I'd love to get in on this conversation because this subject really interests me. This video touched on a lot of interesting theories.

@robdot - I don't understand people who think they "know" the answers to the universe. There are unanswered questions in every model. Do you know the answer to what dark matter and energy is? Nobody has yet detected it. Yet, our "universe" is supposedly filled with the stuff.

Let's also define what a universe is. My definition is; it's a place governed by the same set of physical laws.

So we have "our" universe, that we hypothesize about through our observations and measurements. We have theories that say "other" universes exist in some form or another. If their physical laws are different then ours, there would probably be no way to observe them, and therefore no way to prove their existence. Lack of proof is not proof that it doesn't exist.

I could write a book on what i "think" about what our universe is. For simplicity, let me just say that I moved from telecom engineering to software architect. In software, we create programs to run simulations. We create vast game worlds with whatever "physical" attributes we want to program into them. Lets assume we created artificial intelligence. In what context would "it" live? Most everyone assumes it would just be one conscience interacting with us in the form of a robot (Que cheesy Hollywood films).

Let's give it the power of quantum computing. It then decides to understand us (it's creator), it needs to program a simulation that mimics all it knows about our physical world. It wouldn't make one simulation, run it and be done. It would make many simulations, probably simultaneously, tweaking each new one based on the results of the previous ones.

Just imagine where this could lead. This intelligence could figure out how to create a multitude of different, very elegant universes. Its time scale would be different then our time. It's simulation could take seconds on its viewing scale, but appear to be billions of years when observing from within it. We have the power to pause, rewind, replay, tweak our simple creations. Imagine what this super intelligence could do with theirs?

>> ^enoch:
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I love you enoch, and no disrespect to you, but I'd almost place this within the same category as I do spirits, crystals, and chakras. I also like how whenever there's an unknown in science that may backup the claims of religion, the religious that so often fight science choose to side with it.
Then again, I probably don't know enough about this topic. Maybe it's just the way the program dumbed it down for TV watching dipshits.

hehe..it's all good bud.
deathcow downvoted for the reason you commented.
so let me clarify why i thought that video worthy.
it had nothing to with content but EVERYTHING to do with this mans struggle to conflate his religion with science.THAT is fascinating.
the mral struggle between what has been revealed by science and a literary hybrid that he has known since childhood.
one is deep seated and the other is a volume that keeps getting bigger.
ONE contradicts the other.
ONE can be tested,measured and observed (well..ok..not strings,but you get my drift)
the other is based on faith with no discernable means to observe,measure or test.
lets watch the fireworks shall we?
THAT is the reason for the post.
does string theory reveal god?
guess that depends on who or what god is..but was not my intention for posting.
that is another discussion and since we know so little,it will be a short one,BUT to watch this man use biblical text in order to explain how string theory reveals GOD is..is..fascinating to me.
ah well//thats me though.
till next time brother.
namaste.

I agree wholeheartedly. It's hard to determine why somebody posts something sometimes. I mean their are people out there...

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
I love you enoch, and no disrespect to you, but I'd almost place this within the same category as I do spirits, crystals, and chakras. I also like how whenever there's an unknown in science that may backup the claims of religion, the religious that so often fight science choose to side with it.

Then again, I probably don't know enough about this topic. Maybe it's just the way the program dumbed it down for TV watching dipshits.


hehe..it's all good bud.
deathcow downvoted for the reason you commented.
so let me clarify why i thought that video worthy.
it had nothing to with content but EVERYTHING to do with this mans struggle to conflate his religion with science.THAT is fascinating.
the mral struggle between what has been revealed by science and a literary hybrid that he has known since childhood.
one is deep seated and the other is a volume that keeps getting bigger.
ONE contradicts the other.
ONE can be tested,measured and observed (well..ok..not strings,but you get my drift)
the other is based on faith with no discernable means to observe,measure or test.
lets watch the fireworks shall we?
THAT is the reason for the post.
does string theory reveal god?
guess that depends on who or what god is..but was not my intention for posting.
that is another discussion and since we know so little,it will be a short one,BUT to watch this man use biblical text in order to explain how string theory reveals GOD is..is..fascinating to me.
ah well//thats me though.
till next time brother.
namaste.

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I'm gonna go ahead and say "no".

you are such a party pooper =P

Thanks for the clarification. In that regard, I am glad to have upvoted.

