Phil Halper (aka Skydivephil)
String theorys rival: alive & well, YouTubers wrong again. #physics #universe
updated
A new paper suggests the answer may be yes to both. I interviewed David Kaiser, one of the paper's co-authors, former student of inflationary cosmology pioneer Alan Guth, and now Professor of Physics and Professor of the History of Science at MIT.
For the preprint of the full paper:
arxiv.org/pdf/2310.16877
and other press about the paper
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n11/david-kaiser/black-hole-flyby
https://news.mit.edu/2024/exotic-black-holes-could-be-dark-matter-byproduct-0606
And some other related papers:
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.231402
arxiv.org/abs/2303.02168
arxiv.org/abs/2312.17217
a timeline is below
00:00 introduction
00:57 primordial black holes
3:05 particle dark matter and modified gravity
6:33 LIGO and EHT
11:03 window of opportunity
15:16 observaitonal signatures
20:30 Apollo era tech
25:19 Star Wars
25:54 the future
youtube.com/watch?v=pGKe6YzHiME
youtube.com/watch?v=femxJFszbo8&t=1411s
But there is now a "new" Kalam based on Benardete paradoxes such as the Grim Reaper which are meant to establish something called causal finitism. What are these paradoxes ? and how can a critic of the Kalam respond?Well our very own Alex Malpass has teamed up with Joe Schmid of the Majesty of Reason and published a paper in one of the worlds leading philosophy journals Mind.
You can find that here
philarchive.org/rec/SCHBPC
We talk about this paper and related issue and see why how to reply to this new Kalam.
A timeline is here:
00:00 introduction
2:40 Grim Reaper paradox
7:43 The Kalam argument
9:25 Causal Finitism
12:40 The UPD
23:05 The Problem with causal finitism
37:20 Physics
44:30 Mysterious Force
57:33 The Patchwork Principle
Joe's papers on this topic:
“Branching Actualism and Cosmological Arguments”, Philosophical Studies (2023, with Alex Malpass). Here we use branching actualism to criticize the use of patchwork principles in support of the Grim Reaper Kalam.
philpapers.org/rec/SCHBAA-22
“Benardete paradoxes, patchwork principles, and the infinite past”, Synthese (2024). Here I develop another problem for the use of patchwork principles in support of the Grim Reaper Kalam.
philarchive.org/rec/SCHBPP-3#:~:text=Benardete%20paradoxes%20involve%20a%20beginningless,impossibility%20of%20an%20infinite%20past.
“The End is Near: Grim Reapers and Endless Futures”, Mind (Forthcoming). Here I criticize the Grim Reaper Kalam by developing a symmetrical Kalam-style parody argument, based on a future-oriented Benardete paradox, for the impossibility of an endless future.
academic.oup.com/mind/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mind/fzad065/7492631?redirectedFrom=fulltext
“Grim Reaper Paradoxes and Patchwork Principles: Severing the Case for Finitism”, Journal of Philosophy (Forthcoming, with Troy Dana). Here we develop two problems for the Grim Reaper Kalam. One is a companions in guilt argument based on a new finite Benardete-like paradox. Another relates to a mistaken assumption about the intrinsicality of the Reapers’ realized powers/dispositions.
philarchive.org/rec/SCHGRP-4
“Benardete Paradoxes, Causal Finitism, and the Unsatisfiable Pair Diagnosis”, Mind (Forthcoming, with Alex Malpass). Here we argue that the unsatisfiable pair diagnosis is the best solution to Benardete paradoxes, and in particular that it is much better than causal finitism. We also raise yet another challenge to the use of patchwork principles on behalf of the Grim Reaper Kalam.
