Dark Energy Rules the Universe
The revolutionary discovery that the expansion of the universe is speeding up, not slowing down from gravity, means that 75 percent of our universe consists of mysterious dark energy. Berkeley Lab theoretical physicist Eric Linder delves into the mystery of dark energy as part of the Science in the Theatre lecture series on Nov. 24, 2008.
Complete video at: fora.tv Stanford University physicist Leonard Susskind differentiates the theoretical concept of “dark matter” from its somewhat more controversial cousin, “dark energy.” —– Recognizing a contradiction in Stephen Hawking’s claim that things disappear in black holes, Susskind and Gerard t’Hooft offered a counterargument aimed at disproving this controversial theory. Susskind discusses the story behind the black hole conflict and how it has led to a better idea of how our universe works – The Commonwealth Club of California Leonard Susskind is a theoretical physics professor at Stanford University in the field of string theory and quantum field theory. Susskind is widely regarded as one of the fathers of string theory for his early contributions to the String Theory model of particle physics.
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He`s GOOD!
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interesting
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this Lecture is so interesting, it made my day
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Thank you so much for posting this talk. I’m really fascinated and it is encouraging me to explore further about “Our Universe”…
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interesting concept..
I’m very glad I started looking into these kinds of lectures.
only problem is that i can’t watch this in one sitting at my computer :/
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Dark Energy Rules!
Yeah!
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thanks a lot
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Dark Energy Rules!
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Thanks for posting this talk. Very helpful for those who aren’t at Berkeley on a regular basis.
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I don’t think it has been demonstrated that cosmic rays are the largest contributors to mutation or that mutations are the driving force for evolution. Chemical species, other types of radiation, and mistakes in replication can all produce genetic changes. What’s more, other more dramatic genetic modifications, such as aneuploidy, may largely be the driving forces of evolution.
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@Baldwynmayhem Spot on Baldwyn and yeah it’s extremely sad no question about it. But no longer are we living in times of myths and fairytale it’s time people began answering to themselves. The need for critical thinking in this day and age is imperative to us as human beings. Be yourself, wake up and live in the moment.
And yeah that biological discovery is quite something. Exciting stuff for sure, seems there was vacancy for a soon to be redundant old man…position ‘God’
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Sophia how about that new biological discovery hey? We made life ourselves “god forbid” which may actually lead to cures for autoimmune disease/genomic screwups and perhaps ensure our future biological stability in many different environments, wherever we end up with all that other technology forming with quantum physics. Wake up please.
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@glowellxinfinity agreed totally
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@thesunshinesurfer Sun the bottom line is this, And this is sad, but it’s human we all do it. We are brought up with religion/politics and it’s hard to break the mould for some, others take in heresay their entire lives (look at all the conspiracies out there) and the sad thing is some are true others aren’t, but geezuz at least be informed and actually read and understand information instead of just repeating words imao, that is what Sophia needs to do
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@Baldwynmayhem seem’s we’ve hit a raw nerve with the deluded one, ‘SophiaVonHelgastein’ C’mon she’s vomiting spam on a video with absolutely nothing to do with religion. But when a person employs logic, thought and clear reasoning she falls silent. I still can’t believe people follow these dogmatic doctrines without first researching what it is there meant to believe. Greek mythology, Egyptian mythology…Christian mythology there all the same, vehicles of control and deception. BE YOURSELF!
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If we dont end this my religion is better than yours we wont last much longer. Especially with the nut job despot dictators, warlords and religious nut jobs of all faiths, wanting to arm themselves with nuclear weapons. Who is supplying these people with the capability to bring Armageddon down on us all? The 666? No its 666 mentality.
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@SophiaVonHelgastein Baldwyn 1:1 Ye morons living in the year 2010, but your mentality in the year 0, hear me now, go do some good reading on solid proof instead of heresay with zero historical and factual evidence to ever back it up. Words mean nothing, anyone can spam words.
