Roger Penrose - Why Did Our Universe Begin?
That the universe began seems astonishing. What brought it about? What forces were involved? How did the laws of nature generate the vast expanse of billions of galaxies of billions of stars and planets in the structures that we see today? What new physics was involved? What more must we learn?
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Sir Roger Penrose is an English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher. He is the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, as well as an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College.
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The infinite amount of space beyond the observable is timeless, immeasurable & will forever be beyond our comprehension.
@davetrevor4561
Жыл бұрын
NAH ,..its really easy ; there's a God duh ,..
@ChillAssTurtle
Жыл бұрын
@@davetrevor4561 lol good joke
@seetsamolapo5600
Жыл бұрын
But that exactly validates the belief that there's a Creator
@tedl7538
Жыл бұрын
@@davetrevor4561 LOL not.
@PaulRyanGranite
Жыл бұрын
Best ever
I could listen to Sir Roger anytime.
@vhawk1951kl
Жыл бұрын
You like listening to dreamers rambling about their dreams do you?
I love Roger Penrose and his fabulously gentle hubris...
Great video!
The ‘Forgetful’ universe… love it!
This is the most mind-boggling things I have ever heard.
@oceantiara
2 жыл бұрын
🙂
@Metso-ateco
Жыл бұрын
7 minutes in and i feel like i have learnt so much......although i have no idea what.
I love this guy. I barely understood a word.
Penrose live long....brilliant explanation
It's an honour to listen to the ideas of Professor Penrose, today. Thanks for the video!
@mr.objective6936
Жыл бұрын
Is string theory dead ?
@ClaudioMalagrino
Жыл бұрын
@@mr.objective6936 I believe it's an open subject.
@sid2112
Жыл бұрын
@@ClaudioMalagrino I broke them trying to tie my shoes.
@ClaudioMalagrino
Жыл бұрын
@@sid2112 I'm sorry about it. Next time try Superstrings.
A culmination of what I have been searching for 2 years. I got my worth in less than 20 minutes. Possibly one of the most plausible ideas on the universe. How it "began" and how it "ends".. Well there is no beginning and ending for Sir Roger Penrose. This is amazing and mind-boggling. Fantastic stuff. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
@johnhough7738
2 жыл бұрын
Haven't watched it yet ... but no mention of Big G? Aren't all the Lord God-ists up in arms when folks invoke science (which face it, is more reasonable than their 'god' the way they describe it)? It? Indeedy, if we are made in its image as the Good (?) Book says then Big G likewise has a (forgive me, o' Lord, but it has to be said!) toggle-and-two. No? Which then presumes that there's a Mrs God (and for all I know, oodles of little Godlet brats flying around making mischief). And now to watch the discussion ...
@cloudoftime
2 жыл бұрын
It seems to be missing some critical details though, don't you think? This idea that the universe "forgets how big it is" doesn't explain anything about how the distance between the cold matter of the future universe returns to a hot dense state again.
@basrutgers79
2 жыл бұрын
@@cloudoftime As how I understood it in his theorie, there remains no cold matter in the distant future. It all cummulates in blackholes and eventually dissipates. When that happens space-time itself no longer exists, ergo the state before big bang equals the state after cosmic cooldown.
@cloudoftime
2 жыл бұрын
@@basrutgers79 I appreciate the further explanation. I suppose I'm still failing to understand how the absent space-time and dissipated cold matter turn into a hot, dense space, from which the Big Bang is theoretically an expansion from. You know what I mean?
@arifabd
2 жыл бұрын
@@cloudoftime With no mass and no time, but still endowed with a quantum field - particles are formed, and the big bang repeats. No idea why the quantum field has to exist though.
Makes the most sense of all the explanations!
This was truly mind blowing
Wonderful - Bravo . . . The time before time , when there was no time .
Where do the Elements come from? If, the Universe begin "AGAIN"? What an Amazing Man; Roger Penrose....How could I know?
@ianwilkinson4602
Жыл бұрын
Supernovas of early unstable stars?
Just mind blowing
Coherent and plausible. 👌
Somehow this feels so right to me. I feel this is true.
I like the way the distant past merges with the distant future in this framework. When the clocks are gone, it's not just that size cannot be ascertained, it's that time itself disappears.
@user-sb9ml1ef4q
2 жыл бұрын
I do believe that that is exactly what happens - time is gone for a while (eternity) and then the new universe happens. Sounds like something straight up from hinduism/buddhism. For me, it makes perfect sense.
@classicalphysic
Жыл бұрын
What people forget is that initially when Hubble observed and formulated his BBT the reason why he said the redshift distance relationship was due to expansion, rather than the more obvious light loses energy over distance...was because Relativity theory and the photon model made predictions that were not consistent with the observed redshift of light over distance. Technically when cosmological redshift was measured the correct scientific method would have been to discard einsteins photon and relativity theories. Seeing as they predicted ...NO REDSHIFT of light from distant galaxies.
