, primarily) whose purpose was to study, proliferate and reify religious concepts and beliefs. Eventually, science became part of that equation within catholic institutions, and that hierarchical structure of scholarly pursuit and info dissemination predicates and outlines the development of all later academic institutions. So, unbeknownst to most researchers, they are actually active in evangelizing and indoctrinating the world in their methods and unconscious belief paradigms.

    • @lauramartha3
      @lauramartha3 5 лет назад +2

      Well said, indeed. I'm glad I'm not alone in being intrigued by his query, as you were.

    • @chrisoleary9876
      @chrisoleary9876 5 лет назад +2

      Exactly! "Science" has turned into a religion. The most arrogant claim is that: "we don't know now, but we will in the future." Kinda like the EXCUSE of the "future science of the gaps."

  • @chuckydombroski
    @chuckydombroski 4 года назад +60

    The universe came into existence when you yourself came into existence. There is no universe without you ❤️

    • @royalwayne7244
      @royalwayne7244 4 года назад +5

      Damn

    • @godq3
      @godq3 4 года назад +8

      There is no universe outside of your consciousness.

    • @javfares1504
      @javfares1504 4 года назад +14

      There is no universe if you're not there to percieve it

    • @unzuchtkarpfen8475
      @unzuchtkarpfen8475 4 года назад +5

      @@javfares1504 exactly

    • @syedsarwarhussain7316
      @syedsarwarhussain7316 3 года назад

      Because we are all part of the universe a matter exist in the space if some one want to fit him in the equation who has created him is doing terrible mistake he the creator clearly saying he is not equal or comparable to anything or nothing but he is the creator of both ....

  • @samtraji1
    @samtraji1 9 лет назад +35

    inexistence is a paradox in itself, therefore everything exists.

    • @matthewturner7253
      @matthewturner7253 9 лет назад

      Samuel Trajano So that means heaven exists lol

    • @samtraji1
      @samtraji1 9 лет назад

      i think not in our dimension. but what if existence is built by layer over layer, and each "awareness" can only percept the matter that makes part of theyr world. now prove me im wrong XD, or that im right. thats impossible too ;)

    • @TheClassicWorld
      @TheClassicWorld 9 лет назад

      Samuel Trajano Surely, if that was the case, it wouldn't matter to us? Since it would have nothing to do with our layer of reality?
      I merely care about the humans in our universe, killing other humans due to their belief in there being a Heaven in our layer of reality. That's a big problem and a fallacy too.

    • @retoblubber
      @retoblubber 9 лет назад

      Samuel Trajano yeah, sound like _turtles all the way down_

    • @samtraji1
      @samtraji1 9 лет назад

      ***** or i could be raped by a child... who knows

  • @8acenelson
    @8acenelson 10 месяцев назад +1

    How can anyone NOT think about how all this got here and what it's all about? All other questions seem minor by comparison.
    In 2024 is the Theory of Inflation still intact?
    I like this conclusion, the fact of the universe's existence is the best answer we have to why it exists, like Bertrand Russell says.
    The mystery seems destined to endure.
    And LOL-- "we're all secretly mediocre"

  • @sottosotto4056
    @sottosotto4056 3 года назад +72

    So basically this guy says a whole lot of nothing for 17 minutes. That was more impressive than any other ted talk I've ever listened to.

    • @Anonymous-cq2dtp
      @Anonymous-cq2dtp 2 года назад +6

      ikr. he gave no answer. he said that he doesn't like the inflation model then goes and uses it anyway it doesn't make sense

    • @mickers
      @mickers 2 года назад +6

      Exactly. Boring talk.

    • @dr.anasuabagchi9312
      @dr.anasuabagchi9312 2 года назад

      😂

    • @erikcarmel5260
      @erikcarmel5260 2 года назад

      I suppose this guy doesn't believe in Spirit .

    • @rpcarnell
      @rpcarnell 2 года назад

      but what do you mean by nothing?

  • @bharathj3582
    @bharathj3582 5 лет назад +20

    The Moment you ask a question, Why is there something, you have already accepted the fact that there is something and nothing. Our language is a great limitation. In terms of understanding the true nature of reality. That is why Buddha kept quite when asked for the ultimate truth. What is beyond time, space and causation cannot be put in words. Buddha did not say it was nothing, He just kept silence and which is probably the best answer.

    • @williamburts3114
      @williamburts3114 5 лет назад

      In truth, it's just another form of consciousness.

    • @assassinaria
      @assassinaria 5 лет назад

      Silence can mean many things and is open to interpretation. That is what his lesson was - there is no reason for anything. It's all open to interpretation.

