Thomas Hertog, the closest associate of Stephen Hawking, talks about "On the Origin of Time"

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The interview is in English. OFFNews and Iskra Angelova invited Thomas Hertog to their podcast in Sofia, Bulgaria.
"We create the universe just as it creates us. We are on the verge of a new revolution in the study of the beginning of the world," the great scientist said in the studio.
The Sofia Science Festival has begun, and with it came out the new edition of "On the Origin of Time. The Last Theory of Stephen Hawking" by Stephen Hawking's closest collaborator and biographer - Thomas Hertog.
The world-famous scientist arrived in Sofia in an unusual way - by night train from Istanbul and first gave an interview to Iskra Angelova and OFFNews, for which we are especially grateful to "Beautiful Science" and Ciela Publishing House.
Pleasant, polite and very open, Hertog cannot fall into the typical cliché of a scientist - he freely communicates, assumes different hypotheses, passionately argues his unusual views and reflects with pleasure for more than an hour. A conversation with him is a feast for the mind. The interview treats many interesting issues - both Hawking's personality itself, his way of communicating, the non-verbal contact they developed in the later years of their collaboration, which lasted 25 years, and their revolutionary theory about the origin of the world, time and our (supposedly) only intelligent and evolved species in the universe... About God or his absence. On the way philosophy enters science. About the art of the exact sciences. About artificial intelligence and the likelihood of our self-destruction as a species. As well as about the inexplicable and pure genius of Stephen Hawking himself, and about the freedom of his mind, imprisoned in the cage of a body utterly inadequate, diseased and impervious to the commands of his brain.
Thomas Hertog has been by his side all these years, and together the two have worked on Hawking's theory of the Origin of Time. All the way back to the creation of the world and the primordial explosion known as the Big Bang.
Later Thomas Hertog met with the Sofia audience on May 11, when he signed books and gave a mesmerizing lecture in the Cosmos Hall of Sofia Tech Park in front of a packed full house, as part of the Sofia Scientific Festival, organized by the NGO Beautiful Science.
There he presented a completely different perspective on the history of the universe, the origin of time and the laws of physics.
You can see the entire conversation in the video, and for more videos like this, subscribe to the OFFNews KZfaq channel!

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@tonyk8315
@tonyk8315 Ай бұрын
Thank you for this interview. It feels good to listen to someone really close to Hawking's genious.
@PeterRice-xh9cj
@PeterRice-xh9cj Ай бұрын
One millionth of a second is too fast for us to remember or experience, so it’s fair to say that in that short span of time we have no sense of being or our sense of being doesn’t exist. The span of time we can remember or be aware of is joined together by spans of time that are too fast for us to be able to take any notice of, so how is it possible to have a sense of being at all. Let’s imagine an atom moves an extremely short distance. The span of time it takes for this atom to move this extremely short distance is too short of a time interval for us to be aware of anything, so where were we, or where was our sense of being. To us, the universe, a hurricane, or an infinitely long line of dominos that are falling down does not have a sense of being according to us. Say one day feels like one second to us, but one second just feels like one second to the person standing next to us, then according to the person standing next to us our sense of being does not exist. So what if we as conscious beings are both ourselves, as well as the universe. We can be ourselves where one second feels like one second, and at the same time we can be the universe, which solves the problem as not consciously existing at extremely short time spans. At extremely short time spans that are too fast for us to be aware of anything, we can’t say that we are different individuals because we don’t exist. Every one could be the universe. Imagine two zero dimensional points. These two zero dimensional points are not in any particular space, or are not separated by any space but are separated by time. Nonetheless, even though these two zero dimensional points are separated by time, they both still exist simultaneously. Let’s say one second was like one second to one of these zero dimensional points, but one second was like one day to the other one. That would make perfect sense as to why the two points are separated by time but still both exist simultaneously. So everyone could be their individual selves, and at the same time every one makes the universe. All numbers are the same because all a number really is is just the digit one that is a certain way up the number line, but the boundaries in between numbers really are different to the digit ones each side of them. So one of these two zero dimensional points that is experiencing time different from each other could be a boundary in between numbers, and the other could be a digit one that makes a number. Our sense of being may not be zero dimensional but four dimensional. We need to be focusing on a colour to have a sense of being, even if we are just imagining it, which involves time going by. If one hundred years went on while we had no sense of being, it would be like a flash to us. Let’s say we were each individual zero dimensional points all mixed together to make one single zero dimensional point where one second feels like one second. At the same time, in a span of time that is too short for us to be aware of or exist, we could all make the universe or another zero dimensional point where one week feels like one second. You see, we are saying the universe doesn’t have a sense of being, and in an extremely short span of time we are saying our sense of being doesn’t exist, so in that short span of time we could all make the universe or we could all make another zero dimensional point where one week feels like one second. If one second feels like one second to the zero dimensional point on the right, but one week feels like one second to the zero dimensional point on the left, we would see the zero dimensional point on the right as being us. In a super symmetrical way, what if there were other beings that thought the zero dimensional point on the left was them. If 20 people were all individual zero dimensional points that were mixed together to form one single zero dimensional point, the 20 would all agree on what number they are looking at because the 20 zero dimensional points would make one single zero dimensional point. But if 5 of the 20 disagreed with what colour the numbers and background were, the distance away the numbers are, and how far they are spread apart, would that 5 of the 20 form a seperate zero dimensional point or individual zero dimensional points, as well as the one they are part of. Imagine if how many, what colour, how far away, how far apart, all mixed to form a sense of how fast time is moving. Then if every one was part of one zero dimensional point where one second feels like one second, then no one could form separate zero dimensional points because they disagreed with what colour the numbers are or how far away or apart they are. If every one was part of the right zero dimensional point where one second feels like one second, they could be part of the left zero dimensional point at the same time, where one week feels like one second, because no body’s sense of being exists at extremely short time intervals. To us, a hurricane or the weather doesn’t have a sense of being. Our sense of being can’t be joined together by extremely short time spans that we can’t take any notice of, so everyone can be the one universe at the same time. If there were two things separated by time but both exist simultaneously, where one second feels like one second to one, but one second feels like one hour to the other, that would make sense as to why the two things are separated by time but both still exist simultaneously.