@krismcstay1325
Жыл бұрын
Time is man made . Let that sink in
@mississippi-son
Жыл бұрын
@@krismcstay1325 I hear you, but Time is also math. I believe the key take away of time is fathoming the largest units. It's all relative. Imagine yourself in a future 1 million, 1 billion, or even 1 trillion years from now. It all matters and doesn't matter all at the same time. Enjoy life; it's never too late until it is. 👍
@krismcstay1325
Жыл бұрын
@@mississippi-son yes completely agree
What a talk!
i love this guy
Penrose's mind always fascinated me! 👏👏👏
Absolutely brilliant!
This is amazing!
They opened with the right word ( SPECULATION ) TALK TALK TALK
"If mass becomes irrelevant, you can't build a clock. The Universe can't build a clock...that's a difficult idea to grasp ." That blew my mind apart completely. Thankyou Mr Penrose. So good. Just so good. I rewound that so many times to get a full appreciation. Dead set legend as we all know.
@GeorgeTalvan
Жыл бұрын
yea, but time still exists even without a mass being present or not.
@colbyhepworth7148
Жыл бұрын
@@GeorgeTalvan Nope, space and time don’t exist without matter. They exist in only relation to matter. Space and time are the qualities of reality not the quantities
Fascinating take on the mystery. Thanks for posting! v
Yes im here
I loved him in Time Bandits
It's a long, long way from being established that the universe had a beginning.
@mikelisteral7863
Жыл бұрын
universe began but reality is eternal
@tonymurphy2624
Жыл бұрын
@@mikelisteral7863 You have no way to support that.
@vhawk1951kl
Жыл бұрын
Would you not agree that on any rational definition of universe, by definition it could not have "a beginning"?- You notice that the two dreamers that were waffling together did not even trouble themselves to define "the universe" or examine exactly what they had in mind when they use those words. They simply *assumed* that some vague woolly thing had a beginning, and the first mark of sloppy thinking is not to challenge or examine hidden premises and assumptions, but maybeThe occupation of playing games with numbers does not require a degree of rigorous academic analysis.
"Whoomp, there it is!" I knew it. Mr. Penrose loves hip-hop.
Its a great idea.. Thks for the great interview.
Videos such as these always reminds of the anthropic principal
Does it mean the inflationary period was actually the ending phase of the previous universe?
@kos-mos1127
2 жыл бұрын
Roger Penrose is alluding that. At the very leasts current observations agree that inflation was the ending phase of the previous universe.
@junanougues
2 жыл бұрын
@@kos-mos1127 So what are we saying, that the universe is heading towards a culmination point and then the entire process begins again?
@kos-mos1127
2 жыл бұрын
@@junanougues Taking the Big Bang to its logical conclusion that what happens. Any process in nature happens multiple times so there would never be an absolute beginning. We would have multiple beginnings and endings like a closed time-loop except that each time the loop is different.
@junanougues
2 жыл бұрын
@@kos-mos1127 So, time to change our fundamental materialist paradigm of reality. Democritus was likely wrong and we should have gone with the Heraclitan river metaphor. A better philosophy of science - teleological - that is a better fit to what you just described, if I understand you correctly. And if that is true, perhaps, the root cause of our conflict with nature and biology has to do with the wrong knowledge model for knowing, exploring and engaging with the real world; in short, an epistemological crisis. En fin, scientific materialism is what is in crisis. Nobody wants to talk about it. But it's a fair question. What if the solution, for example, to our environmental crisis, maybe, is that we need to rediscover process theory? Which is quite developed, nothing new ( Whitehead ). But the biggest reason to make this paradigm jump, for me, is that fanatical physicalism (scientific materialism) is not working out. And science, above all, is what works.
@kos-mos1127
2 жыл бұрын
@@junanougues Whitehead makes reference to processes being fundamental rather than matter. He critiques both theism and materialism in his theory by stating that both commit the fallacy for misplaced concreteness. There is no such thing as a eternal unchanging essence because people constantly change. The idea of matter is an abstraction because what we are really observing is creative process. Whiteheads Teleology makes sense. God alone without the world is unrealized possibility. In this was way the Cosmos creates God as well as the things in heaven and God creates the Cosmos. Instead of the idea of God being a Divine Caesar God goes through the process with us just as an everyday person would.
I like how precise roger speaks. He certainly is one of the geniuses in this era
@WayneLynch69
2 жыл бұрын
The zero net energy of gravity's negative energy & mass' positive energy is NOT the same as NO energy. His basis of thermal equilibrium in the earliest micro-wave background record as allowing 'a universe from nothing' (his CCC) leaves out the LOL quandry: 'from WHERE all the heat?' "A theory is more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premise."-Einstein "If I can't teach a freshman class a theory, it's not well thought out"-Feynman Penrose has to invoke his torso, forget his head & hands, to contort an "explanation". He's 90, they gave him the Nobel for a body of 'effort'.
