Max is always such a fascinating guest! easily one of my favorites 👏

I swear, every person i look up to intellectually, robert has interviewed them. And if he hasnt, its because they have been dead before closer to truth was created. Robert's quest to understand fundamental reality by interviewing the greatest minds around the world is admirable, and even if he doesnt succeed, he has helped spread new ideas and a deep, exciting sense of curiosity to the general public. If einstien or Newton were alive today, they would be interviewed on here, which would be interesting, because their personalities are not really documented because high quality video didnt exist back then, so they are mostly mystified.

I emailed him Max Tegmark... He was so gracious he replied back to me!!! He is so nice and bright!!

The truth is, we actually don’t know, we think, may believe but ultimately we don’t know. Ask anyone about the beginning of all, the truth of it is, we actually have no idea.

Max always grabs my attention and never lets go.. His ideas concerning the real existence of platonic shapes and other mathematical patterns are not fully convincing, BUT they are impossible to ignore..

I suspect it's like asking "What are the dimensions of a thought?", given the unknowns about the nature of spacetime, and origin of (the principles of?) energy and consciousness.

Robert’s program is entitled Closer to Truth. But the more he asks questions, the more complicated the answers are. Max’s answers just boggles the mind.

It’s strange to think that both possibilities seem equally insane: that space could have a limit, or be infinite.

It has always struck me as pointless for such parts of the universe to exist that we can never reach - why is it there if only to tease us and pull faces at us from hundreds, thousands, millions of light-years away? And why is the speed of light so slow? Why should it be almost impossible for us to reach even the closest stars when limited to this crawling cosmological speed limit?

I really like Max because he has a way of explaining very complex subjects in a way that everyone else can understand. You can see in the way he pauses before each answer that he makes a genuine attempt to explain things in a relatable manner rather than just regurgitating a bunch of complex physics equations and highly technically stuff that would just confuse viewers more than inform them. Sure, he's got all that technical knowledge upstairs, but he makes the explanations understandable for those of us who don't possess advanced astrophysics degrees 😂

Max is one of my favorites, watched a long interview with him on Lex. He is a pleasure to listen to, spark of sanity in a mad, mad world.

Great descriptions of the different possible levels. However, every time I hear people describe the many worlds theory or things like it, I wonder, ok that may be true, but how do we find ourselves in one reality or the other?? No one ever addresses it. It opens questions about what is "I". What is consciousness, personal identity, the soul, etc.

We need to meet some of the more advanced beings that surely exist out there that can help us with the questions on our minds and the questions we don't even know enough to ask.

Great stuff, thank you both.

The universe goes as far as you can imagine then a little but further

12:04 well, it comes down to whether the current state of the human mind is capable of understanding the true nature of reality without the means of experiencing it first 🤔

There are many guests on CTT I can have difficulty following. Not so with Max. I’m always captivated.

Much much more to reality than humans can ever imagine. How exciting is that!

The farther we look the further out it goes because we are what we are looking for.

If the Universe is deterministic and manyworlds is true perhaps the differences can be as small as a thought and consciousness steers and merges one universe with another giving us freewill.

Max Tegmark is awesome!

How far? Really far, man.

When Man has discovered all the secrets of space and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning.

Can not comprehend a scale this large no end

Infinity is a hard concept to grasp, but there is one concept, and the only one i can think of, that is infinite and we use every day, and that is numbers. There is no end to numbers, you can always add one more, you don't ever reach a "highest number". So who's to say the universe isn't the same. You don't ever reach an edge because there is no edge.

Here are some questions to ponder in terms of the Kosmos creation. Why do certain rules repeat at different scaling lengths? what does that do to the order of the system? For example , electron capture made the CMBR, how did that affect the order of the kosmos.

Thanks!

Robert, I hope someday you’ll do a “State of My Truth” video. After so much input, inquiry, and contemplation, what’s your current position on consciousness and other topics? Thanks so much for a place to go to delve into things often seeming inapproachable.

