Скачать или смотреть 130. Phil Halper and Niayesh Afshordi | Battle of the Big Bang

Phil is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Socieity, science popularizer, and runs the excellent YouTube channel "Phil Halper", aka Skydivephil. Niayesh Afshordi is professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Waterloo. He is also a founding faculty member at the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics and an Associate Faculty in the Cosmology and Gravitation group at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physic.

Check out their book, "Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins"!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0226830470/
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/...

My links: https://link.space/@Friction.

00:00 - Preview
01:20 - Impetus for the book
07:38 - Historical background
09:27 - The Big Bang
15:48 - The meaning of “nothing”
16:09 - Quantifier vs. noun sense of nothing
18:48 - Almost nothing scenarios
24:03 - How theories bear on cosmic origins
29:13 - Concerns about multiverse theories
29:36 - Testability of multiverse models
34:31 - String theory and brane theory
39:51 - Could there be time before time?
40:25 - Limits of temporal concepts
44:09 - Two-direction time models
50:31 - Other models
54:27 - Are we on the cusp of a new cosmic revolution?
1:01:57 - Favorite cosmological models
1:05:02 - Connections to theology and the Kalam
1:09:56 - Conclusion