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Astrophysicist John Gribbin presents his own version of the ‘Holy Grail’ of physics, bringing quantum theory and the general theory of relativity together in one mathematical package offering the answer to life and the universe.
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The 20th century gave us two great theories of physics. The general theory of relativity describes the behaviour of very large things, quantum theory the behaviour of very small things. But how can these theories be combined into a ‘theory of everything’?
John Gribbin is a Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex, where he has worked on the problem of determining the age of the Universe.
He now spends his time writing and, after working for the journal Nature and New Scientist, he has produced many books including ‘In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat’, ‘In Search of the Double Helix’ and ‘In Search of the Big Bang’.
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As a thinker, ala Einstein, I wonder whether we have looked at space/time deeply enough. I think space/time is much more of a Force than we understand. It's spread, It's exponential growth, IS the force that limits the spin of large objects, such as Galaxies.
And what of Space/Time? Can it exist without the existence of matter, as conversely, "There is no existence with out time and space" How can there be?
If more of my own theory is sought after please, don't hesitate to contact me.
Very important information that many need to know to understand the origins of our universe. I would recommend this to any religious nut.
This is what you are looking for. It uses only scientific and computer terminology but is an alternative parallel analogy to a religious description. Go to YouTube search for UNM lecture The VICE Theory.
What of "emergence theory" relating to quantum gravity?
"…and how we know the age of the universe." Within the first minute, we are compelled to accept that we know something that is entirely theory, that is rife with flaws and critical holes that are so large the entire theory could fit through the gaping opening. This is the standard procedure in modern cosmology.
I found it. Time is nothing more than lifes perception. Its not real its an illusion.
Everything in the universe is quantum in nature. Feynman's QFT with a single probability wave function, governs everything in the universe. How photosynthesis produce food for plants, how our senses, our brain and even all our cells employ quantum computing, how the migrating birds employ entanglement to navigate, etc.
Phase transition from non-life matter to life (due to self-organizing property of matter) implies the QFT and the universal boson field can self-simulate intelligent conscious observer, collapsing the field into particles (like in the double slit experiment of QM) creating life and human consciousness, with perfection and with probability one.
A worm 🐛 lives in a universe.
Know more than this bloke,about the sun ☀️
And leaves a black hole
Nope
The title of the video is a nod to John's books from around 1989 to 1995, I read 3 of them and he is my favorite science writer ever since.
Is anyone still asking about what gravity is? The big bang came from the Planck scale. I think that the mass-energy of the universe is trying to go back to the Planck scale, but it can't because the spacetime continuum is in the way, and blocks it.
answer to the universe is 42, everyone knows
TRUMP 2020.
When you get clickbaited by a 60 y. o. and become thankful soon after…
Thermonuclear energy is hopelessly inadequate to explain solar dynamics.
Fortunately plasmatic science saves the day.
Plasma is the first state of matter – we live in a plasmatic universe.
Plasma is that which curls up into stars and galaxies – and ultimately everything.
another BS artist pushing the elite scientific agenda upon the masses. JUST KIDDING! good video!
The aztec calendar is the equation for the theory of everything
So physics has nothing new to learn – except to tie up a few loose ends? Are you a decendant of a certain Mister Kelvin, by chance? 😄
End of the 1920's!! really?! so you wrote a book about it and you do not know who KIRCHHOFF is? REALLY? stop watching around 2:10…waste of time…i thought it was about string theory..rubbish! who is this guy?!
Rubbish on your dark matter and dark energy andd its realitive importance and its over abundance of absence. According to quantum physics MitherNatur is a schizophrenic crack whore running a shell game. This exotic matter of which ye speak to seek by appropriating ever larger sums from gloopys trust funds is not lost or missing to us. When i hear talk of dark this or that i have to assume that you think this is the light universe that is so insignificant and by you words that we too are insignificant in comparison to that which you have not observed measured or experienced is preposterous.this universe of light , in contrast to your dark matter universe is in reality also dark. There are no waves or particles of brightly shining glowing warm sunny stuff flying around untill it hits our eyes and disappears forever. What we think we are seeing and feeling this light matter and energy is i less than one percent of all the electro magnetic spectrum is only visible as bright or colourful stuff to our hallucinating brains trying to find sense in the flood of electric signals coming to it from the various sensory cells in the outlying regions of the colonial organism that we call our own bodies
Really well explained; thank you.
John Gribbin: the man who taught us that earthquakes are caused by the other planets of the Solar system lining up and pulling in the same direction (and the reason I haven't taken New Scientist seriously since then).
Nice to see his efforts for giving due credit to Georges Lemaître. But it will be in vain, I'm afraid. Same story with Higgs, who gets all the credit for a mechanism which he was neither the first, nor the only one to propose.
I've not seen of John Gribbin for yonks! I have his books In Search of Schrodingers cat and In Search of the edge of time – around 1992. Brilliant stuff! Thanks for posting :0)
Excellent talk
How has the recent data from the probe to the sun changed what you've said about out local star?
Oh no 😲 Did I just get click baited?! 😲 😂 🤣