@scottfree6479
2 жыл бұрын
The last era too; Penrose is in his 90s iirc
@duaneholcomb8408
2 жыл бұрын
Yes he is very educated. Just got thru talking with A athiest that. Practically called him an idiot. Boy I tell you some people. ,,
@eudaemonia7679
2 жыл бұрын
@johnnytheprick join the table of conversation and understanding please elaborate your thoughts.
@TV-og5en
2 жыл бұрын
YEs indeed.
listening this man we realized how hard is think abstractedly.
"In the future there will be these disturbances" @ 14:14 demonstrated @ 14:21
I sure do enjoy listening to Roger Penrose speak his mind.
@cluelessjoe5745
Жыл бұрын
If we could build a time travel vehicle, we could go back before the Big Bang and kill God before he creates the Universe. So the people who say that nothing exists and everything is illusion could be right after all.
@insightvideo6136
Жыл бұрын
Why? He seems lost to me. He really says nothing.
@guybartlett9587
Жыл бұрын
It's over my head
@ozalba
Жыл бұрын
@@insightvideo6136 ...that you can comprehend...
@insightvideo6136
Жыл бұрын
@@ozalba Nice try. I “comprehend” what he’s saying. It’s how I can tell he’s saying nothing. One needn’t comprehend the gaseous makeup of hot air, in order to “comprehend” when it’s being blown up one’s arse.
I love the fact he changed his mind instead of plodding on with his initial thoughts, this is how we really move on.
@paulwright9749
Жыл бұрын
Totally agree. That’s what science does, it changes it mind as new ideas come along. I can’t really think of any other way of thinking that just plods along using initial thoughts - oh, hold an a minute……🤔🤔
@DigOnAmerica
Жыл бұрын
@@paulwright9749 hmmm what could you possibly be talking about? Lol.
@kingsrd1
Жыл бұрын
What you are saying is he's essentially making it up as he goes along!
@paulwright9749
Жыл бұрын
@@kingsrd1 no that would then be religion 😉
@willsimp1273
Жыл бұрын
@@paulwright9749 dumb people like you don't know that labels like 'science' philosophy' and 'religion' came recently. in the past people didn't think about these labels in this way
holly F. That's AWESOME Idea!!!
Well that was madness
@chrisbaker2903
Жыл бұрын
Nope. Makes perfectly good logical sense.
@MatiasGeraldoThe2nd
Жыл бұрын
@@chrisbaker2903 nope. A bunch of fun guessing for nerds like yourself and years down the road they’ll agree half of it is nonsense with whole new ideas. You can only work so much for BILLIONS OF YEARS AGO. The fact is we simply don’t know. It’s a bunch of educated guesses and fun things for geeks to imagine in their minds based on tiny evidence and possibilities. Too much arrogance to say we don’t know.
Thank you for answering the questions I ask myself everyday. From an analytical and scientific standpoint, you nailed it.
@johnpearson3761
Жыл бұрын
I hear your "God did it" affirmation. If it comforts you, believe it.
@kurtloptien185
Жыл бұрын
I guess you'll have to find some new questions for tomorrow.
@steverosen3529
Жыл бұрын
Yep. I have a really shallow mind.
@kurtloptien185
Жыл бұрын
Ha! These theories are so high above my pay grade I'm lucky if I'm able to string a complete thought together.
Crikey, what an amazing theory. Thanks for for giving me just a fleeting glimpse of this fascinating theory. Sir Roger Penrose was able to somehow take what must be extremely complex mathematical ideas and somehow produce a few drops of understanding for people who don't have advanced mathematics degrees.
Penrose is a treasure for all humanity
There is no start or end for a big bang. It just keeps raining. Classic explanation from a great thinker.
That actually made a lot of sense, if there is no more mass left in the universe, then you forget how big the universe is since you have nothing to reference for what "big" even is.
@pflaffik
Жыл бұрын
Or the end of time itself will reset the waves that matter are made of. Time is the key here i think, one problem could be that time cannot restart after ending, it has to be a new time come into play to get a new universe going. Where would a new time come from, and how different would it be from our time, would it be so different that we cant even imagine?
@siddharthbirdi
Жыл бұрын
What about temperature?, Temperature will be very different for different scales as will the resulting energy.
@vhawk1951kl
Жыл бұрын
What in blue blazes is "the universe"? You have not the faintest idea? - No surprises there. It is a vague generalisation is it not? - No more than the rather woolly idea.
@siddharthbirdi
Жыл бұрын
@@vhawk1951kl True but if that vagueness doesn't contain mass it doesn't have time.