    • @williamburts3114
      @williamburts3114 5 лет назад

      @@assassinaria from our perception we can say that there is no reason for anything and it's all about your Interpretation but we are born into delusion, as Krishna say in the Bhagavid-gita, "All living entities are born into delusion, bewildered by the dualities arising from desire and hate" not knowing our true identity as transcendental reality (consciousness ) we think matter is all there is to reality but out of his mercy God gives us transcendental knowledge to enlighten us.

    • @andrewraymond678
      @andrewraymond678 5 лет назад +1

      Really ? Our language is a great limitation ? Is that why "Buddha kept quite " ? That's quiet interesting.

  • @Dances_With_Skies
    @Dances_With_Skies 5 лет назад +14

    “Why does something exist rather than nothing?” is answered simply by this equation, “1+0=1.” They both exist simultaneously. You just can’t experience the nothing so it’s a mute point. Imagine a dark room then strike a match in it. The darkness vanishes but it’s still there underneath it all. “Why do we exist?” is the right question. Whether a scientist who believes in evolution or a Buddhist who believes we are one with everything or a Christian who believes we came from one God, we all believe in a same single source. There is no doubt that we all live in our own private Idaho’s. That is to say, we each experience the same Oneness from a different point of view. We are but different incarnations of the same thing. We are made of the the thing which we are experiencing. We think we are separate but we aren’t. The proof of this can be explained many different ways but I prefer the more philosophical proof - there is no way to prove that all of this isn’t just for me and me only and everyone knows this without even having considered it. One last question remains. “Who is it who knows this?” Or more properly worded, “Who are You?” The answer? You are the something. You are the nothing. You are the Everything.

    • @quinopro
      @quinopro 5 лет назад

      Oh Neo, one day they need to wake up. To things that go beyond science. It is already happening in fact and also in all my life, the thing you gave here is the highest amongst highest realizations one can have. SEPERETENESS = AN ILLUSION. THEREFORE: does not matter what people think WE ALL COME FROM THE SAME SINGLE STREAM OF THE RIVER. It has been said that why everything exists will remain a cosmic secret for ever. Only the fact that many other ET species exist and been known for ohh a very long time. They have higher conciousness then humans, i wonder which species know the most secrets. Namaste lovyyyyy

    • @quinopro
      @quinopro 5 лет назад

      Truth can be expressed in different ways but will never reach the full truth. Nobody is right and nobody is wrong, the full truth goes beyond words. Beyond death so to say beyond life as we know it.

    • @Dances_With_Skies
      @Dances_With_Skies 5 лет назад

      The Fandom Menace I can see where you are coming from. Calm water is everything with no discernible difference between its constituent parts until a trough pulls the crest into being, stretching the length of the surface into something more than it was. We usually see the crest and ignore the trough when we see a wave however. This is why I called it “0” but “-1” is probably more accurate. This could also be why black holes are surrounded by so much “stuff.” Calm spacetime becomes something more as it gets stretched.

  • @aaryagandre4740
    @aaryagandre4740 2 года назад +4

    I think this is the fastest anyone has ever captured the audience's attention in an opening line

  • @JayyVee41
    @JayyVee41 5 лет назад +113

    The universe exists so I can name-drop all my friends. -Jim Holt

    • @richardhole5301
      @richardhole5301 5 лет назад +5

      Lol - I'm glad this comment appeared on top. I couldn't get pass the name-dropping and had to tune out. For an otherwise good speaker, how can he not know how off-putting that habit is?

    • @JayyVee41
      @JayyVee41 5 лет назад +8

      Richard Hole glad you liked it dickhole

    • @richardhole5301
      @richardhole5301 5 лет назад +3

      @@JayyVee41 ;) glad you like my trolly pseudonym.

  • @williamsims5830
    @williamsims5830 5 лет назад +23

    As I listened to Jim, I began to wonder why his hands were so RED?

    • @eliasniewerth
      @eliasniewerth 5 лет назад

      He might be a smoker so some veins might be blocked making his hands and feet cold

  • @loungelizard836
    @loungelizard836 6 лет назад +169

    All of these commenters complaining that he didn't actually have an answer! Did you really expect one? (The answer is 42)

    • @wanderingwade8877
      @wanderingwade8877 6 лет назад +2

      Thanks hitch hiker.

