The Origin Of The Universe Just Got WAY Weirder | Answers With Joe

The Big Bang has been the accepted theory about the beginning of the universe for so long, you might think we've worked out all the kinks in it. But there are several issues with the Big Bang Theory, which has caused some cosmologists to turn to alternative ideas.

The Ekpyrotic Universe, based on string theory, is one of those ideas. And it's super weird.

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[christopherstory]

8:03 - "In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
- Douglas Adams, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

[JohnJohansen]

Thanks a lot Joe!
I'm now confused at a much higher level. 👍

[ronaldgarrison]

For me, all of this just underscores one thing we need to keep in mind: We haven't been at this for long at all. After all, it's only been about 100 years since we learned that there were other galaxies, and the energy source that makes the Sun shine. In another 100, our understanding will probably be radically different.

[LongJourneys]

I like the sigh when he says "Most of us" know that the earth is round.

[Saffron-sugar]

Feeling stupid is SO much nicer than feeling surrounded by stupid. Thank you Joe

[ryanfisch]

"When you do things right people aren't sure you've done anything at all."

-Futurama

[dominicbriggs]

"From something with phisycs we don't understand to something with physics we do understand" is the best description of the big bang that I've heard, 👏👏well done my friend well done

[iam.melloo]

"universes bubbling up like cosmic champagne" - damn, that's poetic

[JamesR]

Aliens:. "Oh my God, these hicks are flat universers"

[NeorecnamorceN]

"That's like searching for a magnetic monopole in the observable universe."
- Ryan Delafosse

That is going to be my new way of saying something is hard to find.

[stephenkohler]

This was a super heady episode. Thank you for being a bridge between the insanely smart eggheads and us scientifically curious mortals

[mrJMD]

Very cool. Very interesting. Now that my brain has broken, I'm going to watch driving fail videos until my noodle cools down and reboots. Thanks Joe!

[eannamcnamara]

1:45 joe's mother, is actually joe mama. Im just saying.

[ericbaysinger]

I was more lost in this video than in any other I've ever watched. 🤔

[Jimjon]

His name: Turok

My brain: DINOSAUR HUNTER!!!!

[socialenigma]

How much of this video I watched: 100%
How much of this video I understood: 7%

[nickvoelker]

My recent PBS Space Time binge really paid off with this video. I don't understand any of it, but I've got the vocab down.

[phoule]

"Einstein was good at math. He was Albert Einstein."

[ricodelta]

"and there are some that talk about virtual branes colliding....whatever that means"
LOL!

[sineismina]

I’m so lost throughout this video, but I’m still playing it for the intelligent background noises while I’m doing my makeup.