@vhawk1951kl
Жыл бұрын
@@siddharthbirdi you will find no better blaub than what is called "time" you really cannot get more vague than time. All that religious mumbo-jumbo about what is called "space-time" is no more than woolly thinking hiding behind mere words, and if you try to go behind the veil of those words, you will find that is absolutely nothing there. Men (human beings) use words and simply assume that there is some substance behind what is no more than the veil of words, and if you try to go behind the veil of words or define is dreams - that being the nature of the associative apparatus or dreaming machine. men (human beings) simply*assume*that because they have the word they necessarily have the meaning of that word, because words act rather like veils they prevent the experiencer from actually being able to discern what is underall behind the veil. They are rather like sheep, when you first encounter them the appear to be rather large animals but when you pick one up and cut off all its wool it turns out to be a rather skinny little thing - and so it is with words which are a manifestation of the associative apparatus or dreaming mechanism - men simply assume that because they have the word they have the meaning, and invariably they don't and you can demonstrate that for yourself by asking anyone that uses the words"the universe" exactly what that conveys to them, and if you persist you will discover that it conveys nothing very definite clear or focused because it is a vague generalisation that cannot be particularised or blurred photograph that cannot be focused for which I have invented the neologism "blaub, rhymes with orb. If you really want to study or examine in detail the products of the associative apparatus or dreaming machine, you must first examine and have a detailed understanding of exactly how it works, and some call that psychology, some semantics, some epistemology and some ontology. Now do you understand why it is that men find it so difficult to do a detailed and careful examination of their associative apparatus or dreaming machine? - And why that is? The clue lies in the question: "can a mirror reflect itself?"- you need to look a little closely that.
Fantastic!! "Oops! There it IS!" (at approx. 11 min. mark)- Sir Roger Penrose, undoubtedly citing that classic of 20th century music team TagTeam. Wonderful range and scope of cultural reference Sir Roger has. 8-D
MY HEAD HURTS!
6:23 the way he says '' count '' and that weird laugh afterwards cackled me up out of nowhere :P
When I see Roger Penrose's name I know it is worth my time to watch it!
@tedl7538
Жыл бұрын
Amen bra
@walterfristoe4643
Жыл бұрын
I came, I saw, I concurred.
9:40 … OK, there’s black holes lying around… 😂😂😳😂😂. Love this man’s down to earth way of describing immeasurably complex concepts!
@charlie-obrien
Жыл бұрын
I like his "raindrops on a pond" theory. It fits in with my donut (or many donuts) idea of a neverending universe where time, past and future meets itself.
@vhawk1951kl
Жыл бұрын
If only those that use those asinine infantile little yellow symbols understood that by using them they declare to all the world that they are imbecile children, they might not use them as if they were imbecile children, and in so doing declare to all the world that they are an imbecile child.
Ever learning and never coming to a knowledge of the truth!
I wish I had the knowlege to understand this better.
This is the first idea that really strikes me as getting to the crux of how an eternal Universe might work. Brilliant thinking by Penrose and a brilliant interview by Closer To Truth.
@oskarngo9138
2 жыл бұрын
If the universe ( or multiverse or whatever you call it) is indeed eternal..... .... what is the purpose of God?
@garcialovesme
2 жыл бұрын
@@oskarngo9138 Maybe only he knows the answer to that question.
@-danR
2 жыл бұрын
Fine, but this is a repeat. The channel had this in 2020.
@ulfingvar1
2 жыл бұрын
@@-danR And?
@orlovsskibet
2 жыл бұрын
@@oskarngo9138 there is no evidence for any kind of God, so it's not really relevant in a scientific discussion.
Must be a creative project by an Absolute Mind to be so complicated and so massive and work the way it does and the physics involved
@pierrejoubert681
Жыл бұрын
So, where did the Absolute Mind come from? What is it made of? Is it complex? If you say that a complex, Absolute Mind has always existed (without being created by anything), then you might as well say that the complex universe has always existed. Only one difference, there is 100% proof that the universe exists, and zero proof that an Absolute Mind exists.
@humblegrenade118
Жыл бұрын
@@pierrejoubert681 mind and consciousness is not inherent in the matter that makes up the Universe, so where does your mind and consciousness come from if it’s not in the matter that your body is made of
Ah, pulsating existence!
Whatever has started can stop!
Thumbs up for Sir Roger Penrose, a pioneer on thinking beyond the unthinkable.
@pflaffik
Жыл бұрын
It may be a little too thinkable. Remove time and it all is in one place again, we know time is tied to space, remove distance and you have no time, remove time and you have no distance. We dont know what time is or where it came from, it may not be that easy to remove it, but its possible that it is.
At this level, math and physics have a magical reality feeling that is fascinating
@pflaffik
Жыл бұрын
For the same reasons its likely to be wrong. Why does it appeal to our primitive primate brains, we are coded for reproduction and survival of the species, how can we possible have a gut feeling for what the universe is? The instinct to reproduce is real, the instinct for the universe is not.
@hosoiarchives4858
Жыл бұрын
It’s just your imagination. GIGO
@tedl7538
Жыл бұрын
@Gerson Pérez LIFE has a magical reality feeling.
