Paul Davies - What is the Origin of the Laws of Nature?

From the fusion of stars to the evolution of life, the world works because the laws of nature or physics make things happen. Our universe as a whole may have come into existence through the laws of quantum physics. But from where did the laws of quantum physics come? Have they always existed?



Paul Davies is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist and astrobiologist.


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[philcarter]

Paul Davies is great. I have devoured his books over the years. He feels a little bit like a "feeling" physicist rather than a "hard" physicist. God bless him.

[ronnie]

The Closer to Truth series is like a big candystore to me. Thanks for making and sharing this interesting interviews with all of us.

[georgebernstein]

Love how this show has been ongoing now for about a decade and it continues to improve

[alexusdasia]

awesome episode. Paul Davies is a really great science communicator.

[akumar]

Brilliant mind, wonderful to listen and learn.

[aadxb]

To my humble knowledge there is only one and one force that is holding all the laws in balance. The way it holds is something unbelievable for us because it holds without any burden to itself which means it is that easy and not an issue for him.

[chrisconklin]

It never ceases to amaze me the hoops an apologist must go thru. There is a difference between reality and the laws that describe that reality. The laws are a product of our minds and as such they do not exist in reality.

[joaoarriagaecunha]

Extremely interesting and high-level discussion in this video.

[ik]

In 1990s, I wrote a term paper for a grad-level cosmology class I was taking. In my paper, I proposed that constants pertaining to electromagnetism could have been slightly different billions of years ago, which would have explained peculiarities in the observations of quasars. Two months later, a professor, who taught the class, showed me a new issue of the Nature mag, where same hypothesis was proposed by someone else n an article. They took the credit. Conclusion: in science, one might hurry to publicly announce new ideas before someone else claims them.

[DoesThisWork]

Paul Davies has P4P strongest eye contact

[lowelllarsen]

This series balances out some of my other YouTube interests

[garybalatennis]

We’re all on just an endless journey trying to get Closer to Truth, but never actually getting there.

[zibam]

The universe is like an intelligent entity with awareness. The problem is how to define nature? Nature makes the laws but we can't really comprehend it!

[noelcruz]

Because the fundamental properties of the universe is infinite, we have a constant. From that constant we create a laws on physics.

[paul_the_merciful]

Paul Davies his book
The goldilocks enigma
is brilliant

[micronda]

I bet Einstein would love that. He would simply state that his theory of relativity, is based on a reference mollusc, where the physical laws and constants don't change.

[bettyeldridge]

Paul has not aged . He looks and sounds the same in this interview as he does in the video
I made, with his kind permission. when he lectured at Kane Hall a couple of decades ago.. I bought his book About Time which he autographed and that meant so much to me. I would like to know what he thinks of the Constructor Theory. "When more information is available. a thing that was impossible becomes possible. " Well! For heavens sake! Is the theory a joke or is it being seriously considered?

[robfalgiano]

I’m very struck by his suggestion that the speed of light appears to have minutely slowed over billions of years and that what we think of as physical absolutes may not be so. To me it suggests a few possibilities: 1. There is a creator who makes “tweaks” over time in order for the universe to run better, like a computer program or 2. The universe has its own ability to evolve and change not just via expansion but for its own unknown purposes as if it were itself a conscious or intelligent entity. Sagan said “we are bathed in mystery” and felt we would never fully figure out the exact nature of the universe. I tend to agree. If for no other reason than at the end of each day solipsism is about all one
prove by invoking Descartes’ “I think therefore I am” even if you can’t define what it is that you truly are.

[TorgerVedeler]

Okay, now my mind is blown. This is amazing.

[Nevenkavukmalivuk]

sem vam ze pred leti govorila in povedala vse kar sem vedela..nekatere stvari..oziroma ogromno stvari je nadnaravno