@PeterRice-xh9cj
@PeterRice-xh9cj Ай бұрын
Imagine mixing a handful or infinite amount of pinballs the same size together and you still end up with one pinball the same size. Zero dimensional points are the intersections of two one dimensional lines crossing paths. You can’t see them because they are zero dimensional, but are used for locating areas on a map. Like the pinballs, you could keep mixing an infinite number of zero dimensional points together forever and still end up with one zero dimensional point. Let’s say there is one zero dimensional point composed of twenty individual zero dimensional points mixed together. Imagine an individual zero dimensional point mixing with the one composed of 20, it would be still the same as two individual points mixing together. As this individual point mixes with the point composed of 20, as it mixes in it will make the point composed of 20 half as different as it was, then the individual point will become meaningless, because it is now part of one zero dimensional point. You can’t say there is a certain number of zero dimensional points mixed with each other because there is no order in one zero dimensional point. This individual zero dimensional point that has mixed in with the zero dimensional point composed of 20 individual zero dimensional points, it has made the point composed of 20 points half as different as it was then the individual point has become meaningless because it is part of the 20 individual points to make one single point. Could this be a result of a point being part of two systems. It could be one point that is in its original spot, and at the same time be a point that has come from its original spot. If 20 people were 20 individual zero dimensional points mixed together to make one single zero dimensional point, then every one would agree on what number they are looking at because every one would make one. But if one of the 20 disagreed with the rest on what colour the numbers are, would they form another zero dimensional point. If how many, what colour, and distance apart or away, all combined to form a sense of how fast time is moving, then every one could form a point where one second feels like one second, and not form a seperate point because they disagree with something. That way we can keep just two points existing. The other comment about one millionth of a second I have written about time spans that are too fast for us to be aware of anything.
@qmiscm
@qmiscm 28 күн бұрын
I would like to end my short essay again with what I said to the polite and quite exalted anchor, a comment posted under the Bulgarian variant of the above video, prefacing it with two trivial but often neglected truths. First, mathematics does not make physics-physics is first, mathematics is second. Maths is only a tool. Often profound truths of physics can be stated only in words, without a single formula. Second, science, physics, is not about emotions, soul, or whatever you have on the psychological spectrum. Physics cannot be a justification for God, as our hostess was trying to get her guest to engage in. The truths of physics are detached from us, they are as cold as cold can be, and as far from the psychological state of pondering God as one can imagine. The truths of physics are the dictator, no matter how that may hurt the feelings of the tender soul of the curious but not yet fully versed in science. Artists, musicians, people sunk in the world of theater may not like this, but this is something inherent in science. If the very cultured and refined hostess would take some time to think about the above, it might help her to unravel the great mystery of our present life; namely, where did the vulgarity, the crooked, ugly faces of desperate, evil pedestrians come from that we see every day on the sidewalks of our cities-questions she was asking in an earlier video? What have we done wrong? This may sound like a shock, like news to our dear hostess, but this ugly menace is finally the result of indoctrination with “fake news”, as we’re hearing from our current guest, which is constantly being blasted across the globe by the myriads of trumpets of official propaganda. The connection between the bad science propagated by the likes of the one you invited and the ugliness that has been imposed on our lives lies in the destruction of thought-a criminal act, if you ask me. Confused thinking, proclaimed by societal destroyers like the one we heard in the video, endowed with the highest academic authority, invisibly breaks down the finest structures of human cognition, thus turning the multitude into a disjointed, confused jelly, ready to be taken over by any adversary, unleashing the lowest instincts and primitivism. After their cognition has gone to the birds, each individual bumps his head chaotically against the obstacles of life, becoming more and more desperate and desolate, overwhelmed by anxiety. Their minds have been destroyed by high academic authority, and they no longer have any criteria for right or wrong. Everything is turned into a slimy mush, causing a massive collapse of the whole society, allowing the most corrupt, unscrupulous and despicable individuals to rule it, stealing from everyone as much as they can. I hope that this attempt of mine to lift the veil that covers the connection between the broken thinking imposed by “authorities” such as the current guest and the general confusion in society regarding the clearest issues that society has lived through in all its previous centuries, may lay the foundation, however faint, of the urgent need to sanitize our society from the decadence and destruction of elements such as the interviewee. I don’t wish him ill, but let him fly off the social radar with his destructively insane ideas. Journalists who are tempted to invite such heralds of confusion may wish to reconsider their aptitude for sensationalism and become more responsible to society.
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