[ti:Lecture On Nothing]
[ar:M?T]
[al:Teach Your Children How to Think Not What to Think]
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[00:00.00]Lecture On Nothing - Mt.
[01:19.90]Here's the point
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[01:21.86]If we consider the huge maze of possible universes
[01:24.98]The vast majority will not have conditions hospitable to life
[01:28.33]
[01:29.13]Or at least to anything remotely akin to life as we know it
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[01:33.41]For drastic changes in familiar physics
[01:35.50]This is clear
[01:36.26]
[01:37.31]If our universe didn't conform to the rules it does
[01:39.75]
[01:40.50]Life as we know it would not exist
[01:42.67]
[01:45.01]Even rather conservative changes to physics would interfere with the formation of stars
[01:49.60]For example
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[01:50.73]Disrupting their ability to act as cosmic furnaces
[01:53.96]That synthesize complex life-supporting atoms
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[01:57.22]Such as carbon and oxygen
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[01:59.46]That normally are spewed throughout the universe
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[02:02.12]By supernova explosions
[02:03.53]
[02:06.18]In the light of the sensitive dependence of life on the details of physics
[02:10.02]If we now ask for instance
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[02:12.51]Why the forces and particles of nature have the particular properties we observe
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[02:17.65]A possible answer emerges
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[02:20.40]Across the entire gamut of possibilities
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[02:23.31]These features vary widely
[02:25.22]
[02:26.61]Properties could be different
[02:28.23]
[02:35.98]What's special about the particular combination of particle and force properties we observe
[02:41.05]
[02:41.86]Is that clearly they allow life to form
[02:44.10]
[02:45.35]And life intelligent life in particular
[02:48.15]Is a prerequisite even to ask the question of why our universe
[02:51.63]
[02:52.59]Has the properties it does
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[03:25.64]In plain language
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[03:26.98]Things are the way they are
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[03:29.16]Because if they weren't
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[03:31.14]We wouldnt be here to notice
[03:32.91]
[04:38.92]If we weren't here
[04:42.72]There'd be no one to see
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[04:46.53]The lack of politics and factories
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[04:54.22]The gods at stake
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[04:57.98]The myopic view
[05:01.15]
[05:02.01]Halts suspicion that it just might be true
[05:08.55]
[05:09.60]Your sense of awe
[05:12.57]
[05:13.44]Your sense of wonder
[05:16.48]
[05:17.32]Remains intact in the face of it all
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[05:25.05]Perhaps in time
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[05:28.77]Someone will listen to this waste of breath
[05:35.61]
[05:36.55]This lecture on nothing
[05:39.36]
[05:40.39]If we weren't here
[05:43.33]
[05:44.21]There'd be no one to see
[05:47.01]
[05:48.13]The lack of politics and factories
[05:54.98]
[05:55.79]The gods at stake
[05:58.73]
[05:59.41]The myopic view
[06:02.39]
[06:03.32]Halts suspicion that it just might be true
[06:09.76]
[06:10.98]Your sense of awe
[06:14.08]
[06:14.90]Your sense of wonder
[06:17.65]
[06:18.79]Remains intact in the face of it all
[06:25.35]
[06:26.41]Perhaps in time
[06:29.43]
[06:30.20]Someone will listen to this waste of breath
[06:37.26]
[06:38.11]This lecture on nothing
[06:40.85]
[06:41.92]If we weren't here
[06:44.88]
[06:45.64]There'd be no one to see
[06:48.40]
[06:49.35]The lack of politics and factories
[06:56.16]
[06:57.23]The gods at stake
[07:00.19]
[07:00.97]The myopic view
[07:03.71]
[07:04.74]Halts suspicion that it just might be true
[07:11.44]
[07:12.46]Your sense of awe
[07:15.31]
[07:16.03]Your sense of wonder
[07:18.95]
[07:19.66]Remains intact in the face of it all
[07:25.72]
[07:26.57]Perhaps in time
[07:29.92]Someone will listen to this waste of breath
[07:36.05]
[07:36.63]This lecture on nothing