    • @milzijex7340
      @milzijex7340 6 лет назад +2

      Why ask in the first place..i clicked on this video to humour myself

    • @radbug
      @radbug 6 лет назад +6

      42? BUT WHAT"S THE QUESTION?
      Nothing is SOMETHING, because it can be named (it has a name and that is something), therefore something always existed. There never was truly Nothing, because there would always have had to be 'something' to compare to, in order to define the concept of 'nothing' in the first place.
      The statement: "God turned nothing into something" is an impossible sentence, because there cant be "Nothing" simultaneous to there being 'God' (SOMETHING). The most accurate statement of vagueness you could make is: "God turned Something into something else".
      But if you ask me, that makes the mention of God, or even the thought of God existence, completely and utterly pointless. There is no god because there is no need for god because there was never nothing in the first place so there is no need to invent "something".

    • @howlerbike
      @howlerbike 6 лет назад +1

      Is that you Slarty?

    • @xolomartinez6036
      @xolomartinez6036 6 лет назад +2

      Many answers.....
      speed of light in vacuum {\displaystyle c} c 299 792 458 m⋅s−1 defined
      Newtonian constant of gravitation {\displaystyle G} G 6.67408(31)×10−11 m3⋅kg−1⋅s−2 4.7 × 10−5
      Planck constant {\displaystyle h} h 6.626 070 040(81) × 10−34 J⋅s 1.2 × 10−8
      reduced Planck constant {\displaystyle \hbar =h/2\pi } \hbar = h / 2 \pi 1.054 571 800(13) × 10−34 J⋅s 1.2 × 10−8
      magnetic constant (vacuum permeability) {\displaystyle \mu _{0}} \mu_0 4π × 10−7 N⋅A−2 = 1.256 637 061... × 10−6 N⋅A−2 defined
      electric constant (vacuum permittivity) {\displaystyle \varepsilon _{0}=1/\mu _{0}c^{2}} {\displaystyle \varepsilon _{0}=1/\mu _{0}c^{2}} 8.854 187 817... × 10−12 F⋅m−1 defined
      characteristic impedance of vacuum {\displaystyle Z_{0}=\mu _{0}c} {\displaystyle Z_{0}=\mu _{0}c} 376.730 313 461... Ω defined
      Coulomb's constant {\displaystyle k_{\mathrm {e} }=1/4\pi \varepsilon _{0}} {\displaystyle k_{\mathrm {e} }=1/4\pi \varepsilon _{0}} 8.987 551 787 368 176 4 × 109 kg⋅m3⋅s−4⋅A−2 defined
      elementary charge {\displaystyle e} e 1.602 176 6208(98) × 10−19 C 6.1 × 10−9
      Bohr magneton {\displaystyle \mu _{\mathrm {B} }=e\hbar /2m_{\mathrm {e} }} \mu _{\mathrm {B} }=e\hbar /2m_{\mathrm {e} } 9.274 009 994(57) × 10−24 J⋅T−1 6.2 × 10−9
      conductance quantum {\displaystyle G_{0}=2e^{2}/h} {\displaystyle G_{0}=2e^{2}/h} 7.748 091 7310(18) × 10−5 S 2.3 × 10−10
      inverse conductance quantum {\displaystyle G_{0}^{-1}=h/2e^{2}} {\displaystyle G_{0}^{-1}=h/2e^{2}} 12 906.403 7278(29) Ω 2.3 × 10−10
      Josephson constant {\displaystyle K_{\mathrm {J} }=2e/h} {\displaystyle K_{\mathrm {J} }=2e/h} 4.835 978 525(30) × 1014 Hz⋅V−1 6.1 × 10−9
      magnetic flux quantum {\displaystyle \phi _{0}=h/2e} {\displaystyle \phi _{0}=h/2e} 2.067 833 831(13) × 10−15 Wb 6.1 × 10−9
      nuclear magneton {\displaystyle \mu _{\mathrm {N} }=e\hbar /2m_{\mathrm {p} }} \mu _{\mathrm {N} }=e\hbar /2m_{\mathrm {p} } 5.050 783 699(31) × 10−27 J⋅T−1 6.2 × 10−9
      von Klitzing constant {\displaystyle R_{\mathrm {K} }=h/e^{2}} {\displaystyle R_{\mathrm {K} }=h/e^{2}} 25 812.807 4555(59) Ω 2.3 × 10−10

  • @csbarkan
    @csbarkan 4 месяца назад

    Still the best video on RUclips

  • @seneris
    @seneris 5 лет назад +33

    Why didn't the Seahawks run the ball?

  • @theniceguy27
    @theniceguy27 3 года назад +12

    best explanation i heard of how to understand where the universe came from...even what happens when you die...how we are here...all those fun thoughts can be settled with thinking about what you remember before you were born. ever had a deep deep sleep when you wake up and can't remember the dream? simple reason it's all here is there isn't one, the human mind simply can't imagine nothing. it is here, it has been here for a long time and why?...no reason, just is.