I love max

So what really happen with the constant splits required for a multiverse? Every plank evolves randomly through the multiverse and we simply perceive this slice of it? Don't you need energy to constantly create new universes as the multiverse branch out? Or is it just a mathematical probability and there are no other "real" universes.

2000 years ago clever people on Indian continent argued how many elephants carry the Earth. I think we are not very much more advanced now in understanding the Universe 10:04

poor robert. asking how big. it renders in real time to the observer, robert! I think Max's ending questions are spot on. The question is how much more (probably infinite), and I think another great question would have been how/if we can access them.

We all each hold our own cosmos, it's whatever we have folded into our consciousness, our self reflective model of reality.

If the universe is expanding, if the universe has an edge, then what's on the other side? What's it expanding into, empty space? How can it expand...

That’s easy , Carl Sagan will be there to greet you when you get there . 😁

I really like this guy Max Tegmark. I think space(like time) is infinite in all directions.

we are now in the twilite zone.. speculating about hypothesis and imagining anything we want to..

Max is the best. Combines what we know and what might be. We don’t know but at least we do know that there is more then what we can currently measure and perceive

Is there any channel like closer to truth where scientists from fields like physics, cosmology, philosphy, religion , neuroscience are interviewed?please do mention.

In theory it is possible to prove that the universe is not infinite, but not the converse. So all we can ever do is place a lower boundary on it's size, based on observation.

The universe could be contracting right now and we don't know because that light hasn't reached us yet. If there is a stretching of space perhaps it can snap back like a rubber band.

Good thing we have Space Force.

If we knew the answer it would no longer be a question.

0:22 No, the radius of the observable universe is not 14 billion light years just because the universe is 14 billion years old. That is a very common misconception. The universe has been expanding since the beginning so the actual radius is much larger than 14 billion light years. Max Tegmark should've pointed out this obvious mistake.

Is this a repost?

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The universe fundamentally speaking, is neither so-called finite, nor infinite, period. Both terms are some mental constructs, and are purely anthropocentric, nothing more. We can surely entertain such concepts, play with them, even have a playground full of such concepts of all kinds of all levels. However, at the end of the day we shouldn't forget that they are nothing but mental concepts, and limited by their very nature. What we observe, what we understand, and what we usually define in many levels as the so-called universe OUT THERE is just a tiny projection of what we think, or rather what we need want the universe to be. The reality is that, the ultimate reality is not even a 'thing' to begin with, as I would like to call it No-Thing-ness (needless to say that's different than the commonsensical nothingness we throw around everyday). It doesn't belong to any form, concept, or object that we define, observe or can even imagine. By nature it stays ineffable beyond both mind, matter, finitehood, and infinity and eternity. As Plotinus said 2000 years ago, it even stands beyond being and non-being.

How far does awareness go?

The human mind cannot comprehend a system with no beginning and no end.

Space is the fabric in which everything exists. What then does space exist in?

If the visible universe is 14 billion yrs. But then they tell me its actually way bigger. Then how is it , we can take a pic of the beginning? Wouldnt that picture be out 90 billion ?

Light speed is variable.

Around 7:44 min Kuhn says: "I want to know reality, and I want to face facts". Well, than he could have better skipped this whole conversation, because the whole idea of a Multiverse is clearly not based on any fact!

Are you claustrophobic?, thinking of the Universe like this gives me Vertigo. Realizing that nothing I see is happening as I see it is another vertigo type trip. It makes zero difference in life but knowing that Jupiter is miles ahead in it's orbit from where we see it is kind of disconcerting and surreal, or that the Sun could go out and it would take a few minutes for us to know is terrifying if you let it be. It's like a Big Swirl lollipop with us in the middle, and latency/blur increases with distance.

