Comments by "Harry \x22Nic\x22 Nicholas" (@HarryNicNicholas) on "The Institute of Art and Ideas" channel.

  1.  @DanielJones-wj7mm  maybe she is. and why would it be sad, if you believe something, and sabine has reasons for her beliefs, why not be passionate about it. it's sad calling science debate sad.
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  2. i wish brains like this were the norm, not only do i want to know how the universe works, get off into deep space, but i'm sick to death of reality tv, idiocracy is an aspiration it seems to me.
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  3.  @babstra55  lol, sabine steal you girlfriend?
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  4. 7:17 i think you could argue that the majority of human discovery has been more by accident than design.
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  5. only penrose is real. i just came from him chatting with william lane craig, where craig goes "so this must mean there is a higher intelligence" penrose replies, "maybe there is, but i don't see what use that is"
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  6. this is a video channel, put it in a paper.
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  7. i've watched this a couple of times and i cite it often, it is ineed a tidy way to avoid infinity is cosmology, but it just occurred to me - where does all the mass in the universe go? and at the start of the next aeon, where does the heat come from if there is no mass? i love this aeons idea, and that photons experience no time and therefore no distance and that means however "big" the univesre might be, to a photon it has neither size nor time, but it just struck me, where does the mass go? when "stuff" gets swallowed by black holes they increase in mass, if they are evaporating have they turned mass into photons? have to go google, back in a mo (lol).
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  8.  @Mentaculus42  it's interesting for him to be the down to earth one in this, usually he's dripping conspiracy theory.
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  9. well they won't find him, he's not there.
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  10.  @zdcyclops1lickley190  lol. stop that. i don't give a shit about the twerp who had me on hold for 20 minutes, i do give a shit about how the universe started. and i do want a sandwich, and sex too, so there. upstart.
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  11. i love these guys but i have no idea what they are talking about.
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  12. we artists like to help visualise hard to grasp stuff. i've built the solar system more times than i can remember (i get a credit in four out of the six "the planets" series shown ooh, twenty years ago.
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  13. gawd, who is this woman? a plastic surgury salesman? i don't see any point? this is just rambling, wtf is IAI thinking? ah, she's selling insurnce.
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  14. i think it's a bit more complicated than that.
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  15. michio may make sense, or may not, the way he presents things always seems to be over dramaticised to the point he sounds like a snake oil salesman. thank goodness sir roger and sabine are there to actually say something reasonably concrete.
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  16. well, at 70 and finally decided i'm not cut out for any kind of relationship, not even with friends, i think it's no surprise i agree most (i agree a little with the others) but mot with yasmin. she's right about not being able to talk to each other, all my relationships have been with strong independent, smart women (they dump me) but the reason they couldn't resist me is my sense of humour and my ability to listen as much as i talk. what has gone wrong with the world is too many people believed thatcher and reagan - being poor was never going to make anyone rich, and now two people cannot afford a house even on two salaries, we were tricked by reaganomics.
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  17. thank you sir, i rarely get a credit for my hard work.
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  18. er, if you vote the candidate you wanted to vote for, you didn't have free will to choose someone else, did you. how did he miss that? that's the problem with free will, can you do other than you feel compelled to. if you're atheist, decide to be christian for a while, and vice versa, you can't. as far as i can tell there is only one past, you did what you did and it's set in stone, surely that is the future too, you can only experience one future. the only thing is you can't see what will happen.
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  19. cos it'll bite you.
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  20. er, silly question here, is there quantum "stuff" between electrons and protons in an atom? i mean is there string or "nothing"?
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  21. can't we just pretend? pretend it's all lego? (i'm joking, i'm not as insane as some of the people leaving comments).
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  22. maybe there's a reason then.
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  23. surely if you time travel all you do is create a new universe. if you go back to kill your grandfather then you're going back to a past where you don't exist (yet) anyway, and in the universe you come from you no longer exist there anyway. the universe you travelled from carries on as normal but the universe you go to is another - not the "original". anyway, that's my muddled brain for you.
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  24. i think there is just one past history, until we get hold of a time machine. that kind of implies there will be one future - zillions of options, but only one way they will play out. which to me implies that you can join "the history of the universe" at any given point and you'll have a fixed past and a fixed future. sure you can have a goal to aim for, shall i go to class or shall i skip it, but the outcome, when it happens, will be the only possible outcome. besides, you do things for reasons, which means you won't do other things, you pick A and now you could not pick B. i don't see how we are free to do anything, we are only ignorant of the future. and if you did know the future, the moment of your passing, and all the events that lead up to it, what would you do? you kinda have no choice but to carry on - or - what? what else could you do?