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Wish I hadn't upvoted. I thought this was a clip from the original show. The running marquee across the bottom is subjective bullshit.

that was my point in posting.the poster seems to be attempting to merge his religion with science.i found it interesting but many conflicts like that interest me.i totally agree with you on elegant universe being a fantastic show,brian greene does a great job.

*edit* just noticed,gratz on the silver bud!

The Elegant Universe is the title of one of Brian Greene's awesome, easily digestible *books on state of the art physics. This special was comprised of the best bits of that book.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'pbs, elegant universe, part 3' to 'pbs, elegant universe, part 3, physics, string theory, Brian Greene' - edited by mauz15

From PBS's Nova Science online program, Elegant Universe, a documentary on string theory.

i second Enzo's comment. watch The Elegant Universe. and if still so inclined Stephen Hawking's Universe is also very cool. http://www.videosift.com/video/Stephen-Hawkings-Universe-Seeing-is
-Believing

If you like this I highly recommend watching Greene in Nova's The Elegant Universe. You can watch the whole thing here. It's pretty engaging.

definitely ganked from The Elegant Universe
still, my fave Portishead song

BrightOne, your scientific doctrine is just a doctrine, that's the point he's making. Prove to me that the universe is scientific, because until you do, my personal doctrine says to assume it's magical and mysterious. It's not because I am gullible or I don't think, it's because I thought about it A LOT and came to the conclusion that science is always changing its mind, while god smiles down on your efforts to discover him.

Now, you might not understand that, but I thought about it. And I studied astrophysics. And I read "A Brief History of Time" and "The Elegant Universe" and understood more than half of it

Your dogmatic assumption that the universe runs on pure logic is as faith based as my own assumption. You don't need to be a scientist to know that the world is wonderful, beautiful and amazing. And science can't measure wonder, beauty or amazement yet...

We all just get a firm hunch and then find a clever person's words to cling to, whether it's Dawkins or not. We don't understand, so we pretend to understand, and convince ourselves by repeating our doctrine on the internet over and over, as if typing it out makes it true.

Oh and here is Part I of Part I (there are multiple parts of part one):

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Elegant-Universe-Pt-1

And here are the rest of the parts of Part 1:

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YpRyKbeIz8

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95ikbRzIxeg

4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAK-q6giRmE

5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syNJs6PSpZQ

The Elegant Universe - Part II - String's The Thing

This one-hour episode includes the following topics in modern theoretical physics: ... all » 1. Two Conflicting Sets of Laws In order to solve some of the deepest mysteries of the universe, the rules that govern large objects like galaxies must be combined with the rules that govern small objects like subatomic particles. Running time 8:26

2. One Master Equation Many physicists now believe that strings—miniscule vibrating strands of energy thought to make up all matter—hold the key to uniting the world of the large and the world of the small in a single theory. running time 4:40

3. The Birth of String Theory In the 1960s, physicists caught a glimpse of what appeared to be strange, string-like objects hidden beneath the abstract symbols of a 200-year-old equation. Running time 4:12

4. The Standard Model Meanwhile, mainstream science was embracing particles as points, not strings, and the Standard Model was born, uniting the strong force, the weak force, and electromagnetism. Running time 6:36

5. Wrestling with String Theory By the 1970s, a few young physicists worked on taming the unruly equations of string theory and succeeded in describing how gravity works in the subatomic world, a key element missing from the Standard Model. Running time 7:18

6. The Theory of Everything A revised version of string theory, free of mathematical inconsistencies, seemed capable of describing all the building blocks of nature, and it launched a hot new field of physics. running time 5:29

7. Multiple dimensions Despite our perception that we live in a universe with four dimensions—three spatial and one temporal—string theory demands that our universe has 11 dimensions. Running time 6:57

8. Five Flavors of String Theory By the mid-1980s physicists had developed five different versions of string theory, raising the question of whether it would prove to be a theory of everything or a theory of nothing. Running time 4:59

An interesting and intriguing documentary-drama on Einstein's life, work & ultimately death - focusing on his theory of everything, which he worked on until he died on April 18th 1955. It touches on his religious beliefs, plus the critical reluctance of his theoretical 'grandchild' - Quantum Mechanics: "God does not play dice" - as he's famously said on both subjects. Like his Cosmological Constant, his work caused controversy & he never completed his unified theory - but ironically his disdain towards Quantum theory may have finally finished his work...