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@thesunshinesurfer totally agree, couldn’t have said it better, so many contradictions in ye good olde religion i’m afraid, these people will see the truth in the near future (if we don’t annihliate oursleves in the meantime through the same sheer stupidity)
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@SophiaVonHelgastein It amazes me how you religious folk think of yourselves as moral beings acting out moral precepts handed down by some God in the sky. You see this is where I’m confused. Now what you think of as moral precepts do not reflect God’s own behaviour. As a Christian you’d see murder as immoral right? Obviously not…Your God seems to commit murder on a whim without thought or contemplation. I bet Job’s children, servants and livestock never saw that one coming huh!
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God is just a state of mind that oushes us to believe in ourself to push us for hope and not quit. its mental help we humans who believe in god need kind of like a coach yet god does not exist there is no true 100% evidence he did everything he did.
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@thesunshinesurfer –Matt 5:11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
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@jm05go …..Why would God need a creator, He is eternal, He has always been there. HE is the one who creates, not the other way around.
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@SophiaVonHelgastein go away christian troll!
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Dr. Jonathan Reed Uses The Link Bracelet – Alien Technology – On Camera. Odisealink. Watch here ___
watch?v=-Jmm2SaAbJo
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@sharpnova2 Your a idiot why because my mind just told me to write that as reply after i read that discussion oh and TheLegendarySkeptic is right.
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For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Romans 1:20-21
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@sharpnova2 this is very true but only those in denial are faithless, there is no way a scientist can logically not have faith because he has faith in his own theories which are way more absurd than the idea of a creator. Scientist of the real world accept there is a creator and that they will never b able to disprove his existence. They can only attack our faith!!!
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@sharpnova2
I understand your point of view. However, on one side you have science, that has improved incredibly our life quality, life expectancy, knowledge about the universe, etc. I think you are not disputing this, are you?
On the other side, you have a book full of contradictions (example: watch?v=RB3g6mXLEKk) and scientific nonsense, with some nice good ideas that are not exclusive nor original from Christianity, plus promoting slavery and belief without evidence.
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@WeAreTheRobots Trite little phrases that mean nothing. Religion and science are simply two different types of thinking. What you call reason, I call faith and ignorance. What I call truth and understanding, you call “not thinking.”
It’s called bias. Of course both of us are going to see the other as the one that isn’t using their brain.
When I say “masses” I’m referring to the masses of people who understand the gist of theoretical physics. QM to GR and maybe a little ST.
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@sharpnova2
“I never said it doesn’t make sense.” vs “all this particle and string physics is nonsense.”
Well?
“The problem with particle physics is that it is simple and makes sense to the masses.” vs “Physics gets more complicated every time I read about it”.
You must be trolling. People, in general, barely know the structure of the atom.
If science and faith don’t mix is because reason is used for the first, while for the second, you only need to stop thinking.
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@WeAreTheRobots I never said it doesn’t make sense.
The problem with particle physics is that it is simple and makes sense to the masses.
And this is why it’s been such a successful tool in fooling the masses and steering them away from the real answers and faith.
Science and faith don’t mix. You must see that. Yet you wrongly ascribe the disparity to a fault in faith.
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@sharpnova2
It’s actually the product of a bad account from memory of the history of internet; I am aware of things like ARPAnet,but I wrongly assigned more roles to CERN than I should. But this is not relevant for the central argument. Asserting that particle physics doesn’t make sense is disproved by evidence. Our knowledge in modern science has succeeded not due to the Bible, but in spite of the BIble, that mentions four-legged insects and the sky being fixed and hard.
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@WeAreTheRobots If you really think that CERN gave us the internet.. then you have been fed some sad bullshit. And the funny thing is that you believed it.
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@TheLegendarySkeptic Sorry. I glanced at this wall of text and mentally replaced it with an angry text face. Got a chuckle and moved on destroying the fallacious pseudo-logic of ignorant wannabe scientists.
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@sharpnova2 Wow…Still trying to persuade people, eh? You don’t have to watch these videos if they upset you that much. You’re everywhere. Walls of texts. Give it a break, man. Calm down. Arthritis of the hand and wrist, remember? You’re at a 10 when you need to be at a 2 or 3. Just remember that science allowed you to post your walls of endless texts, not the pink yoshi in space. And if you do believe that religion/pink yoshi has done more than science, then great. Wonderful.
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