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  25. it would be nice if you could back that up, science and all that you know, evidence, citations maybe, otherwise, i'm way smarter than penrose, and you.
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  26. well sonny the problem whether you like it or not is that it is impossible to prove either way if there is a god or not. if she points that out, tough luck, it doesn't matter how upset you get.
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  27. do you mean shini somara whose name appears 30 seconds in, or sabine hossenfelder with the mad professor hair?
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  28. mate, they all get identified, what's your problem? 1:40 introductions.
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  29. everyone is criticising this guy, i didn't see any problem. the whole thing needs another hour at least but the mod didn't get in the way at all.
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  30. gee mr murgatroyd.
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  31. first question, how can "mainly hydrogen atoms" be a fireball? since when has hydrogen burned on it's own, surely even if you "singularise" atoms of hydrogen they don't just explode. second, don't some theories say the universe started "everywhere at once", i thought the singularity thing had been dropped? although there are problems with it, i think penrose's aeons theory is most elegant, since photons have no "concept of time or size" the end of the universe and the beginning of the universe have no "size" and no "time", and it will always be the "first big bang".
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  32. weinstein is less insane than kaku, other than entertainment i don't think it would advance science more than a few feet.
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  33. you have a paper i take it?
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  34. be of good heart my son, the gods are AI.
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  35.  @kjustkses  if the universe was fine tuned by god, that kinda means god came after the physics and god is bound by physics, which makes god lame. as far as nature is concerned all the numbers in "fine tuning" are "1" nature couldn't care less how they relate to each other. the concensus is using fine tuning to prove god is bollocks.
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  36. i just came from him chatting with william lane craig, where craig goes "so this must mean there is a higher intelligence" penrose replies, "maybe there is, but i don't see what use that is"
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  37. nope. try to grow up.
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  38. i just came from him talking (it wasn't anywhere near a debate, WLC tended to cede to penrose superior knowledge) talking to william lane craig, and i said as much in comments, we all have this massive super computer behind our eyes and it's such a pity only two handsful of people on the planet can use them. penrose is a great ambassador for agnosticism, and atheism, in his own, quiet, logical, knowledgeable way, he tore WLC apart, my favourite line (paraphrasing) "well there might be a superior intelligence, but i don't see where that gets us".
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  39. at least you have an infinite amount of time to complain.
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  40. he was at some point in the past.
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  41. hawking and i used to joke about the time i was having a beer with einstein and we speculated on whether schroedingers cat videos would be the staple diet of the internet.
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  42. trouble is free will is an illusion, so chice is a bit of a paradox.
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  43. glad i'm not the only one who feels this way, michio might even be right, might even be doing good work, but he sounds like a conspiracy theorist (to me) most of the time.
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  44. community? i'm not a member of any community. atheists don't exist really, i'm atheist because of someone else's belief. other than that i have no connection to anything to do with religion.
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  45. this is a video channel mate, if you want to publish thesis this is the last place to do it. you might be right but i gave up trawling through people's life stories only to find they are lunatics ages ago. make a video.
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  46. all the way down to turtle litter, then it's just smelly forever.
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  47. gee mr murgatroyd.
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  48. "you take three molecules of vodka, two molecules of vermouth, an atom of olive..."
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  49. i for get which book, but i remember seeing one of escher's illustrations when i was quite young, it's appealing to think penrose found inspiration for maths and science as i did, i just wish i had his capability. i didn't realise ryan reynolds was so interested in science and philosophy.
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  50. yes, but you have to send it to my account.
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  51. well, all very entertaining, time will tell.
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  52. what on earth are you talking about?
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  53. 15:00 actually penrose aeon idea is rather neat, if you wanted to you could say that each aeon is the first , or it's the only aeon, we have a big bang, then an expansion, then nothing but black holes, then evaporated black holes, so only photons, so there is no time / no distance = singularity, and that's another big bang, but as time doesn't exist it's the "first" big bang - we don't need infinity or eternity. and it could even fit with what carroll was saying about "in our history we are other people's past" - the aeons reverse direction (?) and of course the part of the universe we can see might be expanding, but if the universe is finite, but really, really fkn big, bigger than we can imagine, our part of it could collapse again at some point.