If you have to ask that question you plainly have no idea what the universe or cosmos or everything or the totality is. Simply reflect on what must necessarily be the characteristics of everything or universe the cosmos or the totality and once you have done that you will realise that how far does the universe go, is a completely asinine question - the whole point of universe totality cosmos or everything is that there is nothing and nowhere that is not the universe cosmos totality or call it what you will but the best thing to call it is imaginary, because it can only be imaginary. for screamingly obvious reasons - it is clearly impossible to experience the universe totality or cosmos or call it what you will - it has to be something that you imagine that self evidently.

so every thought has a branch, then those thoughts have a branch then those so every few seconds so many(infinity) branches are independently created by all life on earth and all life else where except for where there is no life, kinda think this is a little wrong

It’s easy to define matter, yet harder to explain phenomena that are not matter. Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space. This includes atoms, elements, compounds, and any object you can touch, taste, or smell. Things that are non-matter either have no mass or else don’t fill a volume. Here are several examples: Vacuum: By definition, a vacuum is a region that does not contain any matter. It may be bounded by a volume. Energy: Light, heat, kinetic and potential energy, and sound are non-matter because they are massless. Objects that have mass and are matter may emit energy. For example, a swinging pendulum consists of matter, but its energy of motion is not matter. A fire consists of hot gases and plasma (matter), yet gives off light and heat (not matter). Time: Time can be measured, but it has no mass and occupies no volume. Rainbow: A rainbow is an optical phenomenon. It’s essentially light. Emotions: Love, hate, and happiness may be rooted in chemistry, but feelings don’t have mass or occupy volume. Gravity: You can feel its effects and it is associated with mass, yet it doesn’t consist of matter. Memories: Like emotions, these are non-matter. Dreams: Again, you can’t weigh them on a balance or enclose them in a container. Magnetism: Forces, in general, are not matter. Information: Information may be recorded in a physical form, but it’s really just a concept. Music: Music is sound, which is a form of energy. How to Tell Something Isn’t Matter There are two simple tests you can perform to tell if something consists of matter. If it fails either test, it’s non-material. Could the phenomenon be weighed on any scale? Matter has mass. Does the phenomenon occupy a volume? In other words, does it take up space? All matter has physical dimensions. Note, your senses aren’t always reliable indicators of whether or not something is matter. You can see light and feel heat, but they don’t have mass. You can hear music, but you can’t weigh it or enclose it. Two senses you can trust are smell and taste. These two senses require chemical receptors. All scents and flavors are chemical compounds, which are matter. (Nikola Tessla: The idea of the atom being formed of electrons and protons which go whirling round each other like a miniature sun and planets is an invention of the imagination, and has no relation to the real nature of matter. “Virtually all progress has been achieved by physicists, discoverers and inventors; in short, devotees of the science which Newton and his disciples have been and are propounding. “Personally, it is only efforts in this direction which have claimed my energies. Similar remarks might be made with respect to other modern developments of thought. Take, for example, the electron theory. Perhaps no other has given rise to so many erroneous ideas and chimerical hopes. Everybody speaks of electrons as something entirely definite and real. Still, the fact is that nobody has isolated it and nobody has measured its charge. Nor does anybody know what it really is. “In order to explain the observed phenomena, atomic structures have been imagined, none of which can possibly exist." -Nikola Tesla “Great Scientific Discovery Impends.“ The Sunday Star, Washington D.C., May 17, 1931.) That's why their good old 'education' systems teaches us literally nothing about magnetism and also why they conjured a whole platform of pseudoscience which they use to conceal all fundamental knowledge pertaining to magnetism. $hit, they've even established a whole apparent "Regulatory Body" to suppress all info on the detrimental effects of ALL Electromagnetic Radiation upon living Cells and organisms. Due to all Cells being electromagnetic or electrostatic in nature, just like an Atom is "99.9% empty space" according to that pseudoscience and yet any logical mind would conclude that empty space is only empty of matter but NOT empty of field phenomena such as magnetism or the Aether itself, thus, retroductively the Atom is clearly an electrostatic dynamo over and above any mass formed within that Atom as a nuclei. All nuclei acting as an arch-form; a specific geometry which is manifest from the release of infinite potential, hence it being a dynamo. Even 60Hz Radiowaves are harmful to living Cells as it inescapably effects the electrical ARCING processes within that electrostatic dynamo. What pseudoscience terms "an effect on the electron orbital order of the Atom/Cell" because they need to reinforce their whole Atomistic and Materialistic religion that is the Cult of infinite bumping particles that is Theoretical "science". Which isn't real science at all. Hence why all such Theoretical pseudoscience was both conjured and promoted by the Crowns/Vaticans Jesuits whom still steer their common core curriculum to this day. Einstein; "One Stone/Marble" up there, just a Jesuit fraud like the rest of those false "scientists"that they put upon pedestals for the citizenry to worship and idolise. Even the irrelevant Theory of Relativity he stole from Jules Henri Poincaré. Who was, ftr, just another Jesuit liar also.