philarchive.org/rec/SCHBPC
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Useful links :
spaceweather.com
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Timeline:
00:00 Introduction
2:37 infinity
10:12 The SURGE argument and the 2nd law
22:39 expanding universe
28:41 radiation
42:08 Galaxy seeds
49:51 Einstein
1:02:43 Creation ex nihilo
Tmeline:
00:00 Intrdocution
00:48 I was a Hawking's student
1:49 The information paradox
4:42 string theory
7:16 solving the information paradox
10:36 Fuzzballs
12:39 tunneling into a black hole
14:50 Looking inside a black hole
15:49 Echoes
20"07 Blakc hole Imaging
21:07 VECRO energy
22:35 cosmology and inflation
24:41 The Big Bang
26:3 Black Hole Gas
The authors, Patrick Gasd and Nina Lanza used the ChemCam instrument on NASA's Curiosity Rover and found elevated levels of manganese. What does this mean? COuld it be a sing of alien life , what does it say about anient conditions on Mars? Were they Earth like? Lets find out
Science news outlets around the world have reported a possible "cosmic glitch" in the universe.
We chatted with one of the authors of the paper that made this claim.
Niayesh Afshordi and I discuss what motivates it, how it was tested, and how it might be further tested in the future. Most importantly, what impact it might have on the very origin of the universe. Might we have to rethink cosmology and consider what was before the Big Bang?
00:00 Introduction
2:23 motivation
5:32 Hubble tension
9:15 Return of the ether
12:00 Quantum gravity
13:25 observations
15:40 S8 tension
18:00 Big Bang
20:00 future tests
In this episode of the SciPhi Show, leading atheist philosophers Alex Malpass and Dan Linford examine what this might mean for the Kalam Cosmological Argument. In particular, we show that it faces an "interface dilemma" where defenders of the argument, like William Lane Craig, must give up one of the Kalam's fundamental premises.
For my videos on the early unvierse, see here:
youtube.com/watch?v=Ry_pILPr7B8&list=PLJ4zAUPI-qqqj2D8eSk7yoa4hnojoCR4m
For the Kalam, see here:
youtube.com/watch?v=pGKe6YzHiME&t=2798s
and here
youtube.com/watch?v=femxJFszbo8&t=761s
For Dan's paper, see here:
arxiv.org/abs/2006.08890
a timecode is below
0:00 Introduction
1:21 What is the Kalam?
3:11 Hourglass Universe
6:05 The Interface Dilema
14:55 The Metaculus
16:55 Causality
22:30 Simultaneous Causation
25:50 Theories of Time
44:07 Challenging the Causal Principle
In this second episode, we examine William Lane Craig's deductive version of the moral argument for God, why it fails, and how we can flip it and possibly disprove God. We note how prominent thinkers such as Richard Dawkins, Michael Ruse, and Peter van Inawagen are misquoted to support the moral argument and how it ignores thousands of years of discussion in philosophy.
Koons paper is here: https://faculty.georgetown.edu/koonsj/papers/Euthyphro.pdf
A timeline is below:
0:00 preview
0:16 introduction
1:31 The moral argument against God
6:48 PhilPapers survey
11:05 moral compass
22:39 misquoting Dawkins
23:35 Jesus gets it wrong
33:49 Euthyro dilemma
41:33 Animals
52:23 misquoting Michael Ruse
54:09 moral theories
1:01:40 Neither objective nor subjective ?
1:03:53 Swiburn'es criqitue of the moral argument
1:12:48 misquoting Van Inwagen
Timeline:
0:00 Introduction
0:59 Dark energy
1:57 The DESI instrument
3:47 New results
8:36 I wasn't expecting that
11:26 The Hubble tension
14:16 the fate of the universe
16:08 The future is coming soon
We aim to discuss science and philosophy and how they intersect in the philosophy of religion.
In this, our first episode, we reply to comments made by William Lane Craig on Alex or Connor's show Within Reason. Particularly his claims regarding Richard Dawkins, fine-tuning, the Caannatie genocide, and divine command theory.
A timeline is below:
0:00 preview
0:15 introduction
2:32 Fine-tuning
16:21 Problem of evil
27:24 The Canaanites
38:25 Was it genocide?