@leofonseca8144
Жыл бұрын
Anything not well understood does.
Wow! The idea of having something before Big Bang and also later when nothing will be here in far future is fascinating. It's an absolute honor to listen to Mr. Roger Penrose & this really proves every idea is conceivable. After listening to this, it seems that everything is possible with this Universe.
Highly imaginative,mata- phiysics
I seriously thought this was going to be a normal party answer. He is actually attempting to answering the question. Fantastic.
@maxwellsimoes238
2 жыл бұрын
Honestly he explains big bang though geometry not not show up How Universe begin because any way geometry hasnt begining .
@simonsong1743
2 жыл бұрын
The universe begins only in corresponds to my personal birth day. So the reason of universe’ birth lies in the fact I’m going to be born. It’s not there is a history of this universe, it’s I must figure the universe had long been born before I was born.
@anthonycraig274
2 жыл бұрын
@@simonsong1743 could you try and rephrase that? This comment might be worth of my time.
@simonsong1743
2 жыл бұрын
@@anthonycraig274 Ok I try to further explain who I am, I'm a tiny part of holy spirit, that's me, that's why I have the power of created my universe, I'm the original point of time-space in this universe, without me nothing is there that was there. Though I'm so important in my universe, yet Jesus is even more important than me, since I don't know how to deal with this universe and often consider myself are more important than those others in my world, he guide me think myself as the least and all others are real and important since Jesus love them and wish them good. I by obeying Jesus made people nearby me happy and joyful, thus I created a peaceful world, in which all my family people and people around me are very happy. Although they don't know what I did, yet I know it. Every day I care for my world and try to make it better.
@joedarrow5422
2 жыл бұрын
@@anthonycraig274 well he sure did rephrase that one. Worth your time this go-around?
This is very reminiscent of the theory set out in Ervin Laszlo's book from a few years ago called Science and the Akashic Field. Very exciting ideas.
Things I never thought I'd hear: Sir Roger Penrose saying, "WHOOMP There it is!"
Because i Set it To! It Will Set Out For Many!
There is no attempt to answer the "why" here, just the "how". "how this special, unique and complex universe came into this present form" not a "why" like :"The why we have this special, unique and complex universe (with all the elements perfectly set from the beginning) and not a giant space banana".
@BlackPawn-vs7gd
2 жыл бұрын
God can answer all whys
@BlackPawn-vs7gd
2 жыл бұрын
God is the answer of all whys
@0-by-1_Publishing_LLC
2 жыл бұрын
*"There is no attempt to answer the "why" here, just the "how"."* ... "Why?" is the first and most fundamental of all possible questions. All other questions that follow can only offer support to whatever answer is given to "Why?"
@francesco5581
2 жыл бұрын
@@0-by-1_Publishing_LLC we agree on that :)
@francesco5581
2 жыл бұрын
@@BlackPawn-vs7gd lets say that an intelligence of some kind is still the most reasonable answer ...
A fascinating discourse! A remarkable mind expressing abstract mathematical modelling of the universe -- explaining in plain and vibrant English how the remote future (of the accelerating universe) could be analogous to the early beginning (of the "Big Bang" universe) while noting that in either case no measures of time is left (for, no mass but only radiation is available). The mathematical idea of conformal mapping and Escher's "angels and devils' at the boundary of this painting, are noted as analogous to the boundary at the meeting point of both the ending and the new beginning of the universe (not cyclic). Penrose does not hesitate to point out what is purely mathematical, what is possibly physical, and how his model is falsifiable and, so , also how it may be tested by cosmological data in the coming.
It never "began", it was always there! 👍
Never had an old man crush until Sir Roger Penrose 🧠😛
I don't understand why we can't have this great man in front of a blackboard, or, at least have the mathematical and visual ideas available, as part of this talk.
@Noqtis
Жыл бұрын
you have it available just some mouse clicks away
Carl Sagan once said, when talking about the origins of the universe, something along the lines of, "If some can believe that God has existed forever then why is it so hard to believe that the universe has existed forever in one form or another?" The problem is that us human beings have a very hard time wrapping our brains around the very concept of "forever", so such conjectures are difficult to assess.
@hosoiarchives4858
Жыл бұрын
Sagan is just punting. He demands answers from other religions, but will offer none in support of his own
@jimgoff1170
Жыл бұрын
@@hosoiarchives4858 but religions claim that their books have all the answers, meanwhile science is actively searching for the answers.
@tedl7538
Жыл бұрын
@@hosoiarchives4858 Sagan's scientific concepts are not a "religion." They are rational conclusions which were based on diligent, strenuous investigations by millions of brilliant fellow scientists from around the world.
@hosoiarchives4858
Жыл бұрын
@@tedl7538 that’s just your opinion
@hosoiarchives4858
Жыл бұрын
@@jimgoff1170 no, I don’t know of any religion that claims every answer is in their book. And science is limited to what can be observed and repeatedly tested, and is silent on everything else
Ok, got it! Thanks. (Joking.)