    • @gilgameshashur4554
      @gilgameshashur4554 2 года назад +1

      That's the worst explanation 🤣

    • @quadraticf
      @quadraticf 2 года назад

      you're speaking minecraft enchantment table

  • @jamesblunt006
    @jamesblunt006 5 лет назад +95

    The answer is 42.

    • @Psycandy
      @Psycandy 5 лет назад +5

      can't remember the question. we need a bigger computer.

    • @theswordofkings7549
      @theswordofkings7549 5 лет назад +3

      jamesblunt006 - You forgot to carry the "1", so the answer is 43. 😈

    • @jasjud
      @jasjud 5 лет назад +1

      Lol

    • @markanthonyk1504
      @markanthonyk1504 5 лет назад +2

      42?

    • @sw.7519
      @sw.7519 5 лет назад +1

      Or 73.

  • @altomodilwane7881
    @altomodilwane7881 2 года назад +1

    I was in grade 4 when i have started questioning myself about this. Its so scary and stressful until today.

  • @benitolimon2257
    @benitolimon2257 5 лет назад +18

    That was absolutely brilliant. You can't get smarter than that when you question the origin of everything. He gives no answers because there isn't one-for all we know- "The Universe is there and that's it"

  • @petejames1326
    @petejames1326 2 года назад +9

    17min of my precious life i will never get back

  • @NathanOstMusic
    @NathanOstMusic 5 лет назад +162

    The answer is.....our brains aren’t capable of conceptualizing such mystery.

    • @nikhilkoul88
      @nikhilkoul88 5 лет назад +8

      agree totally. our limitation.

    • @Radien
      @Radien 5 лет назад +2

      Ahh, variations on agnosticism.

    • @Deeshum
      @Deeshum 5 лет назад +11

      Correct. Being limited by our localized physical manifestation, we truly only see what our eyes are capable of seeing or hear only what our ears are capable of hearing, etc.

    • @NathanOstMusic
      @NathanOstMusic 5 лет назад

      Joža Gulikoža who is the dude that you speak of?

    • @sbk46ro
      @sbk46ro 5 лет назад +3

      @Joža Gulikoža it's an old woman with a beard

  • @claudegratton3419
    @claudegratton3419 Год назад +1

    Nothing is impossible. Try to describe nothing without using the verb to be. Because as soon as you do you will put nothing into existence. I.e. nothing is... there always was something there wil always be something. That's what make LIFE a miracle

  • @klowen7778
    @klowen7778 3 года назад +67

    Thx, always love hearing Jim speak, and he's a great example of why Science _needs_ Philosophers, perhaps now more than ever.

    • @dominika3762
      @dominika3762 3 года назад +2

      As a scientist I personally don't think that science needs philosophers. Especially people who say I think about something and it is as valid (or even more valid) as scientific method. BS.

    • @levijames96
      @levijames96 2 года назад +1

      Philosophy is science.

    • @dominika3762
      @dominika3762 2 года назад +1

      @@levijames96 "old" philosophy, "new" philosophers are no longer scientists in my view. Any one who wants to do concrete science with real world application goes to sciences, whether its life sciences or more sensible humanities like social sciences.
      In the late 19th century science-based philosohers started drifting to more concrete sciences.
      The most ridiculous thing is making people take philosophy exams for their PhD. Degree. I'm not interested what was before, what is the history. I'm talking about NOW.

    • @dominika3762
      @dominika3762 2 года назад

      @@asddfasdqwe7389 ah, the trolls are here, gather around kids!
      Leave your internet, medicine and other luxuries of the modern world. Without science you wouldn't have them, no clinical trials, no scientific method to validate your results. No insulin, cancer therapies etc.
      Let us sit down and ponder if we can know the world by deduction or induction, whether there is a metaphysical aspect to the world and gods exist. Let us sit down comfortably and think about the big issues. Go away troll, your bridge is waiting for you.

    • @dominika3762
      @dominika3762 2 года назад

      @@asddfasdqwe7389 are you a troll or a philosophy major?

  • @stephenpitell6087
    @stephenpitell6087 2 года назад +41

    So if the universe was created by God, God would still wonder "where do I come from?" and people laughed like that was a good joke they had never thought of, but that is a question that MUST and logically would be asked. It felt like most of the audience had never come to that conclusion. THAT astonished me.