51:50 Divine Command Theory
A timeline is here:
0:00 Introduction
0:43 Nociceptors
1:49 analgesic seeking
4:24 anxiety
4:57 neophobia
5:49 fear contagion
6:47 fish memories
7:30 fish brain FMRI
8:09 A gene for pain
8:43 fish personalities
9:44 self awareness test
11:07 replying to skeptics
11:57 Proving Self awareness without a cortex
14:10 a rare brain damaged patient
17:36 where is pain in the brain?
19:51 leucotomy
21:13 Affective Neuroscience
22:48 convergent evolution
23:41 pain is ancient
24:26 conclusion
Simon White, Emeritus Director at the Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics and
Stacy McGaugh, Professor of Astronomy, Case Western Reserve University
For our other hosted debates see here: youtube.com/watch?v=AUyylR5RPZw&list=PLJ4zAUPI-qqoZl9JuEiLHjVDLkQQ6Y4KB
for Stacy's blog, see here:
tritonstation.com
A timeline of the film is below.
0:00 Introduction
1:56 Simon's story
4:03 Stacy's story
6:30 Evidence for dark matter
21:09 Stacy case for MOND
30:40 "I agree with Stacy"
41:12 The Lampost effect
52:00 dark matter sub halos
1:00:35 missing satellites
1:14:00 bullet cluster
1:22:40 CMB
1:30:00 Are both theories right?
1:41:04 wide binaries and Gaia
1:45:30 other problems for LCDM
1:50:42 Sociology of science
1:57:15 Looking to the future
However, one of the researchers mentioned in the article, Ivan Agullo, argues the story is totally misconceived, and the evidence is consistent with a Bounce. In this film, he explains why.
For more on LQC see here:
youtube.com/watch?v=x9jYH5VIF9E&t=1740s
and here
youtube.com/watch?v=MgwJmWXoWWI&t=66s
For our Before the Big Bang series:
youtube.com/watch?v=Ry_pILPr7B8&list=PLJ4zAUPI-qqqj2D8eSk7yoa4hnojoCR4m
A timeline of the film is below.
0:00 Introduction
1:15 Ivan vs Scientific American
5:04 LQC and the Big Bounce
7:53 Seeing the Bounce in the CMB
11:06 CMB anomalies
12:03 Are the Bang and the Bounce compatible?
17:09 What were they looking for?
19:44 No Signal, what does it mean?
23:20 Oscillations
24:12 CMB anomalies and the bounce
27:02 Final Thoughts
The film can be found. here: youtube.com/watch?v=aM3y7AviNU8&t=1224s
For my YouTube channel
youtube.com @skydivephil
and Twitter
twitter.com/skydivephil
The film has 3 sections:
Section 1
We meet the authors of this paper and others who explain the EPAS (The Expanded Problem of Animal Suffering).
Sections 2
We review various theistic replies to animal suffering and show how atheists, agnostics and other religious skeptics reply.
Section 3
We discuss claims made by leading Christian thinkers like CS Lewis, Michael Murray, Richard Swinburne, and William Lane Craig that neuroscience implies we should downplay animal suffering. This is something we tackled many years ago, but since then, a rare patient who had key cortical regions knocked out enables us to do a direct experimental test of the claims of these theologians. Namely testing his pain perception. The results were published in a paper in Philosophical Psychology, and the authors of that paper are in this video explaining why these findings are devastating for the one explanation that might undermine the Expanded Problem of Animal Suffering.
This film stars the authors of both of these papers, including lead author Phil Halper (aka skydivephil), philosopher of consciousness Ken Williford, neuroscientist David Rudrauf, pain expert Perry Fuchs, as well ethicists Peter Singer and Mark Bernstein, and philosopher Joe Schmid and Within Reason host Alex O'Connor (the artist formerly known as cosmic skeptic).
A timeline of the film is below.
0:00 Introduction
1:16 The problem of time
1:55 The problem of creation
3:00 The problem of divine commands
4:15 The problem of divine actions
7:53 The problem of the Anthropocene
8:42 Answering theists' replies introduction
8:48 Nomic regularity
11:33 Soul making
14:02 Justified genocide?