Infinity is the key word
Endlessly fascinating, although every new idea, theory or conclusion seems to raise a thousand more questions or possibilities..are we destined to ever know ‘the truth’ of our existence?
@jackychen7769
Жыл бұрын
not in this lifetime, lol. All we know with absolute certainty is that we exist to some extent. Everything else is really hard to prove definitively and objectively, even if it's easy to know from a subjective view. And my subjective view is that the universe has certain laws which govern how it works in any given state; our current state has the 4 fundamental forces (gravity, strong force, weak force, electromagnetism), 3 clear spatial dimensions, and spacetime, but the early universe had fewer forces due to the state it was in, so it's not unreasonable for the early universe to have had various other laws that may seem illogical to us now cuz the state it was once in is hard to reproduce for studying, including how time works. I don't think the future of the universe will be boring as this guy stated. Consider the universe expands at an accelerating rate but is currently offset by gravity and the other fundamental forces which keep things together; what happens when the acceleration is so powerful that the fundamental forces fail to hold things together? Atoms torn apart as the space between the nucleus and electrons expand and separate them; the inside of particles break apart into quarks which will somehow interact on their own; heck, the speed of expansion could become so fast that spacetime itself has a hard time managing to stay together. Who knows what happens then. Even simple stuff like black holes have unknown deaths (they radiate and eventually disappear, but what's left behind? Black holes supposedly tear a hole in spacetime itself, so what happens to that tear? Does it stay? Where does it go? Do these tears repair? What's left behind after black holes evaporate to a point where the remaining density is less than what's needed for gravity to trap light?). So many interesting things, and I love/hate it. Love the interesting properties, hate the lack of answers.
@jamesthompson316
Жыл бұрын
@@jackychen7769 some great points and interesting possibilities raised my friend..sometimes glad down here on little ole earth I’m just left with the dilemma of which shirt I should wear today! 😆👍
My mind is always blown thinking about what existed before the big bang,and the creation of the universe. Was it a different universe,if so what created that..ahhhhh my brain 🤯
The universe something like a huge screen someday it will roll like a carpet. A beautiful artwork in a system they move , a sign for those who give thought. A massage that point to the great Artist .
Lage raho munna bhai...
@12:51 it all became clear. Sir Penrose is the most amazing thinker in my lifetime. Thx. But the one question still remains (probably forever and also in the next universes): What made all this possible?
@scorps192
Жыл бұрын
No it never became clear.. Your mum
@debbiewheeler4066
Жыл бұрын
Exactly. What was the first cause? But I guess it’s a meaningless question. . .
@ianwilkinson4602
Жыл бұрын
We are part of a simulation.
It’s oscillation over measurements of “time” most struggle to comprehend. There is no “bang” or “crunch”, the wave simply crests and falls, expands and contracts, in a hyperbolically super symmetrical omniverse where any and all arrangements of particles have and will always be “happening” simultaneously. That wave function collapses as soon as consciousness decides what a given thing “is” during that snapshot of space and time. This also addresses the fine tuning debate. That’s my theory.
@chadwcmichael
2 жыл бұрын
Once all the matter is as dispersed at it can be, at absolute zero, quantum spin will stop for particles at random. Those particles will snap with an opposite charge to their immediate neighbors and will attract each other. That magnetism will lead to larger pieces of “matter” which will intern lead to new gravitational mass, all hurling towards a new center, over those eons I’m sure there will be new life and new consciousnesses. Then that universe will collapse on itself, and bang, all that matter starts to disperse to a new entropic absolute zero, and repeat. It’s all in oscillation.
@andreasplosky8516
2 жыл бұрын
Publish your hypothesis. Perhaps a Nobel Prize will be your reward.
@chadwcmichael
2 жыл бұрын
@@andreasplosky8516 It’s on the list of things I’m working on, while juggling 3 businesses and building an electric drive prototype.
@oceantiara
2 жыл бұрын
I like it
@TeaParty1776
2 жыл бұрын
> That wave function collapses as soon as consciousness decides what a given thing “is” during that snapshot of space and time. Tell yourself that while waiting for a green light at an intersection.
Have a nice day
I really appreciate people that approach this question from the multi-position that this person does. I'm just a humble guy with two humble degrees and astrophysics and historical geology. Just undergraduate degrees so I'm really not that smart. I am also an ordained pastor. I know those two things don't usually mix together but they actually do.
I had a misspent youth and am now regretting it. At a time when the Cold War could have hotted up at any moment, booze and birds seemed far more important than education. But I'm delighted now that I understood at least some of this, and am going to watch it over and over and over until that 'some' becomes 'most'.
@kxkxkxkx
Жыл бұрын
I spent most of my youth on women and fast cars... the rest I just wasted 😁
@vhawk1951kl
Жыл бұрын
Exactly what have you understood? - The dreams of two dreamers?
