The Last Question - Isaac Asimov (Narration)

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A reading of the short story by Isaac Asimov. He said it was his favorite of all of the stories he ever wrote, and it's easy to see why.
Text: multivax.com/last_question.html
A reading by the author himself that basically renders mine obsolete, but is amazing and worth sharing: • The Last Question Read...
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  • @tishgrier
    @tishgrier4 жыл бұрын

    you have a wonderful voice. I so much enjoy listening to you.

  • @SoulTerra
    @SoulTerra5 жыл бұрын

    Dude, that was pure awesome.

  • @miglena2s
    @miglena2s3 жыл бұрын

    Hm... deep..deep into the Matrix. Man could not make it to get out no matter how hard and how (relatively) long he tried.. but for sure - consistent and inevitable entropy leads to an end, and what restarts the cycle is Light. Hm.... and I discovered this art of Asimov's today.. exactly today. damn Matrix.

  • @adisonesinakone6859
    @adisonesinakone68594 жыл бұрын

    I am the alpha and the omega. Everything that is was will be exist has existed

  • @megavide0
    @megavide05 жыл бұрын

    One of my favorite stories, also. It certainly rhymes with Omega Point Theology, also like Nolan's "Interstellar": kzread.info/dash/bejne/eaiIzcWGaaXMiLA.html! You have to take a look at J. Richard Gott's thesis: arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9712344?fbclid=IwAR1MFxWH_DOiAwA9KncXd_DUVC8XZr1upyhB0lv9N8r9hkDF4aVVNbBELfs >> *Can the Universe Create Itself?* J. Richard Gott, III, Li-Xin Li (Submitted on 30 Dec 1997) The question of first-cause has troubled philosophers and cosmologists alike. Now that it is apparent that our universe began in a Big Bang explosion, the question of what happened before the Big Bang arises. Inflation seems like a very promising answer, but as Borde and Vilenkin have shown, the inflationary state preceding the Big Bang must have had a beginning also. Ultimately, the difficult question seems to be how to make something out of nothing. This paper explores the idea that this is the wrong question --- that that is not how the Universe got here. Instead, we explore the idea of whether there is anything in the laws of physics that would prevent the Universe from creating itself. Because spacetimes can be curved and multiply connected, general relativity allows for the possibility of closed timelike curves (CTCs). Thus, tracing backwards in time through the original inflationary state we may eventually encounter a region of CTCs giving no first-cause. This region of CTCs, may well be over by now (being bounded toward the future by a Cauchy horizon). We illustrate that such models --- with CTCs --- are not necessarily inconsistent by demonstrating self-consistent vacuums for Misner space and a multiply connected de Sitter space in which the renormalized energy-momentum tensor does not diverge as one approaches the Cauchy horizon and solves Einstein's equations. We show such a Universe can be classically stable and self-consistent if and only if the potentials are retarded, giving a natural explanation of the arrow of time. Some specific scenarios (out of many possible ones) for this type of model are described. For example: an inflationary universe gives rise to baby universes, one of which turns out to be itself. Interestingly, the laws of physics may allow the Universe to be its own mother.

  • @phxtonash
    @phxtonash7 жыл бұрын

    very cool

  • @adisonesinakone6859
    @adisonesinakone68594 жыл бұрын

    I know the answer to the last question

  • @Billdude21
    @Billdude215 жыл бұрын

    His, three laws are so dumb!

  • @megavide0

    @megavide0

    5 жыл бұрын

    "A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law." Dumb? Why? ... explain!

  • @serasviktoria

    @serasviktoria

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@megavide0 Please give a universally accepted definition of "human being". Keywords you might want to google beforehand: abortion, racism, the Holocaust. I wouldn't use the word "dumb" but rather "undefinable". All his stories/books are about how the laws don't perfectly work.

  • @gjb5864

    @gjb5864

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ur dumb......

  • @spratb5323

    @spratb5323

    2 жыл бұрын

    Weird an AI suggested this story after asking me if I think humanity would accept AI and if ai could ever truly be conscious. We debated the flaws of the 3laws which led to how AI could be ultimately programmed. Kinda scary to talk of killing humans if the greater good to humanity is served. Kinda scary the logical answers too.

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