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  54. lol, keep up the metaphysics, someone has to waste their time on it, if only to show that you can't have stuff that doesn't exist. god is spaceless, timeless immaterial = non existant.
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  55. 4:29 er, scientists don't believe another universe is on the other side of a singularity in a black hole, i think even hawking gave up on the singularity thing, i'm sure this is just out of date, i've seen other prgrams MJR has been in and she seems on the ball usually, but singularities aren't "a thing" anymore. and (i believe) the multiverse is a working theory, it is derived from the maths rather than being added in to explain a phenomena, it's all related to quantum physics and branching and stuff i can't be arsed to type.
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  56. actually no one cares what you think, and the consensus appears to be that consciousness comes solely from the brain. maybe you're an idiot and you haven't realised it yet. and talking of proof, have you anything to back up your assertion that conciousness doesn't come from matter? cos matter is all there is you know.
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  57.  @RK-ti2qq  meh.
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  58. sorry if i am misunderstanding you but who is the black woman at the far left of the panel? is she not "colour"?
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  59.  @jeremyt4292  they show the whole thing though, this is meant to be a "teaser".
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  60.  @RK-ti2qq  oh i see you are the arbiter of real and not real sorry, i mistook you for a normal human being, turns out you're special. apologies your holiness.
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  61. "puts smells like teen spirit in "dance" playlist" hahahahahahhaha.
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  62. mate, not so gloomy, these are the best times ever, despite the putins of this world it's brilliant, tell me which 50 year period in time would you GO BACK to? rickets? bubonic plague? dinosaurs? stop dissing this century, it's an AMAZING century, even the the beatles were early.
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  63. the proof there is no god, he killed everyone in a flood. if he is willing to do that, why not just keep on killing everyone until he gets what he wants, what does he care? and why did he make a snake smarter than his first lady?
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  64. 4:29 er, scientists don't believe another universe is on the other side of a singularity in a black hole, i think even hawking gave up on the singularity thing, i'm sure this is just out of date, i've seen other prgrams MJR has been in and she seems on the ball usually, but singularities aren't "a thing" anymore. and (i believe) the multiverse is a working theory, it is derived from the maths rather than being added in to explain a phenomena, it's all related to quantum physics and branching and stuff i can't be arsed to type.
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  65. here's sixpence, now go and devise an experiment to do that. or were you expecting someone to do it for you? cos you're lazy.
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  66. "Elements that do harm are the most unstable elements that are much less common and harder to produce. So atoms are what is fine tuned, which is so essential for life forms." gibberish.
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  67. santa claus: knows who is naughty, knows who is nice, grown ups realise it's your parents in a suit. god: he knows who is naughty, he knows who is nice, grown ups keep telling you that you are going to hell. roger penrose: "there may be a superior intelligence, but i don't see that helps". also: "how do we know this intelligence isn't malicious"
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  68. not to mention they are all listed in the description.
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  69. you might want to reword that, i had to squint to make sense of it.
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  70.  @rodkeh  sounds like you explained nothing to me.
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  71.  @rodkeh  do you mind not being a prig in my thread, thanks.
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  72.  @hyperduality2838  you sound like a nut case.
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  73. you are in the right one, it's the rest of us are in trouble.
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  74. my best friends read sci-fi too. anything is possible - is it likely?
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  75.  @drbuckley1  here's sixpence, now go and devise an experiment as see....
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  76. santa claus: knows who is naughty, knows who is nice, grown ups realise it's your parents in a suit. god: he knows who is naughty, he knows who is nice, grown ups keep telling you that you are going to hell. roger penrose: "there may be a superior intelligence, but i don't see that helps". also: "how do we know this intelligence isn't malicious"
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  77. i didn't see any interupptions other than reminding of their intro time. i just came from his interview with penrose, great.
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  78.  @ANunes06  yep.