16:23 After-life compensation
18:29 A Pre-Adamic Fall
20:39 Skeptical Theism
25:32 Other arguments
26:07 The Expanded Problem vs. Theists replies
28:17 Do animals suffer? Neocartesianism
28:51 CS Lewis on Animal Pain
29:35 William Lane Craig's infamous quote
31:21 Replying to Craig and Lewis
32:10 Self Awareness
32:52 Three bogus levels of pain
33:01 What is pain affect?
33:28 The Pre-frontal cortex
33:50 The importance of Patient R
35:59 The most critical experiment in theology
38:12 Where does the brain generate pain?
38:51: Sub-cortical regions and the distribution of pain in animals
44:07 The anterior cingulate cortex, another mistake by Theologians
45:14 A justification for Neocarteisanism?
45:50 Convergent evolution
46:52 Lobotomy and Craig's contradiction
49:10 Summing up and reversing Craig's argument
This clip is taken from our longer film on the subject, showing a skeptical take on the fine tuning of the universe for life. Featuring Roger Penrose, Carlo Rovelli, Sean Carroll, Alan Guth and many other leading experts. We cover problems of probability, the multiverse, cosmological natural selection and related issues that potentially debunk the fine tuning argument.
You can see that film here:
youtube.com/watch?v=jJ-fj3lqJ6M&t=1462s
a reply to this argument can be found here:
youtube.com/watch?v=QJYWkqOzUQ0&t=4036s
and our counter reply here:
youtube.com/watch?v=zNH-ZgSpBuQ
With thanks to Chris (morn1415) for the fabulous images.
0:00 Introduction
0:46 Penrose Hawking
2:50 Roger Penrose
4:18 Past eternal Inflation?
6:18 Tricked by coordinates
7:27 De Sitter Space
9:07 Beyond the BGV
10:42 An ambiguity in the BGV
11:48 Many things are possible
14:00 Viability of the Bounce
14:56 Beyond Einstein
16: 28 Cuscuton Bounce
18:28 G bounce
19:54 Emergent Universe
21:39 What does it mean?
youtube.com/watch?v=jJ-fj3lqJ6M&t=1221s
for a reply from the proponents of the argument see here:
youtube.com/watch?v=QJYWkqOzUQ0&t=4036s
and for our counter reply see here:
youtube.com/watch?v=zNH-ZgSpBuQ&t=2319s
0:00 Introduction
0:58 Structures in the universe
5:04 what is S8?
6:07 measuring S8
7:08 It doesnt match
10:11 comparison with the Hubble tension
12:12 Cosmological constant
13:30 early dark energy
15:04 causal set quantum gravity
17:02 string theory to the rescue?
20:16 The Euclid Satellite
0:00 Introduction
0:45 NIayesh's story
1:15 Beth's story
2:25 relativity
3:26 Gott & Li model
6:23 origins of the PTC model
8:17 PTC periodic time cosmology
10:55 Penrose cyclic model
13:01 Sir Roger Penrose
14:19 CCC and PTC
15:45 conformal rescaling and the CMB
17:28 assumptions
18:41 why a time loop?
20:11 empirical test
23:96 predcitions
26:19 inflation vs PTC
30:22 gravitational waves
31:40 cycles and the 2nd law
32:54 paradoxes
34:08 causality
35:17 immortality in a cyclic universe
38:02 eternal return
39:21 quantum gravity
39:57 conclusion
Elizabeth Gould has asked to make this clarification in the written text " "Despite the availability of infinite time in the periodic time model, this doesn't lead to thermalization in a typical time-evolution scenario, and therefore doesn't, strictly speaking, solve the problem related to thermalization in the power spectrum. The reason for this is that, unlike bounce models with a net expansion each cycle, our model has an effective contraction during the conformal phases. Periodic time, therefore, has a unique character in which it reuses the power spectrum from the previous cycles, which is confined to a given form due to the constraints of the system, rather than removing the old power spectrum and needing to produce a new one."
