Hmm...Not sure on that...What about the 3 Minutes before Big Bang.....? Most important Question ever to answer? RDR

Agree, he doesn't patronise the audience as many presenters of this stuff do. A fair few pathetic comments about his presentation.

I think what he meant was....A perfect furnace basically relates to a hot object, at thermal equilibrium. Basically 100% pure hot all over. Imagine putting a pot in the oven for 1000 years and then taking it out....it might just about be exactly the same temperature at every point (atom). And hot objects emit this blackbody radiation. If something was perfectly hot all over it would give off exactly the same blackbody radiation all over....hence just the colour purple everywhere in the slide of the universe he showed....if the early universe was perfectly hot all over it would look purely one colour. This is the perfect furnace I think he meant.

My thought exactly.

Infinity itself prevents the universe from becoming infinite... (to 'become' means to have bounds, and, sorry to say, infinity is boundless, hence it does not exist in the physical world, hence it is the 'Great Nothingness' in which 'Everything' exists, though infinity also precludes 'everything' - you can never have it within an infinity... same goes for 'nothing' (in the other size direction), and the same goes for time and eternity - eternity is the Great Timelessness in which all change occurs (and remember, you do not want to go back in 'time' (where all you have to do is run your clock backwards, time being a tool), you want to 'go back in 'change'... back to infinity, we do not know how much 'finite' is in it, or if there is 'finite'; reason, given infinity, would say 'no'...

It must only be finite if you cannot accept the impossibility of ever being able to 'wrap you mind around the actual meaning of infinite. (you are not alone on this limitation , NO human can , Thus a need for the word ...., unknown, a concept that some relegate to the idea of God)

They like to talk about infinites because that is what their math says, so they go there if they do not have the information. Neutron stars are like a big ball of rotating iron, you add enough mass and light cannot escape and the curtain goes down and all of a sudden that iron ball become and infinite density singularity, really because the observational curtain goes down it instantly will change. Obviously the model starts with all the mass of the universe in a black hole, it has an even horizon that can be calculated. Then there is a required expansion rate to rip this black hole apart, our current expansion rate can't move the particle of the moon or earth, let alone particles in any current black hole. At some point the expansion has to slow to let the particles for atomic particles and the atomic diagram he showed, but not so slow that everything ends up clumping into one or more black holes again. This recipe of minimum and maximum expansion rates with real values, along with the reason for each rate, would be more informative. The time (what ever that means in an early universe with particles zooming along at fractional light speeds) and size snapshots do not give justice to an amazing process that ripped apart a universe size black hole then changed speed to allow what we have today to form. Modelers like to say infinity, very large (like all the mass of the universe) will do well enough if you are looking for some effect the model predicts like quantum gravity.

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Once he rolled out that whopper of a falsehood about Pius XII, I was done with the lecture. Can't take him seriously.

Christian Lee Agree

PS a new mythology: Once there was a point in space that exploded. In 380000 years it created a perfect furnace which created heavier elements that came together to make stars that created heavier elements etc. etc. etc. Eventually, in 14.5 Billion years, the ash from this furnace and stars came together to create our solar system and us. Now that is a beautiful creation. We are products of millions of stars giving elements to our creation.

@@davidroberts1689 Except things don''t explode in space. To explode you need oxygen (explosion is just rapid combustion) whih at the start of the universe just aint there....no elements were, it was too hot and dense for atoms and hence elements to form.

Yeah but Einsteins problems were not in understanding it...he understood it just fine....he was one of the early pioneers of Quantum Mechanics....his problem was believing it...

RonJohn63 you arenot taken neutron into account Of the four protons two will join with 2 election to form two neutrons.

Ummm ... Brilliant !

but he lacks the 'evidence' for it

Not everyone is a great speaker, but the guy knows what he's talking about.

@@tomekkruk6147 I think so, although with dark energy he blundered very hard.

How about you send it to him scribbled on a roll of toilet paper? The youtube comment section is already far too sophisticated and professional as to allow the exchange of groundbreaking science. Oh, and maybe you'd like to send additional rolls to Nature and Science journals. Or have the patent illuminati stolen all your TP?

boycot gugle I don't need to do that. NSA & GCHQ have been collecting my rubbish for their scientist past 40 years. when I put it on internet. they blocked public. Now I just tell them they are wrong. so they look for correct version. our people are releasing my 1975 notes discreetly to selected scientist in Russia, India and China. MG1

you should line the walls of your flat with lead.

it is a bit too late for that specially considering I am 75 and I have already set my brain to degenerate. our people have the copy of my notes and they have full instruction who to give & when. MG1

mg1s I think your meds are not working..

Sorry it was not done with feathers, scented candles and Yani music.

If you say "Yanni" out loud 3 times,he will appear and play is horrible music at you until you die in agony. Average time: 4 mins 13 secs