Before the Big Bang 5: The No Boundary Proposal

In this film Stephen Hawking, James Hartle and Thomas Hertog explain their model of the early universe: The No Boundary Proposal. In the 1960’s and 70’s Hawking and Penrose showed that according to classical general relativity, given some minimal assumptions the origin of an expanding universe is a singularity: a point of infinite density and spacetime curvature. But this and other singularity theorems do not take into account the strange world of quantum mechanics. So in the 1980’s Hawking and collaborators started to build a model of the big bang that included quantum effects.The result is the No Boundary Proposal, a model that may be able to explain some of the deepest mysteries of the cosmos such as, is there a multiverse? how is there an arrow of time and what really happened a the big bang?
This is the fifth in a series of films exploring competing models of the early universe. To see the other films click here:
   • Before the Big Bang  
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Produced and written by SkydivePhil and Monica
Producers NIck Franco & Ernie Pay
Director Nick Franco
Original Score Pete Blyth - PETEBLYTH.COM
Ernie Pay : Director of Photography
Presenter: Monica C
Sound:William Corbet
Animations Morn1415    / morn1415  


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Timeline of topics discussed:
00-1:19 intro
1:19 Singularity theorems
3:44 Hawking’s work on black holes and what they mean for the origin of the universe
4:11 Introducing the No Boundary Proposal in 1981
5:13 The key concept is the wave function
5:39 Feynman’s sum over histories
6:15 Explaining the concept of a path integral
6:40 What is Euclidean Spacetime?
7:36 Imaginary numbers and imaginary time
9:12 Explaining the Formula for the No Boundary Wavefunction
10:19 The shuttlecock
11:59 Inflation and the No Boundary Proposal
14:22 Predictions of the the theory
16:20 Falsification
16:55 Bottom Up versus Top Down
20:12 Eternal Inflation and the Multiverse
22:46 The No Boundary Proposal implies Inflation is not fine tuned
23:31 The No Boundary Proposal and the Cosmological Constant problem
25:33 Measure Problem, there’s a simpler way of doing it
26:532 Fine tuning and probability
27:16 Weinberg’s prediction of the cosmological constant and The No Boundary Proposal
28:30 Could the constants of nature be necessary?
29:25 Is the multiverse science?
31:03 The Boltzman Brian Problem
32:53 Stephen, Jim and Thomas’s latest work : holography and the No Boundary Proposal
35:18 Next Steps in Making the No Boundary Wave function more precise
37:14The Ground State
38:18 The Arrow of Time
39:27 Roger Penrose
39:50 A Big Bounce?
40:14 Aron Wall claims the No Boundary Proposal is eternal into the past
42:14 More on the Big Bounce
43:50 Alex Vilenkin alternative to the No Boundary Wavefunction
46:41 String theory
46:37 Unifying the Dynamics and the initial conditions of the universe
47:14 George Lemaitre in the multiverse in the 1930’s
47:58 Summing up