Subsequently astrophysicist Luke Barnes and philosopher Philip Goff offered their criticism of our criticism. Here we have assembled some of our original talking heads to review their criticism and offer a reply, defending the original position that fine tuning argument for God does not work.
Our original film can be found here: youtube.com/watch?v=jJ-fj3lqJ6M
Luke Barnes and Philip Goff’s reply is here: youtube.com/watch?v=QJYWkqOzUQ0&t=4036s
and we also recommend this video on Bayes theorem on the Majesty of Reason Channel: youtube.com/watch?v=o1MdtyLL3Uw&t=4423s
Our panel consists of Graham Priest , Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, well known for his work in logic especially non classical logic, the philosophy of mathematics and science and Buddhist philosophy.
Barry Loewer, who is the distinguished professor of philosophy at Rutgers University and director of the Rutgers Center for Philosophy and the Sciences. Barry specialises in philosophy of science and philosophical logic and the foundations of quantum mechanics, statical mechanics and probability .
Dan Linford who is one of the rising stars in the intersection of the philosophy of physics and philosophy of religion. He did his Phd in philosophy, under Paul Draper and had well known atheist cosmologist Sean Carroll and theistic fine tuning advocate Rob Collins on his thesis committee. He’s now doing a postdoc at the University of Nebraska and recently authored the book Existential Inertia and Classical Theistic Proofs with Joe Schmidt.
Niayesh Afshordi who is an astrophysicist and cosmologist , he’s Professor at the University fo Waterloo and faculty at the Permitter Institute for Theoretical physics. Niayesh won the silver medal at the world physics Olympiad as a teenager, won 1st prize the The Buchalter Cosmology Prize and works in a variety of fields from early universe cosmology, black holes, dark energy and quantum gravity
OUTLINE
0:00 Intro
3:26 Dan’s opening thoughts
6:43 Graham opening thoughts
11:23 Niayesh opening thoughts
13:33 Barry opening thoughts
20:51Bias
28:53 Changing the constants
40:21 Bayes theorem
41:36 Objective Bayesianism
51:13 Principle of Indifference
58:27 Infinities
1:00:00 Infinity again
1:06:00 Gob vs God
1:15:08 Probability of life given God
1:20:11 Does god need to fine tune?
1:24:10 Boltzmann Brains
1:32:57 Entropy
1:39:54 Cosmic Darwin
(We define God as a perfect Omni immaterial mind as for example modern Christians and Muslims advocate, there are other conceptions of God which our video does not address).
Just to be clear, this is a polemical film arguing against the fine tuning argument.
Timecodes
0:00 Introduction
4:11 The universe as a roll of the dice
6:15 what is probability?
7:28 probability problems
9:25 measure problem
15:45 deceptive probabilities
20:23 the flatness problem
22:14 counterfactuals versus probabilities
23:59 fine tuning versus God
37:02 necessity
38:53 multiverse and anthropics
47:34 Boltzmann brains
49:45 Entropy
52:45 Cosmological Natural Selection
59:10 conclusion
Our first assembled many leading physicists and philosophers to offer what they think is wrong with the argument.
It clearly got the attention of William Lane Craig as he made a four part series responding.
In this film we reply to his reply. There are yet agin many leading experts here including Sean Carroll, Carlo Rovelli, Niayesh Afshordi, Adrain Moore, Alex Malpass and others.
We also made a 6 hour long response video with Dan Linford ( who also appears in this film ), James Fodor and Digital Gnosis . Find that here: youtube.com/watch?v=txG_iVmtgpo&t=4480s
All opinions expressed are those of the person expressing them and should be taken as a collective opinion. Nevertheless, we sent this to everyone involved to make sure no one objected to it. None did.