@johnhough7738
Жыл бұрын
@@kxkxkxkx You know ... I wish I'd said that! Boom boom!
@johnhough7738
Жыл бұрын
Stupid computer ... my earlier comment was for KT; women and fast cars.
As someone with a decent understanding of physics and quantum. I have to say Penrose can convey information flawlessly. Not only is he a genius, he can speak at all levels too all people. He truly is an expert.
@vhawk1951kl
Жыл бұрын
there are no geniuses - there are only dreaming machines.
@RobBCactive
Жыл бұрын
@@vhawk1951kl but Penrose is and he can even tie his own shoelaces 😁
@RobBCactive
Жыл бұрын
Right on, you nailed it! But I think any understanding of quantum theory is indecent 😉😉 The idea of quanta and discrete energy states makes more sense.
@hairybear7705
Жыл бұрын
I'm sure Roger Penrose is absolutely thrilled to receive your personal endorsement.
@chrisgarret3285
Жыл бұрын
so what do you think about the theory?
R.Penrose is a humble genius 💯
Hi Roger.. Tells us all why Roger!
Wow!! That's my mind completely blown!!!! So after an unimaginable length of time when all matter evaporats and becomes low level radiation and time and gravity have no meaning. The Universe in that state would indeed resemble a singularity
@doniyor7370
Жыл бұрын
Not only resembles singularity, but as per Mr Penrose, it’s literally the same thing. This is a very beautiful and elegant idea.
I thought the idea of a big bang from a singularity was an obsolete idea.
@1959Berre
2 жыл бұрын
It is.
@abedpeerally5582
2 жыл бұрын
It is obsolete. My coming 2 cosmology books will comprehensively describe.
@ianwilkinson4602
Жыл бұрын
There are many theories, but there is only ever going to be one answer.
I don't know why but this made me think of fractals.
Humble and great explanations of complex ideas.
I keep coming back to the notion that the far future and past are geometrically connected; that instead of a forwardly directed cyclic cosmology, it loops back on itself. Unfortunately I'll never get Penrose's thoughts on this.
@mikeclarke4573
Жыл бұрын
Trying to measure space and time...the universe DOES NOT forget it's time( which is useless). Time transcends to simply sequence...that"s the only way even these so called geniuses attempt to explain ..some may have just some inkling of before big bang. Which is a senseless way for feeble man to understand infinity. .silly man. Lol
Out of all the episodes I've seen on this channel so far, this was the hardest one to wrap my head around. I guess I haven't really succeeded in trying to do so but understood all sorts of things wrong. Gonna watch this one again.
@wungabunga
Жыл бұрын
I feel Penrose tends not to explain himself particularly well to us laymen. Never seems to express a conclusion.
@phyl1283
Жыл бұрын
'twon't help.
@ThatCrazyKid0007
Жыл бұрын
Basically, the idea is the universe uses mass to keep track of length and time. There is also a mathematical tool called a conformal map that basically tells you that regardless of the size of something (however small or large is it), as long as it's the same shape, the objects are equivalent. So using this conformal map you could equate say a very large sphere with a very small one, you couldn't tell the difference between the two with this mathematical tool applied because it disregards scale and focuses on the shape of something (which is why he said the angles are the important part, those are preserved). If we assume that all mass in the universe will eradiate away into massless radiation (this assumes black holes due evaporate into Hawking radiation and that proton decay is real), then we have a unverse that is, despite its much larger size now due to inflation, conformally equivalent to the big bang state because there is no mass in either state, only uniformally dispersed radiation that is in thermal equilibrium. Why do these things equate? Because both have the same _shape_ despite one being muuuch larger in scale since the energy is uniformly dispersed that gives the same spacetime topology and there is no longer any mass to make distortions in that spacetime which is how the universe 'keeps track' of its size and time. Keep in mind they are equivalent only in a mathematical sense because we applied this mathematical conformal map tool to a end-universe state and that map equates it to a big bang state, so the meaning of the maths would be that the big bang is the same as the end of the previous universe. Now obviously this is just a neat math model built upon assumptions, but one which is testable to a degree since the radiation would encode the gravitational waves of the previous universe since it affects radiation by being 'wiggles' in spacetime. It's a bit hard to wrap around without getting into the maths, but as far as the maths goes it seems plausible.
@biedl86
Жыл бұрын
@@ThatCrazyKid0007 Thank you very much for your effort. I have four questions though. Is this similar to the big bounce model? How is the radiation encoding gravitational waves of the previous universe? And what does "encode" mean? And lastly, would it make sense or is it possible to understand this process as infinite in time (especially in the past)? I hope it's not rude to abuse you as a source of information.