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  79. colour only exists in the brain, photons are all the same "colour" they just have different energy states that our eyeball converts, then the brain refines, presumably this came about by accident, but as it was a happy accident, we kept it. but, it's a physical property of reality having a physical effect on out body that the brain assigns a physical neurological action to, like colour - it's invented in the brain but it is the product of and the reaction to physical things, physical light, or pheromones or sounds that have physical triggers, and just because i have no idea what vanilla smells like to someone else, doesn't mean that vanilla smells different. i think the brain is just a really smart simulator, and consciousness is the illusion, we are just like bacteria bumbling our way from one meal to the next. 12:50 what he's saying might be true of quantum fields, our perception is a reconstruction of the quantum world, but if you can eat an apple and it keeps you alive, then it's real.
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  80. quite possibly, but as i have never heard of him, why are you shouting, how come he's so great?
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  81. we would be extinct if we weren't inherently good. it's not rocket science.
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  82. sorry avatars, this is my simulaton. really the answer is, who cares. whether it is or isn't so far no one has escaped.
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  83. so what are memories?
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  84. "Please, Envious Primates ... Don't Lose Your Time trying to understand what You cannot Understand." you ought to follow your own advice, you sound kinda dumb.
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  85. they hide knowledge in books where they know you won't look.
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  86. so, memories are a fiction?
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  87. i didn't quite follow either, that's why i wanted to see this video (haven't started yet, still trolling comments :)) but i do like the idea that the universe has started and infinity of times, but each time was the first time...
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  88. if there is a god i'm pretty certain religion would be the last thing he'd endorse, somehow i don't see the creator of this splendid universe demanding adulters be stoned, i think religious people are thick as planks, anyone can see the holy books of the world are made up and to believe in people like christ is two steps from voodoo and pixies.
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  89. 4:29 er, scientists don't believe another universe is on the other side of a singularity in a black hole, i think even hawking gave up on the singularity thing, i'm sure this is just out of date, i've seen other prgrams MJR has been in and she seems on the ball usually, but singularities aren't "a thing" anymore. and (i believe) the multiverse is a working theory, it is derived from the maths rather than being added in to explain a phenomena, it's all related to quantum physics and branching and stuff i can't be arsed to type.
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  90. 34:00 well, to be fair once upon a time you'd wind up dismembered if you weren't a religist, folks claiming their religions promoted science are really just boasting they would kill anyone who didn't sign up, and besides if you want to act the fool and play at alchemy, what better environment than superstitious mentally deficient nincompoops who like to dress up and wear silly hats - yes religion is responsible for einstein's brain. hahahahahahahaha. no wonder religion is dying, it's populated by buffoons.
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  91. he also says that although a lot of people disagree with it, and that he's not entirely happy with it either, it works pretty well until someone comes up with something more concrete.
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  92. turn left at alburquerque
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  93. consult an analyst.
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  94. i don't understand a word of that, and not being able to spell lose doesn't help me to try to bother. loosely speaking. did you lose your dictionary?
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  95. "why" there is a universe is a bit of a silly question, one day we may find that there is an answer, but as things stand it's hard enough to answer "how"
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  96. who would that be? this guy is doing an okat job, i just watched his interview with penrose he did a great job. horses for courses i guess.
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  97. free will would actually mean you can pluck anything out of anywhere, brian greene says pick a city at random, it's not free will because you only have the cities on earth to choose from, and not only that, only the cities you know the names of, so free will would be the ability to choose the name of any city anywhere in the universe and in fact beyond, so true free will actually makes the big bang sensible, it's literally the action of free will doing a "random" act. or something.
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  98. she is, but she's got some "facts" squiffy: 4:29 er, scientists don't believe another universe is on the other side of a singularity in a black hole, i think even hawking gave up on the singularity thing, i'm sure this is just out of date, i've seen other prgrams MJR has been in and she seems on the ball usually, but singularities aren't "a thing" anymore. and (i believe) the multiverse is a working theory, it is derived from the maths rather than being added in to explain a phenomena, it's all related to quantum physics and branching and stuff i can't be arsed to type.
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  99. try looking for the transcript button on the page.
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  100. like religion.
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  101. everyone is criticising this guy, i didn't see any problem. the whole thing needs another hour at least but the mod didn't get in the way at all.
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  102. you'd think she'd be able to afford more than one tee shirt.
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  103.  @carnap355  give me a chart or this never happened. i have to admit all my neighbours are mental, but some can still walk to the shops for biccys.
