Through the Wormhole.

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Through the Wormhole
Discovery 9:00pm
Hosted by Morgan Freeman,
Through The Wormhole explores the deepest mysteries of existence and the questions that have puzzled mankind since the dawn of time. What triggered life on earth? What was there before the beginning of the universe? Are we really alone? Is there a creator? These questions have been contemplated by some of the world's most inquisitive minds. Now, science has evolved to the point where hard facts and evidence may be able to provide us with answers instead of philosophical theories.

Through The Wormhole brings together the brightest minds and best ideas from the cutting-edge of many scientific disciplines - astrophysics, astrobiology, quantum mechanics, string theory and more - to reveal the extraordinary truth of our universe.
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He's got a brilliant voice for such a program.

Anyone watching this, it started of a bit slow but now they are getting to the 4-11th dimensions it's great, simplified enough to understand but unlike Brian cox not loads of fancy shots of desert dunes and slow paced ramblings. Really liking it and I now understand one theory in at least a very simplified way.
 
dmpoole said:
In the first 12 minutes he's mentioned God about 10 times :(
Has this been sponsored by the Catholics?
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Why does it matter?

For many people, God represents everything that we don't know about the universe and since we probably will never know everything there is to know, God will always exist.
 
It's more of this is the old way of thinking and it's poetic, then it moves on to well established theories, then on to cutting edge like string theory and that was a brilliant part. I've never really understood string theory, but now I have a very basic understanding of it, fascinating stuff.
 
I'm surprised no ones watching this, or perhaps they are after the success of the other space series being so sucesfull. Loved this quote on the size of the visible universe.

If you take a grain of sand as the size of our solar system, then the visible universe is all the way to mars. Just mind boggling.
 
I enjoyed the last one that was on, however i'm sceptical as to the assumption that the fact that everything in the universe ultimately breaks down to a few very simple things is evidence that we're living in a simulation. Surely a simulation would break down to one thing - light.
 
Whywoule it break down to light?
It would break down to what ever the smallest "molecule" is. It's not like a hollodeck. We are inside it so it wouldn't be light. However I do find the idea out there and it's not very convincing. Even in the real world you must get to a limit and thus finite "molecule"
 
Well the whole thing was based on the idea that you can tell a simulation is a simulation by looking very closely at it - and if you do you can make out the individual pixels. But then, you don't see the pixels, you see the light given off by them. Turn off the light and the world ceases to exist.

Also, i doubt his statement that our most advanced supercomputers are comparable to the human mind, i thought we were years off that.
 
PermaBanned said:
Well the whole thing was based on the idea that you can tell a simulation is a simulation by looking very closely at it - and if you do you can make out the individual pixels. But then, you don't see the pixels, you see the light given off by them. Turn off the light and the world ceases to exist.

Also, i doubt his statement that our most advanced supercomputers are comparable to the human mind, i thought we were years off that.
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We are in side the simulation, you aren't looking at a monitor displaying pixels. Therefore it is not light. Your resigning is coming from someone looking at a monitor from outside the simulation, not from someone inside a simulation.
 
AcidHell2 said:
He's got a brilliant voice for such a program.

Anyone watching this, it started of a bit slow but now they are getting to the 4-11th dimensions it's great, simplified enough to understand but unlike Brian cox not loads of fancy shots of desert dunes and slow paced ramblings. Really liking it and I now understand one theory in at least a very simplified way.
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When is the 4-11th dimensions episode?

Has it been shown already?
 
Biohazard said:
When is the 4-11th dimensions episode?

Has it been shown already?
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It was the first episode and I think one of the best. Really interesting theory and how the big bang came to be.

Edit- seems we aren't seeing it in order in the uk. How bizarre.
It was episode 4 in America "What Happened Before the Beginning?" June 30, 2010

2nd series just started in America, wonder how long we have to wait.
 
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dmpoole said:
Just watched Series 2 Episode 2 about if the Universe is finite or not.
Episode 1 was crap, all about life after death.
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Didn't it show any of the Emergency Room research? They put coloured shapes on top of equipment that you can't see from the bed or standing up, then when people have near death experiences or more precisely out of body experiences seeing if they the coloured shapes? But for the life of me icantfind the results or the piece of research on it.
 
AcidHell2 said:
Didn't it show any of the Emergency Room research? They put coloured shapes on top of equipment that you can't see from the bed or standing up, then when people have near death experiences or more precisely out of body experiences seeing if they the coloured shapes? But for the life of me icantfind the results or the piece of research on it.
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Not that I can remember.
They had an anaesthetist on who said that you're knocked out and don't dream but he has now come round to thinking differently.
 
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