@ThatCrazyKid0007
Жыл бұрын
@@biedl86 Hahaha all good mate, happy to answer as much as I can although a disclaimer I am only a layman that watches a lot of physics content online. 1. The principles are different so they are not the same. The big bounce says that eventually gravity will win over inflation and become the dominant effect in the universe, thus pulling together all of the mass back into a single tight region after a long enough period which would look like the big bang state again as you'd get a small region of spacetime with uniform radiation (all that mass would break down into radiation at such an intense gravity). The problem with this model is that assumes inflation would kick start back again and expand the universe back into the expanded one we know today, thus the name big bounce, before the gravity collapses the whole universe into a black hole. They too claim there is a way to test this possibility using the CMB but I am not sure how exactly it would be done, probably checking if the radiation encoded any gravitational waves from the previous bounce. 2. & 3. I assume the encoding means that since the universe is filled with gravitational waves caused by black hole collisions and since gravitational waves 'stretch' light (which is basically what radiation just is, a bunch of photons), as in they cause the light's wavelength to increase lowering its energy, you could in principle analyse the CMB and find patterns which could only be caused by gravitational waves, like say the wavelength of the light changes across a region of spacetime in a wave-like pattern that looks a lot like gravitational waves stretching light. This would be evidence for a previous universe, or at least some kind of pre-big bang state, because we shouldn't expect to see any gravitational waves in the beginning of the universe since it was all massless uniform radiation. Thus the gravitational waves from before the big bang would be encoded into the CMB of the current universe. 4. That's a bit tricky to answer since our conventional notion of time breaks down in these scenarios. Since if you remove all clocks from the universe (and remember, mass is the universe's clock), you cannot descern the past from the future, it is all a single temporal state. I guess it could be interpreted as an infinite causal loop, you'd just have no way to rewind the clock to before the big bang and into the previous universe to retrieve data, you'd hit a temporal discontinuity since you don't know to what scale the previous universe was conformally mapped to. So from our point of view, there is no infinite past, but from an observer 'outside' the universe they'd observe an infinite chain of universes. If you want to learn more about this model, it is called Conformal Cyclic Cosmology. PBS Space Time did a video on it explaining it a bit more into detail in their 'What Happens After The Universe Ends' video.
For anyone interested in learning more, this is called Conformal Cyclical Cosmology
90 years old. Life's not fair.
Wow I'm glad I found this one .I thought gravity had to be more important .
The always fascinating genius of Penrose. Interesting hypothesis well described. (He was Physics Nobel Prize in 2020 by the way)
@TV-og5en
2 жыл бұрын
Indeed. He is a genius
@kxkxkxkx
Жыл бұрын
Nobel committee just clout-chasing
@francishunt562
Жыл бұрын
By the way, most people know that. You forgot to mention he shared the Nobel Prize with Andrea Ghez and Reinhard Ghenzel.
Another way to think about this is “the equivalence” of a circumference or a straight line, provided you zoom in or out sufficiently
Big bangs before big bangs, it's infinities in all directions!
The mark of a true genius is someone who can use simple language to explain complex ideas.
Mind blowing. This has changed my whole view on what the universe is, and what it’s doing. Question from me; is this behaviour somehow observable in nature elsewhere? When the Universe has no more mass and forgets it’s size and repeats itself.. what else does that?
@strachol13
Жыл бұрын
tree does that from a 'seed' (DNA code given from current tree ~= background ripple structure at the end of heat death as a initial seed). Each next tree repeats itself a bit differently each time. #Joke, not a joke
@theaudience6940
Жыл бұрын
What helps is a change of perspective, in realizing we ask the wrong questions some times, or fail to be aware of how things truly are. In this case, there IS a simple example, as long a your change your perspective. It starts with the question: what is the opposite of death? Our mind tells us that the answer is life. As does dogmatic science. But there in lies the problem. The right answer for the mind, the limited, is the wrong answer for the infinite, which I personally call the heart. The correct answer is that the opposite of death is birth. Life itself is eternal. Life is existence. Life isn’t just organic material, but all that is. There is nothing before life, and nothing after life. Trying to ask what came before life is like asking what came before existence or how can we make a square circle or what does the color purple smell like. Even nothingness is in a sense ‘something’. Space is another word for it. Einstein knew this. Recent confirmed evidence by LIGO of gravitational waves finally proved it. That the empty vacuum of space is an illusion but rather this curved space time for which we reside yet are a part of all at the same time in this moment. In this awareness, then we can comprehend a binary universe in flux from nothing into something. A practical example of this are black holes (which I prefer to call fuzz balls based upon recent discoveries) as they beautifully represent the universe on a microcosm as something that is stuck in the state of becoming and not becoming, of being yet not being. My 2 cents
@iphaze
Жыл бұрын
@@theaudience6940 wow that’s a really good way of putting it actually. Thanks
@leofonseca8144
Жыл бұрын
People at a buffet.
@jgreen2015
Жыл бұрын
@@strachol13 that's not at all the same 🙄
What a brilliant physicist 😎
I can’t say I understood everything, but the idea of a massless universe existing before, and the Big Bang representing the introduction of mass kind of makes sense to me.