If Christopher Walken was a physicist...

The Cosmos is more than enough for Human needs. The Cosmos is a little short for human imagination. And the Cosmos is way too short, way too small for human greed.

While I can imagine that the stuff that the physicists measure may be to large of a measurement even for today's mathematics. What is beyond any matter of all universes, whether there is any type of matter like our own or something differently and more refined... I could suppose that what it came out of and what is beyond any of this matter is infinitely nothing. At least of any thing measurable, and depending on what those measurable things are to be determined at some point as what reality should be defined as when it all becomes clear to human beings..., as opposed to a nothingness of infinity.

It goes all the way into outer space.

Max Tegmark da god

the way people are worrying about how big is the universe i wish they worry about dying and meeting their creator who owns All of it nothing is beyond his knowledge getting closer to your creator has All the answers life in this world is limited hereafter is for ever that's the only infinity i know for sure MASHA ALLAH

An imaginary number, equal to the square root of negative and hence positive for meaning concatenated with aspatio-temporal unique number one, implying geometrically it is the straight line segment side of a square with an area of negative one, fourth temporal coordinate locating a SpaceTime event breaks the law of non-contradiction : nothing is it's opposite and consequently is unsuitable for scientific modelling, but the absolute value function returns an unsigned value even for a negative argument, | -1 | = | +1 | = 1 and redefine the square root of negative one to equal negative one.

"How far does the cosmos go?" It doesn't go anywhere. It is where it needs to be already.

Shmem Eye Shmee Alum got sheen today!

What lies beyond the cosmos.

If you close your eyes and peer into the inner dimension of your mind in an effort to discover the mind's outer boundary, the mind will appear to be infinite and have no boundary to it. However, logic dictates that it is bounded by the limited field of the living essence that makes up the sum total of your being. Well, the same thing applies to the universe, in that even though it appears to be infinite, it is not, for it is bounded by the limited field of the living essence that makes up the sum total of God's being.

So, there are universes where death is birth and you start your life as an old being and live in reverse? Or universes where you pop in and out of existence randomly! Or where you are predator and prey at the same time and every bite hurts as if you take a bite into yourself!

Once you get out to the edge you find the galaxies are only drawings and if you don’t watch out you end up crossing the barrier and fall into a black void where the universe starts all over again.

How big is it ? it starts here and ends here .

🌿 SPACE is God's BOUNDLESS LIGHT 🌿

If that's all there is, my friends, let's just keep dancing; let's break out the weed, and have a ball. If that's all...there is.

Intelligent Design Random Natural Processes pre existing universes multi universes infinite space eternal so much we still don't know

Oh only 14.16 billion

I am trying to think of a star that is 3 light years away from the earth. α-centauri is about 4.3 light years away. Is there another star closer to earth than α-centauri? 😁

This is not reason interview?

The Earth is flat where I'm standing. My universe is getting smaller and smaller.

Cosmos has to infinite - what would you meet at the end of cosmos? A finite cosmos seems like an advanced version of a flat earth where you fail down if you get to far. I am not trying to offend anyone. I just think it will become obvious to us some day that cosmos is infinite.

The cosmos doesnt have a finite distance only energy can be measured, not space platonism is false

4:44 40 billion light years in “DIAMETER” ¿¡?! I want to hear about the level FIVE universe!! Maybe reality is collocated branes. Why did you stop at 4?