    • @VivekChandra007
      @VivekChandra007 2 года назад +16

      A thing “comes from” when we have “time” i.e. changing things….So, God creates us and he himself lives in place of no-time, that is is with no beginning and no end

    • @mrtopcod
      @mrtopcod 2 года назад +1

      Hi Steph,
      our life is not a joke and it’s really matter for the person himself.
      You didn’t know where you been from 200 years or after same years.
      We have got a book called Quran Kareem from the creator Allah through his messenger prophet Mohamed. Same book since 1400 Years and more.
      This is how much the person life is so important and will be questioned about it.
      Let me know if you need more details!
      Thank you,
      Mohamed

    • @mrtopcod
      @mrtopcod 2 года назад +1

      @@VivekChandra007
      Exactly dear Vivek. This is what I believe in to.
      Thanks for your comment!
      Mohamed

    • @FahadZahr
      @FahadZahr 2 года назад +4

      @@VivekChandra007 When we call it "HE" that is where all the confusion begins and that is where all the people who were laughing at this question gets the impression that this is totally a stupid thing to believe that someone who is like a living thing can come from nothing. So assume God as an entity which is not in any shape, isnt governed by any Laws of Physic and certainly not bounded by the time and space. It created laws for us not for ITSELF !!!

    • @workingTchr
      @workingTchr 2 года назад +1

      When the talk started and the camera panned around the audience being raptly intent, I was thinking, "This is really a special group of people." Then when Holt started going for the one-liners and everyone was cracking up, the whole thing became a lot more normal. I was more astonished by Holt than by the audience. I mean, if this whole thing is a flippant sort of issue (why something rather than nothing?), why does he write and talk about it so much? I think he just found an "angle" to work to get lectures, college jobs, and book sales. Jerk.

  • @prajwalmeshram7690
    @prajwalmeshram7690 4 года назад +23

    This was like stand-up comedy for physics students 😂😂

  • @michaelkirk4127
    @michaelkirk4127 5 лет назад +51

    Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools

  • @nunyabeezwax8309
    @nunyabeezwax8309 7 лет назад +24

    I was pissed off before I even hit "play", because I knew, I just knew that I wouldn't get an answer to the ultimate question LOL.

    • @jimmyvenuto8682
      @jimmyvenuto8682 6 лет назад

      42.....the answer is 42

    • @MM-hi
      @MM-hi 6 лет назад

      We dont have an answer

    • @BombaJead
      @BombaJead 6 лет назад

      That is your ultimate question? A pretty pointless one if I may add. Even if you get the answer, what purpose would that serve you?

    • @rodsims8471
      @rodsims8471 6 лет назад

      lots of whys , clearly explained ,, why must there be a why .. now a HOW .. is far more interesting .. I think

  • @ajvandelay8318
    @ajvandelay8318 4 года назад +240

    The real question is, "Why this video"?

  • @mofire5674
    @mofire5674 2 года назад +1

    Just coming here to say the thumbnail looks like a great meme format, especially with the title.

  • @metaspherz
    @metaspherz 5 лет назад +12

    The universe exists because it made a commitment and it's damn-well going to see it through to the bitter end.

    • @anteconfig5391
      @anteconfig5391 5 лет назад +1

      the end? oh geez

    • @metaspherz
      @metaspherz 5 лет назад

      @@anteconfig5391 Well, there are many theories about how the universe may end. Some say that it'll expand and contract forever. Others contend that the universe will eventually run out of nuclear fuel and die a slow, cold death. I disagree, I think it'll commit suicide out of boredom! :P

  • @panthamor
    @panthamor 8 лет назад +341

    Nobody can answer why the universe exists, science can only say HOW it has come into existence. Science only deals with how-questions, not intentionality.

    • @gootmanboats3864
      @gootmanboats3864 8 лет назад +8

      Well, you've already ruled out the possibility that everything exists because you've said nobody can answer why the universe exists. If nobody knows the purpose of the universe, then there is no possible way that everything (every possible person) can exist.

    • @panthamor
      @panthamor 8 лет назад +4

      i don't follow

    • @gootmanboats3864
      @gootmanboats3864 8 лет назад +4

      panthamor If everything exists, then there must be at least one person who knows why the universe exists. But there is no such person, so we must be in a universe where there is at least some absence of something.

    • @panthamor
      @panthamor 8 лет назад +3

      Okay I get it now :)
      But there's a fault in your logic, How do you know no such person exists? If everything exists, then there will be infinite worlds where such a person that knows why exists, but also, there will be infinite worlds where such a person doesn't exist. So we have no way of knowing to which kind of infinite world we belong.
      Pheww, this is heavy stuff.

    • @gootmanboats3864
      @gootmanboats3864 8 лет назад

      panthamor Okay. I was misled to believe that when Mr. Holt was discussing the world in which everything exists, he was referring to one universe and not many universes.