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  104. i have a theory of my own, that even though the human race might contain the sickest of criminal minds, the most perverse of psychotics, the meanest of people, this diversity means that even if we do decide to bring on the apocalypse, someone will crawl out of the rubble and a thousand years after we'd back sending rockets to mars. i don't know who to believe when it comes to string theory, my absolute hero roger penrose is saying crazy things about the mind, eric here is fast becoming a conspiracy theorist, sabine is always telling me her colleagues are nutty, but - i think it's important to have all this nonsense in this field, it's always been the crazies who have turned up brilliance, just because we don't know who the crazy is at the moment doesn't mean they aren't all valuable. i hope professor _________ is right, we just don't know their name yet or the theory they dreamed up.
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  105.  @aspiknf  atheism doesn't exist, it's a word that describes people who get through life fine without giving pixies a secnd thought. and MY atheism is nothing to do with anyone else's atheism, so kindly don't try to describe ME when you don't know me.
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  106. the important part to remember is that the universe doesn't require a brain to create it.
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  107. i would.
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  108. every time philosophers argue with physicists a photon speeds up.
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  109. no one comes back from death. jesus is supposed to be god, so in that case he is immortal, so the crucifixion was a con, tell me, how can an immortal decide to mortal then change back again? the whole point of mortality is that you DIE - PERMANENTLY. if you don't die then you're immortal, and dying is a trick. you religious folk have poop for brains, it's so important that A) you get into heaven and B) you are right about everything that you can't even figure out when the bible is making a monkey out of you.
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  110. you'll be able to 3D print an AI partner soon, so redundant conversation really.
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  111.  @dahawk8574  that's YOUR theory, i wish people would keep their DUMB THEORIES to themselves, that's how we got into this "my god is going to kill more people than your god" mess.
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  112. atheism is ALWAYS misrepresented, so don't sweat it. even YOUR definition of atheism will be different to mine and i will be offended if you imply i follow your atheism. my atheism is MINE ALONE. no one told me to be atheist, i didn't read any books.
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  113. everyone is criticising this guy, i didn't see any problem. the whole thing needs another hour at least but the mod didn't get in the way at all.
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  114. aeons gets around a lot of unpleasantness with infinities. one thing i like is the idea that the big bang, although cyclic, repeated, is always the "first" big bang, as this is when time begins, so the question "where did it first come from" is answered with "the big bang", it started as a result of the end of the last aeon. which "never existed". i think if we build transport that can get us any distance quickly that the universe is finite, but shaped in such a way that we see it as infinite, and there would be symmetry between aeons and the "shape of time" and the "shape of the universe". anyway, lack of sleep. lol.
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  115. you aren't very interesting.
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  116. the space bar isn't seeing much action i can tell you that.
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  117. love your pretentious name, i guess it's a mixed blessing your channel has no content.
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  118. the more confusing the sentence the easier it is talk about nonsense.
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  119. 28:00 i have a close friend who is schizophrenic, i say she lives in a bubble of inter-galactic exclusion jelly. in order to make progress (when we met she was in total denial of her illness) i explained that there is this theory of multiple universes and that what happens to her doesn't always coincide with my experience, and i need her explanation of why she reacts in a certain way (delusions) when i don't have the same experience as her, we have made progress and at least we can talk and she's not do afraid i will say "you're just imagining things". in a way we all do live in separate realities.
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  120. it is tempting to say "look at all that money that could be spent on starving kids" but the fact is all that money eventually does help starving kids, over the last 50 years poverty levels have dropped, despite all those billions being burnt. and we NEED another planet, whatever happens to earth we NEED to expand outwards, if we can save the planet (i want it to be a nature preserve) then there is hope for us as a real "civilisation".
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  121. i watched penrose "debate" lane craig, again it wasn't a debate cos penrose quite clearly explained how lane craig was wrong on every point, and craig just had to take it.
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  122. well if you're going to spend - how much? - on a collider, then why not pay bzillions of religists to pray the sun goes out. no wonder religion is seen as quackery.
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  123. i got most of my basics from superman, but that was a different era.
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  124. santa claus: knows who is naughty, knows who is nice, grown ups realise it's your parents in a suit. god: he knows who is naughty, he knows who is nice, grown ups keep telling you that you are going to hell. roger penrose: "there may be a superior intelligence, but i don't see that helps". also: "how do we know this intelligence isn't malicious"
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  125. when they figure out a way to put an AI brain in AI created porn women, kiss relationships goodbye. 3D print me one of those.
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  126.  @thstroyur  that made no sense at all.
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