The way he speaks reminds me of Dan Ariely. (Max is not a fraud though.)

it ends down the sewer by the graveyard near Armageddon-Avenue...

It goes on as far as your imagination will take you.

Does Max believe in the Mandela Effect?

Uh-oh! Get set for people in the comment section to start sounding like Charlie Chan.

The reason for our becoming self-conscious, or self-aware, creatures will become apparent later on, when we begin exploring the nature of being human in greater detail. But this human self-consciousness is something quite different in nature to the reality of the Consciousness that lies behind and within everything to appear as the myriad forms in existence. Consciousness inhabits and animates creation and its creatures not unlike the power that flows through a computer to make it work in accordance with the hardware and software of the device. By this analogy, the specific physical characteristics of a creature’s body constitute the hardware, and the programming of its mind the software. These things are important to understand because if this conceptual ground is not firm, the model we build from here will not endure, and its potential value will be lost. What all this is pointing to is that what you really are―what we all are―is an eternal, unlimited energy source capable of creating and experiencing events. What you are is this creative source, this Consciousness. Who you are is how this Consciousness works through you to express as something unique in the world. Powerful creative Consciousness is your true and essential nature, but of course, you experience your life through the limitations of a human body, so it may not seem that you are an all-powerful being at times, or indeed ever. By its very nature, the body exists as some ‘thing’ and is, therefore, a limitation or restriction of ‘everything else possible’, to become something specific and useful―a human being. And then it must be remembered that these bodies we inhabit are a product of Mother Earth, and have developed for good reasons. Although today there are many philosophes, theories and just sheer guesses put forward to explain the purpose of our existence, none of them fully describe or satisfactorily explain the original intention for our emergence. Some bodies born into this world have, or will develop over time, physical or mental attributes that further alter the creative opportunities and experiences available to them in a lifetime. The influence of our national culture, the general culture of our times, and the impact of our upbringing by parents and other significant people also become major influences that can place limitations on our thinking and power. Other restrictions occur as a result of the pains we might experience in life, the emotions that often get buried in the body as a result, and the accumulating limited beliefs they then give rise to. There is also the concept of ‘karmic debt’ that will limit opportunities, and this too will be discussed later in the work. The state of your own evolved Consciousness is another factor affecting personal power. All these things limit the opportunities you have in life, and so it can be seen that although your true nature is something quite grand, you find yourself in very limiting circumstances. But it is important to keep perspective. Your essential nature is a free and unlimited Consciousness, a potential capable of eternal creation and experience. And this Consciousness was the reality before the Universe that we know emerged.

....you may think its a long way to the chemists...

It's a figure eight..go far enough away and you end up back where you started .. you're welcome

The universe is infinitely big plus 1-meter

This is what you get when otherwise intelligent minds go astray and become hopelessly lost in self-aggrandizing nonsense about something the little Human mind cannot ever comprehend ! 😎😎

There is a simple proof that the multiverse or infinite universe are plain wrong. 'No jellybeans: no infinity!’ What do I mean by this? Well in an infinite number of universes or an infinite single universe there will be an infinite number of me writing this right now. And an infinite number of me writing it with one letter different then two letters different and so on until every possible arrangement of atoms is catered for ad infinitum. So in an infinite number of these places there is a version of me who has completely conquered space time and physics and so on - a true master of the universe, as it were. And an infinite number of these characters would have chosen to visit this very place and spend their entire day throwing jellybeans at me, just for fun. So as they don’t it’s because they can’t or don’t exist. ’No jellybeans: no infinity!’ QED! ;)

Closer To Truth really needs to start being a little bit more responsible and start posting the date that these interviews were originally aired. Posting videos 10 years old without telling people seems dumb when discussing science. 0:22 14 billion lightyear radius?? See my point. Do better please.

Far

Relly quite far.

I believe that cosmos can not go further than the skeptics and atheists' egoes had gone.

What do parallel universes tell us about dreams ?

It’s an incoherent worldview

Who cares! Pay your bills fist!

I’m 33 and have phimosis