Timecodes
0:00 Introduction
3:10 metaphysical absurdity
6:27 infinite subtraction
11:25 infinite future
14:27 Potential infinity
17:25 angels, God and infinity
18:49 infinite countdown
21:32 Grim Reaper Paradox
23:28 Absence of Evidence
23:49 Big Bang Singularity
26:46 Quantum Gravity
27:23 Hartle Hawking Model
29:37 BGV Theorem
32:25 Quantum Eternity Theorem
34:00 Cherry Picking
36:00 Collapsing Universe
40:46 Reversing the arrow of time
41:46 entropy
42:50 Wall theorem
44:27 singularities again
45:19 Neo Lorentzianism
54:10 models with a beginning
55:47 causality and QM
1:02:00 causes and cats
1:04:33 metaphysical principle
1:06:19 simultaneous causation
1:07:48 time travel
1:08:40 free agent
1:12:47 desperate atheists
1:14:35 summing up
Cast:
Adrian Moore
Graham Priest,
Wes Morriston
Alex Malpass
Daniel Linford
Sean Carroll
Niayesh Afshordi
Carlo Rovelli
Barry Lower
Chris Hitchock
Susanne Schander
Abhay Ashtekar
Arif Ahmed
Aurelien Barrau
Alistair Wilson
Alan Guth
Alex Vilenkin
Simon Saunders
Timecodes
0:00 Introduction
1:38 Actual versus Potential Infinity
2:40 Cantor's Infinity
3:06 The Infinite Property
5:42 Hilbert’s Hotel
11:16 Contradiction & not a Contradiction
13:38 Jupiter and Saturn
14:52 Physicists on Infinity
16:38 Counting to Infinity
18:36 The Infinite Future
22:35 Spacetime Singularity
24:50 Carlo Rovelli on Neo Lorentzian Relativity and Cosmic Time
28:29 Hawking, Penrose, Vilenkin, Efstathiou on The Big Bang & Quantum Gravity
29:37 Strings, Loops and the Big Bounce
31:16 Guth and Vilenkin on the BGV
34:00 Is a Collapsing Universe Unstable?
35:31 Wall Theorem, Ashtekar and Afshordi
36:36 Anthony Aguirre on Past Eternal Universe
37:47 Singularities, Magueijo and Vidotto
38:24 Second Law, Guth and Ashtekar
40:43 A Universe From Nothing? Vilenkin
42:53 Causality
44:17 Interpretations of QM
48:05 Tigers in Our Living Room, Vilenkin
49:44 Causality and Philosophy
51:25 Simultaneous Causation
54:46 Can The Universe Create Itself?
56:51 Ghazali's Argument
57:53 Closing Arguments
Timecodes
0:00 Introduction
3:00 David Gross early years,
4:00 Carlo Rovelli early years
5:22 David on string theory
20:22 Carlo on string theory
31:08 David&Carlo on string theory
53:20 Loop Quantum Gravity
1:00 David&Carlo on LQG
1:21 Black Holes
1:30 Predictions and the Scientific Method
We highly recommend watching our film on eternal inflation with Alan Guth and colleagues
youtube.com/watch?v=QqjsZEZMR7I&t=2486s
and our film on CCC with Roger Penrose and colleagues
youtube.com/watch?v=FVDJJVoTx7s
and other films in our Before the Big Bang Series which features Stephen Hawking, Alex Vilenkin and others.
youtube.com/watch?v=Ry_pILPr7B8&list=PLJ4zAUPI-qqqj2D8eSk7yoa4hnojoCR4m
In 2019 second place in the Buchalter Cosmology Prize was awarded to two of the speakers you will see in this film which explores some of the above themes. We filmed this at the Loop Quantum Gravity Conference in 2019 and plan to make a follow up film exploring the latest ideas in the field.
Look out for the optical illusion around 8:12 -8:25
Topics discussed are:
00: Introduction
00:43 Beginnings
2:50What is consciousness?
3:48How can science tackle the subjective?
5:03 Answering critics of a scientific approach to consciousness
5:30 What is the free energy principle ?
7:58 What is active inference?
9:46 What is projective geometry ?
