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🗓️ 6 May 2023
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0:00.0 | What's up, guys? If you're on Spotify right now, please follow the show so that you don't miss any future episodes and leave a five-star review. Thank you. |
0:07.0 | Do you believe in God? |
0:09.0 | Well, I believe in the God of Einstein. He believed in God, but not the God that intervenes in human affairs. |
0:17.0 | It was the God of order, the God of simplicity and elegance. Einstein was asked the question, |
0:23.7 | did the universe have a choice? Is it unique? So universes, you can create universes in an afternoon, |
0:30.1 | but most of them are unstable. Most of them fall apart. Most of them don't work. Our universe is |
0:35.2 | stable. It works. Everything fits together. And then the question is, |
0:39.7 | what's set off the bang? That's what we do for a living. We have the Big Bang theory up to the point |
0:44.9 | where the universe is going to explode. Why did it explode? We think it was a quantum event. And we are |
0:51.2 | here because we are in the universe we decided to explode. |
0:55.0 | So Einstein said, was it all an accident? |
0:57.0 | And he thought, no, it is great to see you, sir. Thank you for coming down here from New York. |
1:32.6 | My pleasure. |
1:33.8 | What is the, at the beginning of your career when you got into this, this had been something that as a child, you were fascinated by physics. and I always want to know like what's the |
1:47.6 | initial spark that gets you into that like what's the day one where you're like I want to learn |
1:52.1 | about the theory of the universe well it all started when I was eight years old all the newspapers |
1:59.1 | talked about the fact that a great scientist had just died, |
2:03.6 | and there's a famous picture, a picture flashed around the world, a picture of his desk. |
2:08.6 | And on his desk was a book, and the book was unfinished. |
2:13.6 | The caption of the picture said that the greatest scientist of our time could not finish this book. |
2:21.3 | Well, I was fascinated. What could be so hard that a great scientist could not finish this book? |
2:27.3 | I mean, why didn't he ask his mother? I mean, why did he simply go to the library to look up the answer? |
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