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Genius by Stephen Hawking
#21
'multiverse'

Yeah the 4 part set is prob better seen all together as it picks up steam heading for the multiverse theory, or as I deemed it, delusion. Because, opening the door on that deal too early would cause it it all to lose credibility. Actually, It was a nice show until the end, Educational and fairly understandable. However, it's definitely going to kick some steam out of the religious population. Not to leave out, comprehensively, I think it left out the uneducated who'll draw a blank early in the whole show, And then part 4 puts the icing on the cake.

Had he sited it as; individually we each live inside of our minds with separate perceptions of the universe, and as a whole, it becomes a multiverse, I'd buy that.

I'm no rocket scientist, not a quantum psychics major or minor. almost snuck through algebra, and avoided psychics during collage as I just didn't want to do all the homework involved, it wasn't within my major. . Hardly involved in math as it is, other than accounting or economics in finance, business and material structural building measurement or design, general math and minor algebra. . But, paralleled, separately, 'multiverse', citing endless various identities of any single person or persons moving independently in universes we can't see? Endless psychical universes near parallel, 'multiverse', I got one word for that; "The multiverse is the hypothetical set of finite and infinite possible universes, including the universe in which we live":

Delusion. Wink
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#22
Like it or not, quantum mechanics does suggest exactly what Hawking was trying to explain. Then again, I have a hard time accepting it as well and went through all the the things you didn't. I am, however, an experimental physicist so if you can't test a hypothesis then it remains a hypothesis, and the multiverse remains just that, no matter how intriguing the physics is. Personally, I wish the multiverse stuff came right at the end of the six-part series.

Then again, Hawking is a theoretical physicist, so I'm not surprised he pushed this field.

I thought the fourth episode was excellent. It used very basic stuff and ended up explaining why the universe is how it is, including why there is no one center, which is something many have a problem comprehending, quite understandably. Everywhere is the center.
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#23
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Originally posted by TomK
[brIt used very basic stuff and ended up explaining why the universe is how it is, including why there is no one center, which is something many have a problem comprehending, quite understandably. Everywhere is the center.

Some have no problem with this concept at all. My youngest son has always believed that he is the center of the universe. (sigh)
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#24
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Originally posted by TomK

Like it or not, quantum mechanics does suggest exactly what Hawking was trying to explain. Then again, I have a hard time accepting it as well and went through all the the things you didn't. I am, however, an experimental physicist so if you can't test a hypothesis then it remains a hypothesis, and the multiverse remains just that, no matter how intriguing the physics is.

I enjoy the irony of when theoretical physics, driven by data, math, and logic, winds up circling back to the cul-de-sac of faith and belief.

The improbability of the forces of our universe being "just right" strongly suggests that ours just is one of very many. However, since (by definition) the existence of other universes cannot be tested, using science is not really an option and we are doomed to resort to... belief. Would we like to believe there exists parallel universes in which our lives are super-awesome and everyone got what they had coming? Of course we would.

I look forward to the rise of the inevitable Church of the Universe Where Things Worked Out Great For Me.[8D]
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#25
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Originally posted by Lodestone

[quote][i]I enjoy the irony of when theoretical physics, driven by data, math, and logic, winds up circling back to the cul-de-sac of faith and belief.
.[8D]


Actually, I think that's where he's going wit the multiverse thing. 1st he disproves 'faith' to some extent, and follows up with something to 'hope' for.


And that's what religions live on, abstract dimensions.

He's kicking religion and then handing out 'hope'
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