Jim Holt: Why does the universe exist?
Jim Holt: Hvorfor eksisterer universet?
Why is there something rather than nothing? In his book "Why Does the World Exist?" Jim Holt dares to ask. Full bio
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ingenting overhovedet?
"hvorfor" spørgsmål.
the contingency of their existence,
at verden overhovedet skulle eksistere.
name-dropping in this talk,
something rather than nothing,
hvorfor er der noget snarere end intet,
at about the same time,
there something rather than nothing,
hvorfor der er noget fremfor intet,
materials to fashion a world out of.
materialer at lave en verden ud af.
I'm going to mime my visuals,
and you don't believe in God,
og du tror ikke på Gud,
it's not a good argument.
for det er ikke et godt argument.
is just a whole lot of nothing.
bare en hel masse ingenting.
til at kunne nyde at være død. (Latter)
og jeg er stadig bekymret
til virkelighedens natur,
nøgne virkelighed virkelig er,
siden sent i 1960erne eller omkring 1970,
poppet frem som eksisterende
og en af mine venner,
værende guddommelige befalinger.
ontologisk magt eller slagkraft,
nogen skaber,
consistent sets of laws.
matematisk konsistente sæt af love.
Hvorfor ikke ren intethed?
vi ikke kan forestille os,
som overhovedet muligt.
mellemliggende virkeligheder
og udelader andre.
mest elegante virkelighed,
mest elegante virkelighed.
called "The Elegant Universe."
kaldet "The Elegant Universe".
kort til fuldstændig fyldthed
en slags kosmisk rodebunke.
we see around us, I think. (Laughter)
vi ser omkring os, vil jeg mene. (Latter)
på en eller anden måde.
generiske virkeligheder,
seem to be amazingly improbable,
at være ufattelig usandsynlig,
of genetically possible humans,
genetisk mulige mennesker,
number of alleles and so forth,
humans that have existed
most elegant possible reality?
elegant mulige virkelighed?
in the fullest possible reality?
fyldte mulige virkelighed?
den specielle virkelighed.
der er middelmådig,
den middelmådighed
puzzle, the mystery of existence,
at denne gåde, dette eksistensens mysterie,
og det er det."
Sidney Morgenbesser,
på denne TED konference,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jim Holt - Writer and philosopherWhy is there something rather than nothing? In his book "Why Does the World Exist?" Jim Holt dares to ask.
Why you should listen
In his 2012 book Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story, Jim Holt creates a narrative out of one of the biggest questions we can ask -- and how modern scientists and philosophers are asking it. Can answers be found in many-worlds theory, in quantum mechanics, in a theology? Traveling around North America and Europe, he talks to physicists, including David Deutsch; philosophers, including Richard Swinburne; and the novelist John Updike. Why? Because as he tells Vanity Fair, "To me it’s the most sublime and awesome question in all of philosophy and all of human inquiry."
A longtime contributor to the New York Times, Slate and the New Yorker, Holt has written on string theory, time, infinity, numbers, humor, logic, truth and bullshit, among other topics. Holt studied mathematics at the University of Virginia, and was a faculty fellow in the philosophy department at Columbia. He is now at work on a book about free will, weakness of will, self-knowledge and happiness.
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