11:34 The PCM explained
14:40 Contrast with Tenoni's IIT
17:31 Consciousness in animals and AI
25:18 Virtual Reality
27:55 The Hard Problem of Consciousness
29:33 Experimental Testing
38:46 Autism, Clinical Implications and Pyschopathologies
41:28 The future of the model
The order of subjects is
LS: Lee Smolin NA: Niayesh Ashfordi SZ: Stav Zalel NP: Nikodem Poplowski AB: Aurelien Barau
00:00 Introduction
51:55 LS and SZ on CNS
3:53 the prehistory of CNS
6:08 NA doubt on fine tuning
7:33 NA on The Holographic Big Bang
10:32 NA explains The Holographic Principle
13:41 NP on Cosmology with Spin and Torsion
16:16 NP on anti matter
17:44 SZ on quantum gravity
18:21 LS and NP on the big bounce
20:23 SZ and AB on Causal Set Theory
21:32 SZ on comparison with Loop Quantum Gravity
21:47 AB and SZ on predicting the cosmological constant
23:24 SZ on linking CNS and Causal Set Theory
24:53 NA on string theory connection
25:46 LS on neutron star predictions
30:15 LS on inflation and CNS
31:08 NP on inflation and torsion
33:08 NA on replacing inflation
35:25 LS on CNS versus eternal inflation
36:55 NA on the difference between CNS and The Holographic Big Bang
37:14 LS, NP and NA on entropy
38:40 LS and NA on Roger Penrose’s criticism
40:47 LS, NP, SZ and NA on an eternal past
43:49 LS on answering Leonard Susskind
44:39 LS on scare resources
45:08 NA on CMB predictions
46:06 LS summing up
Much of the footage is taken from our film on Penrose's Cyclic model which you can see here:
youtube.com/watch?v=FVDJJVoTx7s
for the debate between Carroll and Craig see here:
youtube.com/watch?v=X0qKZqPy9T8&t=4084s
Featured Scientists include Roger Penrose, Stephen Hawking, George Efstathiou, Gabriele Veneziano, Abhay Ashtekar, Alan Guth and Alex Vilenkin
For our Before the Big Bang Series (from which much of this video was complied from )see here:
youtube.com/watch?v=8CChnwOsg9I&list=PLJ4zAUPI-qqqj2D8eSk7yoa4hnojoCR4m
RW =Rainer Weiss - MIT
BS =Bangalore Sathyaprakash - Penn State
SR = Shelia Rowan - Glasgow University
GG= Gabriela González Louisiana State
BFS = Bernard F Shutz - Cardiff University
JB = John F Beacom - Ohio State
MAM = Miguel Alejandro Mostafá - Penn State
00:00 SR on invisible messengers
00:30 narration on gravitational waves
1:21 RW on the first discovery
4:47 BS on first discovery
5:10 RW on the colliding black holes
5:30 BS on the mystery of the black hole masses and spins
6:41 GG on discoveries to date
7:46 narration on improving LIGO
8:10 SR on new technologies for imprivng ground based detectors
10:03 BS on upgrading LIGO
10:25 SR on new ground based detectors
11:38 narration on the Hubble tension
12:24 BFS on standard sirens and solving the Hubble tension
13:35 GG on larger ground based detectors beyond LIGO
15:19 RW on the above topic
15:44 BFS on the above topic
16:08 narration on LISA
16:23 SR on the need for a space based mission
17:39 RW on LISA
19:13 BFS on LISA
20:35 SR on LISA
20:48 RW on LISA
21:01 GG on LISA
22:26 RW on LISA
22:54 BS on surprises
23:17 RW on LISA
24:26 BS on pulsar timing arrays
25:39 narration on the mysteries that gravitational waves can unlock
25:55 BS on dark matter
27:26 narration on modified gravity
27:29 SR on modified gravity
29:14 BFS on dark matter
29:48 BS on dark energy
30:32 GG on dark energy
30:49 BFS on dark energy
32:27 BS on quantum gravity
33:49 BFS on quantum gravity
36:18 narration on multi messenger astronomy
36:42 JB on above topic
37:06 MAM on neutron star collisions
38:02 JB on neutrinos
38:27 MAM on AMON
40:39 narration on how do black hole and black binaries form
40:49 RW on above topic
41:12 JB on neutrinos and above topic
42:27 JB on the CNB cosmic neutrino background
44:26 MAM on cosmic rays
45:47 BFS on missions to look for primordial gravitational waves
48:07 RW on the Big Bang Observer
A timeline of the subjects is below:
00:00 Intro
00:58 Scientists introduce themselves
3:07 First steps , early attempts at quantum gravity
7:05 What is a gauge theory ?
