3,863 views

N

Watch
- Search Videos
  
  Advanced search »
- Submit a New Video
Discuss
About
- Try clicking on the various channels to see videos posted to that channel - if you're into music you can click the Music channel to get more music sifts - go on and explore! Use the "hotness" when you have opened the channel link to get videos that have gotten a lot of votes, or use "newness" to have a look at the new sifts.
  When browsing sifts you like, have a look at the Related Posts list to see other related videos, click the tags under the video title to see more sifts tagged with the same tags or have a look at other sifts from the same user in the More Posts By list. If the sifted video is in a play list, have a look at the play list to see other interesting videos the Sift users have linked together.
  Enter the Sift Lounge to chat with online sifters about anything and everything, or read interesting posts in the Sift Talk forum.
  The Top New Videos list is always full of interesting, current videos. It is always recommended that you have a look through the Top New Videos, but also have a look at these:
  - Upcoming Unsifted Videos - active video submissions that neither are published to the front page nor archived to the submitter's personal queue
- Have you seen a really funny, surprising, scary, interesting, cute or in any other way extra good quality video?
  Post and share it here - VideoSift is the best video aggregator on the Web, where we share, discuss, promote, and interact with the best videos out there on the web. Post it here, and share it with the large community of video-interested users. And - you are guaranteed to find more very good videos here already!
  Mind you, we only share videos you discover that someone else has made; if you "self link," by posting a video you have made, have posted or have interests in, you risk the ban hammer - read the posting guidelines before posting. The sift is NOT for promoting your own videos - it is for sharing videos others have made.
  Submit a Video Now »
Login

'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009

submitted by BicycleRepairMan

1 decade 4 years 6 months 1 week ago

Lawrence Krauss gives a talk on our current picture of the universe, how it will end, and how it could have come from nothing. Krauss is the author of many bestselling books on Physics and Cosmology, including "The Physics of Star Trek."

Books by Lawrence Krauss:
http://www.amazon.com/Lawrence-M.-Krauss/e/B000AP7AZS/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0

Download Quicktime versions
Small: http://c0116791.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/Krauss-AAI09-web-sm-new.mov
720p HD: http://c0116791.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/Krauss-AAI09-720.mov

Filmed & Edited by
JOSH TIMONEN

The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
http://richarddawkinsfoundation.org

11 Comments

A brilliant talk from start to finish. Thanks,BRM!

"Forget Jesus, the stars died so you could be here today". Nice!
loled at "Ask any European high school student".
Loved the joke about string theory.

I make'a ZuperNova in my Pants, yes. Niiyce!

*quality

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by eric3579.

Amazing talk. I don't understand the "if we created a universe" answer at the end though.. Why would it appear to get smaller from the outside?

Fantastic.. and came with an xkcd comic!

links in your description are broken (copy/pasted from a forum post it looks like)

can you fix the links? i'd like to download the original video, thank you!

edit - i found a link
http://c0116791.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/Krauss-AAI09-720.mov

BicycleRepairMan

>> ^joe2:
links in your description are broken (copy/pasted from a forum post it looks like)
can you fix the links? i'd like to download the original video, thank you!
edit - i found a link
http://c0116791.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/Krauss-AAI09-720.mov

I've fixed the links and added the link to the small QT version as well:
Small: http://c0116791.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/Krauss-AAI09-web-sm-new.mov
720p HD: http://c0116791.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/Krauss-AAI09-720.mov

*promote

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Sunday, October 25th, 2009 2:20pm PDT - promote requested by kulpims.

undervoted!

Discuss...

🗨️ Emojis & HTML

Enable JavaScript to submit a comment.

This website uses cookies.

This website uses cookies to improve user experience. By using this website you consent to all cookies in accordance with our Privacy Policy.