Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · yt0.812

   My guess is that he not that he wouldn't have believed my theorem, he would have thought, "Oh, well, that just shows you general relativity is wrong." Curiously, the reaction I got from certain people. I know Bob Dicke in in when I visited Princeton after this, he slapped me on the back and said, "You've done it. You've showed general relativity is wrong." And what what I thought I was doing, you see. But I mean, you see, these things are there wasn't anything definitive in these experiments. You just sort of eventually have enough evidence to push the majority of people in a certain direction…

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2. 02 · yt0.810

   That the theories that were   being developed and the models that were being  developed were by 1980s were pretty much right on. Brian: For instance,   additional data that ultimately was awarded the  Nobel Prize, observations of stellar trajectories   in the center of our galaxy, was that viewed  as just adding to the mountain of evidence? Kip: I think there was   always a worry, I would say, a worry of hope  that there was something wrong. I saw over my   career some huge surprises where we were wrong.  For example, t…

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3. 03 · yt0.807

   That's all pretty good. But if you then said to me, but in that theory you've made certain assumptions. Yes, you assume there's electrons, neutrinos, why those particles and not others. And that really comes down to the question that Einstein really asked in a way. Is there a unique universe that somehow is logically required to be and any deviation from that universe would somehow be logically inconsistent? Einstein said did God have any choice in creating the universe? Could God therefore, in other words, have created the universe differently? Or was God's choices fixed by some sort of maste…

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4. 04 · yt0.805

   So that such that when we observe light from a galaxy or from a supernova or from a barrier acoustic oscillation which is what Desi's measuring, we are not seeing it as it is right now. We're seeing it as it was when that light was emitted, propagated along light cones as light does. And then uh we can actually translate that back to the physical separation at the time of the emission or the physical separation today which called the proper distance. We have different proxies for those. Then we plug those into again the uh this this red shift distance relationship. And the startling thing is n…

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5. 05 · yt0.803

   The philosopher Derek Parfit says, "No question is more sublime than why there is a universe, "why there is anything rather than nothing." Typically atheists have answered this question by saying that the universe is just eternal and uncaused. But there are good reasons, both philosophically and scientifically, to think that the universe began to exist. Philosophically, the idea of an infinite past seems absurd. Just think about it: If the universe never began to exist, that means that the number of past events in the history of the universe is infinite. But mathematicians recognize that the e…

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6. 06 · yt0.801

   And that would be a very beautiful resolution to all of this. We've yet to find anything like that equation. Would we have to rule out those possibilities? Because s such an equation would say that all of these trillions of other potential ways of organizing the universe actually can't obtain. Uh we just didn't realize it before. Would we have to show its impossibility in that sense to show that it didn't in fact exist? Or is there a world in which we can prove actually they are all definitely possible and yet we know that they don't exist? Sure, it could just be historical contingency. If we …

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7. 07 · yt0.797

   Because most simplifications,  you may throw away the essential physics,   or you may not even be capturing correct physics,  but Oppenheimer and Snyder succeeded in this. Brian: And I guess part of their- Kip: In retrospect. Brian: Right. And part   of their assumption, I guess, was they  assumed there wasn't undue pressure within- Kip: Yes. So for   simplicity, they just assumed this was dust,  so there's no pressure at all. And of course,   skeptics then immediately said,  well, that's not how things work   in the re…

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8. 08 · yt0.796

   It's just in congress. It's not the relevant language for deep insight. There are certain ideas that you can extract by blending these things together. And if anybody asks about it, free will. I think is one of those but more generally theory of everything would be very limited in its applicability. All right. Can you briefly explain the Hubble tension? Sure. So the Hubble tension refers to measurements and sorry I keep clearing my throat. I'm not sure why I've got so much fle today. That's a question perhaps maybe somebody in the audience can answer. The Hubble tension refers to measurements …

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9. 09 · yt0.794

   Davies explains, "The coming into being of the universe, as discussed in "modern science, is not just a matter of imposing some "sort of organization upon a previous incoherent state "but literally the coming into being of "all physical things from nothing." Now, this puts the atheist in a very awkward position. As Anthony Kenny of Oxford University urges, "A proponent of the Big Bang theory, "at least if he is an atheist, "must believe that the universe came "from nothing and by nothing." But surely that doesn't make sense. Out of nothing, nothing comes. So why does the universe exist, instea…

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10. 10 · yt0.794

    there are no loopholes left so now your option is the following either you acknowledge that there is no physical realism in other words that physical things are not out there until you measure them until you look at them they don't exist as physical things until you measure or you have to believe that at every planck scale of time which is unimaginably small a centos second is much much much bigger than the age of the universe compared to planck time so you have to you have to believe that at every plank time a near infinitude of new physical universes pop into existence which is probably the …

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