8:10 Ashtekar's rewrites relativity
11:00 Lee, Carlo and Abhay on each other.
12:40 Lee and Ted solve the quantum gravity equation
13:22 Getting rid of the Lattice.
14:30 Lee and Ted are stuck
15:34 Carlo solves the problems
18:27 Why Loop Quantum Gravity is not about loops
19:45 It's been done before
21:17 Roger Penrose spin networks
25:30 How Abhay came to work for Roger
26:50 The entropy of black holes
30:33 Loop theorists on string theory
34:25 Loop Quantum Gravity and dynamics
35:53 The big bang
36:56 Martin Bojowald resolves the singularity
]37:30 The big bounce
37:45 Improved big bounce model
38:39 Signatures of the big bounce in the sky
42:50 Hawking Hartle No boundary proposal from LQC?
43:53 No singularities can form in the early universe
44:14 Predicting the duration of inflation
45:05 Effects from the universe before the bounce
45:27 Has the universe always existed?
47:10 Penrose Hawking singularity theorem
48:03 BGV theorem
48:49 Wall theorem
49:20 Why was the big bang such low entropy?
50:40 Erebons
52:02 Gravitational entropy
53:40 Are contracting universes unstable and so what if they are?
54:58 Fine tuning and the multiverse
57:05 Is inflation fine tuned , LQC versus GR
57:55 Lorentz invariance?
1:01:20 Where do the new spacetime atoms come from?
1:01:50 Black holes in Loop Quantum Gravity
1:03:01 Bouncing black holes
1:05:10 Testing bouncing black holes with fast radio bursts and other methods
1:10:22 Going through the bounce
1:11:37 What comes next?
1:13:14 What's it like to gamble your career on a bold new idea?
He covers:
00:00 introduction
00:43 String Theory
4:15 Loop Quantum Gravity
6:07 Non Commutative Geometry
8:08 Causal Sets
10:55 Asymptotic Safety
13:14 Causal Dynamical Triangulations
14:46 Horava Lifshitz Gravity
00intro and Alex Vilenkin talk about his early life.
2:28 The uncertainty principle
3:16 Tryon’s proposal
5:32 Inflation
7:00 Quantum Tunneling
8:21 Tunnelling From Nothing
12:38 Difference between Tryon’s and Vilenkin’s proposal
13:45 Semi Classical Gravity
15:04 What caused the universe
16:05 Interpretation of QM and implications for cosmology
19:00 Why don’t tigers appear in our living room if things can come from nothing?
21:07 how do we get a multiverse?
23:25 was inflation before or after the big bang?
25:12 Alan Guth’s reaction to Vielnkin’s multiverse proposal.
26:10 Experimental tests of the multiverse
28:17 Indirect test of the multiverse and fine tuning.
33:08 has a recent undermined the multiverse?
36:46 experimental probe of tunnelling form nothing
37:42 geometry of the universe and tunnelling form nothing.
38:50 are the physical laws just description or are they are more than that?
39:24 way are the laws of physics the way they are?
40:31 Boltzman Brain
42:15 The Hartle Hawking Proposal
43:21 Responding to Neil Turok and colleagues new critique
44:50 BGV theorem
47:15 low entropy
47:41 Does anyone back the one big bang one era universe?
48:13 Does infinity exist in the real world?
50:51 Where next for the proposal and early universe cosmology?