Comments by "David Terr" (@dcterr1) on "Science Time" channel.

  1. I like Tegmark's four levels of multiverses, and I believe in his level-4 multiverse, which I call the Multiverse. However, the key ingredient that I believe is missing from his theory as well as every other physical theory is spirituality. I believe that quantum mechanics is ultimately the source of free will and that all spirits, i.e., conscious beings like us, have free will, which ultimately guides us through the Multiverse. I'm currently working on a physical theory of the Multiverse that includes these spiritual ideas and that is compatible with everything that is currently known about both general relativity and quantum mechanics. In my opinion, these two theories cannot be unified without including spirituality.
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  2. In my opinion, known problems with the standard model now lie at the frontier of physics, so physicists need to be trying to solve these problems rather than still dabbling in string theory and M-theory, unless the latter two "theories" can help to explain these anomalies.
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  3. My favorite explanation of the Fermi paradox, and one that wasn't mentioned in this video, is that more intelligent civilizations choose not to reveal themselves to use now and won't until we get our act together by ending war and taking care of our planet. If they do get around to revealing themselves to us, they'll likely give us an ultimatum, like Klaatu did in The Day the Earth Stood Still (the original version from 1951 that is, not the new one which sucks!)
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  4. Very educational and very scary video! Nuclear weapons are definitely an existential threat to humanity, and Oppenheimer and Einstein know this all too well!
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  5. I wish I lived in a parallel universe in which Putin wasn't in power and Trump was behind bars!
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  6. I think there's a flaw in the argument that we're all only about human number 100 billion, so we should expect only around 200 billion humans before we go extinct. This argument presupposes that each of us only has one life on Earth, but I disagree with this. What about reincarnation? If this were the case, wouldn't our human number keep increasing from lifetime to lifetime? The fact that there are 8 billion people alive today and that we're each one of them means that there was only an 8% chance that each of us would find ourselves living at this particular time in world history, so doesn't it follow that it's more likely than not that we were also here during earlier periods and conversely, we should expect to be reborn in the future? Just something to think about!
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